The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-01
PhOnss-Fom $50 = m, $3.50: other hours. 1850.

Word has been received in Topeka
of the marriage of Miss Ethel Kreger
of Junction City and Mr.. Clarence
Ream, formerly of Topeka. The we'd
ding took place Tuesday in Junction
City, at the home of the brides pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Kreger.
The bride is a graduate of Baker
university, Baldwin, Kun, where she
was sorority girl and a popular stu
dent. She has a good musical educa-
ton, and sings particularly well. Her
mother is a well known club woman
of the Fifth district, and her sister,
Miss Josephine Kreger, is one of the
best known sorority girls in Kansas,
having been an officer In the national
sorority with which she is affiliated.
Both the young women have many
friends in Topeka.
The brides groom is the son of Mrs.
T. j. Ream and the late Rev. Mr..
Ream, who was fer years a Methodist
minister in Kansas, anG served as dis
trict superintendent for a number of
years. Mr.. Ream is a graduate of
Washburn college, and a member of
The Kappa Sigma fraternity. He has
d degree from Columbia university.
and now occupies the chair of phiIos-
ophy in the University of Iowa. He
and his brothers, who were also Wash
burn men, were prominent in athletics
suits.
The Woman's club of Topeka, of
which Mrs. w. A. -McCarter is presi-
dent, today sent out the membership
cards for next year. The club is linn
tied to a membership of four hundred
and now has three hundred and
eighty-five members enrolled and
twenty-three names on the waiting list
ready to fill vacancies at the first op-
portunity.
Each member will be expected to
fill some more or less responsible
place in the department of her choice
The sub-chairmen of some of the de-
partments have been announced but
the others have not yet been chosen.
A large part of the club work during
the next year as it was last year will
be war work.
This club sis a means to an end
The end is constructive idealism inter-
preted in terms of service" First in
patriotic service for the boys "over
there" and. secondly, in artistic, civic,
educational, domestic and social serv-
ice "over here
Cards have been received in To-
peka announcing the marriage of Miss
Mary Effie Sollars, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Sollars, of Independ-
ence, Mo-. to Mr. Carleton S. Proctor
on Tuesday, June rs. They will be at
home in Great Falls, Mont.
DR.. and Mrs. George Port Ashton,
who were in Kansas City for the we'd
ding, are spending this week at Excel
sior Springs.
Mrs. T. S. Stevens entertained with
an informal luncheon today at her
home in Fillmore street in compliment
to Mrs. E. P. LaLnan of Quincy, ILL.,,
e - Ia,- n T..
and Mrs. George Neil. Those asked
were a few neighborhood friends of
the honor guest.
Cards have been received from Mr..
and Mrs. ]. NJ. Dolly of Topeka, an
ter, Esther, to Lieut. Grafton Town
shend, medical reserve corps, which
took place Tuesday, June %, in New
York City. Mrs. Townshend will be
at home until after the war at To-
peka, Kan. Mrs. Townshend has q
several times she has been the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Albright
Leavenworth Post.
Y X X
Judge Charles McGaw of Omaha l.
spending a few days with friends ir
Informal dinner party which Mr.. ant
Mrs T. NJ. Lillard gave Saturday
night at the Country club.
X
Miss Isabel Crawford, Miss Mar
guerite Stewart, Miss Mary Roger.
and Miss Jane Bone went to Lax,
View Saturday afternoon and re
manned until last night. The follow
ing boys motored down and came
home with them: Mr.. Philip Fable
Mr.. Chester Bunger, Mr.. Russell
Parker and Mr.. Glen Davis.
X
The Rota club gave their usual Sun
day afternoon party yesterday at tn,
Chamber of Commerce, for the sol
diers who were in town for the day
Miss Glen Davis is chairman of tn
committee in charge.
Men by the millions are being callet
away to our expanding navy and mer
chant marines, and to fill up the rank
Of the great army we are sending int