The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-02

now and then before Topeka audiences.
The Accomplishments were played by
Miss Gertrude Rees.
The recital was worthy of a larger
audience than it got. Election night is
bound to be a dull one for artists, and
Apollo himself would take long risks
in getting audience ten yards from
the bulletin board where the returns
are shown.
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A musical program will be given
Thursday afternoon at the meeting of
the Topeka Federation as follows
Piano solo-Badinage Victor Herbert
Mrs. E. D. Clithero
Vocal solo-Indian Love Lyric -.
Mrs Norman Atkinson
Violin solo-Angels' Serenade. .Braga
Mrs. B. F. Northam.
Mrs. Schonberger of Washburn coll
lege will give some readings.
The wedding of Miss Myrtle Sproat
and Mr.. Roy Liston, of Cleveland,
Ohio, was celebrated this afternoon at
three O'Clock at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Sproat, SIS Topeka avenue. The SER
vice was read by DR.. F. L. Loveland,
o. the First Methodist church. The
wedding music was furnished by Miss
Lauretta McClair and Miss Bertha Nc
Clair. Miss Bertha McClair sang 80
Promise Me- before the ceremony,
ana dIIer the service she sang Tine
Sweetest Story Ever Told" Miss Laur-
eta McClair played the Mendelssohn
Wedding march for the entrance of
the bridal party. and during the cere
mony she played "Traumerei.'' The
ceremony was read in the living room
before a long mirror banked with
palms and ferns and pink roses Pink
roses decorated the dining room also.
The brides niece. little Dorothy
Snyder, and her nephew, John Synder,
came first in the bridal party. Dorothy
wore a white frock over a blue slip
and carried a basket of pink sweet
peas. John carried a basket of sweet
peas, and in the center was the ring
in a calilily. Miss Maud Sproat was
the maid of honor. and her dress was
white wolfe over pink satin. She car
ried bouquet of pink roses.
The bride entered with her father
and was charming in a simple gown of
white English serge. On the skirt and
sleeves was a trimming of ivory but
tons. The yoke was of net and was
finished with applique in a floral &c
sign. The bridal flowers were made
into corsage of sweet peas and yellow
roses.
Mr.. Listens hest mar was lis
brother, Mr.. Odus Liston, of Kansas
City. The out-of-town guests who
came for the wedding were: Mr.. Lis
tons parents. Mr.. and Mrs. y. NJ. Lis
ton. and his sisters, Ida and Myrtle
Luella Plumb, of Usage City, Miss Ida
Warner and Miss lone Warner of
Burlingame. Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde War
ner. of Carbonate. Miss Maud Snyder,
of Wakarusa. Miss Eleanor Beasleyr. of
Kansas City, Miss Ethel Diver, of Neo-
sho Falls. Mr.. Phillip Sproat of Man
haitian. and Mr.. James o. McVey, of
Hill City.
After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.
Liston left for Cleveland, Ohio, where
they will be at home at The Chatham,
1916 West Eighty-eighth street. Mr..
Liston. formerly employed in the Sig
nal department of the Santa Fe, in
Topeka, is now electrical material in
spector for the company with head
quarters in Cleveland.
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Mrs. w. A. Johnston has gone to ST.
Louis to attend the meeting of the
Mississippi Valley Suffrage conference
which is now in session. She was on
the program today for a paper on
Lessons From the Kansas Campaign
and her address, regarding the work
of organization, raising funds. reach
ing the voters. and keeping in touch
with the trend of public sentiment is
quite interesting. and is practically the
first general review of the campaign
which presents the state work in re-