The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-23

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turned from Wisconsin and Michigan
| where they have spent the past six
months for Mr.. Bowie's health. Mr..
| Bowie is very much improved and is
able to be back at his office again.
| Mr.. and Mrs! Bowie are occupying
their former homo at 1881 Clay street.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
| Who has a number of diamonds
| which her husband has given her.
among them a pair of earrings with
| small stones in them. Unless she is
especially dressed up she doesn't care
| to wear most of her diamonds, but
| her husband wants her to wear the
earrings always when they go out to-
! gether. She is busy all day and does
| MT always have time to put them away
| where they will be safe before she
| leaves here home the next morning and
| several times has found them just
| lying on the dresser. So she has
originated a plan to please husband
| and still keep her diamonds where
| they are safe. She went to the ten
cent store and got a pair of diamond"
| ones and now unless it is a dress up
affair she wears her ten cent jewels
and her husband feels that his present
| is being appreciated.
| Mrs Charles s. Huffman, president
| of the woman's Kansas Day club, is
making plans for the annual meeting
| to be held in Topeka in celebration
| of the states birthday. Mrs. Huffman
has named the following committees
| to be in charge Of the Kansas Day
| festivities: Membership, Mrs. A. Mar
burg; music, Mrs Robert Carver;
pageant, Mrs j. F. FARRELL; decora-
Mrs. David w. Mulvane; publicity,
| Mrs. w. A. McCarter; ushers and
pages, Miss Grace Koontz: door
keeper. Mrs H. E. Ray; hotels, Mrs.
| A. A. GODDARD. s,.- -,
i Mrs. David Mulvane, chairman of
| the reception committee, has asked the
| assistance of Mrs. Fred w. Freeman,
Mrs. Jack Dillon, Mrs. Frank Mer-
RAM and Mrs. George NJ. Crawford.
The places of meeting and of the re-
ception are not definitely determined
as yet.
| Mrs. J. F. farrell. who is in charge
of the pageant, will be assisted by Mrs.
Katherine Hand, Mrs. Charles Dillon,
| Mrs. Frank Squires, Mrs. George w.
| Parkhurst, Miss Marguerite Koontz.
| Mrs. Charles F. Spencer and Mrs.
Clement Smith will be in charge of the
| decorations.
! Mrs. H. E. Ray in charge OF receiv-
ing the guests at the doors will have
the assistance of Mrs. j. E. House,
Mrs. T. r. Paxton, Mrs. w. w. Kitch-
| ell, Mrs. John T. CLANCY. Mrs. w. E.
Atchison, Mrs c. A. Wolf. Mrs. D. l..
son.
OMIT FLOWERS.
| News Item)-Prof H. G.. Walters.
the noted botanist of Philadelphia,
| says that rose knows no moral
! Love. I would bring you roses, fresh
with the dew of morning; fragrant,
velvet-leaved roses, pink as the flush
| of a dawning. Love, I would bring
you roses. the flower that ever en-
hances; blood-red volupt'ous roses, to
win your admiring glances; love, 1
don't let us quarrel. Ne'er will bring
you roses, scientists say they're i'm
| moral. N s. A.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Lieut.. Adrian Green left last night
| for Chicago, where he has accepted a
| position and will remain permanently
Miss Adelaide Bolmar left yesterday
for Des Moines. Iowa, to spend Christ
mas with her sister, Mrs. b. F. Flenni-
ken. and Mr.. Flenniken.
| Miss Ora Moneypenny will leave the
| day after Christmas for Memphis,
| Tenn, to visit Miss Louise Humphrey
| for two weeks.
Mrs. William E. Campbell and chill
! dren are guests of Mrs. CampbelPs
mother. Mrs. J. w. A. Taylor, in Leav-
enworth for the holidays. Mr.. Camp
bell will join them tomorrow to spend
| Christmas.
Sergt. William TomIinson of Camp
Funston arrived Saturday to be the
guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C.
E. Tomlinson, unu. after Christmas.
| DR.. and Mrs. George Port Ashton
have returned from Varrensburg. Mo-,
where they at: ended the funeral of
! Doctor AShtOn'S sister Mrs Charles
Sollars of Independence, Mo-, and his
nephew, Mr.. Eldrid Colvin Jones of
| Warrensburg. Mrs. Jones and her
four children are ill with the disease.
Miss Genevieve Herrick and Miss
Sarella Herrick returned last night
from Kansas City, where they spent a
T, few days visiting.
Capt and Mrs G. B. Mitchell of
Branson. Mo-. are the parents of a
daughter born Sunday morning at
| Stormont hospital. Captain and Mrs.
Mitchell have been guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Thompson. where Mrs.
Mitchell remained while Captain
! Mitchell was in service.
| Mrs. Byron Davis. Mrs. Frank
| Griggs and her two children, Jane and
! Frank. jr., have recovered from the
influenza at their home in Fillmore
! street.
Sergt Fred r. Miller arrived Satur-
! day from Camp Meade. Md, to spend
! the holidays with his father at 111S
! Taylor street.
Miss Marjorie Roby will be home
from the University of Kansas to
spend Christmas.
! Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Smithmeyer and
two children will leave Saturday for
California to spend the winter.
! Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Buchanan and