The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-08


Cole. was guest of honor at a dinner
which his mother gave Saturday night
at the Country club. Covers were
laid for Miss Marion Williams, Miss
Helen Lucas Miss Georgia Neese. Miss
Mary Paxton. Miss Maude McVey. Mr..
John Porter. Mr.. Randolph Adams,
Mr. Lawrence Chapman, Mr. yelling
ton Culver, Mr.. Wilbur Cole.
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Miss Pauline McVey gave an in
formal dinner at her home in
Buchanan street Friday evening. The
guests were Miss Marian Williams
Miss Georgia Neese, Miss Katherine
Dolan. Mr.. Ward Summerville. Mr..
Wilbur Cole. Mr.. Henry Anton, Mr..
Ned Fleming. After the dinner the
guests attended the dance at the
| Chocolate shop.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who has firmly convinced her
neighbors that her list of accomplish
mentS is long. She has been known
among her friends as musician with
much talent and a club woman with a
! great deal of executive ability as well
as untiring energy but until this
spring she has kept her talent as a
i painter under cover. A few weeks
! ago, however, SHE put on her overalls
| and painted the outside of her home.
and it doesn't have the appearance of
! either.
Mrs. w. A. McCarter has been ap-
| pointed by Mrs. o. L. Moore, president
! of the Womans club. chairman OF the
/ committee to secure subscriptions
! from the members of the club for the
/ four hundred dollar liberty loan
/ pledge. The club has four hundred
/ members this year. The interest upon
the bond and the principal when it is
-.
house Mrs F. w. Watson is treas
urer of the committee
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THERE'S A GIRL IN OUR TOWN
/ Who says she does wish her men
/ friends would not greet her at the
/ to do tonight" She thinks they
/ should say what they intended with
j out making her admit that she didn' I
| have anything in particular to do that
| evening.
! Mrs. Fern l. Coppedge was the
honor guest at the monthly meeting
of the Topeka Art Guild Saturday
night. Mrs. Coppedge showed several
/ of her prize winning pictures. painted
in the vicinity of Darby and New
! Hope, Pennsylvania and at Giouces-
ter, Mass
The Pennsylvania pictures were
snow scenes, painted with great &C
curacy and charm. In the course of
her talk, Mrs. Coppedge told her au'
fence that the center of the art world
| today is the United States, and that
| the Academy of Fine Arts in Phila-
delphia is considered by competent
| judges to rank with or even surpass
| the Louvre in the excellence of the
work there exhibited.
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| The girls in the eastern schools are
! becoming interested in agricultural
work this spring. A large number of
Wellesley college girls have agreed to
undertake this work during the sum-
mer. They will be divided into three
| divisions known the bug squad
| the weed squad" and the blight
squad" Between now and June II,
when their work begins, they will re-
ceive special training in going over the
top after bugs, weeds and blight
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Among the guests at the dinner
dance at Pelletier's Saturday nigh,
were Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Rigby, Mrs
| Maurice Schlegel. Mrs. George NJ. No
! BILE Mrs. A. T. Lucas, Mrs. William
Macferran, Miss Marie Witwer, Miss
! Helen Griffin, Mr.. and Mrs w. A. Nc
Carter, Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Garvey
Miss Annabel Garvey, Mrs. Charles F,
| Spencer, Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Lord
! DR.. and Mrs. c. A. McGui Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs
Kurtz Kellam, Mr. and Mrs Fernley
| SlHSeT, MISS INuLIl IHOHlpSOli
and Mrs. j. B. Walker. Mr.. and Mrs
j. Arthur Myers, Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan
Dibble and Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Van
Dorp.
Judge and Mrs. w. E. Atchison
We're dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
J. Marshall yesterday at the Virginia
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The loyalty luncheon given blythe
| Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas
Saturday at the Chamber of Com
merce was a very successful affair
The tables were decorated in flags
and sunflowers. Mr. Waiter Z. Will
son, president of the Native Sons. pre-
sided. Mrs. George Allen, Miss
Marian McAfee. Mr.. Leland McAfee
and Mr.. Virgil Moore of Kansas City
led the company in the singing OF
America and The Star Spangled
Banner" The quartet sang also THE
| Kansas Hymn by Lillian Forest OF
Jewell City. and kansas. the Heart
of Columbia by Miss Allie Hazard
and Mr.. Virgil Moore of Kansas City
Miss Mary Sands played several harp
| numbers and sang, with harp accom-
paniment. Little Dream Baby" by
| Mrs Arthur Capper- Mrs. Cora Well
house Billiard of Tonganoxie was the
first speaker on the program. HeI
subject was Loyalty" Mr. Imr
Zumwalt gave very instructive and
| interesting talk on the different wars
of history, comparing them with the
great conflict now before US. Mr.
Fred s. Jackson. attorney for the Kan
sas public utilities commission, spoke
on kansas History" Others on tbs