The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-26

barring the topic of the most recently
announced engagement, and one OF
the young matrons who is actively en-
gagged in the campaign for the one
thousand members of the Red Cross
society in this town, is working like a
Trojan to round up six girls every day
to serve in the stores, where regis
tration books are kept. One morn
| ing she called thirty girls on the>t
| phone to arrange for that service. 1t
| is really remarkable what hard work
society women will do for a cause that
enlists their interest. 1t proves them
| efficient and willing workers; for in
spite of their pretty clothes and their
| luxurious homes and their love of the
butterfly life, they can get down to
| business and grub away at what is all
| too often a thankleSS task g..
But this paragraph started out to
say that those who wish to join the
Red Cross can tell those at the regis
| tration tables in the stores that they
want to become members, and those
girls have receipt blanks right at hand
and can write out a receipt for the
payment of 81, which is the amount of
| the membership fee Uniting with the
society does not obligate member to
| give any time or work to the cause,
unless she wishes to do SO. Also any
one who has agreed to join and has
not yet paid the membership dues,
may pay the dollar at Pelletier's,
| Crosby Brothers. or Warren NJ. Cros-
| by's, where the the girls are stationed
| with books.
The Red Cross work is for every
one who will join. There are no
| cliques or sets, either in the member
| ship or the management, but it is
open to all who have an interest in
| its aims.
The Girls High School club of the
| w A will Erid a
noon at o'clock at the home of Miss
| Gladys Pratt, . S33 North Jackson
street. The officers are Miss Isabel
| Whitcomb, president; Miss Neva Shoe
maker, vice president; Miss Marian
Ross, secretary; Miss Ruth Lerrigo,
treasurer. There are $50 members of
| the club. Miss Frances Perry is chair
man of the student committee, and
Miss Glare Armstrong is secretary of
the girls work.
The annual track meet of the gym
nasium classes will be held at 1880
o'clock at the Y. w. C. A. Two or
three contestants from each class will
enter the contests. Some aesthetic
| dances will be given, and each class
will assist with the stunt program.
| Miss Kate Williams is director.
The cast of the play, Spring" Civ
en- by the Girls club, had a picnic
party Wednesday hight at Gage park.
Mrs. Howard Van Dorp entertained
the H. H. Birthday club Wednesday at
a l O'Clock luncheon and cards. Mrs.
H. P. Tillmans and Mrs. l.. G. Ham
mond won prizes. Those present were
Mrs. Will Hopkins. Mrs. Harry French,
Mrs. George Middaugh, Mrs. Ham
mond, Mrs. ]. E. Mannis, Mrs. Frank
Kline, Mrs. Clint Coddington of Usage
City and Mrs. Van Dorp.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
The Phi Alpha Delta legal frater-
nifty at Lawrence gave a banquet at
their chapter house Tuesday night in
celebration of founders day. Justice
Silas Porter and Justice Henry F. Ma
son were Topeka guests at the party.
Dean F. w. Blackmar of Lawrence
was in Topeka to attend the meeting
of the Defense Council.
Miss Helen Phipps has returned
from Chicago, where she was called
by the illness of her father.
Mrs. James McIntire of Wakefield,
will return to her home Friday, after
a visit to her parents, Rev. j. E. Ing
ham and Mrs. Ingham.
Mrs. E. Barnum and her daughter,
Miss Estelle Barnum, and her son,
Mr.. Sam Barnum, returned today from
Los Angeles, Cal, where they spent
the winter.
The Rev. Fred Ulrich, Mrs. Ulrich
and their little son of Angola, N Y,
are visiting Mrs. Ulrich's mother, Mrs.
W. NJ Welcome.
Mr.. John Battershill and Mrs. j. F.
Gilbert have gone to Santa Barbara
Cal, called by the death of their
father.
Mrs. T. w. Peers has left for Ann
Arbor, Mich, to spend about three
weeks visiting her mother.
Mr.. Grant Harrington of Kansas
City is visiting his daughter. Miss
Flora Harrington of Washburn col
lege.
Mrs. Frank Cope has returned from
Moline. Kan, where she visited her
daughter, Mrs. Walter Laundon.
Miss Jennie b. Dodd of Kelly, N
M, is visiting her sister, Miss May NJ
} Buderson, on Van Buren, street.