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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-28
Looking Backward In State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Mary Overholt has invited eight of her
small friends to take supper with her this
evening in honor Of her birthday. The
guests will be seated at one table in the
main dining room of the Copeland hotel.
A birthday cake will be feature of the
decorations. The guests will be Phil Reed,
Gertrude Hankla, Grace and Helen Sterne.
Lutte Palmer, Mildred Kepley, Virgil Cain
and Anna Troutman.
Mrs. Charles Lee, who has been very i'll
at the home of her sister, Mrs. A. H.
Thompson, is improving rapidly.
Mrs. Z. r. Taylor, Mrs. L. L. Roby and
Miss Beulah Lee have issued Invitations
for a thimble party to be given Saturday
afternoon at Mrs Taylor's home
Dr. ID. J. Greenwald is visiting in lola.
The members of the general committee
who had charge of the charity ball last
year will meet this evening with Mrs. C. $
Sutton, who has charge of the charity ball
to be given Thanksgiving evening at Rep
resentative hall.
Mrs. Denton Hogeboom and baby are
visiting DIR. and Mrs. q. w Hogeboom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Baker went to Atch1-
son this morning.
Mrs f. A. Snow gave a thimble party
yesterday afternoon and is entertaining
again this afternoon.
Twelve young women will meet with
Mis- Louise Smith Saturday afternoon to
organize a card club.
Mr.. Burns Williams has gone to Lexing-
ton, Mo-, to attend the Wentworth Mill
try academy.
Charles Kleinhans returned yesterday
from a short visit to Iowa City.
Mr.. and Mrs w. c. Smith will entertain
Thursday evening complimentary to Miss
Leila Parmelee.
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minated her engag ements in German
opera and necessitated her return to
America.
Miss Wilson is a pretty woman, and
her personality is sincere and unaf-
fected. She has returned to Chicago
and her mother remains for some time
longer in Topeka as a guest at the
Burch home.
X X x
Mrs. Harry Forbes and Miss Molly
Mcclure went to Valley Falls today to
attend party which will be given to-
night for Misses Lua, Josephine and
Constance McCammon. Miss Lua Nc
Cannon and Miss Josephine Mccain
mon are both graduates of Washburn
college, and Miss Josephine expects TO
leave soon to study in the New Eng
land Conservatory of Music, Boston,
Mass.
The November meeting of the Wom-
ems club will be held Thursday of next
week at the Y. w. c. A. The board of
managers will meet at 10 o'clock in
the morning. The Home Economics
department will have a meeting at IL
o'clock, with Mrs. D. o. Coe presid-
ing. Miss Frances L Brown, of the
State Agricultural college, is invited
to speak on Home as a Business
and a Profession. The Civic and JUS
tice department will meet at -. Mrs.
J. S. West will preside, and those who
House, who is to address the meeting
on city Government" and Miss Lima
Bresette, whose subject is Labor
Laws"
The social hour between and 2:30
o'clock will be spent in the Y. W. c.
A. parlors. The committee from the
social department is Mrs. R. c. Her
rick, Mrs. C. G. Colburn and Mrs. w.
T. Crosby.
The department of education will
have charge of the afternoon meeting,
and the speakers will be Mr.. Scott
Hopkins and Mr.. Harold T. Chase.
X X X
The Grade Teachers club gave their
fourth annual Halloween party at the
governors house. in Eighth street Fri
day night. The affair was a costume
party. The house was decorated with
bitter sweet and autumn leaves. The
lights were all covered with shades
made by the children of Clay school.
The pupils also made the witches and
jack-o'-lanterns used in the decorations.
The teachers from Branner school
were dressed as gypsies. There were
a number of Indian costumes and one
of the stunts of the evening was given
by the Indian girls. led by Miss Lulu
Mckee. The men of the manual
training school, under the supervision
of Lieutenant Mclean, gave an or
chestra act, with a victrola in the
background furnishing the music Two
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HIGHLAND PARK
Notes and personals from Highland
Park, by Mrs. o. Shaul. Telephone
2329 Nj.

Mrs. Oman of Topeka Visited THURSDAY
with her parents, Mr., and Mrs Geo Moore;
will ne give fne'r q halloween all taeky social in
the basement of the church Tuesday even
ing; A chile supper" VIII be served at
Mr.. John Rains has returned from Bos-
well. Indiana. where he was called by the
The Cover SR Hi Hit Ladies AID society viii
meet Tuesday with Mrs. G. G. Stiles
Massachusetts, who has been very sick, is
reported slightly improyed Mrs Carrh
er s,sb is WITH Par Mrs. Mflls church SUNDAY
schoo at 10 a. m. Preaching services at II
a: m. by Rev. W; B. Fisher. Evening ser
Marlin. "
Mrs. J. F. Going and sons, Nesbitt and
Jack, went to Fort Riley Thursday to
meet Lieut.. Going on his return from the
border.
at the church Wednesday afternoon at ?
