The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-03
PhOnes-FTOm $3.50 m I = NJ $780, Other hours 1850


MIR and Mrs Seywood Larrick of
Lenora, announce the engagement of
their daughter, ollie to Mr.. Edward NJ.
Simons of Las Animas, Colo.
The announcement was made at
knitting tea" at the Larrick home,
Monday afternoon, July /.
After the program little Karl Leidig,
entered the parlor carrying a large
cretonne bag and let the cat out of
the bag" Ted to the cats neck with
pink ribbon was an envelope addressed
to Mrs. Ralph A. Grams. who opened
it and read the announcement to the
guests.
F'avors were pink and white paper
timbales filled with candies and sailed
nuts and each contained a tiny heart,
sealed envelope with a card bearing
the names oil Miss Larrick and Mr.
Simons.
A good deal of interest centers in
the approaching marriage as the bride
and her family thru many years of
residence and activity in the COM
munity are we'll known.
The marriage will be quietly SOL
emnized at the Larrick home on July
TO-.
Topeka people will be interested in
the approaching marriage as Miss Lar
rick and her two sisters have all at
tended Washburn college. where Miss
Larrirk specialized in piano and voice
Before coming to Washburn, she had
attended Bethany college at Lindsborg
and from Washburn she went to the
American conservatory in Chicago,
where she studied music for a year.
This year Miss Larrick has been su-
peFvisor of music and art in the
schools4 OF Las Animas, Colo, where
she met Mr.. Simons.
Mr.. SimouS is an eastern man and
was educated in Michigan and In
diana He is in business in Las
Animas.
The Larrick family have lived in
Kansas many years and are quite well
known thruout the state. Miss Lar
rick made her home at the Beta
sorority house while in Washburn.
Friends in Topeka of Miss Jess Aide
of kansas city. who has often visited
DIR. and Mrs. George Port Ashton in
Topeka avenue, will be very sorry to
hear of her sudden death which &C.
Cured yesterday in Boulder, Colo.
Members of the family will pass thru
Topeka Friday with the remains on
their way to Warrensburg, Mo. where
the burial will take place.
\
The members of the division of the
canteen committee which were on
duty Saturday at one of the stations
had a train to serve late in the eve
ming during the pouring rain. They
were serving TO the
when one of them walked up to a
young matron and gave her five dol
lars for the canteen work, saying how
much good it was doing over the
country. He added: 1T is worth five
dollars to pour coffee out in this rain
and we wanted you to know that your
work was appreciated
The committee on the overseas hos
pital fund had a meeting yesterday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Luther
Burns, the secretary of the commit
tee, and reports were made and the
money turned in by the members. The
committee promised to raise five hun
dred dollars and figures yesterday
showed that one thousand and thre5
dollars had been collected in two
weeks. Miss Helen Estey was chair
man of the committee
Surgeons and doctors who have
gone to France in the interest of tbs
overseas hospitals which are being
established for the poor women ant
children of France say that they art
finding more than they can do. The!
not only take care of the women bu
are divided into two corps, one Of
which cares for injured soldiers. Tht
entire hospital corps is women, anf
some of the most capable women sur
geons. doctors and psychologists II
America are members of the staff.
The suffrage women in Americs
have taken up this work and are rails
ing one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars for this cause. Melt
ing pots have been started in many D
the towns and will probably be useC
to help with the work in Topeka il
the fall. Into these melting pots ma!
be put most any piece of old jewelr!
or metals which may be converted
into money.
The members of the committee whc
had charge of raising the money IL
Topeka are: Miss Estey. chairman
Mrs. Leslie Guild. secretary; Mrs
Luther Burns. treasurer: Mrs. iona
than Thomas. Mrs. Bennett r. Wheel
er. Mrs William A. Johnston. Mis-
Effie Page, Mrs. w P. Lyman. Mrs
R. r. Nelson, Mrs w. T Newman
Mrs. W. A McCarter. Mrs n. A
Auerhach. Mrs. Frank Burrow. Mrs
& 6. Estey Miss Julia Larimer. Mrs
Emma L. Redden, Mrs Kurtz KeIlam