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Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

Ernest Kent and Mrs. Mary Medbury, observed her eighty ninth birthday Monday.
 Carl Kent is confined to his home on Grove street by illness.
 D. A. R. Chapters Open Meeting.
 One of the most entertaining open meetings of Elizabeth Porter Put Odd Fellows hall Monday afternoon and was attended by about one hun. dred. The regent, Mrs Ballard, pre- sided and welcomed the guests. The chaplain, Mrs. Richard Carpenter, per- formed the duties of her office, and Miss Mary Wheaton, recording secre tary, read reports, which were ac- cepted.
 tions to Mrs. E. s. Bugbee, a chapter member, who observed her eighty ninth birthday Monday. The business of the chapter was briefly dealt with charge of the program committee, Mrs Herbert Smith, Mrs. G. Harold Gill patric and Miss $. Elizabeth Clarke. A most delightful entertainment was given by Mrs. Henry E. Warren and Mrs. Thompson of Ashland. Mass Mrs. Warren read an interesting pa per dealing with the music of vari- ous foreign countries, giving facts of unusual interest pertaining to their respective musical compositions Mrs Thompson sang very sWeetly the folk songs of each country, with Mrs Dewey of Birmingham, Mass, as pia- no accompanist. Mrs. Thompson ap- peared in a costume appropriate to the country discussed.
 At the conclusion of the program Ices. cakes, coffee and candy were served from prettily decorated ta- ble in the banquet hall. The host esses were Mrs. s. M. Wheelock, Mrs Charles Letters, Mrs. Backus, Mrs. !. J. Russell, Mrs. c. L. Torrey. Mrs J. R. Carpenter, Mrs. Phebe Sharpe, Mrs Lewis, Mrs. E. L. Kelley, Mrs F. D. Sargent, Mrs. Sykes, Mrs. Nikoloff, Mrs. Alice Carpenter. Mrs. E. John son.
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sentative of the Wiley-Bickford Sweet company of Hartford and Worcester.
 Evart M. Brunn. Jr:, has returned
 week with his grandmother, Mrs
 Charlotte Champlin, of Bradley street Mrs. c. F. Waterman was in Wor-
 cester Monday.
 Duplicate Bridge Club Meets. Mrs. Herbert Smith recently enter
 tained the Duplicate Bridge club at
 F. Waterman had the highest score of the evening. The four highest score winners of the winter are to be re- warded for the honor at the end of
 throughout the games. Mrs S. M. Wheelock is to entertain the club on Wednesday evening. Ms. Ernest Kent of Grove street is recovering from an attack of grip. Prof. Very of Providence was in this city Monday.
 Miss Sarah Kenyon has returned | from a visit with Miss Evelyn Tour l tellotte at South Hadley, Mass, and l is visiting Mrs. J. B. Tateqn, Sr., for a few days before resuming her du- l ties as graduate nurse at the Pomfret school.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Morse who | have been appearing in a new vau- 1 deville sketch at a Boston theatre
 spent a few hours at their home on | l New York city where they are to fill an engagement. MT. and Mrs. Morse are receiving most complimentary
 press notices in each city where they l has appeared.
 l Mrs. c. H. Kelley is improving after 1 a recent illness.
 l Mrs. Stone, mother of Rev. Mir 1 Stone, pastor of the Baptist church, | is confined to her home by illness. l Mrs. Percy Waterman of Grand 1 View has been entertaining her sister from New York.
 Program Committee to Meet. I The program committee of the Con- i gregational Missionary society is to | meet with Mrs. J. R. Carpenter this afternoon to make out the program for the year. The program committee of the Ladies' Social Circle Is to meet with Mrs. Ernest Morse this after 1 noon, also to compile the years pro- gram
 Eighty ninth Birthday. Mrs F. s Ra1ghee- mother. of Mrs
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10
DIPLOMATIC DINNER GIVEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Entente Diplomats and An the Neu-
 traIs Were Invited,

Washington, Jan. 9.-The first of the seasons diplomatic dinners was given tonight at the White House. The en- tente diplomats and all the neutra1s were invited, and at another dinner Jan. Is the central power diplomats and the neutralS will be entertained. The two dinners take the place of the usual diplomatic reception which has been abandoned since the war began. Tonight's dinner was followed by a musicale.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10
HOUSE PASSES VOCATIONAL
 EDUCATION BILL
National Grants for Training Persons of More Than IA Years of Age.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The Hughes vocational educational bill, making na- tiona1 grants for training persons of more than If years to increased efi- ciency in trades, industries, agricul ture, commerce and home economics, with appropriations running up to an ultimate annual expenditure of $7,000.- 0O0, was passed today by the house. The schools to receive aid must be un- der public control, with less than col lege education, and be operated both day and evening.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