O'Clock. Election of officers Also final ar
They viii hold their bazaar Wednesday.
November 10. in the afternoon and evening
and six O'Clock supper will be served.
The covered dish social given Thursday
The ladies cleared SIS.
have returned from Rochester, Mimi. where
Mrs. Chubb received treatment in a hos
pital at that place and is much improved
Mrs: Iva Bracket of Topeka visited with
Mrs. Peter Eberhart Friday.
Mr.. John Cattirol of Usage City spent
Sunday with his sister. Mrs. J. NJ. Berclaz
and family.
The Ladies of the Highland Park Art
club and their husbands will hold a Hal
loween party at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
A. B. Smith Monday evening. The next
regular meeting of the club will be held
| Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J.
| w. Ferguson.
Guests at the c. b. Buehrer home last
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Gasche,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Cox, Miss Erma
| Gardiner, Miss Ruth Gasche and Miss
Gladys Views.
Mrs. Ed Croft, jr., of Richland, is visiting
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Ed Croft
| of Massachusetts avenue.
| school will hold a Halloween party to-
| night at the J. A. McCarter home
Mr.. J. D. Vance and family moved to-
day from Wakarusa valley to their place
| at PAT Ohio avenue
Mrs. T. J. Parrish enjoyed a visit this
week from her cousin, Mrs. G. A. Harris of
Mankato MINI.
| Mrs. Emma Gregg who makes her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Paul Heinz, has
daughters in western Kansas.
Miss Pearl Shaul, Miss Blanche Kreig
and Mr.. Rollin Kreig are improving slow
" from the typhoid fever Miss Betty
Coberty, a student of the II. p. school,
who was very sick at her home near Rich
land, is much improved. Miss Fern Ster-
ret is reported slowly improving from a
| weeks serious Illness
Mr.. J. Banta has sold his Highland
Park home to Mr. Geo. Pratt of wakarusa
who. will occupy the place. The Banta
family who have made their home in
Highland Park for more than eight years
| will move to Topeka soon.
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She wore a corsage of roses Mrs.
George Guilds gown was of black net
draping a corn-colored satin founda-
ton. Mrs. George Bowman wore green
taffeta, with drapery of black lace
which also formed the bodice. Miss
Grace Koontz and Miss Helen Koontz
served in the dining room. Miss Grace
Koontz wore a gown of white taffeta,
made with short, simple bodice and
skirt draped over the hips. Miss Helen
Koontz was dressed in yellow taffeta,
yelled in Georgette crepe embroidered
Miss Ruth Larimer and Miss Theo
Cobb, served upstairs. Miss Larimer
wore frock of baby blue taffeta, with
shirred net yoke. Miss Cobb's gown
was of gold taffeta, with a white lace
overdress. The bodice was trimmed
with a shoulder sash of cerise silk.
Mrs. E. A. Campbell wore an after
noon gown of black satin, piped with
white satin. The flaring cuffs were
of white, and the long sleeves were
trimmed with rows of round gold but
tons. On the front of the bodice were
tassels of gold. Mrs. T. J. Myers wore
white broadcloth, with bodice Of net
and Georgette. The gown was en-
broidered in American Beauty shades.
Mrs. A. C. Stitch of Independence, who
is visiting Mrs. S. S. Estey, was among
the guests. She wore a black velvet
gown with bodice of silver embroid-
cry, and a hat and stole of white fur.
Mrs. Estey wore black velvet COM
bired in the bodice with Georgette
crepe of American Beauty. Mrs. Eu-
gene Quintcn wore stunning costume
of black.
The EIwen club will have their fort
nightly bridge-Iuncheon Tuesday at
the home of Mrs. Herbert G. West in
Harrison street
Mrs. Frank Crane will entertain the
D. D. Whist club Monday afternoon at
her home in Van Buren, street.
X X y
Mrs. Rollo J. Parker, who is being
deliberately entertained previous to her
departure for her new home in Anna
rillo, Tex, expects to leave Topeka
about the middle of November. Be-
fore going to Amarillo she will go to
few weeks. Mr.. Parker will come
from Amarillo to join her, and they
will go east together.
x x X
The Daughters of the American
Revolution will give a Halloween
Neil. GIT Taylor street, Wednesday
evening, November 1. Each member
is requested to bring her husband or
a guest to this get acquainted party
for the new members. Mrs. Neil is
the fortunate possessor of five fire
places. at which corn will be popped,
apples roasted and marshmallows
toasted. Fortunes will be told and a
prize given to the one telling the
| ghostliest ghost story or giving the
most thrilling ending to a faggot story.
