The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-23

who has been visiting her parents
Senator and Mrs. Charles Curtis. Mrs.
George left today to join Lieutenant
George in Douglass, Arizona, where
he has recently been stationed.
Miss Mildred Fuller was hostess al
a luncheon at the Country club Wea,
nesday afternoon. Covers were laid
for eight.
The anniversary of the founding or
Vassar college. which is to be cele-
brated in October, has pecuilar IN
terest to the Eugene F. Ware 1amlIy'
formerly of Topeka, and more broad
ly of Kansas, now of Kansas CITY. MIS-
Wares uncle Mr.. Calvin Huntington
was enc of the founders of the college,
and Mrs. Ware entered the school the
day it was opened when she was SIX
teen years of age, and she flnlsheo IN
the first regular graduating class IN
1870 The celebration the week OF
October TO- will be for the fiftieth an
niversary of the founding OF the col
lege, and the last reunion of the tlrst
graduating class.
Mrs. Ware has been in Brooklyn
during the summer visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Frederick Mes, and
Mr. Mes. Mrs. Mes graduated from
Vassar in the class of '9S, and she Will
also attend the semi-centennlai cele-
bration, accompanying her mother TO
Poughkeepsie for the occasion An
other daughter, Mrs. Nelson, of Occur
D'AIene, Idaho, graduated from vas
sar in the class of 'O5' and d, a II thlr 70
Kansas City, Kansas, graduated in 'OS.
Mrs Ware. the widow of the poet
'Ironuuill,'' was chosen president OF
the Womans Kansas Day club at It's
meeting in Topeka last winter.
Miss Ernestine Kline, of Topeka,
who is a senior at Goucher college.
Baltimore, Maryland, will attend the
Vassar celebration, as a delegate from
her school.
The Phi Chi medical fraternity, of
the State university, Lawrence, have
announced their pledges. Mr.. Hough-
ton Albaugh, the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Morton Albaugh, is one of the pledges.
The Research club will have its first
meeting of the fall Friday afternoon
with Mrs. ]. R. Wells, 1907 Western
avenue. The meeting will be a social
affair, with no regular program.
Greetings will be given by the presi-
dent and the vice president.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Cope entertained
Wednesday night for Mr.. Fred r.
Cowles. president of the zeta Province
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
The Kappa Alpha Theta girls of
Washburn college gave a tea We'd
nesday afternoon for some of the new
girls that the sorority is rushing, and
for the men of the three fraternities,
the Phi Delta Theta, the Kappa Sigma
and the Alpha Delta, who presented
their pledges.
The girls who stood in line to re-
ceive the callers were: Miss Erna
Zutavern, Miss Marjorie Lyle, Miss
Violet Crumbine, Miss Louise Bell,
Miss Margaret Kiene and the house
mother, Miss Josephine Bear. Those
who served in the dining room
were: Miss Katherine Harrison, Miss
n Ill
Ruth Rooster and Miss Helen Welty.
The decorations in the parlors were
yellow and black, the flowers being
black-eycd Susan and yellow chrysan-
themums. In the dining room, the
table centerpiece was a basket of yell
low flowers, tied with yellow tulle.
Yellow candles, set in crystal candle
sticks, lighted the table.
Mrs. D. B. Harrison of Downs, who
is visiting her daughter, Miss Kath-
crime Harrison at the Theta chapter
house, was one of the guests; also Miss
Lurene Irish of Sterling, the house
guest of Mrs. Walter Wedding, and
Miss Settler of Holton, Miss Helen
Guild of Hiawatha, and Miss Maud
Hawley of Harrington, who are visiting
the Theta girls.
The Shawnee County Political
Science club will begin its sessions for
the new year with meeting Friday
afternoon in the assembly room of the
National hotel. In addition to the
parliamentary drill and the suffrage
symposium, music will be furnished by
Mrs. r. Parks Bennett, who will sing,
and there will be a reading by Miss
Nanon Herren
The club, which celebrated the first
anniversary OF its organization, or
rather it's reorganization of the Shaw
nee County Equal Suffrage associa- |
ton. has for its object a campaign of
education In the science of govern
ment. The members proclaim the
society an open forum for the discus
sion of all sides of various subjects re-
lating to governmental affairs. They |
emphasize the fact that it is an or
ganization entirely free from partisan |
politics
Any one interested in the meeting |
tomorrow afternoon is invited to at |
tend.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Eller have !
the marriage of their |
daughter, EsSe1le Statler, to Mr.. |
Clarence L. Johnson, Wednesday eve |
ming at o'clock. They have gone to |
California for a wedding trip. and will |
Fillmore street.
Miss Ruth Foster, who is attending |
the State university this year, has been |
pledged to the Kappa Kappa Gamma |
sorority. She is member of the |
washburn chapter of the Beta soror- |
ity, having attended Washburn for two |
years.
Miss Ada Dykes of Lebanon, a for !
mer Washburn student and sorority |
girl, has been pledged to the Pi Beta |
Phi at K. U. Miss Frances Jobes of |
Kansas City, an occasional visitor in |
Topeka is also a Pi Phi in the State |
this year. Miss Elizabeth |
Coors of Los Vegas, a young woman |
with friends in Topeka, is Pi Phi
Arrangements are being made for
the annual Presidents Day luncheon |
Of the Topeka Federation of Women. |
rhe luncheon, preceded by an infor-
nal reception, will be given at the1
First Methodist church. served by the