The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

The Country club set will be enter
famed tonight at a dancing party al
lhe club house. The dance is for the
members and their families 1t is the
Ilrst of series of three parties to be
given prior to the formal opening of
the club. The dates for the two other
canoes of the series are Monday, April
30, and Thursday. May 10.
Mr. f. A. Thrill is chairman of the
entertainment committee and Mr.. P
o. Hagan is his associate on that COM
mittee- They have this year decided
that the early dances will be better
attended and more enjoyed than the
same sort of entertainment turing the
midsummer And this plan provides
Tor entertainment tor all the members
whether they are interested in golf and
other outdoor diversion, or not.
1t is planned to carry out the same
general scheme for Country club par
ties IS was inaugurated last year. That
is, people from the different crowds
that make up the Country club set will
be asked to take charge of parties
which Will be given each month.
An engagement announcement of
some local interest is that of Miss
Madelaine Butts and Mr. Hiram Lew
is, both of Wichita Miss Butts is the
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs J. II. Butts,
a family of prominence in Wichita.
Mr.. Butts also has some business in
terests in this city Miss Butts was a
student in Fairmont seminary, Wash
ingtOn, D. c, and she attended the
Kansas State University last year.
where she was affiliated with the Pi
Beta Phi sorority. She and her sister
have quite number of friends in To-
peka. They used to visit the Ames
girls, now Mrs Earl Fischer and Mrs
Carl Smiley. Miss Madelaine Butts
was a school mate and friend of Miss
Ruth Foster. Miss Jean Lindsay and
other Topeka young people. She and
Miss Lindsay are sorority sisters.
Mr.. Lewis who is known to Miss
Butts friends in this city. is the son
Of Mrs Hiram Lewis and the late Col
onel Lewis, OF Wichita. He is grad
uate of Baker University and of the
Chicago University and a member of
the Delta Tau fraternity. He is now
secretary and treasurer of the Anchor
Trust Company.
The wedding will take place in the
early spring.
The announcement of the engage
ment was made at a party given by
Miss Beatrice Dimohd of wichita
A bridge-luncheon is being given to-
day at the Baltimore hotel in Kansas
City by Mrs John p TiIlhoff and
Mrs. S. Fl. Hodgsett, which is a social
function Of importa- ce in that city.
Mrs. T. J. Myers was asked to help
at the party. and is in Kansas City to-
day as one Of the assisting friends of
The Topeka Avenue club will meet
Friday with Mrs. w. G. Dickie, at her
home, 1915 Buchanan street.
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Miss Dorothy Mechanism. of Kansas
City, is spending a few days in Topeka
as the guest of Miss Ruth Foster.
The young women are roommates at
the Kappa Sorority house of the State
university. where they are students.
Miss Foster is spending the Easter va
cation with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
+. G.. Foster. Miss McCamish Is the
daughter Of Judge MECHANISM of Kan
sas City. She will remain in Topeka
to be guest at the Country club
dance tonight.
Speaking of Easter eggs. an enor-
nous one, made of cardboard. highly
oruamented, was laid at the plate of
Mrs. J. a. Campbell at breakfast
Easter morning She broke it open
and found it's contents hard and yell
low. In fact, it was the tabled golden
egg. The bird that produced it had
swallowed a purse o gold. and the
card within the shell old the secret
that the egg was the gift of the con-
gregation Of c. zee Cathedral as an
acknowIedg ment of their regard and
gratitude to her for her long years of
service as Organist. She played the
organ in the Guild hall for more than
twenty-five Yeas. and when the Ca
thedral was finished, she was made
church organs in the state for her to
play.
one of the henpecked men of our
town was in Kansas City on business
lately. He came into the Harvey
house for luncheon with stunnins
looking woman TO whom he raid .