The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

lier than usual every morning during
Lent.
Thus it. is that the season of fasting,
the stringency of the money market,
the high cost of sandwiches, and the
dilapidated condition of the winter
wardrobe, all conspire to reduce the
smart set to the simple life.
+ !. /.
The city clerk of Smith center has
been instructed by the city council to
draw up a list of all people in town,
male and female eligible for mar
riage. A wall from the town, pub
lished recently, to the effect that the
people had lost the habit of marriage,
has brought in a flood of correspond
ence from people over the country,
dreary unromanticism of the town, by
marrying off some of the inhabitants.
The city councils mail has been
flooded with letters asking about pos
sible husbands or wives from outsid-
ers. The guaranteed municipal list
of possibilities is to be mailed to any
inquirer on receipt of a postage
stamp. Evidently Belgium is not the
sympathy should be lavished.-From
the Manhattan Nationalist.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Kincaid of Hun
luncheon Ex-Governor John P. ST.
John and Mrs. ST. John of the United
States, Miss May Smith of st. Louis
and Mrs DeW v !, Nel ]. of Topeka
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
United Brethren church will meet at
2:30 Friday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. G.. E. Sharpley, 1925 Monroe
street.
Mrs. L. H. Greenwood, 1921 West
ern avenue, left this week for San
Diego, Cal, where she will visit with
relatives a few weeks .
Notes and Personal Mention.
Col Wilder S. Metcalf, of Law
renee, spent Wednesday in Topeka on
business.
Miss Josephine Perry was in Man
haitian Tuesday to attend a luncheon
given in honor of Dean Sarah Louise
Arnold, of Boston. Miss Arnold came
from Manhattan to Topeka and was
Miss Perry's guest Wednesday.
Mr. John Dean, who has been ill
at the home of his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. J. S. Dean, has recovered, and
returned to Lawrence, where he is
student in the State university
Miss Margaret Hayden has re-
turned from a trip to Excelsior
Springs, Mo.
merly lived Topeka, and who has
been in Chicago the past two years,
has returned to Topeka.
Miss Ruth Rooster will go to Law
renee for a weekend visit to Mss Dor
othy Miller at the Kappa Alpha Theta |
sorority house, and will attend par
ty given by one of the fraternities.
Miss Mary Wilson has returned to /
Valencia after a visit to DR.. and Mrs. |
Forrest Kutz.
Cut flowers at Hubbard's-Adv.
Mrs. Charles Bolinger, of lola, is |
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Hungate. |
Mrs r. E. MacGregor, of Mime |
apolis, Mimi. is visiting Mr.. and Mrs |
s E. Cobb, of Potwin Place.
Mrs. L. H Greenwood, accompa-
MED by Mrs. F. NJ Taylor and her |
for California to remain the rest of |
The spring.
Miss Bertha Machetanz, of Canton,
ohio, will arrive Friday to visit Miss
Elizabeth Anderson She is instructor
N the Tarkio college, Tarkio, Mo.
The Rev. Mr.. James Hunter and |
Mrs. Hunter, of Greeley, are guests
If Dr. and Mrs. w s. Lindsay
Captain lens Bugge. who is in San
weeks to join Mrs. Bugge, and they
will go to Hot Springs, Ark. Captain
3ugge is recuperating after an illness.
Mrs. Herbert Lininger, of Kansas
city, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs ]. B. Larimer, this week.
Mrs John F. Mitchell has returned
rom Galena, where she visited her
pickett returned to Topeka with Mrs
.Iitche1l to visit the Mitchell family.
Miss Mary MacLennan spen t
in Kansas City visiting
riends.
Mrs NJ. II. Collins and her son,
Irthur, of Kingfisher, Okla, is visit
ng Mrs Collins mother, Mrs. Mary
Z Andrews, 412 Woodlawn avenue. |
Mr.. Harry Steffen, of Elgin, ILL.,,
guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
:, r. Calkins.
Miss Meta Calkins arrived Wednes-
ay night from Lexington, KY, and
, at the home of her parents. Mr. and
Irs. C. r. Calkins-
The Topeka w. c. T. U. will meet =
t the home of Mrs. Sue Brain, 21O
tevens street. Friday afternoon at
80. The subject is Purity and