The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-16

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! The local chapter of the Pi Beta Phi
isorority Will give their annual cookie
| shine Saturday, April %, at the home
| of Mrs. w. L. Gardner of Potwin
Place. While there is no Pi Phi chap
ter in Washburn college, both the
State university ard the Kansas State
Agricultural college have chapters,
and the alumnae society in Topeka is
large, including members from those
two schools. well as from a number
of schools outside the state
| A marriage that will interest a circle
! Of Topeka people is that of Miss Vir-
gina Siegel and Mr.. Hyden ]. Eaton,
| both of Kansas City, which will take
place Saturday of this week. Miss
Siegel has often visited Mrs. E. A.
Campbell and other young people of
| Topeka.
| Lieutenant Irwin, U. S. A, who has
/ been at Fort Riley for some time. has
been transferred, and is now sent on
his foreign service in Hawaii. He LETT
Thursday for California, and will sal
| from there to Honolulu, where he will
be stationed. He. will be missed by
many of his Topeka friends. For
/ some time he has been attending many
of the large. fashionable dances in
this city, and mas a wide circle OF
acquaintance among the society peo-
pie. A group of his Topeka friends
visited him at the Fort earlier in the
week. Mr. Lewis Hall, Mr.. Richard
Hall and Mr.. Charles Kouns were
among his guests from here.
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News of an engagement that will
! interest Topeka friends of the young
people, has been received here Miss
Mr.. Arthur Stacey of Abilene, are to
be marrieds soon. Che engagement
was first announced at the annual
banquet of the Nebraska chapter of
Gamma Phi Beta, at Lincoln. Ne
braska. Miss Thompson is a senior at
| the Nebraska University. She is
member of the Omicron NJ and Pi
Gamma Sigma honorary and profess
sional sororities and of the Gamma
j Phi Beta. She was active in the dra-
matte club of her school.
MIR. Stacey belonged to the class of
1915 at the State University, Law
renee. and has friends among the
Topeka students and former students
in X. U. He is a Tau BetaSPi, Sigma
XII and Sigma Tau He is one of the
founders of the Sigma Tau. first presi-
dent of the Kansas chapter of Tau
Beta Pi, and the first editor of the
Kansas Engineer. He is now doing
field service work for the McGraw
Publishing Company of New York.
with his office headquarters in Kan
sas City, Mo.
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A wedding cake which came all the
way from Denton, Texas, was a gift
to Miss Edith Ingham. whose mar
riage to Mr.. David Redinger took
place Wednesday night. The cake
was made by the girls of the College
of Industrial Art. at Denton, where
Mrs. Redinger was manager of the
dormitories and teacher of domestic
science. The cake was cut at the we'd
re obi
ceeded in her position in the college
by Miss Virginia Meade of Topeka.
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The Vespuccian club will meet
March % with Mrs r. H. Morehouse.
BIZ Broadmoore. Mrs. Sam Cunning
ham will give a book review
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An all-day meeting of the Woman s
club will be held Thursday at the gov
ernOr's official residence, corner of
Eighth and Buchanan streets The
event is to celebrate the anniversary
of the founding of the club. A lunch
con will be served, and the Home
Economics department will be in
charge of it.
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The following dispatch from Wash
ingtOn, DC, will be of interest to the
members of the Topeka chapter of the
Daughters of the American RevoIu-
ton: A battle royal for the presidency
Revolution will be fought by Mrs
George Thatcher Guernsey of Indepen-
dence. Kan, at the national convention
of the D. A. r. here the latter part of
next month.
Mrs. Guernsey amazed the nation
al organization by the thoroness with
which she came into the race pre-
pared. 1t was known she sought the
place, but it was not known she had
secretly secured the backing of forty
three states on the basis of her out
lined policy.
Mrs George G.. Squires of ST. Paul
Mrs. John Miller Horton of Buffalo
and Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis of Illi-
nois are Mrs. Guernsey,s opponents
for the presidency, which now is filled
by Mrs. William c. Story of New York
Mrs. Story is said to favor Mrs. Lewis
to succeed her.
Miss Ramona Kirkpatrick and Miss
Edna Anton have gone to Lawrence,
to be guests of Miss Violet Matthews,
at the Sigma Kappa house. They
will attend a matinee dance Saturday
to be given by the Sigma Kappa
freshmen.
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Mrs. w. L. Trump will entertain
the d. D. Whist club Monday after
noon of next week.
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Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Anton had
guests at bridge Thursday night, at
their home in Western avenue. Those