The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
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Mr.. and Mrs E. E. Ames of Potwir
Place, announce the engagement OF
their daughter, Helen, to Mr.. Earl
Fisher, the wedding to take place in
the early autumn
The news of the. engagement was
officially made known today at a
luncheon which Miss Ames gave at
her home. The guests were seated
around a large table which had an
oval centerpiece of yellow tulips. and
perched on the edge of the glass at
each plate, was a tiny canary bird,
bearing in its beak the name card
which was in the form of a small
envelope. and inside of the envelope
were the cards of Miss Ames and Mr..
Fisher. The guests who attended the
party and were the first to receive the
announcement were: Mrs. Robert
Stewart, Mrs. Byron Curry of Alma,
Miss Frances Brown of Anthony, Kan,
Miss Daisy Monroe, Miss Edith
Thompson, Miss Gertrude McClintock,
Miss Louise McNeal, Miss Madeline
Whitney, Miss Elfie Dean and Miss
Julia Ames
! The announcement though not sur
prising to some of Miss Ames' close
friends, has not heretofore been Off
,, cially acknowledged, and it carries
with it. great deal of interest to the
| local society people and to school
, friends of both Miss Ames and Mr..
! Fisher. The Ames family have lived
| in Topeka a number of years. and
! have occupied an important place in
! the towns affairs. Mr.. Ames, as bank
president, is prominent in business cir
cleS, and Mrs. Ames is active in club
work and entertains and is entertained
! a great deal. On coming to Topeka,
! Mr.. Ames bought and remodeled the
! old Loomis home at 433 Woodlawn,
and it is now one of the handSomest
! places in Dotwin Place, which is per-
haps the most picturesque spot in
! town.
Miss Ames, herself a popular de-
hrIfo 1onc nh
having been formally introduced at a
| debut party which her mother gave
| soon after her graduation. She is the
second of three daughters, the eldest,
now Mrs. Byron Curry, was formerly
Miss Aurelia Ames, and the youngest,
Miss Julia Ames. is just out of school.
None of the buds since Miss Ames
debut have been more popular or
have entered more thoroughly into the
gaieties of the towns social life than
she. During her student days she at
tended the Kansas State university,
Lawrence, where she was a member
of the Pi Theta Phi sorority, and later
she went to Northampton, Mass, to
enter Smith college, where she gradu-
ated. She is a member of the Col
lege Alumnae club, recently organized
in Topeka for work along sociological
and civic lines, so that her interests
and activities are quite numerous and
varied.
Mr.. Fisher is the son of Mr.. and
=. T.. d.
now engaged in business in his home
town. He is graduate of the State
university, and fraternity man, be
ing a member of the Alpha Tau
Omega. He was employed in Topeka
for some time after he finished school,
and is we'll known among the young
people of the society set.
None of the wedding arrangements
have yet been made, but the marriage
will take place some time in Septem--
Der, and will be an event of interest
among the affairs of the season that
mark the revival of social activity
after the summer !. quiet
Mrs V B. Kistler will give
luncheon Friday at her home, 625
Taylor street. in honor of Mrs. A. c:
Stitch of Independence, who is the
4. j. +
Miss Marian Wear was hostess at a
luncheon today at her home on To
peka avenue, complimentary to Miss
Marie Lagerstrom, who will be mar
ried to Mr. James Hayes next Wednes-
day. Covers were laid for Miss Lager
strom, Mrs. Warrick Updegraff. Mrs
Ger of Kansas City. Miss Clyde Bone
brake, Miss Helen Spielman, Miss
Dorothy Porter. Miss Elizabeth Holi-
day, Miss Dorothy Scott Miss Leona
Curtis, Miss Bertha Hull and Miss
Wear.
A flood story and a wedding story
combined was printed in the Indiana
polls Star, and has Sople local inter-
est, inasmuch as Miss Bernice Fuller,
a Topeka girl who went to Indiana
polls last fall to engage in Y. w. c. A.
work, was one of the actors in the
little drama. The following is the &C
count:
The treasured hope box filled
with the trousseau of pretty Miss
Ethel Krouse, went floating afar in
the swift flood waters, but undeterred
by such a calamity, the bride and her
impatient fiance, Christy Anderson,
decided to carry out their plans to be
married this week, and the ceremony
was performed in the green parlors
of the Y w. C A. building amid Il
roomful of friends that the young
people had won through their mis-
fortunes. Everything was carried out
Ter, the junior secretary sang very |
beautifully the favorite bridal song |
20 Promise Me- Then there was
the Mendelssohn wedding march and |
the bridal chorus.
The association has been in a flIu- |
young bride-elect fearful and foriorn |
at one of the relief stations. She |
learned the girls story of her escape |
from the flood and all the world |
loves a lover. her story won great in i
terest. With the mother and sister, !
the bride saw the flood waters creep |
up into their house and they all start |
ed to leave. a few blocks from home !
that hope box. with the treasured |
wedding dress. came to 'he |
brides mind. and despite all protests |
she turned back to rescue it. She |
fought her way back to the house. |