The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-28

Mrs. I. F. Carver gave a luncheon
today in honor of Mrs. E. c. Ray of
Santa Barbara, Calf, who is visiting
Mrs. Jonathan Thomas Covers were
placed for: Mrs. Ray, Mr.. Thomas,
Mrs ]. B. Larimer, Mrs. P. G. Noel
Mrs. Herbert Armstrong, Mrs. M. c.
Hammatt, Mrs. James Belcher, Mrs.
w. A Johnston. Mrs. S. S. Estey, Mrs
M. A Low, Mrs. Silas Porter, Mrs
Austin, Mrs. Mary Bosworth and Mrs
Carver.
Mrs. James S. Hayes was hostess at
a meeting of her luncheon club today.
The eight members of the club were
present.
Mrs. E. c.. Brown, Mrs. Laurent
Conger and Miss Loretta Powell gave
a kitchen shower this afternoon in
honor of Miss Katherine McCarter.
bride of Thanksgiving day. The
guests hemmed dish towels for the
bride and presented her their gifts of
kitchen utensils. Those present were:
Miss McCarter, Mrs. Edwin Kistler,
Mrs. John Adams, Mrs. Herman
Green, Mrs. A. B. Jeffrey, Miss Betty
Brambaugh of Maitland, Mo, Miss
Mary Clark, Miss Alta Lux, Miss An
mabel Garvey, Miss Grace Powell, Miss
Carolyn Lovewell, Miss Maud Ward.
Miss Loretta Powell, Mrs. Conger and
Mrs. brown.
Miss Alta Lux gave a sewing party
for Miss McCarter Monday afternoon.
Her guests were: Miss McCarter, Mrs.
Roy Shoaf. Mrs. Don Neiswanger, Miss
Louise Culver, Miss Lois Lindsay, Miss
Charlotte Mcclellan, Miss Loretta Tow
ell, Miss Maud Ward, Mrs Earl
Brown Mrs. Laurent Conger, Miss
Matte Payne, Miss Leila Burgess or
Los Angeles, Calf, Miss Mary Clark,
Miss Carolyn Lovewel1, Miss Annabel
~
Miss Marian Walp.
Mrs. Jamie M. Paddock announces
the engagement of her daughter, Lois
Faye, to Mr.. Perry H. Lambert of
Hiawatha, the marriage to take place
the first week in December.
Mrs. Paddock and her daughter for
merly lived in Manhattan, but are now
making their home with Mrs. Pad
docks daughter, Mrs. D. Lewis, of
1852 Mu1vane street Miss Paddock
is a graduate of the Kansas State
Agricultural college, and is member
of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Mr..
Lambert is also a graduate of the
Agricultural college, Manhattan, and
| is affiliated with the Sigma NJ fra
ternity He is now engaged in the
| raising of experimental and exhibition
crops on his land just adjoining the
town of Hiawatha.
| Miss Paddock invited a group of her
friends to an informal trousseau tea.
| She has in her trousseau quantities or
| lovely linens and other household
things She has made her home in
Topeka since the early summer, and
has made a wide circle of friends in
that short time.
There are strong suspicious of mat
rimonial intentions on the part of a
young Topeka couple. who are known
to have been devoted to one another
! for a good while. The girl is buying
load of new clothes, which she in
sists are to be used on trip she in
| tends to take. The man is a well liked
young chap who is engaged in bust
ness in another town.
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f., The Modoc club held it's fortieth
annual meeting Monday night in the
club rooms in the Stormont building.
| The members elected officers as fol-
| lows: Mr.. L. NJ. Wood, president; Mr..
Tom Powell, vice president; Mr.. F. A.
! Stevens, secretary; Mr.. H. c. Good
rich, business manager. Mr.. Paul
| Thorson was chosen pianist and M. G.
Holman, musical director, with Mr..
Hugh Smith assistant musical di-
rector.
The Modoc club is the oldest sing
ing organization in the United States,
having maintained a continuous, ac-
tive organization for forty years, hold
ing its charter for thirty-seven years.
Mr.. Wood has been connected with
! the club about thirty-Seven years, but
none of the charter members are now
in the club, it's organizer and perpet-
ua1 president, Major Tom Anderson,
having died a few years ago. The
club has had. IN the forty years of its
| existence, 263 different members.
The roll for each year is limited to
thirty-three and the membership at
this time is twenty-six. Mr.. Sam
/ Remington of Topeka. who is no
longer active in the club. was one of
sung all over the country on public
occasions, and last year they went to
the Pacific coast. giving concerts in
| the Santa F'e reading rooms.
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The Minerva club met Monday with
Mrs E. D. Clithero, with Mrs. George
Mays as assistant hostess. An impor-
tant part of the program was paper
on 1.-The Personal Side of Drach-
| mann" read by Mrs. E. G. Foster for
/ Mrs w. A. Powers. DTachmann' S
story, The Present Saga" was read
by Mrs. George Pritchard. The mu-
steal program was as follows:
Mrs Morton Albaugh.
The Mysterious Flute. .Sjogren
Miss Lulu McCabe.
V"'Se 0api Mrs. Fred Munson w
Synnove's Song -.-----.--------k lerui $
Mrs. Earl Brown.
Kings Daughters -.--.-.--.-.---.-G Greg
Morning -Gr1eg
| Mrs. II. Parks Bennett.
o Heart of Mine. .-....-.... Galloway
Mrs. Lillian Doing.
/
Gupid's RE, Revenge nIonr,na
| Mrs. w. s. Stambaugh.
The guests of the club were Mrs. NJ
H See of Seattle, Wash, who is Wis
iting Mrs Dolins. Mrs. F. P. Whit
more, Mrs Harry Tasker, Mrs. R
Parks Bennett. Mrs. ]. NJ. Brunt, Mrs
w H Rutter, Mrs Doing, Mrs F. H
Pitcher, Mrs. w. A. Bollinger, Mrs: w