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

service was read by the Rev. Mr..
Ralph Ward, of the Westminster
a nephew of the late Mr.. ]. C. OAR
ling, of the Darling Rubber Stamp
company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darling will make
their home at s4S Morris avenue.
The baby clinics at the Warren NJ
Crosby store are held regularly every
Wednesday afternoon, from to
o'clock, where they have been con-
Quoted since their establishment, I'M
der the supervision of the Public
Health Nursing association. From
ten to thirty babies are present each
time. The physicians of Topeka have
co-operated with the association in
this work, and the clinics will con-
tinue with the nurses of the associa-
ton in charge.
Initiation services were held this
afternoon at the Kappa Alpha Theta
house. Mrs. Hargreaves of Spokane,
Wash, and Miss Marian Morrow were
made members of the sorority. Mrs.
Hargreaves, formerly Miss Edna Nor
row. was a Sigma Delt before that
local sorority became a chapter of the
national Kappa Alpha Theta
A second initiation service will be
given tonight at the Theta house, and
the pledges who will be formally
taken into membership are: Miss
Jessie Burnett, Miss Mary Paxton,
Miss Beatrice Shakeshaft, Miss Elisa
beth Edison and Miss Dorothy Crane,
all of Topeka, and Miss Anne Hawley
of Harrington, Miss Teresa Tucker of
Eureka and Miss Pauline Evans Of
lola.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Wilson will
open their house for a reception Mon
day night in honor of Superintendent
of n
Pittsburg, Pa, who will be in Topeka
to make an address to the Topeka
teachers, and to visit his sister, Mrs.
Elisabeth Lowry. Mrs. Wilson is at
the head of committee on arrange
ments for the party, and she and the
public school teachers and Mr.. Wilson
will give the party.
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The Rev. Mr.. Samuel E. Belts and
Mrs Belts, of Kansas City, announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Myma Gertrude. to Mr.. John McClel-
| land Trembley. manager of the Tope-
ka branch of the jenkins Music
| company. The wedding will take place
| in April.
!
| Some of the youngish chaps about
town have a habit of playing beau
each to two girls. One of the girls
| belongs to his social set, and he takes
| her to the dances and theatres. The
other belongs-well that all depends
| on the taste of the man.
| One such chap is supposed to be
| devoted to a good looking girl of the
! fashionable crowd, unless, as some
| think, he is engaged to an out of town
! girl of similar set. Meanwhile, he
spends a lot of spare time chatting
/ to a good looking sewing girl who
works in, gown finishing place in
one of the. big business houses. AL
most any noon hour will find him in
! the sewing room. and on those occa-
sions he is devotion itself.
There is another man-musical-
who is reported to be engaged to a
small town girl with whom he grew
up and went to school. Not long age
he excused himself from some sort OF
a musical rehearsal, pleading an i'm
portant engagement. One of the fell
lows at the boarding house asked him
| the next day, where he had spent
| the evening after rehearsal lover
at the VS." he answered, mentioning
a neighbor family. "Hum-Hu," muir
INJURED the inquirer, st seems queer
didn't see you. I was over there
myself" But it was a second OBJ
server who noticed him from hel
| automobile that night, who was able
| to give clue. And they do say thai
he is not sitting moping in his lonely
attic room while he is separated from
his fiancee, even tho he isn't appear
with his local idol
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Whose devotion to an out of towr
Kansas woman, who is engaged in the
same kind of work by which she
| prospers, has been an unsolved prob
lem to the people who have know
her for a long time. Many a gray
hair is the result of study on tina
particular question in a certain clique
in our village. A man comes forward
to divulge the secret. He vows tina
the answer is money Borrowed
money that is not to be returned il
good coin of the republic, is being
paid back, he thinks, in favors, pub
lie and private. A big instalment il
expected very soon to be delivered t.
the creditor
The art department of the Woman
club will met Thursday afternoon a
3 o'clock at the home of the chair
man, Mrs Clement Smith, 721 Poll
street. Mrs. c. B. Merriam will >b
the leader for the afternoon, and will
speak on Mural and Stained Glas
Designers. with colored lantern slid
partment are asked to be present..
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The Ladies' Aid society of the FRS
NJ. E. church will hold an Aida,
Injecting Wednesday, March 7, in tn
church. Division 8, Mrs. w. B. Swan
chairman, will be hostesses at tn
noon hour. Executive board meetini
will be held at 2 o'clock; bushes