The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-02

Mr.. and Mrs. B. ]. Dalton, of Par
sons, Kan, have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Nellie
Marvin, to Mr.. Morley Roberts Brown.
Mr.. Brown is the son of Mrs. Eus-
tace Brown of Olathe who is dean of
women at the State university, and
former president of the Kansas State
Federation of Women's clubs. The
Brown family are well known in To-
peka- Mr.. Brown is a graduate of the
State university.
Miss Dalton formerly lived in Law
renee and was graduated from the
University of Kansas. The marriage
will take place June 3. at the home of
the brides sister in Kansas City.
A group of young married people
who went to the theatre together Mon
day night, forming a line party to see
His Majesty, Bunker Bean" were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Mr. and
Mrs Arch Catlin, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Dillon, Mr.. and Mrs Tom Frost, Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Woodward, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Scott Davis.
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A Harrington paper says: Mr.. Ken
yon Riddle left this week for North
Platte. Neb., where he will be married
Saturday to Miss Windhan, a former
teacher in the Salina schools. The
wedding was to have occurred last
Saturday, but Mr.. Riddle was i'll, and
the marriage was postponed.
Mr.. Riddle is a nephew of Judge
and Mrs Frank Doster, formerly of
Topeka, and was occasionally their
guest in this city. He is a Kansas
university man and a member of the
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Mrs. w. A. McCarter has resigned
the office of vice-president of the Wo-
mans Kansas Day club. She was chos-
en- last fall on the Kansas State His
torical society board, and she expects
to spend a good deal of time arousing
interest throughout the state in Kan
sas history and traditions. The vice
president in Topeka has a great deal
of detail work to attend to in connec-
ton with the Woman's Kansas Day
club meetings, as the sessions are al
ways held in this city, and the local OF
ficers are responsible for many of the
arrangements.
Mrs. Ray Walker will entertain her
auction bridge club Wednesday after
noon at her home. 1872 Van Buren,
street
A group of Unitarian women who
went to Kansas City to attend the Fri
City Alliance have returned home. one
of the speakers at the meeting was
Mrs. Raymond Robbins, who is living
in tenement and doing settlement
work She speaks twenty-three Ian
guages and dialects. which are USED
in the ward in which che lives
The Research club will meet with
Mrs. Clara Bartleson. 1913 Western
avenue. Friday afternoon, May g. The
subject for study is Home Econom-
les Mrs. ]. w Jameson will read
a paper on" The Care of Meats and
Milk in the Home Mrs. J. n. Beas-
ley will speak on 1.-The Care of Food
Generally in the Home" The round
table discussion will be led by Mrs.
Frank Mitchell.
Mrs w. A. Johnston and Mrs Fred
Nipps have returned from Wichita,
where they attended banquet and a
meeting of Wichita women who are
organizing for the purpose of assist
ing in the campaigns for equal suf-
frage in states that are preparing to
submit an amendment enfranchlslng
the women. The new organization is
to be called the Wichita Suffrage
Civic league, and its object, besides
the promotion of the suffrage cause
throughout the United tSates, will be
to study questions of state and local
government, as means of fitting the
members to use their citizenship to the
best advantage. The temporary presi-
dent of the club is Mrs Cyrus McCor-
mick of the famous Mccormick house
of Chicago. The young Mrs. McCor-
mick was brought up in a family that
was actively interested IN equal SUI
frage work. There was a good deal
of curiosity in Kansas as to how she
would look upon her residence in a
small and strange city of the west,
when the most of her life had been
spent in the various gay cities of the
world. Her interest in suffrage work
in Wichita is a matter for cOngratula-
ton to the Wichita women. Mrs.
Henry Ward Allen is the temporary
secretary of the new club. The
eanization will be completed in a few
DAYS, and permanent officers chosen.
Mrs Stanley, the wife of the former
governor of Kansas. is a member of
the club. but was unable to attend the
first meeting on account of illness.
Miss Harriet Stanley is a member.
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A reception will be given Friday
night at the home of Mrs. J. P
Slaughter of Potwin Place in compli-
ment to the delegates to the state
convention ot the P. f. .. society.
The convention will begin Wednesday
with the enrolment of delegates and
an executive board meeting at 2
o'clock at the Y. W. C. A. The To-
peka chapter is the hostess club and
Mrs S. c. Petit president of the local
branch. is in charge of the arrange
ments
The members of the Thursday
Study club will give a dinner party
Friday evening at the home of Mrs.
A NJ Thoroman. 1895 Garfield ave
nue.. Dinner will be served at 7:15