The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-24

mittees, and the honorary members at
the homo Of Mrs. Lee Monroe 5o3
Harrison street, Saturday afternoon,
May 81, at three o'clock, for the tran
saction of important bushes
The date and place for the play
Satan Came Also have been defin-
litely settled. The show will be given
Saturday, June 8, matinee and even
! ing performance, at the Grand Opera
house. Rehearsals will begin at the
Grand next week. Mr.. George Shell
ton of New York, is preparing the
company, which boasts professional
player in the leading part, Mr.. Neal
Anderson. Mr.. Shelton is a successful
actor and manager in professional
| theatricals in New York, and the play
| is particularly fortunate in the gift of
| his services. He has been conducting
rehearsals at the home of his mother,
Mrs. John r. Shelton, whom he is Wis
iting for the summer.
| Between the acts during the two
performances of the play, Miss Edna
Hopkins and a group of young wo-
men whom she has chosen to help her,
will sell candy.
The cantata to be sung at Bethany
college, will be given Thursday night
/ of this week. A mistake was made in
the announcement that it was to be
l last week.
The cantata is Midsummer Night
and will be given in the assem- bly,
hall. by a chorus of girls voices. The
public is invited.
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The College Alumnae May party
which was to have been given last
Saturday, was postponed, on account
of the rain, and will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Cen
trail Park. The feature of the after
noon is the feature dancing arranged
by Miss Marguerite Koontz.
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| Lieutenant Ralph Parr, of the
United States navy, expects to be sent
to Honolulu in a short time. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Parr, his
young bride. His boat is now in dry
dock. He has been on the western
coast for some time and the cruise
out to the islands will net be at all
unwelcOnne.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Godfrey
Moore have sold their bungalow in
Lincoln street, and are living temper
arily at the Wintrode. They are plan
ming to build a new house at the cor
ner of Thirteenth and Boswell ave-
MUGS. They have a plot of ground at
that corner consisting of seven lots
and their house, to be stucco build
ing. is to be fashioned after a plan
that characteriZes many of the hand
some houses of California There
are to be some nine rooms on one
floor. and the living room is to have
an 1S-foot ceiling. The grounds are
to be adorned with an Italian gar
, den.
Miss Laura Ramsey, of the senior
; class in the State Agricultural col
lege, was chosen as maid of honor for
/ the May Queen at the college May
fete. She is a member of the Alpha
| Delta Pi sorority
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The lambda Lambda Theta local
sorority at the State Agricultural col
lege at Manhattan has received a
charter as a chapter of the national
sorority of Kappa Kappa Gamma
!. There are twenty-five active mem bers
of the sorority and two pledges. The
!, patronesses are: Mrs. H. ]. Waters,
Mrs. w. A. Cochel, Mrs. W. M Jar
4 dine, Mrs. J. C. Hessin, Mrs M J. Nc
Kee, Mrs. T. r. Cave. Mrs. George
, Southern and Mrs. P. j. Newman. The
Topeka girls who are members are
Miss Vivien Heron and Miss Merle
Beeman.
!, The board of managers of the To-
peka Federation of Women will give
: a luncheon Monday at the tea room
: for Mrs. d. L. McEachron, outgoing
: president of the federation, and for
!. Mrs S. S. Beggs. newly elected presi-
uenI OF the organization, and also fol-
Mrs Arthur Capper. The toastmis-
tress will be Mrs. S. S. Estey, second
4 vice president Mrs. A Marburg is
the chairman of general arrangements
and the members of the committee di-
;; recting in charge of the party are
1 Mrs. ]. l.. Work, Mrs. w. d. Storrs and
e Miss Carolyn Thomas. Twenty-s six
e women will attend the party.
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Notes and Personal Mention
Mrs. Van Dussen, of California, is
visiting her brother. Mr.. Charles SEES
e sions. and Mrs. Sessions.
4 Mrs. Herbert West is visiting hel
: mother in Concordia
d Miss Genevieve Herrick who /:
:. teaching this year in Axtell, Kansas
: has arrived to spend the summer with
i her mother, Mrs. R.. T. Herrick. She
:. and her cousin, Betty Frost will go t.
t Baldwin to spend the weekend with
Il Miss Sarella Herrick, who is a stu
k dent in Baker university.
K Mrs. c. A. Morse, of Chicago. who
expected to come to Topeka the earl,
o part of the week, has been detained
s and will arrive Thursday
e Mr.. and Mrs. David w. Mulvane will
e leave Thursday for Chicago and will
v remain for the Republican nationa
convention.
Mrs. D. P. Paxton will return to
S night from Boston, Mass, where sh,
n visited her daughter, Miss Joy Pax
8 ton, a student in the New England
S Conservatory of Music. On her wa,
i home she stopped in Kentucky to visi
,. Mr.. Paxton's people, and she was tn
h guest of Mrs. S. S. Rice and Mrs Byrd
!. former Topekans in st. Louis, Mo.
4 The Elmhurst Needle club me
3 Tuesday with Mrs. F. r. Souders
Those present were: Mrs. o. S. McGin
mis-, Mrs. A. L. Sewers, Mrs w. S
II Stahl, Mrs. Frank Tamblyn, Mrs. I. A
: | SilHman, Mrs. T E Roe Mrs
r Jones, Mrs Elmer Bagley, Mrs. E. G
Wagner, Mrs. W. E. Salisbury, Mrs. c
B. Woody of Atchison
= Miss Marguerite Clark of Blu
n Rapids, who is Junior in the Beltor
b MO, nigh school, is visiting her cousin
= Miss