The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-10


Mr.. Armin Fassler win have guests
ct dinner party Wednesday night.
at his home. sol Tyler street
the Sigma Delta Psi girls of Wash
BURN college win give a party Friday,
February 20, at the Country club. The
affair will be a George and Martha
party. and some of the girls will dress
| IN George Washington costume and
the others in Martha Washington cos
tune. The party il in honor Of the
new girls who are entering WASH
burn from the high school the second
semester. There will be a supper fol-
lowed by dancing.
The marriage OF Miss Carrie Cecil
Comstock and Mr.. Lauren Lincoln
Morgan was solemnixed this morning
az O'Clock. by the Rev. Mr.. Charles
Finch, OF the First Christian church,
at the parsonage. The wedding was
quietly celebrated, and there were no
attendants. The bride wore her going
away costume. a tailored suit Of cloth.
| with q blouse Of Dolly Warden silk,
and q black tailored hat.
Mrs. Morgan was at one time a stu
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studied vocal and plano music. Later
she spent year studying music in
New York. where she made her home
! with her sister. Mrs. F. Conger Smith.
and DIR. Smith. Mr.. Morgan came to
Topeka q few years ago from st.
the real estate business here the past
year.
Immediately after the ceremony
Mr: and Mrs. Morgan left for Carls-
bad. N. NJ. where they will make their
home.
. . ..
| Mrs. c. B. Merriam entertained the
Duplicate Whist club today at her
home in Western avenue. The substi-
tutes were: Mrs. NJ. c. Hammatt, who
Schuyler Nichols. who played for Mrs.
Arthur Capper; Mrs. Arthur Nichols.
playing for Mrs. George Crawford; !;
Mrs. w. T. Crosby, substituting for
Mrs. Hiram Dillon and Mrs. T. J. Kel-
lam. who played for Mrs. Fred Free
| man.
Miss Phil Reed has asked guests for
! a thfmble party which she will give
Wednesday afternoon. complimentary
to Miss Virginia Bostic of Hutchinson.
who is visiting her this week.
| The Washington Post of recent date
gives an account Of q theater party
! given by President and Mrs. woodrow
Wilson. at the National Theatre in
Washington. at which Mr.. and Mrs.
| Schuyler Lawrence, Of Chihuahua,
Mexico, were guests.
| The item has considerable local in
| terest, for Mr.. Lawrence, the son of
Mrs. s. s. Lawrence. of 221 West
Tenth avenue, was brought up and
! educated in Topeka, and is remem-
bered by a large circle Of friends here.
His father was the first Secretary of
State of Kansas. His wife. who. be-
fore her marriage, was Miss Molly
Welles. lived in Towanda. Pennsylvan-
la, and knows some Topeka people
who formerly lived in that city. She
| was educated at the same school in
North Carolina that Miss Eleanor Will
son attended, and the two were friends
at school. Miss Wilson has visited
Mrs. Lawrence in Chihuahua.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence stopped in
Topeka on a trip to Towanda and New
York In the autumn, and were accom-
panied east by Mrs. s. S. Lawrence.
who has lately returned home. stop
ping in Chicago en- route to Topeka.
| to visit the C. F. w. Felt family. Mr..
and Mrs. Schuyler Lawrence accer
/, an invitation to visit at the White
House on their way back to Mexico.
Mrs. Lawrence assisted Mrs. Wilson
at tea which she gave at the e1ecu-
tive mansion for the wife of the Brit
+! ish ambassador, Lady Spring-Rfce. and
| was a guest at a number Of other Inn
| portant functions.
Announcement was made in Atchi-
Miss Hazel Carlisle to Mr.. Harry
Houston Porter of Pittsburg. Miss
! Carlisle is the daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. William Carlisle Of Atchison.
| Mr.. Carlisle il q millionaire lumber
man, and is we'll known throughout
TNuN13a1n Mr.
Porter have many friends in Topeka
Mr.. Porter was student in Wash
! burn college, where he was MEM
| ber Of the Kappa Sigma fraternity:
He later attended Yale university, and
graduated from the law department
! there last year. He is now practicing
/, law in Pittsburg. His brother, MT.
Harold Porter. is now a student in
washburn college, and a fraternity
man. Mrs. Porter came to Topeka
last winter with Senator Porter dur
| Ing the session Of the legislature. and
she met a great many Topeka women
! at that time, and was a guest at most
Of the parties that were given for the
| wives Of legislators. Miss Carlisle
visited Mrs. Porter in Topeka also at
| George Mitchell, who formerly lived
in Atchison. Miss Carlisle was edu-
Gated in Monticello seminary. Month
cello, Ill.
The wedding will be solemnized
soon after Easter.
A newly organized bridge club met
Monday with Mrs. Forrest Kutz. The
members are: Mrs. Kutz, Mrs. Hal
Rankin, Mrs. Paul Hoopes Mrs. Schu-
bert Wood, Miss June Mitchell, Miss
May Graham, Miss Phil Reed and
Miss Mary Margaret Perkins. Guests
at the club yesterday were Mrs.
+, Rhodes and Miss Gladys West.