Norfolk.-A bullhead five inches long was found Friday in a bedroom at the home of Mrs. Samuel Canfield. There was a fire in the room Thursday and, as the fish was found the next day, the supposition is that the bullhead came from Wangum lake, four miles away, through the water mains, and shot out from the hose which was used to pour water on the fire The bullhead was able 70 keep alive because of the or,ontity of watar in tha room
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10
DECLARATION OF GERMAN
 IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR
May Be Expected About the Middle of
 the Present Month.

Amsterdam, Jan. 9, via London 5.25 p. m.-Dr. Won. Bethmann-H Hollweg. the German imperial chancellor, may be expected to make an important dec laration about the middle of the pres- ent month. according to a despatch to the Tijd from Berlin today.
 The reply of the entente to Presi- dent Wilson is being awaited. says the despatch, and the chancellor after its contents are known, will further re- fine in the reichstag the position of Germany. Germany, it is declared. will simultaneously address representa- tions to the neutrals which supported President Wilson's proposals.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10
South Manchester.-In

South Manchester.-In connection with the annual report of St. James parish, read at all the masses Sunday morning, Rev William J. McGurk the pastor, announced that property own ed by the church on Park street, only a short distance from the church, would be used as a site for a parochial school to be built within the next two -~ars
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

The agreement provides for unifica- tion of laws regulating trade with hos tile countries, measures for commer- cial, industrial, agricultural and mari time reconstruction of the allied coun- tries after the war and permanent commercial collaboration among the all lies. --.-,- ~..-...-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

New Haven.-The Connecticut com pany Is the defendant in | $10, 900 damage suit instituted by Sabatino Lombardi of this city, who claims that injuries he suffered on a car have left him permanently disabled and unable to work at his trade, which is that of a concrete finisher.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

Danbury-A1l previous records in its history were broken at the Danbury library Saturday when during day in which more books were issued than ever before-561 volumes found their way into the hands of Danbury read CTS.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

The Portland, of 2.2S6 gross, sailed from Havre on November 20 for New York. In marine news from Norfolk on December 22, she was reported by the Italian steamer Umbria, as having been muda a, few days previous, anchoring after the Umbria had made a vain effort to tow her, but breaking away on December IT and disappearing. She had not been reported since. Pre- viously reported had been received from Bermuda stating that the Port land sent out wireless calls asking for assistance on December IS.
 The Portland was owned by the Kerr Steamship company of New York. She was returning in ballast.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10
AMERICAN STEAMER ABANDONED
 IN THE NORTH SEA
Crew of the Portland Was Landed by
 Danish Motor Ship.

London. Jan. g. 600 D. m.-News has been received by the American consul here to the effect that the American steamer Portland has been abandoned water1ogged in the North Sea and that the crew was landed by the Dan- ish motor ship Brazilian.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

has signified adherence to the economic arrangement arrived at by representa- lives of the entente powers at the Paris conference.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10
PRESIDENT WILSON PERSONALLY
 THANKED SWISS MINISTER
For Offer of Cooperation Tn sugges, ton of Peace Terms.

Washington. Jan n,9.-President Will son today personally thanked Paul Ritter the Swiss minister, for the offer of the Swiss government, to corporate with the United States in the presi- dents suggestion to the beIligerents that they state their peace terms. Dr. Ritter called at the White House and discussed the prospects. for. peace for twenty minutes.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

Warehouse Collapsed in Cleveland.
 Cleveland O.. Jan. e.-Three persons were badly injured. two fatally. today, when a portion of the f1ve-story ware house of the Cleveland Storage com pany collapsed without warning.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

.A = ~. o,,to,s. ,,c = 9t- .s..I1t t5 ~ W oIl season.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10
ARRANGEMENT
 OF THE ENTENTE POWERS

Japan Has Promised to Abide By
 Finding of Paris Conference.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

London. Jan. g, 5.22 p, m. The foreign office announces that Japan
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-10

