The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-11

Mrs Matt Weightman. jr.. will have
guests for a party, complimentary TO
her niece, Miss Helen Stevenson.
whose marriage to Mr. o. F. Hite OF
Humboldt will take place soon: the
date of the party is not definitely
chosen, but it will probably be next
Monday, and will be either break
fast or a luncheon.
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Mrs S. J. Brandenburg of oxford,
Ohio. and her son. William. will ar
rive the latter part of the month 10
spend the remainder of the summer
with her parents, Justice and Mrs W.
A. Johnston
Professor Brandenburg of Miami
University, and DR.. Brown, head OF
the athletic and medical departments
of Miami University, will go to Sc
attic, Wash, where DR.. Brown mas
accepted a position with the WASH
ington University. They Will go
through to Seattle by automool le.
Professor Brandenburg will return 10
Topeka to join Mrs Brandenburg ana
her son. Mrs. Brown and her SON.
Herbert, will be guests at the John-
ston home also for part of the sum-
mer.
Mrs W. P. Snyder will entertain
Thursday at an informal party for her
sister. Miss Bernice Dietrich of Ber-
nice. Idaho. who, with her mother. Is
spending the summer in Topeka
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Nine women out Of ten will go into
seventeen different kinds of fits OF
gushing delight over a bunch of flow
ers. from American beauties to dande-
lions. but they couldn't tell carrot
from a parsnip in the native state, nor
decide whether sweet potatoes are
plant from the seed of the common
murphy sugared before planting
A Kansas City paper tells of a girl
gardener in that city, Miss Helen
MYERS. the daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
George Myers of Armour Boulevard,
and niece of Mr.. and Mrs Tom
Myers OF Topeka Miss Myers mas
big garden back of the family home
which she has had enclosed with ce-
ment walls She plants flowers
around the border and has roses
blooming in the corners. But for the
most part the garden is for vegetables
she has planted with her own hands
al the best known brands of peas
beets. corn, radishes, and all the rest
of the truck. She attends to them
herself, is up in the morning before
sunrise to weed and dig and thin out
and transplant and gloat over the ra-
pidity with which the seeds grow up.
The family has had its free garden sass
out OF her plot for weeks and weeks
and turn up their noses at boughten
stuff. And all this has redounded to
the good of the young girl. The exer-
else and fresh air have made her the
picture of health, and she is storing it
away for the coming fall when she will
need il in her school work"
Miss Myers lis = frequent visitor in
Topeka, and has assisted and been
honor guest at numbers of parties
among the head set. This gardening
fad sort of runs in the family. too. for
Mrs. Tom Myers every spring goes to
the Myers farm near Topeka. taking
with her the seeds and plants she has
personally selected. and she goes about
doing a little farming to suit her own
taste
The Pi Phi sorority in Lawrence
will give a picnic party tonight on the
golf links of the Lawrence Country
club for the town girls who are
rushees for next season. An out of
town guest at the party will be Miss
AntOinette Clark. of Topeka. who is
visiting Miss Eleanor Atkinson, of
Lawrence.
Many Topeka people who remem-
Der Mr.. Walter Myers. now of New
York, will be interested to learn that
he has gone off to war. He is a SOL
der in a New York regiment, enlisting
in that city. The Myers family former
" lived in Topeka, leaving for the
east about ten years age. There are
plenty of the girls about town to hope
that the recruit will encounter no
bullets. hookworms. sunstrokes, nor
too many sandburrs.
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The Beta girls who are in town at
this time will be entertained Wednes-
day afternoon of this week by Miss
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