The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07


Concordia, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Frances and Mr..
Louis Stroud, also of Concordia. The
marriage will take place in the early
part of October.
This announcement is of Importance
to Topeka people Miss Rigby has
often visited her aunt, Mrs. Frank
Daugherty. and Mrs. Daugherty at
the Throop hotel, which they man
aged for four years She has also
Burch. Miss Rigby attended Wash
burn college two years. where she was
a member of the Beta sorority. She
finished her college course in Law
renee, receiving her degree from the
University of Kansas. She became a
member of the Chi Omega sorority in
Lawrence.
Mr.. Stroud travels for the Crane &
Co.'S heating and plumbing establish
ment of Kansas City, with headquar-
tiers in Concordia.
Miss Rigby and her mother are
spending a few days in Topeka, shop
ping. They are at the Throop hotel.
X X y
Miss Alena Philbin will entertain
Friday afternoon at her home on Tay-
Tor street for a number of her girl
friends before leaving for Kansas City,
where she will study voice this winter
with Mr.. Paul H. Lawless. The after
noon will be spent in cards and sew
ing. Those asked are Miss Ruth
Rooster, Miss Florence Bowman, Miss
Mildred Bowman. Miss Antoinette
West, Miss Mary Weightman, Miss
Helen Welty. Miss Marie Vancil, Miss
RoXfe Vancil, Miss Marguerite Thrapp,
Miss Louise Bell. Miss Violet Crum bine.
Miss Katherine Mcfarland, Miss Ruth
Foster, Miss Jean Lindsay, Miss
Gladys Neil, Miss Bertha Clay. Miss
Grace Dana, Miss Jane Alexander,
Miss Dorothy Miller. Miss Helen
Neese. Miss Emily Seery, Miss AIDE
laide Seeds, Miss Mary Burnett, Miss
Lucille Kersey, Miss Marguerite Phil
bin. Miss Elizabeth Culver, Miss Hell
en- Reinbach. Miss Marguerite Kiene,
Miss Ruth Whiteker, Miss Helen
Whiteker. Miss Dorothy Durham, Miss
Gladys Guild. Miss Margaret Dolan
and Miss Ruth Raster.
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Two small children, who were regu-
lar attendants at a certain Sunday
school. went one morning, with a
neighbor woman, to another churcn-
AS usual, on Sunday morning, each
plump hand grasped tightly one-cent
piece. Neither did they relinquish their
holds when the collection box was
passed.
When their mother saw on their re-
turn home. that they were still the
proud possessors of the coins. she was
perplexed, but they soon relieved her
anxiety with the statement, Well,
mother do you suppose we were gong
to give our pennies to any Sunday
school but our own
X X X
Miss Mary Van Vechten was hostess
this afternoon for the second time this
week. Today the honor guest was
Miss Ruth Bauer, whose engagement |
to DIR. Clark w. ZuGS, of Great BEND, |
has been announced :. very pretty |
innovation introduced at the party |
Yesterday given for Miss Beth Thomp- |
son. whose marriage to Mr.. Samuel |
Lux is to take place October IA, and |
used again this afternoon. was the |
real brides cake which was on each |
table Each small cake was to be cut |
into four pieces and three of these |
pieces contained the things, the ring, |
the thimbIe and the dime, which |
prophesy ones future lot.
Those present today were Miss |
Bauer. Mrs David Neiswanger, Miss |
Marguerite Kiene. Miss Mary Park1n- |
son, Miss Jane Alexander, Miss Hen :
rietta Alexander Miss Mary Alexander,
Miss Alice Andrews, Miss Marjorie |
Rodgers, Miss Marian McLTaw, Miss
Mary MacLennan. Miss Ruth Raster,
Miss Elizabeth Mills, Miss Marguerite
Parkinson.
The fashioned waltz again. 1t
will never come again into favor this I
dreamy old cadence of romantic 1eet'
saw members of the American Society |
of Professors of Dancing. in conven-
ton in New York.
out of the bloody trenches of Eu- |
rome has come the military influence. |
Military steps ana Hawaiian wiggles
will be predominating influences In |
this winters dances, the conventioners
agree.
The Woman's Rotary club held a |
meeting yesterday at Pelletier's tea
room. which was attended by many OF
the members. Tomorrow evening 1t
will meet at the National hotel at
seven o'clock. All members are urged
10 he present as Miss Manor Heron
will tell them about her meeting with
a number of the national officers of
the Mems Rotary club, during her re-
cent visit to Chicago, and the ideas
which she got from them.
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Miss Anna Mather. of Oswege, the
attractive guest of Miss Nell Allen on
Sixth street. returned to her home yes
terdav. Miss Mather is teacher in
the English department OK me Us
wego college, for girls. of which her
father is president. Miss Allen teaches
domestic science in the college.
cards have been received in Topeka
announcing the marriage OF Miss
Marie Hotchkiss, daughter of Mrs. E
p Hotchkiss, of Lawrence, to Mr..
Reese Hall. The wedding took place
in RouIder. Colo, Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall will be in Topeka
a short time this week. On Friday
evening. Mrs S. S. Beggs and her
daughter, Miss Sierra Beggs, will en-
terrain at their home informally for
them. To this affair a number of for
mer friends are being asked.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall are en- route to
Ann Arbor Mich. where they will
make their home.
X
Miss Augusta Taylor. who leaves
soon for Baldwin, where she will en-
ter Baker university this fall, was
hnnnr s1Iest at a luncheon given TODAY