Ernest Kent and Mrs. Mary Medbury, observed her eighty ninth birthday Monday.
 Carl Kent is confined to his home on Grove street by illness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

company this winter. The Superior
and Superb companies have combined
this year and Miss Jones will play
their lead She will go from here to
Jacksonville, Fla, to take up her
work.
All courtship is erotic.
All love between men and women
is erotic.
These intellectual bombs were flung
at a class in sociology at the Univer-
sity of Southern California summer
school by no less a person than Thorn
as Nixon Carver, Harvard professor
and an internationally recognized au-
thority on social complexities.
In a lecture on Mans Conflicts"
he classifies said conflicts as litiga-
ton, politics, courtship-erotic.
To emphasize his contentious on
courtship and on marital selection
Professor Carver pointed out that 1t
has been said that many more blondes
than brunettes are chosen by the male
of the species and that blondes are Sc
lected in greater numbers than red
headed women.
In regard to the assertion that all
courtship is erOtic, Professor Carver
said:
There is no love between man and
woman that is not erotic; and, there
fore, all courtship must be. Courtship
is nothing but the seeking on the
mans part for mate. Sometimes
man is chosen-that is, women do the
seeking-but the rule is the other way.
In either event there can be no emo
tional impulse between man and wo-
man that is not erotic, as the love be-
tween a man and a woman is always
based on sex love. Erotic is derived
from the word Eros (Cupid) and does
not necessarily imply a drift down the
social SCALE
In his book on Sociology and So
cial Progress which is one of the
works of reference in the university
library, Prof. Carver declares:
Man has ultimately become SUI
perior to woman"
However, he cites another we'll
known authority to the following eff
feet:
I'VE are beginning to observe the
most unmistakable signs of the event
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
Looking Blackboard In State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

The following Topekans were at the
Islington hotel, Les Cheneaux Islands.
few days ago: Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Tan
ner. Volney Tanner, Capt. J. B. johnson,
Mrs. J. B. johnson, Miss Madge Johnson,
Mr.. Arthur Capper. Mrs. Arthur Capper,
Mrs. S. j. Crawford, Mr.. Frank z. Mac
Lehman, Mrs. Frank p MacLennan, Miss
Mary MacLennan, Mr.. W. G. Smyser and
Mrs. W. G. Smyser.
Miss Leta Chamberlain will come from
Atchison Sunday to visit Miss Roberta
Watson.
Mr.. George Sharitt and his family will
return tomorrow from Colorado and
Wyoming, where they have been spending
the summer.
Mr. W. w Mills and son. Hobart, a.-d
DIR. A. H. Thompson returned today from
New Mexico. where they have been spend
ing the past two weeks
Mr. Frank Peacock spent yesterday in
Kansas City.
A great many people enjoyed the con-
cert last evening, given by the Mod0c club
at the residences of Mr.. p. l. Bonebrake
and c. H. Samson, from until 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

palm, was won by Mrs Clyde Highfiil Of
the general bonus supervisors OFFICE.
Mrs. Highfill was formerly Miss Louise
Ward of the freight auditors office at
the G. o.
c. Schwerdtfeger of the drafting room at
the motor power building. accompanied by
Mrs Schwerdtfeger and children, has gune
to Indiana, where they will spend two
s. A Maxwell of the freight auditors
office has returned after a business trip
to Chicago. Mr.. Maxwell left SATURDAY
to spend a short vacation in California.
The girls at the motive power ouiining
had dinner Friday noon at the harvey
House. The members of the party IN
Guided: Miss Helen Averill. Miss MARY
Christman, Mrs. Louise E. Highfill. MISS
Ina Wood Miss Mabel Eastberg, Miss Eva
Nyquist, Miss Bessie Forth. Miss Lima
Station Miss Rosalie Pendleton. MISS
Ida Glenn. Miss Frances McItyre ana Kiss
Anna Helm.
Miss Mary Christman of the valuation
department will leave for Chicago Satur-
day to visit friends. She was formerly
connected with the freight auditing de-
partment at the g. O..
Chester Watts, formerly of Chicago. has
been transferred to Topeka He Is en-
ployed n statistician- Mr.. and Mrs
Watts are making their home at 1910 Lin
coin street
Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Wolfe have re-
turned to their home in Lincoln, Neb.,
after a few days spent with Mr.. WSlfe $
PARENTS, Mr.. and Mrs. z. l.. Wolfe
Machinist Fred Red, who has been quite
i'll at his home is slightly improved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
HIGHLAND PARK

