The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-02

Cormack? Anyway, Mccormack is
one of the dearest boys in the world.
When F. Wight Neumann, my mana
ger, told me l was to sing on the same
night as Mccormack, 1 refused. One
concert more or less doesn't matter.
l like Mccormack"
So Chicago will have to wait until
April to hear the diva. Mccormack
+ J.
Mrs. w. H. Bird and Mrs. L. C.
Petro will entertain the Day Nursery
club at the home of Mrs. Bird, 1925
Western avenue, Thursday, September
9. All members who expect to attend
the meeting are asked to notify the
hostesses.
Miss Beulah Searle, of Geneva, o..
and Mr.. Warren Crum bine, of Topeka.
were married this afternoon at 3
O'Clock, at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford Searle,
by the Rev. ]. Franklin Candy, of
Geneva.
The bride was attended by Miss
Violet Crumbine, of Topeka. the
bridegroom IS sister, as maid of honor,
and the bridesmaids were Miss Flor
ence Ford of Geneva, and Miss Pau
Searle, the brides sister, was flower
girl Mr. Albert Searle, of Topeka, a
cousin of the bride, attended Mr..
Crrrn bine as his best man. Miss
Marjorie Patterson. of Cleveland, O.,
a school friend of the brides at Ober-
lin college, played the wedding music.
The brides gown was white faille
silk trimmed with chantilly lace and
pearl ornaments, and she wore a long
tulle veil. Her bouquet was OF roses
and lilies of the valley.
The decorations for the wedding
and the gowning of the bridal party
were in the fraternity and sorority col
ors of the Phi Delta Theta, to which
Mr.. Crumbine belongs, and the Kappa
Alpha Theta, of which the bride is a
member Miss Crumbine wore yellow
taffeta. with a touch of black in the
trimming, and her hat was yellow and
black. The bridesmaids wore blue
taffeta and blue hats and the flower
girl wore blue. The maid of honor
of black-eyed Susan, tied with yellow
and black tulle. Flowers in a gilded
basket stood at one corner of the
piano Oak leaves were used as a
background for the flowers in the
rooms The reception room was deco
rated in flowers of blue and white, the
Phi Delt cOlors- In the room where
the service was read. the lighting was
living room and the dining room were
in yellow and black, the Theta colors.
Mr. Crumbine and his bride will
come to Topeka about the twelfth of
Septemb her to remain a week, and will
then leave for California, to go to
Shanghai, China, where Mr.. Crum-
bine will be manager for the Amos
Bird company
The bride lived in Topeka and at
tended Washburn college two years
Previously she studied music in the
Oberlin conservatory. Mr.. Crumbine
is the son of DR. and Mrs. S. J. Crum
bine He is a WashburE graduate and
a fraternity man.
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The following is an account of a
civic conference of the First District
of the Federation of Womens clubs.
which is attended by two Topeka
women, Mrs. Festus Foster and Mrs
&c. J. Evans:
Women civic workers of the First
Congressional district are in session
today at the home of Mrs. t. w.
Faulkner at Lansing. The confer
ence is being held for the purpose of
bringing the club women of the First
district in closer touch with each
other, and with the main idea of ini-
ItiaAing civic clubs in all towns of the