The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-24

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Topeka rather plumes herself that
at one time, soon after the Civil war,
she entertained the Grand Duke Alexis,
of Russia. That event is supposed to
have marked the high tide of the
towns social achievement, but that
was so long ago that any sinful pride
that it may have inspired has had
time to work itself out of the civic
system.
Topeka next week. The wife of the
president of the United States, it is
rumored, will accompany him on his
western trip, and will be with him in
Topeka the greater part of the day of
his speech in this city. She will be
invited to be the guest of Mrs. Arthur
Capper, and Governor Capper, While
she is in the city. The plans of the
travellers will be not known definitely
until tonight.
Mrs. Adelaide Smith was hostess at
a meeting of her afternoon bridge club
today Mrs. Horace Humphreys and
Mrs William Curtis played for absent
members.
The Tuesday Bridge Luncheon club
will be entertained Tuesday of this
week by Mrs. Thomas J. Myers, of AIS
West Eleventh.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Myers will entertain
their evening club at a dinner-bridge
Wednesday night
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The marriage of Miss Anges Hamil
ton, of Wichita, and Mr.. Merrifield
Martling. of Topeka, took place Satur-
day morning at $50 o'clock in Kansas
City. Mice Hamilton came to Topeka
to join Mr.. Martling Saturday morning,
and they went to Kansas City on
morning train and were married at st.
PauPs rectory, the home of the Richey
family. of Kansas City, who are close
friends of the Martling family. They
spent Sunday in Kansas City with Mr.
E. S. Brigham, an uncle of Mr.. Mart
ling. They returned to Topeka Sunday
evening, and will occupy apartments
in this city.
Wichita this year. Mr.. Martling, who
has studied in the State Agricultural
college and a German university, has
lately come to Topeka to take a posi-
ton with the Santa Fe-
| Mrs. Frank Merriam was hostess at
meeting of her whist club this after
noon.
! The Ideal Bridge club will be en-
! tertained at a bridge-luncheon Tues
| day by Mrs. Charles Lagerstrom.
! A guest day meeting of Western
Sorosis was held Saturday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. A. A. GODDARD. A
| Kansas program was given, including
! a paper by Mrs Charles F. Spencer, on
Red Letter Days in Kansas History"
discussion by Mrs. Frank Montgomery
and Mrs. F. w. Watson; the Kansas
song, led by Mrs. H. .. Carney and
music by Mrs. Nellie Shepard Way
nick.
/ Mrs. Spencer's article, which the
| club decided to place in the State His
torical society, says, in part: 1t was
a red letter day when Coronado in
/ 1912 took possession of the plains of
Kansas and over them raised the Span
| ish flag, and of still greater impor-
lance when the United States govern
ment bought the same territory in
4 1903. The expeditions of Lewis and
Clark and of u. M. Pike furnish the
earliest trustworthy information re-
garding the Kansas plains. In 1858
it was a red letter day (red with the
| prophecy of blood to be shed) when
l Stephen A. Douglass originated sub
stitute for the Missouri compromise
! bill, and the kanSaS-Neb raSka Dill was
/ passed. Then was established squat
/ ter sovereignty, or local option in the
matter of slavery.
1T was red letter day when the
Emigrant Aid society of Massachusetts
decided to COLOMBO the territory of
Kansas with anti-slavery people. In
4 1854 the town of Lawrence was organ
lied, and Topeka was located Dec. 5, of
! the same year. At the first election
I 1900 Missourians came to Kansas and
elected their delegate
The article continued with early
Kansas history of conventions. cleo
| lions, the story of John Brown. the
states part in the Civil war, and the
| Indian troubles which followed.
1T was surely a red letter day for
Kansas when the first railroad was
built through the state. The Indians
were opposed to its coming. and labor
ers went to work heavily armed. Later