Notes and personals from Santa Fe
by Frances Jones. 211 Grattan street.
TeIephSSne between sssl and 10 a. M. $3.50
Mr. and Mrs j. j. Curry have returned
from a short visit with relatives in Kansas
City
Mrs. Katherine Hughes and Mrs. Laura
Pierce. of Manchester, o., are guests OF
o. NJ Sims is very i'll at his home on
Michigan avenue.
The social which was to have been at
the church Thursday evening has been post
poned indefinitely
Mrs. A. T. Waggoner is spending the
Virgil weis Of Arizona. en- route to Chi
cago. spent Thursday evening with his
cousin, Mrs. Horace Potter and Mr.. Potter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Moore were dinner
guests Thursday of their daughter, Mrs.
+. {. Oman of Buchanan street.
Miss Anna Lamb of Twenty-first street
and Virginia avenue, who underwent an
operation for appendicitis is doing nicely.
ing at Wakarusa last Saturday and Sun.
day: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Ferguson, Mr.;
and Mrs. ]: McClements Misses Mabel
ents Ethel McClements, Lenore McClem,
ents Lille Coultis, Christine Fisher, Paul
Moseley, Cletus Buehrer and Harry Fer
The Art club will meet Friday afternoon
with Mrs: J. A; Swan.
Mrs. w A. Senton Of tane street.
Mrs. G. G. Stiles. Frank Stiles, Mr. and
and Mrs. o. Shaui and Miss Pearl shaui.
formed a camping party who spent part
of the week at Coberly's grove on the
Wakarusa
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Cromwell and family of
Dodge City. are guests OF their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. o. NJ. Cromwell.
| Miss Inez Berridge and Miss Helen Eber-
hart returned Tuesday from a weeks stay
| Guests at the f. d. Berridge home Sun
day were Mr.. and Mrs. VIII johnson of
Granville. and Mr.. and Mrs. T. b. Hamlin
and children, of Topeka.
| The K. X. ks met Friday evening at
| the home of Geo. Crawford
| E. d. Berridge has been touring the state
on a business trip.
and children of Kansas City, were guests
i of Rev and Mrs. c. W. Marlin. Monday
and Tuesday. Mrs Grant Saunders of
Berryton, visited at the Marlin home Thurs
day.
! o. X. Hill and son Paul. will leave Tues
day for Los Angeles, Calf They will stop
I at Denver, Colorado Springs and points in
! Mrs. A. P. Ahlstrom spent Thursday with
Mrs Carl Thompson of Monroe street.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Mems have returned
from an extended visit with relatives In
Michigan. They were accompanied by Mr..
Mrs J. J. Curry of California avenue,
had as dinner guests Friday Mrs. Edward
Meehns and children of Dennison, Tex, and
Miss Ida De Baker of Topeka.
A P. AhIstrom & Sons have secured the
| contract for the erection of a $S5. 900
school house at Blue Rapids. Mr.. Ahl-
strom will return to Hutchinson Monday.
where they completing buildings in
readiness for the fair.
| c. J. Cahill for three years principal of
| Highland Park school has received the ap-
pointment of second lieutenant in the
HighIand Park NJ. e. church Sunday
school at 10 a. Preaching at II m,
by Rev Huffman. No evening service.
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Mrs. John Patterson and daughter,
Dora, and Mr.. and Mrs. William Mill
Ter, of Carbonate and Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Mullens, of Tucson, Ariz.
Mr.. Kelsey Petro is in Hutchinson
visiting and from there he will go to
Burbank, Okla.
Mr.. Irving Snattinger left Friday for
Minneapolis to join Mrs. Snattinger.
The Pythian Sisters of Topeka,
chapter number 10 will meet Monday
evening. All members are requested
to be present as Red Cross work will
be taken up.
DIR. Lillian Malone. Osteopath. sol
Mills Building.-Adv.
Miss Iris Fritz, of 1853 Clay street,
will leave the first of the week for
Salina, where she will teach in the
business college connected with the
Kansas Wesleyan college.
Mr.. Frank E. Jones, of Chicago.
will arrive soon to visit his sister, Mrs.
Otis Allen.
Henry H. Hall. New York Life
Adv
Mr. Ted Montgomery, son of Mrs.
F. c. Montgomery, has made the sec
ond officers training camp in Cali
fornia.
w. A. McCarter. D. D. S. Orthodon-
fist. 709 Mills Bldg, prevention and
correction of irregular teeth only
Adv.
Mr.. John Barr, formerly of Topeka
leaves very soon with an engineering
corps for France.
The Topeka Central w. C. T. u
and their families will have a picnic
Monday at Chesney park. There will
be a short program at 4 o'clock and
supper at $50.
Mr.. D. P. Paxton is in New Yorl
| City, where he is spending two weeks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
Photos by Boegcr.

