The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-31

members Of the club wish to attend.
The meeting Will begin promptly at s
and close at 8.
The N. N. 8. club will meet Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. H. ]. Miller. 1920
Lane street.
. . .
Mrs. Charles Barnes and Mrs. AL
fred Cole will entertain the Mizpah
class Of the First Presbyterian church
Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Barnes
home. 1895 Harrison street.
Mrs. Elizabeth Heinzman announces
Jennie, to Mr.. Edward NJ. Stephan of
st. Louis. Mo-. the wedding to take
place in the near future.
Mrs. George H. Hodges, Mrs.
Charles A. Finch and Mrs Lillian
form meeting at the First Christian
church Sunday evening. Mrs. Clara
H. Hazelrigg will act as chairman at
the meeting. Mrs. o. L. Cook will
conduct the devotionals, and Miss
Nanon Herren will give a reading.
Mrs. Mitchner, who will give the prin-
cipal address, has recently returned
temperance lecture trip in Ohio, Colo
RADIO, Oregon, California and WASH
ington.
Miss Dorothy Leeper will give
Halloween party tonight at her home
in Clay street.
The Good Government club has fin
ished its work of making hospital
shirts for wounded soldiers. A hun
dred and thirty-two shirts have been
made, and the work as we'll done as
the club women would have made
them for their own husbands and
sons. The garments were pressed and
shipped to the American Red Cross
society at Brooklyn. The club made
about $50 with private contributions
and Red Cross teas
The women of the club feel espe-
cally grateful to the stores, Crosby
Brothers, Warren NJ. Crosby's and
Mills, who furnished them about 500
yards of muslin at cost price. and they
are thankful also to all those who
assisted them by work and money
contributions.
They still have some money on
hand which will be turned into the
Red Cross fund or used to buy cloth
ing for the women and children suf-
ferers Of Europe.
The date set for the wedding of Miss
Dorothy Gleed and Mr.. Pendleton Mil
Ter Is Thursday, November S. The
marriage will be celebrated quietly at
the home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. Willis Gleed, in College
avenue.
The Art club will be entertained
Monday by Mrs. Robert Carver, Tyler
and Ninth streets.
An event Of next week that many Of
the musical and society people will be
interested in, is musicale to be given
by Mrs Merrill Mills and her sister,
Mrs. Warrick Updegraff, Thursday at
ternoon at 3 o'clock, at Unity church
The recital Is given under the aus
pices of the Matinee Music club, of
which Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Updegraff
are members
The club is not issuing invitations to
the musicale, but all friends of the
club and of Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Upde-
graft are cordially invited to attend.
There is, of course, no admission
charge.
The two women who will furnish
the program are popular members Of
the club and are active in the social
life of the town. Mrs. Mills is a
pianist and Mrs 9pdesraff sings
A party that for size, brilliancy and
charm eclipses anything that smart
society in Topeka has produced in
many seasons, was given Friday af-
ternOon at the Country club by Mrs
William T. Crosby and Mrs Augustus
Zahner. The invitation list included
the most fashionable women of the
city, and the ample rooms of the club
house were well filled through the re-
ceiving hours.
The club house was never more in
wiling with its rooms decked in autumn
flowers and lit with the mellow
sunlight OF a matchleSS autumn day.
Palms and ferns banked the stairway
Of the reception hall, and were used
in the den, and with them were tall
brass vases of berries and colored
leaves. In the dining room, a vase of
big yellow chrysanthemums tied with
yellow ribbon stood in the center Of
the table, and bouquet of the same
flowers stood on the sideboard. The
brass chains from which the dining
room lights are hung from the ceiling,
were twined with smilax. The coffee
and ices were served from ma ssive sill
yer sets at opposite sides of the table.
In the receiving line with Mrs. Cros-
by and Mrs. Zahner were Mrs. Zah-
ner's daughter, Miss Mamie Zahner.
and Mrs. Crosby's niece, Miss Helen
Louise Crosby.
Mrs. Crosby end Mrs. Zahner are
accomplished hostesses, whose gift of
hospitality is at once cordial and sin
cere. Mrs. Crosby stood at the head
of the receiving line to greet the
guests. She was handsomely gowned
in cardau lustrous blue satin with an
overdrapery of embroidery and orien-
tai beads. The gown of one of the
rich new materials and colors, was
worn with a hat of black velvet with
a trimming of white heron feathers
fastened to the crown with a buckle
of brilliants. Her bouquet was orchids
and roses.
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