The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-14

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Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Whiteker of 1921
Clay street. announce the engagement
of their daughter. F'loy, to Mr.. Horace
/ T. WiIlSie of Topeka. The wedding is
/ to take place Thursday, May II.
The announcement carries with it a
good deal of interest, as both the
young people have many friends in
Topeka. Miss Whiteker's father, Mr..
G. p. Whiteker, is member of the
/ firm of Whiteker Brothers, who are
/ important wholesale dealers of the
/ in the fine arts department of Wash
burn college, having spent three years
as the voice pupil of Madame Lunde
/ Souther.
MIR. Wilkie is the son of Mr.. Theo-
dore A. Wilkie, who has been in the
postoffice department in Topeka for
many years. He is nephew of DR..
/ Deborah K. LonSshore, and of the late
Major J. X. Hudson. Mr. Wilkie was
educated al the State Agricultural col
/ 1ege, Manhattan, Kan.
The marriage will be solemnized at
the Whiteker home. Miss Amy Lam
/ bertson of Manhattan. student
: in the Agricultural college, will be
| bridesmaid, and Mr.. WilIxie will be
attended by Mr. Zeno Rechel, also of
the Agricultural college. Miss White
ker's niece. little Virginia Ray Lam
bertson, will be. flower girl.
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News has been received of the en-
gagement of Miss Anne Malott of abb
| lene to Mr.. Arthur S. Humphrey of
Junction City The item is of consid-
| cradle local interest, as Mr.. Humphrey
has friends in Topeka. He is the son
of Mrs. James Vance Humphrey of
junction City, past president of the
Kansas State Federation of Women's
Clubs, and also of the Woman's Kan
sas Day club. Mr.. Humphrey was a
Kansas university student. graduating
in the class of 1912, and is now prac-
ticing law in Junction City Miss Ma
lott was also university student, and
| finished in the class of 1913. She was
a member of the Alpha Delta Pi So
| rority.
Prof. and Mrs. S. G. Hefelbower of
| Washburn college gave dinner party
for the members of the senior class of
| Washburn Thursday night. Mr.. Hef-
follower is a senior class officer. The
president of the class is Mr.. Ernest
! Bearg, one of the Phi Delta Theta men
| of the school. The faculty people
| asked to the party were DIR. and Mrs.
| ID. w. Fisk, Dean and Mrs. D. L. Nc
Eachron and Mrs. P. p. Womer.
The table was decorated with white
roses. The favors were baskets of
nuts, with blue birds on the edge hold
ing the place cards. About fifty mem
bers of the class were present.
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There is conSterna ton in the uplift
circles. The cigarettes have been
swatted, and Demon Rum denounced,
but old Coca-Cola holds its own,
without a single resolution on record
against it And they do say that one
OF our charming young matrons never
thinks of getting through the forenoon
without taking her thermos bottle to
the drug store and bringing it home
for daily refreshment certain.
dressmaker relies on it absolutely and
considers it the one prop of her ad-
vancing years. One day she gave out
while she was fitting. She hustled one
OF her sewing girls post-haste after
her accustomed drink After the draft
was disposed of, the fitting went mer-
rily on, and the sewing shop is de-
voutly grateful to Old Man Coca for
putting the filter into a pleasant tenn
per.
DR.. and Mrs. C. B. Reed and M.
and Mrs. c. A. Moore have returned
from Kansas City, where they attend
ed a banquet given at the Hotel Balti
more by the Cooperative club of Kan
sas City. They represented at the
party the Topeka Cooperative club.
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The effort of the forestry depart
ment of the Topeka Federation of
Women in the work of municipal gar
dens to be made by school children,
Sunday school pupils and individuals,
is awakening an interest more than To-
cal Mr.. Dan Anthony, congressman
mas sent packages of seeds to be used
in the garden contest by those who
are not able to buy them. Mrs.
w. Kouns, who is doing great deal
of work in connection with the garden
project, announces that the plans are
working out well, and that there is q
good deal of interest taken in the
work.
The delegates were entertained by
their hostesses during convention for
lodging and breakfast. One woman
put before her guests such a breakfast
as would have put old Pickwick into
a perfect frenzy of astronomical en-
joyment. AS soon as the viands began
to be demolished she started on The
road of apology for the measerness
that" her guest urged. You have a
accustomed to half so fine a break
the household spoke out in meeting:
Neither are we used to it-neither
are We"
II Mrs. c. ]. Evans was chairman of
| the resolutions committee at the con-
vention of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
i association held Thursday. She pre-
] scented resolutions endorsing the work
| of the Kansas State Welfare commits