The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05

home with Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold. Lu-
Gle will be three years old tomorrow,
and the party is an anniversary cele-
b Ira Sharing honors with Lucille
will be Nan Lou Sheets, of Brookfield,
! Mo, a niece of Mrs Arnold. The
{ other guests will be Marcia Mills,
Jane Mills, Polly Perkins, Julia Ann
HAYDEN, Eliza Guy, Mary Alta
Updegraff. Mildred stansfield. Louise
Allen
/ Field day of Western Sorosis was
1 celebrated Saturday at the home of
/ Mrs. H W. Charles. the new president
of the club. An informal program
was given, followed by luncheon on
the lawn Among the guests, besides
the members of the club were: Mrs
w. r. Stubs of Lawrence, Mrs c.
/ G. Colburn, Mrs. A. o. Wellman, Mrs.
J. NJ Currier, Mrs Theile of Idaho,
Miss Mary Quigley of Colorado
( Springs, and Miss Guenn GODDARD
The luncheon was served from trays
under the trees on the grounds and
music was furnished during the lun-
cheon hour After luncheon a program
was given in the school chapel The
/ annual field day is the play time for
Western Sorosis. and marks the close
/ of the club year, Miss Lola Graham
| is the retiring president of the club.
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I = Announcement has been made of
I the engagement of Miss Doris Bur
dette, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. Burdette. to Mr.. Leonard Elliott,
/ the son of Mrs. l. Elliott. Miss Bur
dette was graduated from the Topeka
high school in January Mr.. Elliott
/ is a civil engineer for the Santa Fe.
He formerly worked in the office of
] the general manager of the Santa Fe.
! The marriage will take place June
! Z, and after the wedding the young
couple will leave for trip to Colorado
/ Springs.
A young bride, according to the
Atchison Globe, may concede some
importance to the discovery of Amer
lea. the signing of Magma Charta or
the Declaration of independence but
she regards her wedding day as his
I tory's most important offering in the
date line.
The following from a Kansas City
society weekly paper contains the fol-
lowing reminiscent item, of some local
I interest, as it concerns Mrs. Noble
Prentis. formerly of Topeka, and Mrs.
Ralph Stout, also a former Topeka
woman:
The West side" now almost who'll
~ deserted as a residential district, is
rich in historic lore, and something
brought to light the DINNER glory of
a once famous boarding house in West
Tenth street, just half a block from
the Coates house. This reminiscentiaI
resort was presided over by charm
ing white-haired old lady an English
woman, Mrs Anna Fairfield, and her
two daughters, Nellie and Frances. At
their West Side establishment for q
long time lived the late Noble Prentis
the famous newspaper man, and Mrs
Prentis's private parlor was often
thronged in the evening after dinner
DN the other
TO the genial writer's experiences and
repartee- 1t was here that Mary Nc
Cabe first lived when she came to
Kansas City from Topeka to become
exchange editor on the Times during
the Witten Mcdonald regime. Miss
McCabe, now Mrs Ralph Stout, nat
uralIy drew around her many brilliant
persons. as well as prominent society
girls from Kansas. Her younger sis
ter Anne. then in college. frequently
spent holidays there. Ed Allen, now
on the Journal, and another writer
, tnen on the Star. were frequent Wis
itors at Mrs Fairfield's. Mrs. Prem
us S Surfragette pals used to come in
squads and lone man sat at table
. with bunch of them one day, feeling.
as he afterward expressed it, very
much like cipher.
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Miss Day Monroe, the daughter of
Judge and Mrs Lee Monroe. has been
cookery at Columbia university, New
| york Miss Monroe received her mas
ters degree from Columbia this spring,
after spending the past year in re-
search work at TIE university. She is
graduate of WaShLurn college hay-
ing the record of being the Youngest
graduate from that institution, and
she studied domestic science in SIM
| mons college. Boston.
AFTER visit to her people in Topeka
n ri - -, T.
I structor in the summer school, be-
Iore the opening of the fall and win
: ter terms
= MISS Ruth Tandy, pupil of Miss
Mildred Hazelris-. viii give her organ
: recital tonight at the First Christian
church Miss Tandy will be assisted
oy Miss Enid Stricken. soprano. and
: Miss Lille Jordan. pianist The ush-
? ers VIII be Miss Gladys Kemper Miss
: Hazel HNres AIiSs c..ro.-;.... I.a.a;...=.