X X X
How two can live on 500 d
month" is the title of an illuminating
paragraph in the Kansas Industrialist
| a paper published at the Kansas State
Agricultural college. The column in
which the paragraph appears is con-
Quoted by Mr.. N. A. Crawford. who is
managing editor of the paper and also
head of the department of journalism
| in K. S. A. c. He is a bachelor, and
so eligible that he is considerably in
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DR.. Lillian Malone, Mrs. Samuels. Mrs.
P. H. Adams, Mrs. Conry. Mrs. Frank
Britton, Mrs. Frank Squires, Mrs.
Morton Albaugh, Mrs. F. w. Watson,
Miss Anrabel Garvey. Mrs. M. God
frey. Mrs. E. C. Wise. Mrs. j. c..
Doncyson, Mrs. Jacobson, Mrs. A. At
from, Mrs. w S. Hunter. Miss Jessie
Campbell, Miss Nina Campbell, Miss
Jean Robertson, Miss Leila Miller,
Miss Opal Loveless, Miss Sara Elean
Curtis and Miss Mary McGrath.
* X y
The Columbus club gave it's Hal
1oween dance at Kellam hall Friday
evening. About fifty couples were
present. This is the third dance the
club has given this season. The next
party will be held November IA.
x X X
Mrs. B. Harold Croft was hostess at
a thirnble party Friday evening at her
home, 2144 Maryland avenue. The
guests were Miss Mabel Fink. Miss
Stella Walcott, Miss Louise Walcott.
Miss Ada Wilson. Miss Bernice Mitch
ell, Miss May Reynolds, Miss Mary
Johnston, Miss Ethel Warren, Miss
Gladys Dougherty. Miss Edna Law
renee. Miss Ethel Mattingly, Miss Hell
en- Stickel, Miss Cora Hepworth, Miss
Ethel Coover Miss Ola Roberts, Mrs.
Mrs. Roy E. Burke. Mrs. George O..
Boone, Mrs. r. F. Griffee, Mrs. Glen
Webb, Mrs. George e. Dougherty, Mrs.
C. F. Berry and Mrs D. F. Denman.
Piano selections were rendered during
the evening by Miss Bernice Mitchell,
Miss Gladys Dougherty and Mrs. Har-
old Croft.
One of the attractive visitors in To-
peka this week was Miss. Molly Dyer
ly Wilson of Chicago, who arrived
w adnesday to attend the marriage of
her cousin, Miss Winifred Burch, to
Mr.. La Rue Royce Miss Wilson has
been in Topeka before. having spent
a few weeks here two years ago, when
she was introduced to good many
friends of the Burch family, and sang
at a musicale given for her by her
aunt, Mrs. Rosseau A Burch.
| Miss Wilson is the daughter of Mrs
Alletta Wilson of Los Angeles, sister
of Mrs. Burch. She formerly lived in
Salina before going to the western
coast. She spent seven years abroad
| studying music in Germany. She has
a good contralto voice, and she IS now
| in her first season of concert work
| She sings not only in recital. but also
in oratorio and opera. She has given
| concerts in the United States and Can
| ada, and had a number of notable en-
gagenents at the Pana ma-Pacific ex-
| position in San Francisco. She took
much of her training in Leipsic and
| Berlin. She has studied Italian Ger
man opera, German lieder and concert
repertoire. The war in Europe ter
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sixty-four nave been given nursing
care; that twenty-seven bott1e-fed
babies are under supervision; that
twenty maternity cases have
been attended, twenty-eight new
babies cared for; 405 nursing visits
and 400 instructive visits have been
made. The total number of visits were
sos. Miss Davis also had charge of
the baby clinic at Quincy school every
Friday afternoon. for the instruction
of mothers. Six babies under the care
of the association died, three of them
being from families who refused to fol-
low the doctors orders and one was
in a dying condition when the nurse
was called Baby beds, ice boxes and
articles of linen and clothing were
given or lent to the cause.
The U. and 1. club party next We'd
nesday is a bridge-tea, to be given at
Kellam hall. The affair is a benefit,
and the proceeds will be used to
maintain the service of a baby nurse
in the association.
