The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-30

Friends in Topeka have received
word from New York that Waiter
Myers is sailing this week for France
where he is to take special training as
an officer He has been in training
at Richmond, Virginia, and received
a commission as first lieutenant of
cavalry.
Lieutenant Myers formerly lived in
Topeka and belonged to a prominent
Topeka family. He has succeeded we'll
in business since going to New York.
and at the Tina of his entrance into
the government service, he was at
torney for a multimillionaire'S estate
in New York. He was one of three
men out of his regiment to be chosen
to take the training somewhere IT
France" Previous to his entrance into
active military service. he belonged
to the famous New York troop OF
guardsmen, to which some of the VAN
derbilt men and other wealthy New
Workers belonged.
The many Topeka people VINO are
friends of Lieutenant Myers will be
interested in the news of his appoint
ment
Miss Joanna Gleed, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gleed, expects
to enter the Kansas State university
this fall the school where both of
her parents were once students she
graduated from the high school last
year, with honors, being valedictorian
of her class.
Mr. and Mrs. Gleel and their daugh
tiers, Joanna, Grace, and Mrs Roy
Thompson, and Mrs. Thompson s. son,
Gleed, have returned from five
weeks "trip to Glacier National park.
As Chicago is the sixth German city
in the world. so Colorado Springs i
the second Kansas city-Topeka, Of
course, being the first
Among those who are out At he
r1ountains this summer are Mr. and
Mrs. frank Andrews, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert s. Pierce. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Campbell. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Wolff. jr., stopped in Colorado
Springs on their way to Yellowstone
Park They undertook the trip by
auto, but were finding the roads poor,
and stopped at the Springs for while.
Mrs Anna B. Patten and little
Elizabeth Patten have just recently
returned from the mountains Mrs.
Silas Rain has been there all srm-
mer
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Bunger and
their son, Chester, and their daugh-
ter Helen, and Mr. Jack Merria M.
have recently returned from Colora do
Springs, where they spent the sum-
mer Mrs. Ed McKeever and her
little daughter, Florence, are at Green
Mountain Falls.
7. Ia. "A 1.
J. j. Schenck and his son. Mr.. Clyde
Schenck, motored to Colorado, spend
ing some time in Estes Park and GO
ing from there to the Springs.
Mrs. H. T. Hazen and her daughter
Miss Marian Williams and Miss
Jack, have been in Manitou this sum
mer Mrs Emma Sells Marshall,
who is at the Springs this season, ras
been taking the short course in Red
Cross work and has received herscer-
ttfieate from Washington. Mrs. Let1rd
Headlee is in charge of the curio
store at Glen Eyrie.
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One of the best illustrations of
wholesome young girlhood that has
illumined our town in many day was
seen in our stores Wednesday. This
illustration" was young girl in her
late teens, who came to Topeka on a
shopping trip from one of the small
western towns of the state. Her father
is a ranchman, and has just loads of
money, any amount of which is freely
at the disposal of this interesting
go away to a fashionable and expen-
sive eastern finishing school this fall,
and the order of the hour is to arm
herself for the encounter with such
clothes and general 'finery' as will
make her easy and comfortable among
the girls she will meet So she took
stock of her powers for the proper
selection of her wardrobe and decided
at last that she had no adequate idea
of how to equip herself. That, in it.
self, is remarkable. since not one girl
in a thousand has brains enough to
know how little she knows.
Having arrived at the only sensible
conclusion, the young woman took the
best fashion books and magazines that
she could find, chose from them the
pictures that she most admired, clip
ped them out, placed them in heI