The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
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Miss Frances Connell and Miss Mar
garet Connel gave an informal thin
BILE party Monday afternoon for Miss
Ruth Nickel of Chicago, who is visit
ing them. The guests included: Miss
Nickel, Miss Clyde Bonebrake, MISS
Louise Spencer of Kansas City, MISS
Elizabeth Holiday, Miss Bertha Hull
Miss Marie Lagerstrom, Miss Laura
Hall, Miss Marian Wear, MISS LucIe
Fuller, Miss Grace Koontz. Miss Mar,
garet Koontz, Miss Isabel Mills ana
Miss Rose Hite.
/ Among the Topeka people who
! spent sunday in Lake View are MI.
and Mrs. Arthur Mills, Mr.. and Mrs
J. B. Whelan and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Mitchell. Mr.. Mills has arranged TOT
the erection of a new cottage when
will be built at once, and Mr.. Whelan
also has a new house there which IS
nearly completed. Mr. Mitchell is
building an addition to his cottage,
which he has had for number OF
seasons. Tennis courts and croquet
grounds are being prepared, and
golf course has been planned. me
| club house is nearly finished. II Is
/ going to be quite up to the standard
| of lake side summer buildings, with
it's big summer dining room, its Wom-
| ems rest rooms, and its Women's par
Iors and mems parlors, shower and
] tub baths, and all the rest. There are
! nineteen upstairs rooms besides the
servants rooms, and the house has a
| handsome stucco finish. Lawrence ana
| Kansas City people, as well as many
Topeka people are planning to spend
some of the summer up there instead
| of packing off TO the mounta1ns as
soon as the first fly bites them. Peo-
pie go up from Topeka from time to
| time after the cool weather of the fall
! comes on, and for those a heated
dining room and bed rooms will be
provided.
The wedding of Miss Helen Morrow
and Mr.. Paul walker, which is to take
| place Wednesday, is to be SO quietly
celebrated that not many advance no
| tees have been printed concerning 1t
| However, it is said that they are to
have their wedding trip in the private
car of one of the railway of1c1als Mr..
A. C. Ridgway of chicago wee presl-
| dent of the Rock Island Lines, has
| sent his car which by the way, is one
| of the most elegant in furnishing ana
| equipment of any car in the country
| and it is now on the track, waiting to
| be coupled to an outgoing train tomor-
row after the wedding ceremony and
take the young couple on their bridal
tour. Mr.. Ridgway's chef and porter
sistant general attorney for the Rock
| Island.
Maude Adams in "Chantecler" will
| be at the Willis Wood theater, Kansas
| City, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights of this week with a Saturday
matinee. Many Topeka people are
planning on seeing the notable actress
One of the unmarried local travelling
insurance men whose nonof1cfal duties
took him from the city each weekend
had started for the train on one of his
weekly devotional pilgrimages. At the
| depot he met a dashing widow, a plump
brunett like himself, and a friend OF
other days; she had just afighted In
Topeka to do the metropolis. In the
good fellowship for which he is noted
he fell for her warming smile Of rec
| ognition. His train pulled out I'M
| needed; and under her hypnotic sway
now as potent as ever, there followed
1 a. pleasant bit Of motoring over the
/ city, a dainty luncheon, the theat@r IN
the evening, and following that
| spread tete-a-tete, ordered with his
| accustomed skill and thoroughness- In
the midst of the dinner, however, the
| consciousness of the date in the other
city startled him like the handwriting
on the wall He hastily excused him
| self for a moment, ito send business
wire but was Mortified to meet at the
! door of the dining room the girl with
whom he had his date elsewhere. ano
| accompanying her was her mother
Surprising him to be detained in the
city on business, they had suddenly de-
cided to come up and give him pleas
ant surprise. For moment his plaus1-
bility failed him, but that moment was
fatal: the mother was a woman OF
wide experience. The travelling insur-
ance man is now utilizing his week
ends in finishing up odds and ends OF
| business connected with the office.
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Mrs. Lee Monroe called a meeting
Monday at the Y. W. c. A. building
of a few representative business women
of topeka, to discuss a plan for organ
| izing a league, which should have for
it's object the interchange of ideas
helpful to women in business and the
study of legal questions that particu-
larly concern women, such as the pro-
bate law, and Woman's property rights.
The women who attended the meeting
had luncheon, and afterwards began
had luncheon, and afterwards began