The Music Study club met Thurs
day with Miss Lulu McCabe, SCI To-
peka avenue. The program was made
up of Debussy numbers, and was as
follows:
Ballade Mrs. W. H. Bowlby
II pleure dams mon Occur. Mrs. C. E. Barr
LITTLE s5hePhsrd " NJ Wayniek
Les Cloehes Romance. Mrs. n. F. Laycock
Reflects dams Ieau. -. Miss Elsie Chapman
Eft la lune descend sur te tentle qui fut
= + +
The It. P. M. club will meet Tues
day afternoon with Mrs. Robert
Brown, 1919 King street.
X X X
! Mrs H. F. Guthrie will entertain
the Ideal Bridge club Tuesday after
noon.
The Rotary club, thru its civic de-
partment, will conduct a benevolent
sale soon. The purpose of the sale is
to give an opportunity for women who
have made articles to sell, to offer
them in a public market The sale is
not exclusively for needy women, but
it is for all women who are DESTROYS
of selling their fancy work or baked or
canned goods or sewing. All the arti-
/ cles offered for sale will be marked
with the name and address of the per-
son who made it, so that the benefits
of the sale will extend beyond the act
ual time it is in progress. For in
formation regarding the details, call
telephone 1862.
Miss Nanon Herren has been hon
ored by the offer of a position as
teacher in one of the most celebrated
schools of expression in America The
| Curry school of Boston has invited
her to become member of its faculty,
and she will leave the first of Deem
Der to accept the place. Miss Herren
was pupil of Miss Clara Crumb some
years ago when Miss Crumb was
t teaching in Topeka. She has studied
a great deal since that time. and spent
some months in Boston as a student
in the Curry school. Last summer she
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Mrs P. G. Travis of Emmett street, Mrs.
c. A Snyder of Norton street and Mrs.
andrew S9stllo t OF 9 5o of MTs were
Lukens of Buchanan street.
Miss Hazel MeGirk of Kansas City. who
recently underwent serious surgical OPP
Grafton in st. Joseph.s hospital, has re
turned to her home. Miss McGirk former .aa
~ lived in Topeka nd VISITS here he she In is th
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Gentry of
Chandler street.
meeting Thursday evening with Miss None
Atkinson at her home in jefferson street
The evening was enjoyed by: Miss Nell
seibert. Miss Anna Lawn, Miss Kathleen
Foley. Miss Laura Morgan, Miss Mss sop pl1ie
Cane. Miss George Kautz. Miss Gladly Lar
inner and Mrs. VIII johnson. November
g. Miss Kathleen Foley will entertain the
club.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
Third Presbyterian church will give a
lo 1rsio Of the Church Tuesday evening
Mrs Belle Higgins who spent the sum
mer in Olivet, Kan, has returned to her
Mrs John Allison left Thursday for
Omaha, Neb, to visit her husband, Mr.
Al Tse kansas Mna sunfto%er club will be
McCartys at their home, 900 Fillmore
Mrs E. L. Jones who has been i'll in her
home on Grattan street for the past two
weeks Tss s IS sGw DIVISION Of the Mzpah
ciety of the Third Presbyterian church
which Includes s., Mrs J1sePh nr LertIe' Mrs Mrs
r. spuriock, Mrs. william Busby, Mrs
Travis and Mrs. John Alexander enter
tanned with a Halloween tea Friday af-
ternoon The affair held at the home
of Mrs Joseph Lortie in Leland street. The
decorations we're in keeping win In the Hal
loween season. ABOUT Iorly-lNe guests
A Thanksgiving dinner and supper will
be given this year at the Third Presby-
terrain church. An entertainment VIII De
given in the evening
There will be a special sermon for chill
dren Sunday morning at the Seward Ave
nue. NJ E. church at 10 40 O'Clock The
Net" At Gas O'Clock Sunday morning
Love Feast service will be held in the
church Baptism at IL o'clock In the
evening a talk will be given on "A Fatal
church This service will close the re-
vival meetings which have been held dur
ing the month of October.
Mrs ID. r. Thomson entertained the l..
afternoon. The members present included:
Mrs. Sam Cremer. Mrs. James Farquer.
Mr. william Glenn. Mrs. w. L. Jury, Mrs.
Joseph Puett, Mrs. Fred Skidmore. Mrs.
S. Wingert. The guest Of the afternoon
was Mrs. c. s. Cox In two weeks the
members will meet at the home of Mrs.