Miss Mabel Hall, Miss Lucille Willets,
Miss Margaret McCandless, Miss Ruth
Souders, Miss Bernice Long, Miss
Theora Harris Miss Dorothy Luxton,
Miss Freeda Crane, Miss Lottie Pax
ton and Miss Helen Olson.
X X x
Mrs. d. P. Paxton and her daugh-
tiers, Miss Joy Paxton and Miss Esther
Paxton, and Mrs. Harry Seery and her
house guest, Miss Harriet Boddsworth,
and Miss Irene Seery will spend the
weekend at Lake View.
X X Z
A most cordial reception was ten
dered Rev. Mamie v. Simmons, of
Chicago, at the home of Miss Nanon
Herren yesterday afternoon by the
various Topeka clubs. Mrs. Simmons
entertained the ladies with spirited,
inspiratfonal talk upon "Woman's
Place in the Worlds Progress" which
afforded ample opportunity for her to
demonstrate her uplift Philosophy.
Another greeting reception was held
at o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Ida H. Hardy. Mrs Simmons dis
coursed and answered questions at
some length upon the fullness of life
Mrs. Simmons is broad minded and
far sighted, giving due o.sce to the
churches and the doctors regarding
them as necessary stepping stones
along the way.
Mrs. Simmons is located at the
Wintrode. 1928 W. Tenth street, and
will be glad to receive visitors.
A public meeting will take place in
Chesney park this afternoon at 8
o'clock and also tomorrow afternoon
at and evening at s, when Mrs. Sim
mons will give out the Joy Philoso-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

ual resumption by woman of her lost
scepter and of her restoration to that
empire over the emotional nature of
man."
Prof. Carver offers in explanation
of this that masculine supremacy was
won by economic supremacy and that
with the development of modern wo-
man. who is economically independ-
ent, woman will begin to regain ascen-
dancy in emotional affairs.
But neither the claim that court
ship is erotic nor that brunette and
ed-headed daughters of Eve must
step aside for blondes is in any way
affected by economics.
The members of the Kappa Alpha
sorority were entertained yesterday
by Miss Helen Welty at her home on
Western avenue. Miss Mildred Bow
man and Miss Dorothy Miller were
guests The members present were:
Miss Marguerite Kiene, Miss Mary
Paxton. Miss Jessie Burnett. Miss Mar
guerite Thrapp. Miss Elisabeth Edison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18
SANTA FEE NOTES

Edward Wilson, formerly an apprentice
in the shops, left Saturday morning for
North Fork, Va, where he will begin his
training as a fireman in the navy. His
brother, William Wilson, jr., who left sew
eral weeks ago is receiving training at
Fort Wells, North Carolina, in the Ma
rines.
Charles Blaire. formerly of Topeka but
who has returned recently from st. Louis,
is new employee in the machine shops
Miss Edith Long has resigned her posi-
ton in the freight auditors office after
working there for the past six years and
winter
Engineer Randlett Of the Lawrence
switch engine has been called to the city
by the Illness of his mother who is ill at
her daughters home, Mrs. George Sherman.
Mr.. Randlett's place is being taken by
Engineer John Vandeventer. Engineer
George Sherman who runs in the Gri Hey
run has been called to the city by the
Illness of his mother-in law.
In the rattle which was held Thursday
at the motive power building. the prize, a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-18

Miss AIlena Grafton. the new secre-
tary of the Y. w. c. A, who ar
rived this week.
of Chicago. She has been secretary
of the woman's department of the
Christian Women's Board of Missions
for three years. She graduated in
June from the Y. w. c. A. National
Training school in New York City.
Miss Grafton is the daughter of the
Rev. T. w. Grafton and Mrs. Graf
ton of Indianapolis, Ind, The Rever-
end Mr.. Grafton is pastor of the
oils, where Miss Grafton made her
home before entering the training
school.
Miss Grafton is at present living
at the association building. but will
soon take apartm ents out in town.
X X X
A young Topeka bachelor. who has
recently been furnished a car with the
firm name on the door by the COM
pany for which he works, has a new
and original plan for covering the bus
mess name and address when he takes
his lady friends riding. He has a
curtain made bearing his initials. s.
B., in gold letters and he just drops
this curtain over the door and the
girls think the car his very own.
Mrs. T. R. Paxton has received
word from Mrs. Richard Whitcomb
that she and Mr.. Whitcomb have ar