The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-15

business session a recital for the pub
lie will be given at Grace Cathedral at
4 O'Clock. The officers of the Kansas
chapter are: D. A. Hirschler, dean;
Mrs. Paul r. UT, secretary, and Miss
Mildred HaZelriSg. treasurer.
The national organization publishes
a magazine. The American Organ
ist,'' and the Kansas branch of the So
ciety is given a page of the magazine
for each issue. Miss Hazelrigg, of To-
peka. supervisor of Topeka public
school music, edits the Kansas page
The March number of the ma gaZine
contains account of the work of
Mrs. Utt, who is at the head of the
piano and organ department of the
ottawa university conservatory. Dean
Hirschler is the subject of the person
ality sketch on the Kansas page for
January, and Charles S. Skilton, pro-
fessor of organ and theory at X. u,
and composer of note, was the sub
ject of the February sketch. The
story of Dean Horace Whitehouse of
Washburn college will be written for
the April number.
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Mrs George B. Wilbur of Stevens
college, Columbia, Mo-, will arrive the
latter part of this week to visit her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. D. p. Paxton.
She will be accompanied to Topeka
by Miss Ford, expression teacher in
Stevens. who will be her guest at the
Paxton home.
Mrs. Wilbur, who was formerly Miss
Joy Paxton, has just returned to Col
umbia, Mo, after trip to Boston,
where she spent the Easter holidays.
Her husband, Lieutenant Wilbur, has
Just been assigned to duty at Camp
Dix, n. J., and accompanied her on
her return as far as Philadelphia. He
enlisted early in the war, and was as
signed to the Medical Reserve corps.
Awaiting his call to the service, he
! has been connected with the Neuro-
Psychopathic hospital in Boston. He
is a specialist in nervous and mental
disorders, and was an instructor in
that department in Harvard unIver-
sity before he enlisted. The duration
of his stay in this country is uncer-
tain.
Stevens college, having continued her
work after her marriage on account
of her husbands expected call to mill
tary duty
Mrs E. G.. Foster was hostess at
meeting of the Minerva club this
afternoon. The principal paper for
the afternoon was read by Mrs. P. P.
! Womer.
The Nautilus club will meet Tues
day afternoon at 2:3O o'clock, with
Mrs. Robert Steele. The program
will be as follows: Responses; Paper,
| Industries of South America" Mrs
! Lloyd B. Smith. After the program,
| the members will do Red Cross work
r. X 4
Mrs. James NJ. Lippitt will enter
tain her bridge club Wednesday at her
home. 619 West Fifth street.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Bowlby, who
will leave soon to make their home
! in Trinidad, Colo. were guests of
| honor at a dinner given by Mrs. John
| Sargent Saturday night. Covers were
! laid for ten guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. w. Allen will en-
terrain the Neighborhood club tonight
| for Mr.. and Mrs Bowlby.
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The marriage of Miss Harriet
| Belle Shirley of Granville and Mr..
| William Montgomery of independence
took place Sunday afternoon in
! Granville. The bride is the daugh-
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Thomas
Shirley. She was formerly a student
in the College of the Sisters of Beth
any in Topeka and later went to school
at the State Agricultural college. Man
! haitian Mr.. Montgomery lived in To-
peka formerly. He is now in bust
ness in Independence, and he and his
bride have gone to that town to make
their home