The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-05

in Topeka for a fortnight is Miss
Sophie Meyer, of Amarillo, Tex She
is a guest at the S. L. Courtney home
Miss Meyer is sister of Mr.. Adolphus
Meyer, a railroad man of Texas, who
formerly lived in Topeka.
Miss Meyer is now writing special
feature stories for a Fort Worth pa
per. She formerly was society reporter
for an Amarillo newspaper. She is
also secretary of the Panhandle Press
association.
Miss Meyer is a member of the First
Aid auxiliary of the Texas Red Cross
society, and spent two weeks training
in a camp at Fort Worth. She gives
an interesting account of the discipline
of camp life, where the women are
taught the scientific care of emer-
gency cases, the correct handli. g of
the injured, and where they are
obliged to become Injured to the hard
ships of the work they may be called
training prepares them for service in
first aid work on the battlefield.
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Lieut.. Dick Reed, son of DR.. and
Mrs. c. B. Reed, has been sent to New
York, where he awaits orders to sail
in the line of experimenting sections
of repair work in devastated districts.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Burrow have
returned from Cheyenne, Wyo-, where
they spent the summer, and will be
at home at Pinehurst, the Burrow
suburban home, in Highland Park.
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The Topeka chapter of the D. A. r.
will meet with Mrs. o. L. Moore, 1107
Polk street, Thursday afternoon.
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A party will be given Thursday aft
ernoon at the S. L. Courtney millinery
rooms, Sixth and Kansas avenue, for
the benefit of the mess fund for the
soldiers. Mr.. Courtney is leader OF
one of the teams appointed for the
work of raising the designated sum.
His team has collected its apportion-
ment, and now he is assisting some
of the other teams.
Mr.. Courtney's Office will be decorat-
ed in oriental fashion, and there will
be Hawaiian music by players in cos
tune. Within an oriental den, a for
tune teller will be ensconced. and will
tell the fate of her callers-for a con-
expert palnist, and her identity is a
profound secret until after the party.
There is to be no admission charge
for the party, but an opportunity will
be given for those who attend to drop
piece of money-silver money, or
big paper money-in a basket that
will be provided for the purpose. Sol
you know. and anyone who wants to
! impersorate the helping hand. and al
the same time enjoy the afternoon, is
invited to call at the Courtney par
lors tomorrow afternoon.
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| THERE'S A GIRL IN OUR TOWN
Who has a word of consolation fol
| the forlorn co-eds. You know there
will be dreadful famine of perfectly
of them are off for the wars and such
| high adventure.
What will you girls do out there
in that port of missing mem" some
one asked Lovely Mary this morning
"Oh, I don't know" sighed Lovely
Mary, but 1 suppose there will be
nothing to do but study"
Miss Dell Snyder of Montclair, N
j., has accepted a position as house
mother for the Alpha Phi sorority il
Topeka. Miss Snyder has visited il
this city, as the guest of Mrs.I. New
! ell Abrahams. She is a club woman
having served as secretary of the New
Jersey State Federation. Her coming
to Kansas is partly due to her desire
for a change of climate and res
from her club duties.
| Dr. Harriet Adams has been chosen
president of Western Sorosis, to fill
the vacancy left by the resignation o
Miss Ethel Aldrich, who will not b.
in Topeka this winter.
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Miss Guenn GODDARD entertained
few friends Monday afternoon for Mrs
Albert. Searle. of Neodesha, who i
visiting her mother. Mrs. R. F
Thompson.
A meeting of the board of the Wo
mans club will be held Thursday a
the home of Mrs. o. l.. Moore, tn
president. Arrangements will b
made for the tent at the state fair
where Miss Mary Ward. food expert