The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-15

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Mrs T / Myers will have morn
ne bridge and luncheon party satur-
dav at her home, complimentary 70 ne
house guests. Mrs LOUIS Le 49,
Stigler. Okla, and Miss BeHe .Ao III; II
of kansas city. The other guests VIII
he members of two bridge clubs with
which Mrs Myers plays. the Iues9a a1.
Rridge-I,uncheon and the wednesday
Bridge clubs.
Announcement is made OF the en-
gagement of Miss Fern Eltzpe ~ IN
sa5 VI : McCarty of Salina, KAN
tte marriage TO take place some uIiie
during the summer , vx-asr
Miss Fitzpatrick is former Wasn-
burn college girl, having sra aaec IF
the class of 1910 She is niece o.
NJ F. kirkpatrick and ProfessoI
Irjrlna1rick of Washburn. She mas
been teaching in the Salina schools-
Mr.. McCarty is a lawyer anu I
...s.+icinr his profession in sauna
p I,15sTe he and his bride will make
Miss Nell Mcfarland has asked a
few guests for an informal aiter no no
Saturday complimentary TO MISS IL
patrick
Miss Esther Lindeu gave rpS,
,,,1cbeon TODAY for some of her schooi
friends. Covers were placed LOT NJ
Dorothy Bradbury, Miss Nelle Bour an
sa. Miss Helen Rutledge' MIS- Dd' SGies
farrell. Miss Augusta Taylor, ~
Frances Cav. Miss Edna Becker, W.
Ea5tb Young Miss Violet Matthew's.
Mis- virginia Kitchell. Miss Esthei
Grandon and Miss LindeH-
Miss Miriam Foster will give
trousseau tea Friday at ne ~ see
when her friends Will be lnvited 10
The contents of her hope box. ne
marriage to Mr.. George H Broderlch,
- ohio will take place Monday June
% at the home of her parents, MI,
and Mrs. E. G. Foster, of west SlA'ii
avenue
4 firm, of London publishers mas re
caotiI- issued a new book, hnilteu
..5i+ioD for private circulation en-
titled Letters From Flanoers- - -
hook is made up of letters TO their llO -.
peopIe from two young soluleIo ~ 80
go lire Both the young men Were
1.iIIa5 IN battle. and their letters nave
-, made into book form. with a plo-
to,tjCaT preface by the Right KEY.
81 Risbop of Southwark, who was at
one time tutor to the young men.
one of the copies has been sent 10
,r,Deta to Miss Gladys Cav, VINO was
,tsreo,,sI friend of the dead soldiers,
"a an intimate friend of the tamly,
T--Torn she often visited during her
residence in Scotland a few years
These two brothers were Alexan-
der Douglass Gillespie and Inomds
Cunningham GILLESPIE. onIS sois
Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. Gillespie, Lohs
croft Linlithgow Scotland the boys
attended the preparatory school car
e-iItield Cramond Ridge, and AFTER
ward the St Mary Winton colleges
winchester and New OXFORD inc
elder of the brothers. DougIaSs' WSS
nIaced. second on the roll of New Col
zee. and then went up to OXFORD
affer taking medals and prizes IN
Latin verse English speech. Greek
prose and Latin essay In OXIoro'
the bishop of Southwark says ne
proved himself to be intellectually one
Of the most distinguished men of his
Generation" He won the blue ribbon
of Classical Scholarship. the Ireland,
in 1919. Later he read for the bar
and devoted himself to the study of
international law. Some years ago IN
a tour Of the world, he visited the
United States
athlete, representing the United King
dom in the Olympic crew at Stock
holm in 1912. He was gazetted to
the Second battalion of the K o. S. B.
Immediately after the outbreak OF the
war. He shared the pursuit from the
Marine, was in the trenches at Aisne,
took part in the movement toward
the Belgian frontier and was killed
near La Bassee.
The elder of the men enlisted with
the Fourth Seaforth Highlanders- He
led a charge i'll the face of a terrific
fire near La Bassee, reached the Ger
man trenches-the only officer to get
through-and there he was seen to
fall. In his first letter home he writes;
Europe will be crippled for thirty
years if the war comes. 1t might be
worth paving such price to have it
driven into the head of every man in
Europe that our present ornaments
are insane But that is just what war
won't do because of the passions it
will leave behind"
The letters will be valuable history
some time, and for the present they
are teeming with minute information
of great interest. and they are writ
ten in a fine. readable style, not stilt-
ed. but disclosing the hand of a
scholar.
The marriage of Miss Mary Isabel
Stephens and the Rev. James Henry
Hutchins. of Springfield. Ohio. will be
soiemnlzed tonight at the home of the
brides parents. Mo. and Mrs 7. w.
stephens. of 1919 West Sixth avenue,
at $50 o'clock The service will be
read by DIR. ]. 4. Stavely, of the
Methodist church of Parsons, Kansas.
The only attendants will be niece
and a nephew of Mr.. Hutchins. Mary
Jane Hutchins and James Henry Jen-
nison, both of Pasadena. California.
Before the ceremony, the brides
brother, Mr.. Harry stephens. will sing
Il Love You Truly and Because
and Mrs Harry stephens will play the
wedding march from Lohengrin, for
the entrance of the bridal party. About
twenty-five guests have been invited
to witness the ceremony.
Miss Stephens will wear a gown of