The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-14

A circle of Topeka society people
will be interested in an engagement
announcement made recently in KAN
sas CITY The bride TO be is Miss kath-
crime Rule, and she is to marry Mr..
John Thompson, also of Kansas City.
Miss Rule is one of the prettiest
girls in Kansas City, they say, and she
has a number of friends here. She
and Il group of other Kansas City
Young people were invited to the Dew
ey ball two seasons ago, and since
then she has attended a number of the
Helianthus parties, and has been a
guest at house parties at the Willard
N. Hall home, together with a group OF
other Kansas City people.
1t is said that the affair between
Miss Rule and Mr.. Thompson was
case of love at first sight. Mr.. Thomp-
son was home on visit from some
where out west, with his ticket bought
for return in two days. But he met
sweet Kittie at dance in Excelsior
Springs, and it was all up with him.
He stayed right on the job in Kay
See until he had wooed and won the
girl.
Miss Rule will probably be a war
bride" as Mr.. Thompson is now at
Fort Riley attending the officers
training school.
Invitations will be issued Tuesday
for tea to be given Friday afternoon
by Mrs. Henry H. Haynes and Mrs
w. T. Lyman, at Mrs. Lyman's home
in Del Mar apartments. The party
will be silver offering affair, and the
money is to go to Red Cross work.
The hostesses are two of the popu-
lar young matrons of Topeka. Mrs.
Haynes, before her marriage, was Miss
Mildred Morton, and Mrs. Lyman was
Miss Ruth Wilson.
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formal afternoon at bridge Tuesday,
in compliment to her daughter Mrs
e. c. Carmenter of Springfield, Mo.
The party will be given at the Virginia
where Mrs Turner lives. The guests
will be:
Mrs. George II. AllenMrs. r. NJ Lillard
Mrs. Willis BramwellMrs. J. E. Keith
Miss Ethelyn Harri Miss Mary MacLen-
Miss Nell Ainslee An-Miss Marian Garrett
thony of Chicago son
Miss Mary Sharp & ! Miss \ Louise Pontius
Society has been revived at juno
ton City Topeka man writes from
the training camp today. "All the
girls of debutante age and over have
bedecked themselves in their finest
Silks
1t has been a long time since
Junction City girls have had a chance
at real officers and they are making
the best of it. AS a result many of
the coming" officers have been late
TO their barracks at night and have
had to report to their officers
Invitations to dinners and parties
for the new soldiers have been fire.
quent-the reception which the society
girls have given the men has rivaled
that extended by the merchants. The
former see visions of army life with
officer husbands while the latter see
the dollar mark and hear the rattle of
"change."
Fort Riley and junction City have
been matter of fact towns for the last
two years since the regulars left but
now things are picking up.
IN tell you it is chance of a life
time for some of the girls who have
been around here for some time" ex-
planned a pioneer Junction City man
the other day. You know it is the
ambition of every one of our girls to
marry an army officer and it has been
SO long since they have had chance
that they are not going to let this OPP
portunity slip by
It is proven that under the pressure
of necessity, woman's resourceful-
ness may often take the place of a
good deal of money. The women and
girls of the Collegiate Alumnae asso-
citation gave a party Saturday after