The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-21

the shape of little white rabbits emerg-
ing from band boxes.
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The Langstaff class of Central Con-
gregational church will have a ban
quet in the church parlors next Tues
day night.
A Kansas day dinner was given re-
Gently in New York at the Marie An
toinette hotel. Kansas day parties
were being held in other cities of the
country at the same time, and tele-
phone connections were established
between the various cities. A Kansas
girl, Miss Edith Pinney, whose home
is in Wilson, was one of the guests.
She is a daughter of DR.. and Mrs. ]. A
Pinney, and is a graduate of the Kan
sas State university. She also was
student in the Universities of Bonn
and Heidelberg, and studied at the
Geological. Stations at Naples, where
she won many honors. She is now
teaching in Bryn Mawr college, and
will return to Kansas in the early
summer for a vacation visit to her
parents. She writes to friends a let
ter describing the party in New York,
in which she says:
1t was held in the green room of
the hotel; the speakers sat at one long
table at the side of the room, the bal
ance of the guests were seated at small
tables, in the middle of each table was
mound of ferns and narcissus, and
into this from above ran one of the
telephone wires. From this mound
radiated the cords with receivers, at
tached which ended at each plate, in
this way all of the people present were
connected with the New York end of
the transcontinental telephone line.
After we had dinner and some prac-
tice singing THE Crimson and the
Blue" and had listened to several
speeches, the man who was engineer
IN o. q fol Id
stations along the line TO San Fran
cisco. 1t was wonderful, he would
say hello, Pittsburg, and Immediately
back would come hello; Mr.. kessler.
then few bantering words about the
weather, etc, and Mr.. Kessler would
say, that will do, we are going on to
Chicago, hello, Chicago; hello Mr.
kessler and so on, across the entire
continent; from Chicago to Omaha
Lawrence, Kan, to Denver, Salt Lake
CITY, Nevada town l never heard Of
and then San Francisco, each answer
ing the instant called
There were 500 people at Lawrence,
and 80 at San Francisco, Prof Car
ruth and Chancellor Strong each
talked about five minutes, but could
not hear them well, but whenever a
woman talked we could understand
everything she said
New York then sang a song or
rather one of the gentlemen at the
dinner sang, and we listened to the
applause at the other end of the coun-
try, then the Glee club at Lawrence
sang, and at San Francisco Several
photograph records were played, then
we at New York sang the first verse
of the Crimson and the Blue, Law
renee sang the second and San Fran
cisco the third. 1t was a wonderful
demonstration of the worlds greatest
wonder
We were also entertained by an ac-
count of the construction of the line
and moving pictures of the work in
progress. We had the use of the line
for an hour and half, it was worth
over a thousand dollars and did not
cost us anything The company gave
1t to us for advertising purposes
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Mrs. George w. Stansfield will give
a party for her daughter, Mildred, in
celebration of her fourth birthday an
rliversary. Saturday. The guests will
be Louie Freeman, Betty Freeman
Louise SIoo, Virginia Neil Claude Ell
mer Neil, Harriet Perry, Doris Kistler,
Edwin Kistler, Frances Gibbs, Lucy
Gibbs. Lucille Fisher and Sheldon
Hogeboom.
Miss Ruth Keller. society reporter
for the Wichita Eagle. and Mr.. Charles
A Wallingford, mayor CT Ashland,
Kan, were married Thursday evening
in Wichita. The bride is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Milton E. Keller of
Wichita, and she is a cousin of Miss
Kate Thomen of Topeka, society re-
porter for the Daily Capital. Mr..
Wallingford is wealthy grain dealer
and land owner. After the marriage
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallingford left for a
trip to New Orleans. They will make
their home in Ashland.
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The Square and Compass club gave
a dance Thursday night at Kellam
hall. Those who danced were: Mr..
and Mrs H. c. Goodrich, Mr.. and Mrs.
N. ]. Petro, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Dyal,
Mr.. and Mrs G. D. Criswale. Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Mr.. and Mrs Otto Kuehne, Jr., Mr..
and Mrs. D. w. Stoddard, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. D. Schnacke, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wilton, Mr.. and Mrs. A. R.
| Springer, Mr.. and Mrs. N. G. Edel-
blute, Mr.. and Mrs. James Nelson, Mr..
Lee. Harrison, Mr.. and Mrs. II. D. Rob-
inson, Mrs. John C. Staples, Rock
Port. Mo-, Miss Mildred Here. Miss
Harriet Cherry, Miss Ruth Anderson,
Miss Maude De Land, Miss Margaret
Borst, Miss Ada Snyder Miss Lula
Young, Miss Julia Schmidt, Miss Luz
ellie Nye, Miss Florence Thompson,
! Miss Gertrude Heinz, Miss Hazel Lee
Null Miss Modine Hill, Miss Mary
Summers. Miss Hazel Kindred. Miss
Vera Burdett, Mr.. Fred Gades, Mr.. L.
NJ. Penwell, Mr.. Bert Anderson, Mr..
| Virgil J. Lawrence, Mr.. J. NJ. Nichol-
son, Mr. Russell Sells, Mr.. Clyde
Breeze, Mr.. Fred ]. Kenline, Mr.. R. L.
Downing, Mr.. G. W. Boyer. Mr. f. E.
Fisher, Mr.. George C. Helm, Mr.. L. A.
Corlis, Mr.. George Spencer, Mr.. J. +.
Hess, Mr.. G. Z. Hesner, Mr.. H. H.
| Clark.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs NJ A. Low and her daughter,
Mrs Albert T. Reid. returned today
from Excelsior Springs, where they
spent the past week or two.
Miss Anna Sweet left Thursday for
| New York CITY for a visit of a few