The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-22

/ the monogrammed belt buckle by
leaving the lowest button of the waist
coat unfaStened. Apparently belts
are worn the year through and that
suspenders have been sent to the scrap
heap along with the billed shirt that
was the particular abOminatiOn of the
masculine soul.
Miss Grace Wismeyer of Emporia
and Mr.. J. S. Chase Jr., will be mar
ried Christmas evening at Ellinwood,
Kan. Mr. Chase is the son of DR..
! and Mrs. J. s. Chase, and formerly
lived in Topeka He now has a posi-
ton with the Wolff Packing company,
with headquarters in Hutchinson.
DR.. and Mrs Chase and their
daughter. Mrs Don Wellman. will go
to Ellinwood to attend the wedding.
Mr.. Chase and his bride will spend the
New Years season with their relatives
in Topeka and later they will go to
, Hutchinson to make their home.
Miss Wismeyer has lived in Emporia
nearly all her life, until the past few
months, when the family moved to Ell
linwood. She has occasionally visited
friends in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs G. c. Bowman gave a
fish dinner at their home in Topeka
avenue Tuesday night The Bowmans
last summer fishing in Little Twin
Lake. Wisconsin. Those who sat at
the table last night were: Dr. and
Mrs. S. j. Crumbine, Miss Violet
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Searle Mr.. and
Mrs. Mahin- Haig, Miss Mildred Bow
man, Miss Florence Bowman, and Mr.
and Mrs Bowman.
The Alpha Delta men who are in
Topeka during the holidays will have
their annual dinner party New Years
evening. The girl friends of the hosts
will be guests at the party.
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DR.. and Mrs. J. p. Raster will give
a Christmas tree party for the doctors.
nurses and other employees of the
Santa Fe hospital Christmas morning.
DR.. NJ. L. Bishoff of Fort Madison,
City, and Mr.. j. D. Leary of Mulvane
will be out-of-town guests at the
party.
All who are interested in helping
the Good Government club send out
Christmas baskets. are reminded that
all contributions must be at the home
of Mrs. r. n. Rhodes, 1924 Harrison
street, Friday, December "a, by one
o'clock. Telephone inquiries may be
made of the members of the commit
tee, who are Mrs. J. P. Raster, Miss
Kate King and Mrs. Clara NJ. Hazel
rigg.
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Lieutenant and Mrs. Oliver NJ. Ladd,
and their little son, Oliver Mayhem,
II, who have been living in Manila,
have gone to the southern part of the
islands Lieutenant Ladd has been
stationed at one of the forts IN the
most southern island of the Philip
pine group, and his family and their
servants have moved to their new
home The fort is situated in better
climate than that of Manila, being in
u more temperate latitude, a journey
of about four days by water to the
south of the capital city. Mrs Iadd
writes that she is now living in a
regular house." which means that
she has glass for her window panes,
ana that her house is in other ways
somewhat like an American home
She was in Manila at the time of the
typhoon, when the wind blew at the
rate of 70 miles an hour for seven
teen hours. Lieutenant Ladd had al
ready gone to his new post, and Mrs.
Ladd was the guest in Manila of Cap
tain and Mrs. Barton, who went out to
the islands from Leavenworth, on the
same transport on which Lieutenant
and Mrs. Ladd sailed. soon after their
marriage. The wedding was an i'm
portant event of lest holiday season
in Topeka. Mrs. Ladd, before her
marriage, was Miss Phil Reed.
Ever so many of the shoppers, in
these last days before Christmas, are
too busy to go home for their lunch
con, and they have found that they
can be served any time OF the Gay Iney
want to eat down at Crosbys rest
room, where the young women of the
Chancel Chapter of Grace church, are
furnishing comforta bic meals
throughout the day. The stores are
open in the evening, and the girls of
the chapter will serve suppers, as well
as luncheOGs.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Dorsey Cullen, OF Norfolk, Va,
arrived the first of the week, called
by the illness and death of her uncle.
Mr. A A. Hurd. Captain Cullen ar
rived Tuesday night. Mrs. Cullen will
remain in Topeka with Mrs. Hurd and
Mrs. Della Moreland, Il rev weeks.
Mr.. George Legler, of Leavenworth.
will visit his sister, Mrs. T. r. Paxton,
for the weekend.
Mrs. Walter Roy Ranney and her
children, of Arkansas City, are visiting