The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-22

committee, will provide Christmas din
ners for several needy families on
Christmas eve All articles for the
baskets must be sent by noon, Mon
day, December "a, to the home of Mrs
r. F. DeArmond, 523 Harrison street,
and the committee will attend to the
distribution of the baskets in the aft
ernoon. Any person wishing to con-
tribute to the baskets is invited to do
so. The members Of the committee
are Mrs. r. f. DeArmond. Mrs. Mary
Chaplin. Mrs. Elnora McGrath, Mrs
H. H. Hunter, Mrs. H. Hill, Mrs. H. w.
Foster, Miss Kate King, Miss Eva
Corning and Mrs. Clara H. Hazelrigg.
chairman. The members of the COM
mittee are sparing no effort to make
the baskets suitable for the Christmas
time.
| An event in the social life at st.
Marys, Kan, which will interest many
| Topeka people, is military ball which
is to be given there by the women of
the Literary society, the largest club
| of the town. The affair will be given
Wednesday night, December rs. and
| is to be a large and elaborate party,
for the benefit of the Red Cross. 1t
will be held in the large gymnasium
/ of St. Mary's college, which has been
kindly offered to the club by the pres
ident and faculty of the school. The
/ mas the QlSllHCllOn Oh De-
| ing the largest between the Mississippi
river and the western coast. The
hostesses have procured the services
| of the 353rd Regimental band of
eighty pieces from Camp Funston, to
| furnish music for the ball. A large
attendance is expected, not only from
! St. MaryS, but also from Topeka and
other neighboring towns. Mr.. Paul
| Huycke and his daughter, Miss Ber-
nadette Huycke, and Miss Helen
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go from Topeka for the party. Mr.
, and Mrs. William Connors also expect
| to be guests.
Mr.. and Mrs r. T. Roby of Kansas
City will spend the holidays with Mrs
J Roby's sisters. Mrs w ]. Kil1inger
and Mrs. H. S. Knox
| Friends of Mr.. Townsley Roby, the
son of Mr.. and Mrs r. T Roby, will
be interested to know that he has en-
tered the aviation service of the gov
| eminent. He graduated from the ayia-
ton school in St Louis with honors.
ana received a Heutenant's commits
SION He has now gone to the avia-
ton fields at San Antonio. He was
brought up in Topeka and is a grad
uate of the Topeka high school His
rather was formerly in the printing
business in Topeka, and the family is
remembered by many friends here
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The Literature department of the
! Woman's club will have a meeting
the Y. w. C.. A. Mrs. c. w. Kouns
was on the program for a Shake
spearean reading. but has chosen in
stead to read the remarkable new
play, Suchin Chow, which has had a
run of year in London and is playing
this winter in New York The play
is founded on the story of THE Forty
Thieves"
The other departments of the club
are invited to attend the meeting, and
/ asked to bring them to the meeting.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. William Colvin and her little
son, Billy B., will leave Wednesday of
next week for St. Louis. to visit her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. ]. Bear
Mrs. Herbert Lindley Reynolds, of
Atlanta, Ga, will arrive Sunday for a
holiday visit to her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Zahner. Mrs. Reynolds, be-
fore her marriage, was Miss Mamie
Zahner.
Miss Clyde Bonebrake and Mrs. AL
len Sells are spending the day in
Kansas City.
Capt. Joe Wilson, of Camp Funston,
will spend the weekend in Topeka
visiting his mother, Mrs. Anna = Will
son. He will also be in town Christ
mas day for the wedding of his sister
Miss Dorothy Wilson, and Lieut.. Rob-
ert Yates. He will have guests from
the camp for the Helianthus dance
Wednesday night
Miss Shinn, chiropodist Special at
tention given arch troubles. 734 Kan
sas avenue. Phone 1472-Adv
Miss Inez futile, of WaIla Waila,
Wash. who has been visiting her SIS
ter, Mrs. Ralph McIntire, has been
called to Rochester, Mimi, On account
of serious surgical operation which
her brother, Mr.. Ralph Tuttia will
undergo at the Mayo hospital Mr..
McIntire has also left for Rochester
Mr.. futile received an injury in "A fail
at his summer cottage last seal son, and
has never recovered from tie effects
The operation is to be an intestinal
one, on account of compiled tio.s
brought on by the injury.
Mrs. A. L. Burgess, of Burlington.
Kan, will spend Christmas with her
daughter. Mrs. H. H. Lewis and Mr..
Lewis, PIP Knox street. Mr. and Mrs
Lewis will entertain at dinner Chris
mas and other guests will be AIR. and
Mrs. w. J. Lewis
/, Miss Lucille Gilmore, Miss Alice Rice
and Miss Hardy. of Topeka. will be
: guests at the Sigma Alpha epsilon
/ fraternity Christmas dinner dance A;
night.
Lieut.. Erwin Tucker of Camp
Funston is in Topeka for a short visit
to friends.
Mr.. Donald TaIiaferro will arrive
Sunday from Ithaca, n. Y. where he
: is student in Cornell university, and