The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-18

running thru it. Miss Mead" wore
white lace; Mrs. Green was dressed in
Georgette crepe and lace. combined
with striped taffeta in shades of blue
and gold. Mrs. Meade wore blacl:
silk, with white trimming.
The assisting friends were: Mrs.
Merrill Lindsay, Mrs. Don Mulvane,
Mrs. CHARLES Skinner, Mrs. Arthur
Mills, Mrs. Everett Akers, Mrs. Ivan
Dibble. Mrs. Bruce Mcfarland, Mrs.
Holmes Meade, Miss Hazel Risteen.
| Miss ReiLa Updegraff and Miss Ruth.
Wood.
Mrs. Mulvane wore pale pink crepe
de chine, with long jacket bodice,
loosely belted at the waist. Mrs Lind
says gown was of white swiss with
! belt and collar of gold silk. Mrs.
! SINNERS gown was gray accordion
| pleated taffeta, embroidered IN pink
and gray threads. Mrs. Dibble wore
white, soft silk, and Mrs. Mcfarland
was in white barred silk. Mrs. Holmes
| Meade wore a pretty frock OF pink
organdie trimmed with small rufffes.
! Miss Risteen's gown was of salmon
pink taffeta and Georgette, with en-
| broidery trimming of gold and silver
| threads
Mrs. Charles Wolff, j1., wore a gown
| of dark tlue taffeta, figured in dark
! blue satin. Her white collar was Or
| namente1 with embroidered figures to
match the design in the material. Mrs.
( George Port Ashton wore IL black taft
j feta gown, with lace trimming.
Mrs. Ranney and her children,
John, Eliza beth and Walter, have left
for their home in Arkansas City.
X
Invitations will be issued Tuesday
morning by Mr.. and Mrs. Herpert
Stanley Reed, of s25 Western avenue.
| for the marriage of their daughter,
Miss Gertrude Reed, to DR.. Henry
Miller. The wedding will be quietly
celebrate Saturday evening, June 80,
at o'clock, at the Reed home.
Miss Reed is a graduate of the Kan
saS State university and a member OF
the Kappa Alpha Theta sol GRITTY DR..
Miller is the son of the late DR.. Henry
H. Miller of Rossville, and a nephew
of Mr. w. H. Miller of Topeka, and
a cousin of Mr.. Clyde Miller and DR..
| Milton Miller. He is a graduate of
Baker university, and took his mas
ter's degree at the Kansas State uni
| versity He took his medical course
in the University of Pennsylvania. He
is a Kappa Sigma fraternity man, and
also a member of the Sigma CT honor
airy scientific fraternity.
X x X
! Invitations were issued today by
| Miss Mary Burnett, Miss Ethel Chase.
Miss Ruth Wood and Miss Edith Con-
| nell, for a silver tea to be given at
|
from 3 to 5 o'clock for the benefit of
the Red Cross society.
X x x
The woman's committee of the ma
| tional defense council for kansas,
will have a meeting in Topeka at the
| National hotel Wednesday afternoon,
June 20, at 2 o'clock. Mrs. j. NJ.
| Miller of Council Grove, was appoint
ed temporary chairman of the organ
ization, and she has called the meet
ing.
The woman's committee was organ
| lied to bring together the organized
| forces of the women of the country
to assist the national defense coun-
| Gil The committee began its work by
| the appointment of temporary chair
! men for each of the states and thu.
| District Of Columbia. The presidents
were asked to call into conference the
| presidents of all state orga Iizations of
! women, OIL their proxies. These con-
| ferenceS are to be executive in char
| acter and permanent organizat lions
for each state will be formed The
/ presidents of the state organizations
will compose n permanent COMMITTEES
to continue during the war, and will
constitute. with its committees in
counties, cities and towns, the af-
filiated representatives of the wo-
mans committee of the council of
defense for that state.
X X X
The Good Government club will
have it's annual picnic Tuesday after
noon at o'clock at Gage park. The
affair is for the members of the clut
and their families and guests.
THERE'S A GIRL IN OUR TOWN
Who is a student in Washburn col
lege and a popular sorority member
who has two devoted SWANS in one
fraternity. One of the beaux is {
newcomer in town and the other ha:
lived here all his life. The girl i.
wearing a handsome big diamond OF
| the ring finger of the left hand, ant
over her heart is fastened the PHI
| which is the emblem of the frat tt
which both her admirers belong. Thu
L guessing has been good ever since sh'
put on the new jewelry. Nearly ev
| erybody thinks the pin and ring wer,
given by the old-time Topekan; few
/ who are close friends of the girl de
1 clare that it is the new man. TIL
/ members of the Cat club are giving
| out that the ring was the pledge o
| one of the men, and the pin the sigl
l of an engagement to the other chap
x
Among the Topeka people who wen
to Fort Riley to attend the Red eros
| benefit ball at the fort were: Mr.. an,
/ Mrs. H. o. Carney, Miss Annabel Gar
| vey, Miss Lucille Fuller, Miss Mildre'
1 Fuller, Miss Lenore Monroe, Mis-
Helen Lucas. Miss Barbara farrell
and Miss Marjorie Rogers.
III
The marriage of Miss Virgins
Leach to Mr.. Floyd E. Fischer, bot
of Wamego, will take place this sum