The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-30

paniments, and much credit is due her
for her part in the program. Miss
| Sands received many flowers, an espe-
cially handsome basket of flowers be-
ing sent by the Society of Native
Daughters, for whom she sang last
Thursday. Miss Sands wore white
crepe de chine with mother of pearl
trimming. Miss Radcliffe wore white
net with satin trimming The usher3
were: Mrs. Herman Greenbaum, Mrs.
Paul Huycke, Mrs. Reuben Knowles.
Miss Agnes Mcguire and Miss Eliza
beth Mcclure of Perry, Kans, Miss
Josephine Penny, Miss Birdine Chan
dler, Miss Maud Mary Kline, Miss
| Clara Belle Banta. Miss Mary Mooney
| and Miss Maybelle Griley
X
Miss Lura Ferris entertained at a
sIumber party for some of her friends
The guests were: Lillian HuckelI
| Verna Wise, Marian Macarthur. Doro-
thy Thoroman, Ruth Bailey Matte
Balr, Anne Crane. Evelyn Parham
4 X X
MISS Marian Comfort is in Topeka
as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Iroutman. The Comfort family make
their home in Old Mexico For some
time they lived in the City of Mexico,
where Mr.. Comfort was general mana
ger of the Mexican Central railroad.
w hen the city became unsafe, the
family moved to Vera Cruz, where
| they now reside. Miss Comfort last
year taught Spanish in one of the
high schools in st. Louis, Mo. She is
now waiting to procure passage on a
! boat going to Vera Cruz. She came
| from st. Louis to visit the Troutman
| family while she waited for her reser-
walton. She met a group of Topeka
society women at party this after
noon given by Mrs. E. C. Arnold, for
Mrs Gill Updegraff of Sioux Falls,
| S. D.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Parks Bennett and
their daughters, Mural and Frances
March, expect to leave Topeka later in
| the year to make their home in Dali
las, Tex. Mr.. Bennett, who is con-
nected with New York firm, has re-
ceived an appointment as manager of
his company for the state of Texas.
His home was formerly in Dallas, and
Mrs. Bennett also lived there for a
| time and was identified with musical
circles of that city, singing in a large
church and being member of a
prominent quartet of the city. Mrs
Bennett is member of the Woman S
| club, and has been especially active
in the music department. She is also
a member of the Good Government
club, and was offered tn secretary
ship of the organization at a meeting
yesterday. which she was obliged to
decline on account of the pending
March, Mrs. Benefits elder daughter
has been student in the College of
the Sisters of Bethany ever since the
family moved to Topeka from Okla
homa City. Frances March, the
younger daughter, finished the grades
at Polk school this spring She will
enter Bethany next fall if her mother
decides to remain in Topeka until the
first of the year. Mr.. Bennett will
take his new position the first of July,
and his family will move south either
this fall or the first of January.
At recent dance a prominent man
| OF Iopeka was seen on the floor with
one of the pretty young women who
dances divinely. The prominent man
not because he is crack dancer fo,.
ne isn't, but because he is a mighty
agreeable person. But on this afore.
SAD occasion, he was making especial
~ marc work of his amusement. His
PROV was in a knot, and corners of
MS mouth dropped. He was humped
over the task like a wood chopper-
just look at Mr. Blank" whispered
one of the girls of the Cat Club. HE
looks like he was trundling wheel
barrow loaded with bricks
\ X X
A called meeting of the Good Cow
eminent club was held Thursday aft
ernoon to select a successor to Mrs.
! e.
Gently resigned. The choice fell upon
MRS George Supple, who has a posi-
tlon OF some Importance in the Navy
| league.
A small body of the members as
sembled for the meeting, and for a
time it looked as tho no decision
could be reached at the session con-
corning the executive officer. For
the first time in the club history of
topeka, L dare say, there seems to
nave been no slate made up of pros
pect1ve candidates. No nominating
committee had been appointed, and
apparently no one had been consulted
as to the probability of her serving
IN case she was chosen. The informal
ballot gave Mrs. Emma Sells Marshall
the largest number of votes. Mrs. Lee
Monroe was second, and Mrs J. d.
Mcfarland, third. Mrs. Marshall posi-
lively refused to accept the office
I will be away most of the summer"
sions all thru the year this season,
that would mean that someone else
would do my work. 1t is not my style
to take the honors of an office and
give the work to someone else to do"
Mras. Monroe refused the office on
the ground that she had served in
that capacity, and that as president
emeritus, she was already a member
of the executive board. Mrs. McFar-
land declined because she had already
served. 1t was then voted to make
Mrs. Supple president by unanimous
vote. Mrs. Supple made a short
speech of acceptance in which she
said: 81 will look to the whole club
Ito help me. I think we need loyalty
in this club more than anything else.
We should not criticise each other,
and we should not find fault with
those in authority. Our government
has decided to the best of its ability,
and we should stand by it. In the
matter of papers to be read before the
club, 1 think there should be some
UT derstanding of the nature of them
before they are presented. 1 want to
be loyal to my country and to my
club