The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-09

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The art department of the high schoo
has sent out a number of pupils tina
are now doing good work in othe
schools or putting their training tC
practical use. Miss Grace Powell, wht
studied in the Topeka high school, ha:
gone to Chicago to take training in The
art institute. Mr.. Merrill Gage is do
ing excellent work in the Henri Ar
school of New York. Miss Pauline
Haynes, who was a student of excel
tional promise in the art department
/ here, has gone to Denver to live, ano
is completing her course in the North
Denver high school, giving special at
tention to the study of art. Mr. Hamp-
ton Shirer, who took the two years
/ training at the high school, has been
engaged this summer in doing design
+ ing and craft work at which he has
/ been quite successful.
Miss Kathleen McNutt, who has been
| turned from Kansas City, where she
| has been with her people this summer.
and will resume her work in the school.
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The Beta girls will have a breakfast
Wednesday morning in the Potwin
woods for Miss Annetta NichoI who
will leave next week for Ithaca, n. Y,
to enter Cornell university. After the
breakfast the girls will play bridge at
the home of Miss Alice Griffin.
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Mrs S. c. Kersey, assisted by Miss
Mcclure gave a line party to the Ma
jestic theater and matinee supper at
the Pontchartrain, for her daughter,
Lucille. The guests were: Miss Lucille
Kersey, Miss Marian Dana, Miss Lucii,
Mcclure, Miss Irene Peers, Miss Mil
dred Stanton, Miss Helen Brady, Harry
Welty, Archie Jones, Charlton Powers
William Drum, Horace Bowman and
Finley Neal.
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The program at the. Good Govern
ment club tent for Tuesday afternoon.
will be concerned chiefly with the stor-
les of pioneer women. and letters from
those who are unable to attend. Also
Mrs. w. R. Stubs will make an in
formal address, and Mrs. Isabel Nc
Arthur will give an original reading.
The meeting will begin at o'clock
and the public is invited.
Miss Lima Bresette has returned
home, having closed a successful en-
gagement with the Redpath Lyceum
company. She has been giving enter
tainments consisting of story telling
and folk lore stories in costume. and
has been engaged in playground work
The itinerary included engagements in
Wyoming, Montana. Nebraska Okla
homa, Texas and Kansas. Miss Bresette
has plan of study for this winter
engagement
include larger territory than she had
this summer.
The wedding of Miss Franc Mcmillan
and Mr.. r. w. Pence took place Sat
urday evening in Emporia. The bride
mad been away on her vacation, and
on her return Mr.. Pence met her in
Emporia, where the marriage was
solemnized. Mr.. and Mrs. Pence re-
turned at once to Topeka and are 1iv-
ing at the Blower Annex Mr. Pence
has position with Crane & Company.
Mr.. Charles Mitchell and Mr.. Roy
Penwen went to Lake View Saturday
IN Mr.. Penwell's car. These two men,
companions in untoWard adventures in
the past, were again the victims of cir
cumstances on their trip. 20 the lake.
About six miles from their des-
tination, the machine broke down.
The men humbly besought a farmer
who was cutting hay in field about
mile from the road, to haul them out. |
The farmer was willing to oblige them
but hadn't the tools at hand. He |
agreed, though, to relieve the situa-
ton, if Mr. Mitchell would step across |
to the barn-another mile distant
and bring singletree and a. rope. He |
had sized up Mr.. Mitchell and decided |
he would balk at making the Journey
in the heat on foot, but he guessed |
wrongly" for he marched off across |
the stubble and the plowed ground and I
in time returned with the articles that |
were to serve in bringing them Ito /
the haven where they would be- Ash
good as his word, the farmer hitched |
his mules to the autom obile and a few |
hours later the travellers sighted the |
boats, bath houses and trotlines. and |
made their triumphal entry behind a I
span of mules, a rope and a single
tree.
A camping party at Mills Creek last
week was made up of the following
people: Mr.. Roscoe Stubs, Mr.. Sam
uel Stewart, Mr.. Jack Erickson, Mr..
John Smalley, Mr.. William Stewart
and Mr.. Peter He'll.
Miss Grace Sinner. the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James C. Sinner. and
Mr.. Paul Emery, were married Satur
day night at he home of the bride S
parents, by the Rev. c. R. Zook. Miss
Lydia Emery played the wedding
after the ceremony. Mr.. ana Mrs En-
cry have gone to their home, 1107
Woodward avenue.
nounce the engagement of their
Juanita, to Mr.. John A.
Davis, the wedding to take place Sep-j
-ember Is.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. Louis Hall will go to PhiIadel-
1hia to attend the School of Finance.
lie graduated from Yale last spring,
md will attend the school in PhiIadel-
0hia a year.
Miss Gladys Scott returned Sunday
rom Wisconsin and Chicago In Chi
ago she visited Mrs. Fred Gillespie,
ormerly of Toueka.
Mrs. Harley Reisman of Chicago,
will arrive Tuesday to visit her par
nts, Mr.. and Mrs. A B. Quintou.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Scott and their
laughter, Miss Dorothy Scott, return