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

who go to high school dolled out like
the belle of the ball came in for their
share of notice.
In this connection, a plan has been
proposed to offer prize in the high
school to the best dressed girl. The
prize would be awarded to the girl
whose costumes excelled in neatness,
simplicity, and their suitability to the
school room.
Mrs. H. w. Putnam and Miss Helen
Griffin, members of the Washburn
Music and Dramatic company, who
gave concerts at the Santa Fe reading
rooms, have returned from California
The company consisted of four MEM
berS: Miss Marguerite Gohlke, So
prano, who spent several weeks in
California last summer, and won Sec
ond place in the interstate musical
contest; Miss Myrtle Radcliffe, who
accompanied her on the trip last year;
Mrs. Putnam and Miss Griffin. While
Mrs. Putnam was in California she
was the guest of DR.. Putnam's uncle
Herbert Brooks, and his family of
Pasadena, and of the c. d. Lusby fam
lily, Glendale, formerly of Topeka.
They also visited Los Angeles, San
Francisco and the Grand Canyon. The
Santa Fe has more than thirty reading
rooms, and fortnightly concerts are
given at all of them.
Miss Griffin is a graduate of Wash
burn college, and is now at the head
of dramatic art and physical culture.
She is a graduate of the Connock
School of Oratory, Evanston. Ill Mrs
identified with concert companies as
reader and contralto under the direc-
ton of the Central and Redpath
Lyceum bureaus. She studied voice at
with Miss Stuart, and voice with Pro-
fessor Ezerman. Later she was a
pupil of Frederick Root, of Chfca go,
and at the Chicago Musical college.
Miss Gohlke is a pupil of Herman
Springer, and Miss Radcliffe, manager
of the Radcliffe Concert series, was a
pupil of Miss WhittleSey. Mr. Gay
lord Miller. assistant of Mr. Busser,
and Mrs. Miller, met the company at
Albuquerque, and accompanied them
to Gallup, n. NJ, to hear the program.
1. = J.
Mrs. Norman Hay, who writes a lit
tie verse and a good deal of music,
has indicted a few lines inspired by the
infrequent sight of a horse in a crowd
of automobiles. Topeka is supposed
to have more cars to the square inch
! than any other city in the country.
Here is what she writes of it:
"A Curiosity
while waiting at the transfer for a
car the other day,
I noticed people running from the
The moving van, the laundry man, the
grocery man and vender;
The Jltney bus and limousine, the Ford
in all its splendor,
Sent out a honk of many tones, unmu-
steal and coarse
When some one in excitement cried.
| Why land sakesl
There's a horse
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jasperson an
Il
daughter, Minnie, to Mr.. Lansing j.
! Upp, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The mar
riage will take place the latter part
of June.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Miss Daisy Monroe and Miss Cynthia
Monroe, who are in Columbia univer-
sity, will leave New York to return
home the last of May. They expect to
make the return trip by boat to - w
Orleans, coming to Topeka direct from
Mrs. B. F. Crisswell of Denver,
Colo, was in Topeka today with her
sister, Mrs. NJ. P. Hillyer. She is on
her way to Kansas City to attend the
marriage of her niece Miss Isabel
Hudson, to Mr.. Harold Murray Allen.
both of Kansas City Mrs. Hillyer will
go to Kansas City next week to attend
the wedding.
| Bishop and Mrs. Frank R. Mill
spaugh expect to go to Leavenworth
the last of the week, and will be guests
of the Rev. and Mrs. r. K. Pooley
Mrs. May Booker of San Francisco.
Cal. arrived today to be the guest of
Mrs. John w. Mowers a few days. Mrs.
Booker is the widow of a former Santa
Fe man, and she has many friends in
Topeka. She is on her return west
from a trip across the continent
Miss Grace Overmeyer will return
home in a few days from Barth, Fla.
where she has been visiting her un-
Gle. Mr. Edo Hicks.
Mr.. S. ]. Bear is in Kansas City on
| business this week.
| Mrs. William Collinson and Miss Ha-
eel Nelson have left for the east They
will visit Mrs. Collinson's sister, Mrs.