Fred Skidmore in Highland Park for their
regular meeting
Mrs. William Wood entertained with
miscellaneous shower Thursday afternoon
for her daughter, Miss Juanita Workman,
whose marriage to Mr. Lewis McCarty
was assisted by her daughter. Miss Ada
Workman. The guests of the afternoon
were Miss Workman. Mrs. S. c. Harris,
Mrs David Jones, Mrs. r. S. Hopkins,
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studied with Doctor Curry in Chicago,
where he conducted classes during the
summer months. She has given read
ings in Kansas in many of the towns
of the state, and is frequently heard in
public entertainments in Topeka. She
was also engaged in the work of read
ing in California last year. She ex-
poets to continue her study under the
supervision of Doctor Curry while she
is in the east, and will probably be
given the opportunity to appear in
dramatic readings in Boston
Miss Herren is conducting a class
in Topeka during the time that she re-
mains in the city. The instruction she
gives is in the Interpretation of liter
airy masterpieces, in the cultivation of
poise and nsturalness in public speak
ing, and she also gives voice work for
public reading or speaking. Among
those who have already Joined her
classes are: Mrs. H. o. Garvey, Mrs.
William Macferran. Mrs. Festus Fos-
ter. Mrs. B. H. Pugh. Mrs. J. C. Ema-
hizer Mrs. w. E. Atchison, Mrs. Frank
Organ. Mrs Albrecht Marburg. Mrs
G. G. Moore, Mrs H L. Peppmyer,
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wANTED-FEMALE HELP.


WANTED-Dining room and lunch counter
girls In many towns, women cooks: wo-
men for country home; chambermaids:
hotel and restaurant help; several com
bination girls to ship out west; dining
room girls to ship west to hotels Furman
Employment Office, log West sth.
WANTEnaExperienced chamber maid. rs
years, $40 week: middIe-aged couple TO
send to New Mexico family work. SO
month. board and room. transportation
Furman Employment Office, 1O6 West sth
AT ONCE-Ten ladies' to travel, demon
strate and sell well established line to
our dealers Previous experience not nee
essary. Good Jay. Railroad fare paid
Goodrich Drug Co, Dept. 2s4 Omaha. Ncb
WOMEN to sew at home: plain sewing:
goods sent to house prepaid: no can,
vassing: send stamped envelope for prices
we pay; Universal Co., Dept /, Walnut
ST., Phila.. Pa.
WANTED-Persons TO color art pictures
at home, easy work; no experience:
good pay sample free. Wheeler Co 337
Madison. Chicago.
WANTED-A white woman for COOK and
general Homework Apply 915 Western.
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1921 Clay street have returned from a
motor trip east. They spent part OF
the summer at Ludington, Mich, ana
they visited their daughter, Mrs. r. e.
Lamberson of Chicago.
Mrs. j. G. Stricken of 1912 Har-
rison street has returned from an ex-
tended trip thru the east.
Mrs w. F. Price of Los Angeles ana
Mrs. Edith Cole of Denver left today
after visit to their parents, Mr.. ana
Mrs. A. D. Ogden.
Mr.. T. A. McAloon of Washington,
D. c., is in Topeka to visit his mother
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A WOMAN'S APPEAL

To all known sufferers OF IneuIilatsm
whether muscular or of the JOINTS sci
atica, lumbago. backache. pains in the
h.Gneys neuraiE4a pains. 10 write to
ner for a home treatment which has re-
peatedIy cured all of these tortures She
feeis I her duty to send It to all sufferers
FREE. You cure yourself 1T home as
tnoAsa ndS Will teStIy-no change or
climate = necessary. This simple dis
coyery banIsnes uric acid from the blood
IooseEs the stffened joints, puIifies the
blood, ana Or gh etiS the eyes, giving elias
ITCHY and tone to the whole system. II
the above interests you. for proof address
Mrs NJ S,------e-s Box r, South Bend
Observation-Disclosures
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the eye of unattached femininity of his
section of society. 1t is my impress
sion that ives shooed into the Kan
sas Authors club last year, and was
presented to a good many Topeka peo-
pie. at one of their banquets- Occa-
sionally something appears in his de-
partment of the Industrialist that sets
people to wondering if he is contem-
plating matrimony. The following on
the one-hundred-do salary, is one
of those paragraphs:
How two can live SO a month in
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AND MISCELLANEOUS ADS

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inserting Want Ads In The Topeka State
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minimum 10 cents; by the week cents q
word, minimum so cents.
OUT OF TOWN advertisements must De
accompanied with cash or check in full
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Journal
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letter and each number combination Of
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ads received after IL 20 till 10 D. m. will
be inserted under the head TOO Late to
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Health Nursing association by the e
and I club. The club has been doing
that work for the past three sum-
mers. The nurse this year will prob
ably be retained thru the winter.
The club is to have a birthday party
next week, when a complete report of
the work of the baby nurse will be
given. That report includes the state
ments that 1877 babies have been visit
ed between June / and October l that