The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-19

Jack Merriam. Maurice Dean, Edward
Miller, Raymond Coolidge, George
Greenwood, Charles Barnes, Port
Major Russell Lagerstrom. Edwin
Nellis. Douglas Bowman. and Hamil-
ton Chase.
The Junior Atlantean club will have
their annual picnic party Tuesday
afternoon of next week at the country
home of Mr.. and Mrs l. R. Taylor,
lakewood Farm. beyond Calhoun
Bluffs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch, the newest
citizen of prominence in Topeka, IS the
author of an article published in the
Her article is entitled IAN Appeal to
the West" in which she explains
something of the power of the voters in
the enfranchised states, and what can
be accomplished by the women in those
states and even just a part of the
women in bringing sufficient political
pressure to bear to the end that any
one party can be forced to accept its
responsibility in congress toward the
woman suffrage amendment
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A musical contest for high school
pupils has been planned to be given
next week The contest is to be held
in connection with picture show at
the Orpheum theater. The play to pc
shown is Silas Mariner with Frederick
Warde in the leading part. and the,
musical performance will take place at
the theater Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, in connection with the
show.
The contest will include both vocal
and instrumental music. and the prizes
to be awarded are substantial ones OF
considerable value, contributed by
business houses of the city. The play,
Silas Mariner. was chosen for the oc-
casion, it is a picture taken from
| the story by that name that all high
school students study and one that is
| favorite with young people.
| Among the prizes to be given to the
winners in the music contest are an
| electric outfit. including chatting dish,
| coffee percolator, tea Samover, and
| water heater given by the Edison
| company; a watch which will be the
| gift of the Santa Fe Watch company:
| a lovingcup to be presented by the To-
peka State Journal; and there will be
| prizes from the Palace Clothing COM
pany to be selected later, a prize from
the Orpheum management, and from
one of the local banks.
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One of the Topeka girls who is in
the east at school this year has been
writing home all winter about the
good times she has been having in the
great city. She wrote a letter to her
| father describing opera as 1t is per-
| formed at the great Metropolitan, and
telling all about the very newest plays
| that New York saw during the season.
The indulgent father laid down the
letter, folded up his spectacles, and
addressed his wife: MY dear" he
said, II have been thinking all along
that we had sent our child away to go
to school. Now how did 1 get that inn
preston %
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| Some of the club women who have
been interested in the project of Civ
| ing children's picture matinees on Sat-
urdays, are discussing a plan to have
| a community theater. They hope that
next fall they can rent a building, put
| in their own equipment and show
the pictures that they select; or they
may begin campaign for a commun-
ity theater for children and grown
ups also. With the close of school
| the pictures for the children at the
Iris may be discontinued, as the play
grounds will be open, and not so many
children will be interested in the
movies. The club women composing
committees to have the children's
matinees in charge are: J. M Cur
rier, Mrs. r. F. DeArmond, Mrs. H.
O. Carney, Mrs. c. F. Spencer, Mrs. E.
D. Schonberger, Mrs c. J. Evans.
Mrs Charles NJ. Sheldon, Mrs. Emma
Sells Marshall and Mrs. Effie NJ Main
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Mrs. D. L. McEachron, retiring pres
ident of the Topeka Federation of
Women. will be the guest of honor at
a luncheon to be given by the mem
bers of the board of management
Monday, May 20. Mrs. j. L. Work,
Mrs W. D. Storrs and Miss Carolyn
Thomas will be in charge of the ar
engagements for the party.
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Friends who have been asked to as
sist Mrs. A. H. Purdy and Mrs. James
S. Sproat at their tea Tuesday for
their sister, Mrs. J. E. Morris of Phil
adeIphia, are; Mrs. A. T. Lucas. Mrs.
F. E Parr, Mrs. w. o. Rigby, Mrs
Albert Green, Mrs. ]. Hoover, Mrs AL
bert Patten, Mrs. C. NJ Hill, Mrs. "
Kistler. Mrs. Harry Seery, Mrs
Lewis H. Greenwood and Mrs. RATHER
inc Lindsay Perkins The girls who
Miss Dorothy Crane, Miss Antoinette
Clark and Miss Dorothy Sproat Belle
Barton and Margaret Hill will also as
sist.
Miss Margaret Kirkpatrick and Miss
Elizabeth Hand will entertain some OF
their college and high school friends
tonight at the Kirkpatrick home, 1924
Boswell avenue.
Mrs. Robert Fullerton entertained
ner club Yesterday Other guests were
Mrs P. j. Clevenger Mrs. Luthel
Burns and Miss Gertrude Reed.
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MISS Kitty Tandy and Miss Isls
Dooiey will give a tea towel shower
tonight at Miss Tandy's home. 1905
college avenue, for Miss Vera Per
klns' whose marriage to Mr. Pau
/ Wharton, of Wellington, will taxi
l place June 5. The guests will be Mis-:
Perkins. Miss Margaret Price, Mis-.
Martha Schultz. Miss Alice Harring
ton Miss Opal Glenn, Miss Eva John
son, Miss Thelma Harlow. Miss Heller
Davis, Miss Nellie Brewer, Miss Nellie
i Hughes, Miss Isabel Wharton, Mis-.
Hulda Wharton, Miss Eunice McDon.
| AID, Miss Ruth Mcdonald. Miss Heller
Brown, Miss Lola Currie. Miss Caro-