The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-14

vim King, Sarah Noble. Carrie Weseott
ed to beware of the bright lights A
Topeka bachelor who used to play
around in Topeka with the smart
crowd at the top pace, is now living in
Kansas City and he swearS by all his
gods that he never led the simple life
so completely as he has since ne
moved his trunk and his walking stick
to the mouth of the trimming kaW.
He now breaches little sermonettes on
the advantages of early going to bed.
when 1 think of the way 1 used to
bat around when 1 lived in Topeka,
he says, .'I don't see how 1 kept at
business. These days 1 take my car
out for a little spin in the evenings,
and then I get back home early and
turn in at o'clock. 1t is only when
my old friends come down for little
visit that I ever go off cabareting to
remind me in mild way of my old
going days in Topeka town"
A young newspaper man went to
Kansas City to take good job, and
instead of painting the town, as he
was naturally expected to do, he de-
clares that he has been able to clear
up all the debts he had when he left
here, and to start an account in the
state savings bank, or wherever it is
ambitious youth stores its stray PEN
MES.
Wherefore, then, the distress over
the innocent village children going to
the city? p
Friends of Mr. FRANKLIN Hunt,
j whose marriage has been announced,
are interested in his bride, who was
formerly Mrs. Lois Black Woodruff, of
Chicago.
Mrs. Hunt is gifted musi-
clan, who has been at the head of. the
piano department of the Jeanette Lou
don School of Music. Recently she
has devoted her entire time to special
izing in children's work in music and
methods of teaching them.
Mr.. Hunt is baritone singer and
teacher of voice in Kansas City, with
studio and weekly classes in Topeka
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Miss Virginia Taliaferro gave a pic
mic party at Lakewood park Thursday
night for her sister, Mrs Bruce Blair,
of Corvallis, Oregon. Mrs. Blair will
sorority Saturday evening. Sharing
honors with Mrs. Blair was Miss Emily
Hardy who will be married this fail
to Mr.. Raymond Stewart.
The guests last night were the
patronesses and members of the To
peka chapter of the Sigma Alpha Iota
sorority, including: Mrs. F. A. Derby,
Mrs. E. G. Foster, Mrs. Arthur Cap
per, Miss Helen Hogeboom, Mrs
Robert kingman, of Urbana Ill.
MISS E1dTuys MISS June Mitchell, NJ ISS
Lydia Emery, Miss Elsie Hobson, Miss
Elsie Chapman, Miss Dorothy Simrns.
Miss Corinne McSpadden, Miss GLADYS
Cav. Miss Frances Cav, Miss Effie
Page, Miss Gertrude HuckIe Mrs. Roy
Talbert, Mrs Jay Jensen and Miss
Imogene Snyder.
The marriage of Miss Catherine
Stanley, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
E. F. Stanley, to Mr.. Charles Sturte-
want, af Cimarron, will be solemnized
Saturday, July %, at o'clock in the
morning, at Grace cathedral The
| marriage office will be read by the
| brides brother. the Rev Neil E. Stan
ley. The guests at the wedding will
be relatives of the bride and bride
groom, and a few of their close
friends.
Miss Ada Walker will be Miss stan
ley's maid of honor, and Mr.. Sturte-
want has chosen Mr.. Ira Sturtevant as
his best man.
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In pursuance of the plan to obtain
Kansas song, the Woman,s Kansas
Day club has appointed a committee
to select from the songs that are sub
mitted, the best three. A resolution
was passed at the last meeting of the
club in January, as follows: Re
solved. That the Woman's Kansas Day
club incorporate in its work for this
year that of securing a suitable KAN
sas song for the state; the words of
which shall be written by a loyal resi-
dent of Kansas; this song to embrac e
the spirit, principles and standards of
our state, and while possessed of liter
airy merit, it shall not be too elaborate
in thought or music to be easily
| learned and sung by all"
A committee of five is empowered
to select the song Mrs Carey J. Will
son, chairman of the music depart
ment of the Women's club of
Topeka, is chairman, and Dean
Butler of the music department
of the Kansas State university,
was elected a member of the commit
/ tee. The chosen members have select
/ ed Mr.. C S. Ski1ton of Lawrence, Mr.
Arthur Wesbrook of the State Agri-
feultural college, Manhattan. and DIR.
| Frederick Rogers of Hutchinson to as
siSt them.
A small prize will be given for the
best song. and honorable mention will
/ be made of the two next best The
4 committee requires that all the songs
/ be sent to Mrs. Wilson. Topeka, some
time before the first of November.
4 The words and music must both be
submitted together though thew need