The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-02

The College AIuminae CLUB VIII meet
,sridav afternoon at 4 o'clock at the 4
w. c. A. After the business meeting;
musical program Will be gwen W
members of the Washburn college ldc-
,tl+v of the school of fine arts.
The program thIJ has been ar
ranged for the afternoon will be as
follows:
Cracovienne Fantastique -. ,,..,.,,:
Miss Hazel Wing.
I'm Wunderschonen Monat Mai.
Schumann
win Mienand Singer .--.------ H II Lse,!l
Miss Helen Hogeboom-
Caprice Sur Airs de Ballet.
"a - - . Gluck- Saint Saens
Mr.. willoughby-. Bougton-
Lotus Biume e..,,.,,,,,,,,,
Marien Wurmchen .- '7eii
Nolksliedschen-
1,,,.,,. S,anricciosco Saint Saens
Miss Helen Phipps-
tPiano accompaniment by MI
Boushton.)
Mr. and Mrs. ]. F. Mitchell viii give
a dinner party tonight at their nome
for Mrs. r. l. Belcher of Chattahoosd,
Okla. and her little daughter, ana TOT
MIR. and Mrs. j. T. Botkln- MRS
Belcher is visiting her aunt Mrs
Botkin.
Mrs ID. G. Kline entertained guests
this afternoon at her home, comph.
lnentarv to Mrs. Clifford Gordoh' OF
Gaiasburc. Ill. who is visiting her Sis
tor airs. Frank Campbell The com
many Included: Mrs. Gordon. MIS-
campbell, Mrs. ]. A. Cole. Mrs Cnarles
Barnes, Mrs. Richard Thomas MIS-; j.
e. Thomas, Mrs. Lewis Greenwood W. W.
I, Rogers Mrs. r. L. Bone. Mrs.
r : stevens Mrs \. T. Lucas, Mrs
charles Bower Mrs. r. r. Nelson
Mrs. L. r. Booth, Mrs ]. A. Stoner'
Mrs. j. Heym. Mrs. w o. Klgoy' MIS-
NJ. \. Schlegel, Mrs. T. r. Moore N Ms
= e Petit. Mrs. o. S. Perkins, Mrs.
Frank C;rote. Mrs. Poorman, Mrs. + A
Derby, Mrs. w. I. Newman, MIS-
Charles Wore. Mrs. c. A. Won, MIS-
W r. Carrie. and Miss Myrtle Rad
cliffe.
Miss Blanche Battershiil entertained
the following girls wednesday night
in celebration OF her birthday ann
versary: Miss Sarah Hazel Slaughter'
Miss Alice Morehouse, Miss Doris
Thompson Miss Frances Dolan and
Miss Lucille Smith.
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All this talk about preparedness -
as old as the United states. A Topeka
woman, Mrs. George w. Reed of Har-
rison street has in her possession an
neVspap per that discussed preparation
for war soon after the close -of the
War of Independence. 1t contains the
opinions of George Washington, print
cd Immediately after he expressed
them first.
ZION of old relics. She is devoted to
antiques. and fortunately for anyone
with that temperament, her ancestors
had a taste for saving their keepsakes-
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George Reed, jr,. gave little Colonial
tea recently and had on display the
elder Mrs. Reeds old belongings;
which included relics from Colohlai
times, as well as many historic arti-
cles of a later day. Among these
relics is a diary, bound in sheep skin,
kept by John Done, of Captain Lane ;
company. of the Colonial army, during
the Revolutionary war sergeant
Done entered the arm - IN % ana was
mustered out in 70. He was an an
cestor of Mrs. Reed. In the book is a
note concerning a visit of General
Washington to the camp, and review
OF the troop. by him. Mrs. Reed has
81 number of the Ulster Gazette of
1900 that gives an account of the me-
mortal service for Washington, con-
tanning the names of the men VINO
conducted the funeral. She has a
newspaper that reports some of the
4naneuvers of Napoleon Bonaparte.
She has a collection of almanacs more
than a hundred years old, in which
are written memoranda of the daily
household events in the homes of her
forefathers. She has a copy of the
Boston Gazette of March Il. 1870,
which registers the complains of the
Colonists at having British troops
quartered in their town.
one of her possessions is a lovely
little inlaid hoX brought from England
about $50 years ago. She has a spin
ming wheel that was brought to Can
ada by William Hamilton, who came
to America with his young bride in
1920. She has also the reel and cards
that go with it.
In her collection of old furniture
is a little cherry wood candle stand
that is an exact copy of the one in
Washington's house at Mt Vernon
She has some school books that were
in use in New England by children