The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-25

attendants, and there was no formal
wedding music. After the service
Christmas dinner was served
! Lieutenant and Mrs Yates nave
gone for wee ding trip, and will re-
turn the last of the week. Lieutenant
Yates will reutrn to his duties at
Camp Funston, and Mrs. Yates Will
continue in her position as Librarian
/ in the juvenile department OF the city
/ library.
The bride belongs to one of the
first families in Topeka, and moves
! in the exclusive social set She was a
student in Bethany college, and took
| her library training in the Carnegie
library at Pittsburg, Pa. Lieutenant
/ Yates came to Topeka a few years ago
/ to practice law. Before entering the
training camp for officers at the fort,
he was judge of the city court. He
( took his legal training at Northwest
ern university. Socially he is affiliated
f with the Elks club and the Country
club.
i Out of twin members of the brides
\ family who came to Topeka for the
= wedding were: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B.
/ Furry and their daughter. Anna, of
! Muskogee, Okla, Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Dallas, of Atlanta. and Capt. Joe Will
son, of Camp Funston.
Miss eBatrice Shakeshaft has asked
I guests for a small luncheon which
she will give Saturday of this week
1 X
A group of young people who have
/ year for some years will have party
: tonight at the home of Miss Ernestine
Klein, of Fillmore street.
| X X
Miss Helen Crawford, who is a stu
dent in the California university and
+ is spending teh holidays in Topeka,
/ will give a dinner party Wednesday
! night for Miss Marie Porter, whose
marriage to Lieut.. L. Spencer Davis,
| of Ross, Cal, will take place Thurs
I day. Twenty guests are asked. Miss
/ Crawford and Miss Porter were school
mates in California university, and
Miss Crawford is to be Miss Porter's
maid of honor.
The marriage of Miss Mildred Viola
/ Davidson and DR.. Harold Lee Alden,
of Charlottesville, Va, will be solemn
lied tonight at eight O'Clock at the
Mrs. James A. Davidson, of Mulvane
street. The service will be read by
the bridegroom's father, the Rev.
David A. Alden, assisted by the Rev.
Willis Goldsmith, of the Central Con-
gregationa1 church.
Before the ceremony Miss Beulah
Hall will play the violin, and she
will also play during the ceremony.
Miss Ruth He'll will be the brides
maid of honor, and the bridegroom
will be attended by Mr.. Dennis Alden
his brother, as best man. Mary Car
oline Stark will carry the ring The
| decorations for the house will be wood
ferns, poinsetta and Christmas green.
The bride will wear gown of
white satin, and will carry an arm
| bouquet of white roses and lilies of
the valley. Her going away costume
is a coat suit of purple velvet with
mink collar and cuffs, and her hat is
purple velvet. with silver lace brim
and flower trimming. Miss He'll will
wear yellow crepe meteor.
DR.. Alden and his bride will leave
this evening for a wedding trip, and
later will go to Charlottesville to make
their home. The bride was formerly
student in Washburn college, and
graduated from Washburn in the class
of 1915. She is member of the Tau
Delta Pi honorary scholarship fra
Wheaton, and has an NJ. A. degree
from Chicago university. He is an in
structor in astronomy in the Uni
versity of Virginia.
ETHERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Whose heart was set on buying a
swagger stick for her soldier brothers
Christmas present. She found. to her
amazement, there were varieties in
swagger sticks, and fearing least she
should make a fatal error and buy
him a Woman's stick, she gave it up,
and as he is a newlywed, she glad
| dened his heart with a gift of box of
bone harpins and a china cup and
saucer. The incident is reminiscent
of the famous marriage in Topeka.
when the bride and bridegroom were
presented with silver candelabra, and
all the neighbors talked it all over
town that the wedding present should
have been sun-cured ham and a
case of storage eggs.
Judge and Mrs. C. w. Smith of
Broadmoor avenue are enjoying a
family reunion this week. Solon w.
Smith, attorney at law of Oklahoma
City, and Henry Smith and Mrs. Smith
of CoffeyviIle arrived yesterday.
Charles w. Smith. Jr., reached home
from Paris Island, S. c., Saturday, to
{ remain one week Charles has been
: in training at the marine barra cks on
Paris Island since July. and belongs to
= Company 1 of the overseas battalion
[ With Misses Katharine and Frances
I who are in Topeka with their parents
Z this winter, the family reunion is COM
! plete with the exception of their
: daughter, Mrs. A. T. Sutton, and her
husband, who live in Chelan, Wash
= X \ =
A Topeka man and his wife thought
Z of a new Christmas present for this
. year for the mans mother. All thru
4 the year they have been snugly tuck
2 ing away all their dimes in a little
4 bank No one of the little silver disks
escaped them. and when they opened
y the bank about the middle of Decem.
Der, the silver treasure poured out like
( the wealth of the Indies 1t had az.
! cumulated even to a greater sum thar
they had hoped, so they turned it into
z a bank draft and sent it to Pennsyl.
wanna Tor the expense of a trip by the