The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-02

Mrs Forrest Loveland is entertain
ing a few friends at an informal
chocolate this afternoon at her home,
complimentary to Mrs. Albert Jones
of Columbus, Ohio, who is visiting
Mrs. GuiIford Dudley and other To-
peka friends.
The committee of entertainment of
the Topeka club has issued invita-
tons to the members of the club and
their families for party saturday
evening at s o'clock to meet the
women and their husbands who, have
been in Topeka for the legislature this
winter. The affair will be given at
the club house. corner of Harrison
and Sixth streets.
Mrs. Earl Akers gave a luncheon
today at the PeIletier tea room, fol-
lowed by a line party to one of the
theaters The guests were: Mrs. A
NJ Keene of Fort Scott, Mrs Arthur
Capper, Mrs. S. j. Crumbine, Mrs.
Silas Porter Mrs. Frank P. MacLen-
nan. Mrs. w E. Davis, Miss Georgia
Goddard of Kansas City, Kan, who is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. MacLennan,
and Miss Mary MacLennan.
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Miss Lillian Krauthoff and Miss
Alma Krauthoff were honor guests at
d bridge party this afternoon at which
MIS- ~ D. Dul &c eHtSItdliiS SuCoto
for three tables.
Miss Josephine Berry, who is a
speaker On subjects relating to home
economics, and who is in charge of
the division of home economics of the
Minnesota university, is a Kansas
woman. She formerly lived at Wa
terville and Clay Center, and was
graduated from the Kansas State uni
versity at Lawrence. >She has a circle
of friends among the people who were
fellow students CT hers at X. u, and
she is also well known to a number
Of Topeka people who formerly lived
in Clay Center. She is a friend Of
Mrs. T. S. Morrison, and other Topeka
women. She made an address Thurs
day before the Woman'S club, coming
up to Topeka for a part of the day from
Kansas City, where she was the
program for the national convention
of school superintendent. She is Il
distinguished woman of her profess
sion, and is well Known among edu-
Gators all over America AS a speaker
she is both clever and convincing.
X x x
The Helianthus club will give its
March dancing party next Tuesday
night at Kellam hall.
X X
The evening meeting of the Music
Study club, which was to have been
F. Narcotic, has been Indefinitely
postponed.
The following persons have been re-
quested to act as the reception COM
mittee during the social hour and
banquet of the Kansas Authors club.
Saturday evening at the First Metho-
dist church parlors: DR.. and Mrs w.
A. McCarter, Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Con-
nelley, Prof and Mrs. w. c. Wheeler.
Judge and Mrs. John Dawson, Prof.
and Mrs E. G. Foster and Prof. f. d.
Schonberger from Topeka; also, Mrs.
May BellevilIe Brown, Salina; Mrs. A.
c. Graves, Pittsburg; Mrs. A. A.
Doerr, Larned; Governor and Mrs. w.
Y. Morgan, Hutchinson.
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A group of fraternity men are still
scared to death, after bout they had
with one of their initiates. He was
a bright lad and turned the tables
on them properly.
They took him to the country to
suffer his initiation martyrdom. Their
scheme was to tie him up to a tree
about nightfall in a draw near the
creek out by Dover. They blindfold-
ed him, took a devious route to the
scene of the crime, then tied him with
ropes and went back to town. The
next day he was not at school; when
night came he was still not to be
found. The frat men expected, as per
the usual custom, that he would get
away from his bonds, spend the night
at farm house, and then get him
self hauled back to town in the morn
ing. Well along in the second day,
the men became really alarmed. They
organized a hunting posse among
themselves, hired a car and jitneyed
to Dover. They found that he was