The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-18
Lyons; eighth, Mrs. F. H. Cron, Edo
Notes and Personal Mention.


Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. Abe Gordon has entered the
officers training school at Fort Riley, |
as member of the Missouri ambul |
ance corps. Mr.. Gordon was formerly
a newspaper man in Topeka, and went
from here to Kansas City on the Kan
saS City Journal He accepted posi-
ton with the Kansas City Star a
short time before he Joined the am
bulance corps.
Miss Isabel Pomeroy of Holton, has
returned home after short visit to
Topeka friends. She was the guest of
Mrs. j. F. farrell short time. Miss
Pomeroy is the daughter of Senator
Frank c. Pomeroy, who was in To-
peka during the legislat tive session last
winter. she has just graduated from
fashionable school in Illinois.
Miss Ruth Bomgardner, who grad
uated this spring in voice under Ma
dame Lunde Souther of the Washing
ton college, Washington, D. c., form
erly of Washburn college, has been
visiting Miss Catherine Powers of
Bristol, Tenn. She also visited friends
in Athens, O., St Louis and Kansas
City, and will be with her sister, Miss
Lucille Bomgardner, at the Chi Omega
house in Manhattan. Later she will
go to Emporia to study public school
music in the state normal school.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Winters will
name their infant son Willard Ernest
Mr.. Winters's mother, Mrs. J. F. Cum
minis of Kansas City, is visiting the
! Winters family.
Miss Marie C. Waltemeycr of Boul-
der Colo, is visiting her cousin, Mrs.
H. L. Alllire. She is on her way home
from New York City, where she was
engaged in social service work in the
department of public charities.
Mr.. Fred Knapp, state auditor, has
| bought the A. H. Purdy horne, 7O1
Lincoln street. His family has ar
rived from Beloit to join him in a
permanent residence in Topeka.
Mr.. Sanford farrell, of the Third
Missouri infantry, has been granted
! furlough, and is visiting his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. farrell, for few
days.
Miss LeEore Monroe went to Fort
Riley to attend the party at the post,
Thomen, who spent the week end in
Junction City with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs r. o. Ihomen
Mrs. Letord Headlee has gone to
Colorado Springs to have charge of
the curio exhibit and art rooms of the
Hidden Inn at the Garden of the
Gods.
Mr.. Roy Starr. formerly of Topeka,
has been graduated from the dental
department of the Pennsylvania uni
versity, and early in July he will go to
philadelphia to take his examination
for a commission as dental surgeon in
the United States army.
Miss Sue Louise Bell has been elect
ed delegate to the rational convention
of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
from the active chapter of Washburn
college. Miss Charlotte Leavitt will
represent the alumnae chapter The
conclave will be held in Charlevoix
Mich. Miss Bell is president of the
student council and a member of the
honorary Nonoso society. Others who
will attend the convention from Wash
burn are: Miss Violet Crumbine, Miss
Beatrice Shakeshaft, Miss Genevieve
Mcmillan. Miss Majel Langhart, Mrs.
| Gracia Wood of Elmdale, and Miss
Katherine Harrison of Downs.
Mrs. Charlie johnson, who has been
visiting for some time at the Johnson
| home at 103 Fillmore street, left Fri
| day evening for Washington. She will
stay several months in Washington and
+ Oregon before returning to her home
IN Shelby, Mich.
| Mrs. Frank Merriam and her sister,
| Mrs. Arthur McClintock of Denver,
| have returned from a visit to relatives
and friends in Kansas City.
Mrs. DeVere Rafter and her chill
dren, of Holton, spent the weekend
with Mrs. Rafter's mother, Mrs. David
| Overneyer.
| Mr. H S Reed, who has been in
Michigan at the lakes for few weeks,
will return to Topeka for the mar
| riage of his daughter, Miss Gertrude
| Reed, and DR.. Henry Miller. He will
stop on his way home to attend COM