The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-01


Julia Soper, Miss Caroline Deming,
and the guests besides the members
| were Miss Nanon Herren, Miss Juliet
Brown, Miss Josephine Doran, Miss
! Parfitt.
Among the wedding gifts for Miss
Helen Shirer, is a handsome tray of
unusual design. The frame is of oak,
and the tray itself is of spun glass
in which are embedded a large, beau
tifully marked, Japanese butterfly
some smaller California butterflies,
and a dainty background of California
grasses.
The pearl necklace to be worn by
the bride, originally belonging to Mrs.
jeremiah Lee, the great
grandmother of the bridegroom, was a
/ part of a dog collar, worn by the
original owner when she sat for a por-
trait done by Copley, the famous nor
trait painter. This Mrs. Lee was the
wife of Colonel Lee, of Marblehead, a
member of the First Continental con-
greSS. The next owner of the neck
lace was Mrs. William Raymond Lee,
whose husband was adjutant general
! of George WashingtonS army She
gave it to her daughter, who married
General Henry A s. Dearborn, son of
Major General Dearborn, commander
in-chief of the United States army in
the war of 1912. The necklace de-
scended to her daughter, Miss Sarah
Mr.. Lee to present to his bride, Miss
Shirer.
| Mr.. Lee will wear on the occasion of
his marriage, an interesting relic-one
| of the six miniature eagles, the en-
bIem of the Society of Cincinnati.
Marquis de Lafayette to be presented
to six of his friends in 1897. AT that
time some of the officers of Washing
toms army formed dinner club,
oi1%r Of Niv7-
cinnati, and the eagles were given to
it's members. Colonel William Ray
mond Lee was one of the six.
A visitor of interest for the wedding
is General Charles Lawrence Peirson
of Commonwealth avenue. Boston,
Mass. There is a little story of inter-
est connected with his friendship for
Mr. Lees family. He was a staff Off
Ger in the regiment of General Villa m
Raymond Lee, who went to the Civil
war as colonel of the Harvard regi-
ment. General Lee was taken prisoner
and placed in Libbey prison, under
sentence, with thirteen other officers.
to be hanged. His officer, Peirson,
offered himself to be hanged in place
of General Lee because he was young
and had no family, In the group of
doomed men was one Paul Revere, a
grandson of the famous Revere of the
Revolution. The sacrifice, however.
became unnecessary, when a group of
fourteen Confederate OFFICERS, under a
similar sentence, was exchanged for
the Libbey prisoners. The friendship
between the Lee family and today's
wedding guest has continued from Civ
/ il war times.
/ General William Raymond Lee, in
addition to being an army officer, was
| a prominent business man of New
England. being president of two rail-
roads, the Vermont Central and the
| Burlington Vermont.
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! Judge and Mrs. DeWitte C. Nellis
and Mrs S. ]. Crawford returned to-
day from Cottonwood Falls, where
! they were guests at a house party CIV
en- by Mrs. Sadie Grisham. Mrs. John
P. st. John of Olathe was also one
of the guests at the party.
| The young women who have been
asked to help in the sale of candy at
| the evening performance of Satan
! Came Also next Saturday night at
the Grand. are: Miss Jessie Burnett,
Miss Elizabeth Hopkins. Miss Helen
Lucas. Miss Katherine Hand, Miss
Barbara farrell, Miss Elizabeth Ed
son. Miss Dorothy Crane, Miss Mary
Paxton, Miss Irene Miller. Miss Edna
Hopkins has charge of the candy
sales for the afternoon and evening.
The candy is to be furnished by the
members of the art department and
the literature department of the To-
peka Federation of Women.
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| Notes and Personal Mention.
Miss Ruth Bradbury, who has been
/ teaching in the high school at Man
haitian, arrived today to visit her sis
| ter, Mrs. Fred Munson.
Mrs NJ. E. Whitmore and her
grandson, Warren White, of Fairbury,
Neb., are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
P. Whitmore.
| Miss Florence Davis will return the
/ last of the week from Washington,
D. c., where she attended the National
! Park seminary this year
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Smith, of Kan
sas City, will visit Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Crane over Sunday.
Miss Edna Reinbach has returned
from Wakefield, where she taught this
year. She will go to Conway Springs
next fall, where she has been elected
principal OF the high school.
! Mrs Clay McKibben, of Dodge City
is visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
John H. Frizell
Mrs. Willis Coston returned today