The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-04

i Mrs. Charles Barnes will be hostess
at a bridge party Monday in compl-
ment to her sister. Miss Edna Bear.
one of the popular brides, whose mar
rage to Mr.. William COlvin will be
solemnized Thursday of next week.
Miss Bear has been entertained at a
series OF parties since the date for her
wedding was set, and this afternoon
she was honor guest at an informal
afternoon at thimbles at which Miss
Helen Louise Crosby was hostess.
There were fourteen guests. most OF
them debutantes of the fashionable
set in which Miss Bear moves.
The brfde-to-be will be entertained
at luncheon Friday with a few other
guests, by Mrs. John Abrahams OF
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Initiation ceremonies were held
Wednesday night at the Kappa Alpha
Theta chapter house, and the girls
who were taken into the new nation
al sorority were: Miss Louise Bell.
Miss Helen Tillotson, and Miss Louise
Heath.
, The girls of the Alpha Mu Musical
society of Washburn college had a
/ Mills tea room.
! A calendar put out by the First
Congregational church Of Kansas City
has been received in Topeka, and one
Of the notices it contains Is of inter-
est to Topeka friends of Mrs Stuart
/; Churchill Forbes, formerly Miss Mar
garet Fowler. During the month of
June the account says. I'VE are to
have an accession to the attractive
ness of our Sunday evening services
in the music furnished by Mrs.
Forbes violinist. She will accom-
pany the soloist and the quartet,
making a feature of the service of
value"
A party of Topeka people will leave
tonight for Colorado to spend the
summer in the mountains. The COM
pany will be made up of DIR. and Mrs.
D. M. Fisk, Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Fox.
Mrs. Emma Fov. Mrs. E. o. Will
marth, Miss Helen Louise Fox. Miss
Mr.. Fox's mother. Mrs. Emma Fox,
who is to be a member of the party
for the summers outing, is 20 years
Of age. They will have their summer
camp at Cascade.
' of Valley Falls, a literary club organ
lied about ten years ago. were in To-
peka Wednesday, as guests OF Mrs.
Festus Foster. formerly of Valley
Falls. The club members and some
Topeka women who have lived in VAL
ley Falls. the guests. including the
Valley Falls women and the Topeka
friends, were: Mrs. Neil Mcleod. the
retiring president; Mrs. E. S. Wettig,
the newly chosen president, Mrs. Jen-
ME RUSSELL, Mrs. E. A. Huber. Mrs.
Ed Samson, Mrs. George Harmon, Mrs
Frank Gardner, Mrs. C. H. King, Mrs.
Joseph Evans, Mrs. Mel Legler, Mrs.
F. M. Dean, Mrs. H. Mitchell, Mrs.
James Mitchell. Mrs: w. N. Duncan
son, Mrs. Ed HUT. Mrs. c. A. Huff.
all of Valley Falls. Mrs. w. G. Eng
land of Atchison, Mrs. Gerald Hol-
singer of Kansas City. Mrs. Spartan
Young Of Chanute. Mrs. DeWitte c..
Nellis. Mrs. J. L. Moneypenny, Mrs. T.
Amanda Johnson. Mrs w. d. Ross,
Miss Gertrude Barnes. Miss Maude
Barnes. Some of the guests will re-
main in Topeka a few days. Mrs.
Mitchell and Mrs. Evans; Mrs. Ross
will entertain Mrs. HUT and Mrs.
Wettig; Miss Barnes. Mrs. Legler and
Mrs Harmon: Mrs. johnson. Mrs.
England and Mrs. Mcleod and Mrs.
Russell will spend few days With Mrs.
Foster. Mrs. King and Mrs. Holsinger
and her little son, Wallace Holsinger.
will spend a few days in the city.
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! The annual faculty reception for
the faculty and students Of Washburn
college was held Wednesday night at
the home of Dean and Mrs D. l. Nc
Eachron, on the Washburn campus.
Receiving with Dean and Mrs. Nc
Eachron were: Mrs. Frank Knight
Sanders of New York, Dean and Mrs.
William Macarthur and Dean Horace
IWhitehouse. The guests were intro
duced by Mr. Harwood Benton of
Oberlin. one of the students and fra
ternity men.
attractive in a decoration OF roses,
potted plants and ferns. In the dining
room. the decoration was Of corn
flowers. to give the Washburn blue
touch to the adornment- Madame
Lunde Souther and Miss Charlotte
Leavitt presided in the dining room.
and were assisted by Miss Helen Tillot-
son, Miss Florence White, Miss Ruth
Schnacke and Miss Jean Robertson,
alumnae girls.
! The women Of the Duplicate Whist
club will give a dinner party Satur-
day night at the Country club for their
husbands.
| Mr. Elon s. Clark gave a luncheon
Wednesday at Mills tea room for
some out Of town men who are con-
nected with the Mutual Life Insurance
company CT New York. Covers were
laid for Mr.. T. G. Atteberry Of Wich-
]. L. Klerss Of Coffeyville, Mr.. ]. A.
Lott. Mr.. George Eshe. Mr.. w. F.
Shaw, Mr.. Paul Basye, Mr.. Edward E.
Clark and Mr.. Elon s. Clark.
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Word has been received in Topeka
of the approaching marriage of Miss
Frances Bishop Of Wathena and DIR.
A. L. Pettis of Winchester, the we'd
ding to take place at o'clock in the
afternoon Of Friday, June 5. at the
church in Wathena. DIR. Pettis was
formerly student in Washburn col
I<<xo <6pro fv, IN ho
finished the medical course at the col
lege, and he was a member of the
Washburn Glee club. Little Katheryn
Lyon. the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
A. Lyon, will go from Topeka to be q
flower girl at the wedding.