The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-24

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The Monday Whist club will have
It, first meeting since the club dis
banded for the summer at the home
Of Mrs. w. 7. Crosby. Monday. Oct. IL.
Mrs. Gwendolyn Shakeshaft was
hostess at an informal afternoon at
bridge today in honor of Miss Mary
Cooper. whose marriage to Mr.. Roy
johnson will take place the fifth of
The first and most important social
event of the year for the Topeka Fed
GRAFTON of Women. will be a l O'Clock
luncheon to be given Thursday, Oct. 1.
in the Sunday school temple of the
First Methodist church. Mrs. ]. G.
0afford, chairman of the social COM
mtttee, assisted by her vice chairmen,
Mrs. Norman Wear and Mrs. w. T.
Crosby, will have charge of the af-
fair.
Mrs. s. s. Estey. president of the
federation, will be toastmistress and
will direct the program. Because this
u the only meeting of the year for
which the president has the entire re-
sponsibility, 1t is called Presidents
day.
It behooves all members of the fed
Grafton who wish to be present at the
opening meeting. to send In their
lay of a few days may mean that
some Of the members will be disap-
pointed by not being able to procure
seats at the luncheon. A year book
will be issued in a few days and will
include those names which have been
cent in before OctOher
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The wedding of Miss Margaret Min
ney Of Los Angeles, and Mr.. Harry
Hitchcock. Of New York. took place
September IL, in Los Angeles. The
bride Is a member of the John E. Min
ney family, formerly of Topeka. She
was a student in the Topeka high
school, and later attended Washburn
college, where she was made mem
Der of the Sigma Delta Psi sorority,
national sorority. After going to Cal
ifornia, she attended Pomona college.
Clairmont, and it was there that she
met Mr.. Hitchcock, who was also
student in the school.
Mr.. Hitchcock later attended Cor
nell university, taking course In en-
cheering. He has a position with the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, in the experimental depart
ment, New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hitchcock stopped in
Topeka on their way to their home in
Estey, leaving Wednesday.
The Ceramic Art club will open its
club year at a social meeting Friday
afternoon at the home Of Mrs. w. H.
Davis, 9O3 Western avenue. Mrs. Da-
Wis, Mrs. H. E. Lyman and Mrs. J. H.
Stuart will be hostesses. Miss Alice
Lyman and Miss Frances Walsh will
sing, and Miss CeOra Lanham will
read. for the entertainment of the
guests.
Miss Anna Diegel of Atchison. will
be hostess at a tea Tuesday of next
week. at her home. Mrs. George
Mitchell Of Topeka. is invited to be
one of the guests and will go to Atch-
ison Sunday to visit Miss Deogel and
to attend her party:
The big wagon" left the Kansas
university campus at noon Wednesday,
carrying the Pan Hellenic delegates
with the sorority bids and among the
pledges announced are two popular
Topeka girls. Miss Jean Lindsay has
been pledged to the Pi Beta Phi sor-
ority, and Miss Dorothy Miller to the
Kappa Alpha Theta .
She stood, bewitching picture but
there was one note out of tune in the
general symphony of her apparel. Be-
tween her skirt hem and slim patent
leather heels there flutered two filmy
something's.
Men stared, women blushed, but no
one wanted to tell her. Finally one
sympathetic matrOn whispered In her
ear. The young lady smiled. lifted her
skirt and the audience gasped.
She was wearing spats made of
Irish lace.
Announcement has been made by
Mrs. Alden E. True of the marriage of
her daughter, Alice, to Mr.. Claude l..
Shaw, of Redding, Cal, which took
place September 2. at the True summer
cottage at Green Mountain Falls. Colo.
The Rev. Mr.. d. S. Morrison. of En-
poria, read the service. The bride grad
uated from the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college in the class of 1912, and
has since been teaching in the Topeka
schools. Mr.. Shaw graduated from the
engineering department of X. s. A. G.
in 1911 and is now employed by the
Northern California Power company.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw will make their
home in Redding, Cal, and are now
taking honeymoon trip through south
ern California.
DR.. Eva Harding gave a family party
today for her father, Mr.. Thomas Hard
ing, who is celebrating his birthday an
niversary. He is 80 years old today.
Mr.. Harding's daughter, DR.. Howe. and
her son, Winfield. of Atchison, came to
Topeka to attend the party.
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The members of Mrs. E. Langstaff's
Sunday school class of Central Congre-
gational church. had a dinner party
Wednesday night in honor Of Mrs
Langstaff, who celebrated her birthday
anniversary yesterday. Mrs. w. A
Harshbarger was toastmistress for the
after dinner program, and responses
were made as follows: 1.-The Langstaf