The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

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ter Burgess and Mr.. Willard Scott.
Atchison Commercial club and is
member of the federal board to regu-
late the price of leather products.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Diegel have
friends in Topeka. Bishop and Mrs.
James Wise were guests at he mar
riage service.
Mrs. ]. M. Meade is entertaining
few friends this afternoon, who are
among the old-time settlers in this
part of Kansas. The guests are peo-
Pile who attended the first school IN
Topeka, held in a little brick building
on West Fifth street. These people
were students there as early as 1893.
The guests were asked for the after
noon and will remain for supper, and
the afternoon was spent in recountlng
events of the early days
In Manning the program for the
Womans Kansas Day club, which
meets annually on January 29, the
president, Mrs A. Marburg, is ar
ranging for some short addresses by
prominent men, who will also be
asked to the luncheon. The men who
have been asked to have place on
the program are: Governor Arthur
Capper Chief Justice WA. Johnston,
Mr.. Frank p MacLennan, DR.. Ed
mund j. Kulp and Mr.. William Allen
White.
The principal address of the after
noon is to be given by Mrs. c. H.
Brooks, of Wichita. An entire war
program is to be given.
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Kansas has been complimented by
the great state of Massachusetts,
through its Child Hygiene bureau. A
from
Nassa chusetts board of health, for
complete outline of the work being
done in Kansas for child conservation
and welfare. The fame of the state
bureau has reached the east and the
western methods are being copied
there. DR.. Lydia A. DeVilbis, head
of the Kansas bureau, is sending the
literature requested to Massachusetts,.
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Mrs Jack Dillon was hostess at a
luncheon today for Mrs. F'rapeis Neil
son of Chicago. The guests were a
CUT
A national charter Has been issued
to the Kappa Delta Theta local So
rority of the EmpOria State Normal
college, and the society is now the Ep-
silon chapter of the Alpha Sigma Al
pha, a pedagogical sorority. Topeka
girls who are active members are
Miss Frances Morrow. Miss Irene An
derson and Miss Gladys Pratt. The
alumnae members who are Topeka
people are Miss Ida Hardy. Miss Ruth
Scott, Miss Fay Lock, Miss Lora Lock
and Miss Emma Burnett.
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Mrs. Albert Knowles entertained a
few friends Friday afternoon for Mrs.
John Pullman of Bridgeport, Conn.
and Mrs. William Curtis of Salt Lake
City, Utah. who are visiting their
aunt, Mrs j. M Meade.
Mrs. Jonathan Thomas and Miss
Carolyn Thomas entertained at din
ner Friday night: Mrs. Pullman. Mrs.
| Curtis, Mrs Charles Brooks Thomas
and Mrs. J. V. Abrahams.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Reed have
issued announcements of the mar
riage of their daughter, Bessie Hall, to
DR. Willard o. Clark, of Topeka, which
took place in Chillicothe, Mo, Satur-
| day evening, October 6, at $3.50 o'clock.
| The bride was a charter nurse with
! the Topeka Public Health Nursing
| association and a graduate of the
| Christ hospital training school DR..
! Clark was formerly an inferno in
Christ hospital, and is now one of the
! practicing physicians in that hospital.
At home after December l, at 1855
! West Eighth avenue.
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/ Mrs. David Palmer will entertain
the Lakota club Monday of next week.
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DR.. and Mrs. P. P. Womer gave a
dinner party for the Washburn foot
/ ball team. The twenty-six members
of the team and the coach, Mr.. Ken
nedy, were guests.
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| A concert which is to be given COM
plimentary to the public will be held
Tuesday night, November 20. at the
high school auditorium, under the
auspices of the music department OF
the Woman's club. There is no charge
for admission, and everyone interested
| is cordially invited to be present. The
program will be furnished by: Mrs
| George w. Parkhurst, soprano; Mrs
Emma Rempfer Whitehouse, con-
tralto; Mr.. Glenwood Jones, tenor;
Mr.. Hugh Dickefson, bass: Mrs. Rob-
ert D. Carver, pianist.
The first part of the program will
be song cycle, The Morning of thu
Year, by Cadman, a new composition
which was given in Topeka last sea
son by the same quartette which is tC
sing it Tuesday night. That is tn
only time the composition has beer
sung in Topeka. and so successful was
that first rendering of it, that repeated
requests for its repetition have beer
made.
The remainder of the program viii
be as follows:
Cavatina-from Faust Gouno,
Mr.. Jones.
Mon Cour Louvre ia voix-from Samson
ct Deliiah .-..-...- Saint aen
Mrs. WhitehOuse.
Love Duet from Madam Butterfly-Pucciu
Mrs. Parkhurst, Mr.. Jones.
The Prologue from Pagliacci. .Leoncavall
Mr. Dickerson.
One Fine Day-from Madame Butterfly.
| ---------t- --------s -.--.-.--. Puccin
Mrs, Parkhurst
Quartette-Un di Sc ben Rammentomi-
from Rigoletto Observation-Disclosures erd
Mrs. Robert Shoemaker, who ha
moved to- Milwaukee. Wis, has re
turned to Topeka for a visit Sh
was asked by the Masons to return
here to sing for some affairs of tn,