The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

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city where they will make their home.
conservation plans for Kansas. Miss
Briggs and Mr.. Craig both have friends
in Topeka. They were students for
| two years in the Agricultural college
at Manhattan and Miss Brlggs IS a
member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
In Pittsburg, Pa, and other eastern
towns, a little poem entitled Gray
Knitting" oy Katherine Hale, is being
printed on cards for free distribution.
It's purpose is to inspire the women to
knit for the soldiers. A Topeka wom-
an who has returned from the east
brings a copy of the poem, which is
as follows.
GRAY KNITTING
CBy Katherine Hale)
All thru the country, in the autumn still
web Of gray spreads strangely, rim to
And you may hear the sound of knitting
Incessunt, gentle, dim
A tiny click of little wooden needles,
Elfin amid the gianthood of war;
Whispers Of women. tireless and patient,
Who weave the web afar.
whispers Of women, tireless and patient
Foolish, inadequatel' We hear you say ::
Gray wool fields of hell is out Of
And Vet we weave the web from day to
day
Suppose some soldier dying. braveIy dying,
Under the alien skies, in his last hour
/ Should listen. in deaths prescience so
And hear fairy sound bloom like a
! flower
I like TO think that soldiers. bravely dying
/ For the white Christ on fields with
! Nav hear the fairy click of women's
/ As they fall fast asleep.
/ This poem deals with beautiful phase
! of the great tragedy-with the work of the
/ for the men who. have gone to BATTLE
Gray Knitting" is perhaps not a classic
/ but exquisite in its sincerity and SIM
plicity.l
| The marriage of Mrs. Emma Freed
| Hollibaugh of Colorado Springs, and
/ Mr.. Junior Orvis Jones of Oklahoma
! City was sOlemnized Tuesday evening
at $50 o'clock, by DIR. S. S. Estey. at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Hill
( of 1902 West Sixth avenue
The bride is an artist and a writer
! of ability. Her book Cloud County"
/ is one of the volumes in the State His
| torical library. She has in manu-
script a book of fiction which she will
publish during the coming winter,
| Mr.. Jones is an examiner of securi-
ties for extensive land company
of Oklahoma City.
The bride is a friend of the Hill
family of Topeka.
Lieut.. Kent Lewis left with his
company Tuesday for Fort Sill, Okla
homa. He will take a house, and
Mrs. Lewis will leave next week to
join him. Mrs. Lewis, who was for
merly Miss Marjorie Rodgers, is Ieav-
ing her position in the state library
to go to Fort Sill.
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Two Topeka girls at the Kansas
Agricultural college, Manhattan, have
been honored by election to class Of
fees Miss Sarella Herrick was .chos-
en- chairman of the social committee
of the junior class and Miss Ernestine
Biby was elected secretary of the
are members of the Pi Beta Phi
sorority.
Miss AlIena Grafton, general Sec
and Miss Annie Sweet returned Mon
day from three days visit to the
buildings of the Y. w. c. A at Fort
Riley and an inspection of the work
being done. They found the Hostess
House at Army City and the Asso.
citation Residence for young WON er
employed in Army City are nearing
completion. and will be occupied ir
about three weeks. The Hostess House
at Camp Funston, on which work
began last Monday, will be the only
place for women inside the govern
ment reservation. The cafeteria viii
serve meals to both men and womeT
and parlors and rest rooms will bt
provided The Hostess House a
Army City will be similarly euuipped
The Residence House will accommo.
date so women and is for employed
young women who must live in the
neighborhOod. The Young Womeni
League. whose workers are furnished
by the national board of the Y. W. c
A, maintains rooms for the benefi
OF junction City girls and has alsC
been OF great service to visiting wo
men during the summer. The hostess
quarters at Randolph hall on the Ar
tllery Parade at Fort Riley will prob
ably be maintained during the winter
On Friday of this week there viii
be meeting of the war work coun
ell OF this field at Junction City. Mrs
John Meigs, of Pottsdown Pa will
preside and others who will attent
are Miss Jennie Hendrie, of Denver
chairman of the west central fell
committee of the Y w C. A, Mis-
Elizabeth French, chairman of tn
Harriet Taylor, of New York City
The field committee members anC
presidents of local boards of the 7
W. c. A will also be called Miss An
ME Sweet will represent the Topeka
association.
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The Tuesday Bridge club met yes
terday afternoon with Mrs Charlie
Wolff, jr-
Thomas Crawford. class '1e. of To
peka, may soon be in France doin
Y. NJ. C. A. work under the directio
of the United States army. He ha
applied for work as a pianist wit