The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-08

on 100000 sets of wool comfort
kits for the boys in France and Amer
wooden clothing, divided into one
sweater, one muffler. one pair of
wristlets and one pair of socks for
each kit The Red Cross has ordered
| these ready for delivery by October 1.
The Red Cross is buying wool in enor-
nous quantities and gets it for sixty
cents a sIzein. Civilian knitters are
paying the regular retail price of sew
enty-two cents a skein. Before the
war a sSein of knitting wool sold for
| much knitting for the boys of the
navy. The wife of Washington
naval captain now at sea with Ad-
niral Sims. collected $4,000 among
each of his two hundred men. The
| Red Cross estimates that it takes
| from two days to a week for one of
! the myriad knitters to knit sweater
and a week to two weeks or longer to
complete set.
The Day Nursery club will omit its
/ meeting of next week on account of
! the fair.
The marriage of Miss Florence June
Hawkins and Mr.. Arthur L. Seeber of
Great Bend, Kan, will. be solemnized
this evening at $50 o'clock at the
| home of the brides parents, Mr.. and
| Mrs. w. H. Hawkins, Elmwood ave-
nue..
The Rev H S. Nelson, of the Pot
win Presbyterian church, Will read the
service. The only guests will be rela
tives and a few close friends. Miss
Hawkins is a graduate of the Topeka
! high school and has attended the State
Agricultural college at Manhattan for
| the past three years.
Mr. Seeber is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. C. Seeber, of Great Bend. He was
also student in the Agricultural col
! lege.
Mr. and Mrs. Seeber will leave i'm
| mediately after the wedding for their
home in Barton county, where Mr.
Seeber will undertake the manage
ment of his fathers ranch.
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Miss Elizabeth N. Barr. who is now
living in Junction City. is making a
collection of poems by Kansas writer's.
She intends this collection to contain
| all poetry written by Kansas writer's
entitled to rank in the same class with
| Richard Raelfs 'Indirection": Mar
garet Perkins's Love Letters of a
Norman Princess" or Carruth's Each
in His Own Tongue" The aim
and viewpoint Of this collectian is to
be a little different from that of any
other collection of Kansas poetry.
Usually it has been the aim of the
compiler to gather together poems
that are distinctly Kansan, containing
all grades of verse from poetry to
doggerel The aim in this work is to
gather the material which is distinc-
lively poetry, regardless of theme. AS
evidence of neutrality Miss Barr
| agrees not to include any of her own
poetry in the collection.
| The purpose of this volume is to set
| a standard for Kansas poetry toward
| which growing writer's may strive and
Inv hi yT7a
discriminate. The book will not con-
tain Eugene Wares "Washerwoman' S
Song but it will reprint his violet
STAR 1t will not include Mrs. Aller-
toms Walls of Corn" but it may con-
| tain "A Dirge' by the same author
The aim is to make this book which
a Kansan of discriminating literary
taste would not be ashamed to hand
to Keats or Shelley.
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A good many of the society people
have taken boxes at the fair for the
various performances that will be pre-
scented in front of the grand stand. A
few of the boxes still remain. and
those who want good seats can obtain
them long as they last, from Mr..
Charles Mitchell As Mr. Mitchell
says. IF the society people want to
sit easy all next week, they'll have to
hurry and see me about it"
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War service registration cards are
/ placed in the big stores down town
may do so. Mrs. Theodore Hammatt
is in charge of the down town regis
tration.
Cards will be at the tent out at the
fair grounds maintained by the wo-
mans committee of the national coun-
ell of defense, next week. The reg
istration there will be in charge OF
Mrs. Harrison Morgan.
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Mrs. James w. Campbell gave q
baby party this afternoon in celebra-
ton of the second birthday anniver-
sary of her little daughter, Doris
Janet Twelve babies, each two years
old, were present. They were: Mar
jorie Berry, Marjorie Schaber, Helen
Louise Kurtz, Charlotte Scamell, Bet
, ty Marie Edison, Norma Godsey, Vir-
ginia Wahl, Harry Wayne Shreve
, Woodrow Crane, Frederick Hasty an6
, Doris Janet Campbell.
The Native Sons and Daughters OF
Kansas will have a tent at the state
| fair where all visitors who were borr
in Kansas can register. A register
will be maintained where all those
, who were born in this state in terri
torial days can be enrolled. Callers al
the tent will be welcomed, and list
of hosts and hostesses has been pre-
t pared by the president. Mrs. DeWitte
c. Nellis, for the different days of the
fair. as follows:
Monday-Host, Mr.. Walter E. Will
son: hostesses, Mrs. Rome Colvin
Mrs. H. C. Root, Miss Belle Ward
Mrs. Will Martin, Mrs. George w
Reed, Mrs. c. H. Riker, Mrs. Cal Zinr
and Mrs. Mary Smith.
Tuesday-Host, Mr.. Henry McAfee
, hostesses, Mrs. w. S. Galloway, Mrs
]. L. Work, Mrs T. ]. Hankla, Mis-:
Marian Dana Mrs Robert Carver an6
Mrs. w. D. Noun Day.
, Wednesday-Host, Mr.. Walter A
johnson; hostesses, Mrs. Carl Moore
Mrs. Matt Weightman. Jr.. Mrs. A. w