The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-24

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Mrs. Monte kistler and Mrs. George
Staebler will be hostesses at an infor-
NAL afternoon Wednesday, in compli-
ment to Mrs. Joseph T. White and
Miss Grace White, of Boston, Mass,
who are visiting at the Arthur White
home.
Texas City, Tex, was not a pleasant
place during the recent gulf storms
that swept that part of the Lone Star
state, according to Miss Eva Smith,
327 Topeka avenue, who has just re-
turned from there. She was visiting
Lieut.. and Mrs. Frederick Barrows.
Mrs. Barrows was formerly Miss
Floyd Robinson of Topeka.
The cloudburSt, according to Miss
| Smith, came suddenly and on the af-
! ternoon of that day the streets were
| Hooded. BY night the officers and
other residents of the city were forced
to wade through water several feet
deep to higher ground.
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Miss Helen Hogoboom. who has
been for some years instructor in the
voice department of the Washburn
effective at once. It is expected that
she will go to Boston in the fall, to
join Madam Sigrid Lunde Souther, and
open n school of music in that CITY,
with Madam Souther. Miss Hoge-
boom's successor will probably be
named by Dean Horace Whitehouse,
upon his return to Topeka. He is now
i'll Lorraine, Ohio, visiting his mother
Miss Hogeboom went to New Or
leans early in the summer to visit her
sister, and later she went to Michigan
to remain the rest of the season.
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Miss Elsie Boon and Miss Nellie
Boon. who will leave Sunday for Cali
fOrnia. will be at home informally to
their friends Saturday afternoon from
two to five o'clock. No invitations are
issued, and all friends of the Misses
Boon are asked to call. Miss Elsie
Boon has been in California for some
time, and returned this summer to
visit her people. Miss Nellie Boon will
accompany her sister on her return
west. and will remain III California
about year.
The Kansas City Journal tells of the
arrival in Kansas City of Miss Hope
Davis, the new president of the Kappa
Alpha Theta sorority, who is visiting
Mrs. Charles Howard. Miss Davis will
be guest of honor at a tea Wednes-
day at the Muehlebach hotel. The
hostesses will be members of the
tiers. A picnic will be given Thurs
day for Miss Davis at Electric park
by the Kansas City Alumnae chapter.
The hostesses will be: Mrs. Del Keiz-
brecht, Mrs. George Reising, Miss
Katherine Keller, Miss Marjorie Hires,
Miss Marie Sealy, and Miss Georgia
Cotter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Baker and their
son Clifford who have been in Cali
fornia a part of the summer, expect
to return home the first of September.
They have been guests of Mr.. w. r.
Baker, Mr.. Bakers father, of Los An
geles, and he has been showing them
the beauty spots of southern Califor-
MIA, taking them on long drives in
his machine. They have travelled
about 1000 miles by automobile.
They visited Universal City and, |
as to the real thing in the films
We are told that smudge pots with
red lights on them make the most
gorgeous fires believable. Gunny
sacks, with a tubful of plaster and
some windows, can be made into a
presentable house exterior. 1t is like
the Little Buttercup song in Pima
fore: Things are seldom what they
seem; skim milk masqueradeS as
cream
Mr. and Mrs Baker will return by
way of Albuquerque. N. NJ, and Colo
RADIO Springs
The marriage of Mrs Sarah V
Aller of Baldwin and Mr.. Lloyd B.
Smith of Topeka, took place this
morning at the o. G. Markham home.
Mrs. Aller is MIR. Markham's sisterin-
law. Mrs. Aller has lived in Baldwin
a number of years, and previously she
lived in Leavenworth and Lawrence
She is a graduate of the Illinois Wom-
ans college, Jacksonville, Ill.
Mr.. Smith is vice president and
chief engineer of the Topeka Bridge
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West street. He and his bride will be
at home to their friends in Topeka
after November l.
Three young men from Topeka will
go east to military school this fall |
Mr.. Clyde Schenck, Mr.. Archie Nc
Keever and Mr.. Merrill Rutter will
leave in September for Culver, Ind, |
to enter the Culver Military academy.
Mr.. Schenck will enter his third year
at the academy, and Mr.. McKeever !
and Mr.. Rutter, who have been in the |
Topeka high school, are new students
in the military school
Mrs. Silas Porter and Mrs. J. NJ. |
Council will entertain at luncheon |
Wednesday at the Country club in |
compliment to Mrs James Hurley of
Washington, d. c.
Senator and Mrs. Charles Curtis |
gave a dinner party Monday night for
Mrs. Hurley and her daughter, Miss |
Hurley and their hosts, |
Mr.. and Mrs. Rollo J. Parker.
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Mr.. Charles Kouns, jr.. was host |
at the Country club at luncheon Mon |
day, for the members of the Ohio uni |
versity String Quartet, who are on /
their return east from a visit to the |
fairs in California. The men of the |
quartet are: Mr.. H. H. Pickering, |
Mr.. r. B. Hindman, Mr.. r. E. Munson |
and Mr.. P. w. Austin. The other /
guests were Miss Hi1degarde Hur- |
ley Miss Mildred Fuller, Miss