The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-08

fire, transporting wounded in day
| time on an open road within rifle shot,
under heavy bombardment and under
/ a gas attack. He has been made lieu
| tenant in the United States field ar
| tillery.''
While her husband is abroad, Mrs.
Thomas Amory Lee is in New York,
where she is employed as one of the
United States censors.
| Wilmot Goodwin, baritone, gave a
recital Friday night at the First Bap
| fist church, under the auspices of the
Lincoln circle, G. A. r. That organi-
cation gives a series of two or more
concerts every year, at which the pro-
grams are furnished by out of town
musicians who nave won recognition
| in eastern musical centers. Goodwin
has pleasing and highly trained
voice which he handles successfully.
| He was assisted at his concert last
night by. Miss Florence Austin, violin
| list, and Lee Cronican. pianist. The
assisting musicians furnished some
solo numbers that were well liked by
the audience.
/ The second musical evening spon-
sored by the G. A R. women will be
| given tonight by the same artists at
the Baptist church, and the program
arranged for the concert is as fol-
| lows:
My Lovely Celia ............Hi Higgins
| Come Buy" ...........Bu zzi-Peccia
Wflmot Goodwin '''
Finale from the Symphonic Etudes.
Lee Cronican
| Ballade and Polonaise. $500. Vie, xtemps
Florence Austin
Reading. 1.-The Witch Song".::-:..:.
Solitude of the Fields Brahms IN IS
Now the Crimson Petal" .Quilter
/ Don Juan's Serenade" Tscnaikows;Sy
| Wilmot Goodwin
Gavotte from .Mignon'' ...... :, mem
Moment Musicai schubert Kreisier
Florence Austin
Etude e'',---'.'.' Sh0pim
/ Waltz Chopin
Lee Cronican
-''-'' w Florence Austin ''''''~'' N
! Farewell to Summer ....... Johnson
'Pickaninny Snuggle Song Smith
Kitty of Coleraine" ..- Irish
The viking Song Coleridge Taylor
Wilmot Goodwin
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner"
| x
On Friday evening, December l 4, the
| student body of Bethany college will
present a program the proceeds of
| which will be given to the Y. NJ. c. A
/ war fund. The entertainment will be
/ given IN nail anu Will cOISlSI
! of two short one-act plays, and pa
triotic reading. The program is as
| follows:
One-act farce, six Cups of Choco-
/ late"
Reading, THE Fleet Goes By" Miss
I Dorothy Keller.
! Farce in one act. Mrs Bushby's
! Pink Tea
A committee has been appointed by
the Woman's club to make visit of
inspection to the County Poor farm,
in company with the county commits
! sioners. The appointment of the wom-
en- on the committee was made at a
! meeting of the department of Civics
| and Justice Thursday, following a dis
! cussion of conditions at the county
/ home for the INDECENT poor. The fol-
/ lowing women were named as mem
| bers of the committee: Mrs. c j.
Evans, chairman. DR.. Dorothy NicoH,
I DR.. Sara Greenfield. Mrs A A: God
| ard, Mrs. Noble Prentis, Mrs Charles
! NJ Sheldon. Mrs. w A. McCarter and
! Mrs. o. L. Moore
One of the rather heavy set men
of our town was down in Kansas City
a few evenings ago, pacing up and
| down the platform in front OF the
Union station, with slim, stunningly
| dressed, youngish woman clinging to
his arm This man carried himself
rather proudly, for he was basking in
the scintillating rays of an almost
| flashing sort of beauty The girl was
| talking sweet nonsense into the Shout
! der seam of his coat, to which her
rosebud mouth just reached. But his
siren pitched her voice a bit high, and
! a Topeka woman who passed the two
! as they strolled thru patch of light
which fell thru the station door, the
mans face fell, as the woman said, in
! a voice that might have been meant
| for someone across the street, ''I'u
/ lust bet you two drinks you don't
weigh a darned pound under two
hundred"
Mrs d. W. Mulyane has returned
from Denver, Colo, where she has
| been visiting relatives Duringf the
time she was west she visited the
/ HEADQUARTERS of Red Cross work in
| Denver and also the work of the
woman's committee of the Colorado
/ branch of the National Council of De-
I Tense. Mrs. Mulvane is chairman of
1 the Kansas branch of that nation
wide organization In Colorado, it is
the custom of the womans committee
to have a meeting every, month. The
chairmen of the divisions from over
the state travel to Denver and attend
the meetings twelve times a year. Mrs.
Mulvane attended one of the meetings.
and the officers in that state were
much interested in learning from her
astonishing results that Kansas re-
| women for the food pledge cards and