The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-27

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mules destined for the allies. He
writes that a knowledge of boxing
stood him in good stead the first few
! days of his association with the crew
and that before the end of the voyage
he was on the best of terms with his
fellow workers. The Lancastrian
made its voyage just before the U-53
! began it's depredations. A cattle boat
a few days behind was torpedoed and
/ sunk by the U-boat. yale, Harvard
| and Princeton men make up the am
bulance corps" writes Mr.. Porter. He
/ law school. Justice Porter has son
with Battery A on the border, Lieuten-
ant Richard Porter.
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Miss Donna E. Self of Atchison, and
Mr.. Meyer ]. Scrinopski of Topeka,
were married at o'clock Sunday aft
ernoon by Rabbi Bernstein of ST Jo-
ding We're: Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. Hoff-
man, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Scrinopski, Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. Brennan, Miss Jane
Scrinopski. Mr.. Aubry A. Fish. Mr. and
Mrs L BENJAMIN, Mr. and. Mrs. z.
| Scrinopski, Miss Grace Scrinopski, Mr.
and Mrs. G. Greenbaum. Mr.. A. L.
Gartner, Mr.. Ben Scrinopski, Mr. Isa-
dor Scrinopski. The bridal couple left
for trip east and will be at home
after December 1 at SIS West Seventh
street.
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Mr.. and Mrs Noel P. Wood will go
to Kansas City this week to assist at
a wedding reception to be given by
DR.. and Mrs. o. c. Shelley of indie
pendence for their daughter, Ada Cla-
rice, on the evening of Wednesday,
November %. Miss Nella Port SOL
lars of Independence will assist at the
party. Miss Sollars is a niece of DR.
and Mrs. George Port Ashton, and is
expected in Topeka for a visit to her
relatives some time after Thanksgiv-
ing
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Miss Marie Kaiser, formerly of To-
peka, now of New York, spent the
weekend in Topeka with relatives
Miss Kaiser, accompanied by her
mother, is making a western trip. and
gave concert Friday night in Atchi-
son. Miss Kaiser has had an offer
from the Metropolitan Grand Opera
company, according to an Atchison
paper.
The hardened old bachelor looked
over the ballroom. II used to think"
he muttered, that women were fond
of dress, but I see no evidence of it
now. kansas Industrialist
A Kansas City paper published an
article yesterday about Mr.. and Mrs
lures of Mrs. Shouse and her two lit
tie children. The Shouse family have
spent some seasons in Topeka, and on
those occasions have been much in
demand socially. They entertained at
frequent and handsomely appointed
parties, and We're asked to most of
the fashionable affairs given during
their residence here. The article says
of Mrs. Shouse:
Representative Jouett Shouse of
the Seventh Kansas district, who has
just been reelected to congress for a
second term, gives much of the credit
1or his successful campaign to Mrs
Shouse- Mrs. Shouse was Marion Ed
wards. She was born in Kinsley and
mas lived in Kansas all her life. Ed
wards county was named after her
rather, r. E. Edwards, who is a pio-
neer or the county, going there in
So Mrs. Shouse was graduated
from Miss Barstow's School in 1903. |
ana from Wellesley in 1907. She has
often been asked how she met her
husband. She met him while visiting
coIlege chum in Lexington. XIV.
Durlng his campaign Mr.. Shouse |
visited every county in his district and
spent day in each county, and on |
Lnese trips Mrs. Shouse accompanied
MN, travelling about 5000 miles he
tween september 5 and election dav
Perhaps half of this distance was trav- |
cleo by motor car in all sorts of
weather.
Mrs. Shouse proved to be a most
eAceIieht campaigner Her personal
lty Is such that it would be a most |
variable asset should she ever decide |
20 enter politics on her own account. |
winch is most unlikely, as her pride in |
ner husbands achievements is nm
bounded Mrs. Shouse gave especial |
attention to the women of the Seventh |
u s.l visiting the stores and meet
ing the women clerks. ATTENDING nc
many many receptions which were held for
her all over the district, and she liter |
any shook hands with thousands of /
men and women during the campaign
IN all that time she never asked anv-
oooy TO vote for her husband, vet moi
one was LEFT IN doubt as to her prefer
enee for congressman.
Mrs Shouse made only rwo
speeches. IN the campaign and they
were very brief. At the Soldiers
home at Dodge City she was called on
Tor a speech. and responded that she
mad heard many inquiries as to how