The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30


tenant of Company B. 139th infantry.
He was stationed at Camp Doniphan
last winter. In June he went to
France with his company, and led
them in the bloody battle of the Ar
gonne forest.
Captain Smith is a graduate of the
Washburn law school. At the time
of his enlistment he was county attor-
ney of jefferson county. Mrs. Smith
is teaching in the high school in Oak
land during the absence of her hus-
band.
DIR. and Mrs. L. NJ. Powell enter
tanned the following persons at a fam
lily dinner party on Thanksgiving day:
Mrs. Evoline Bunker. Miss Mary
Bunker. Mrs. T. j. Gilbert Mr.. and
Mrs. E. V. Wood of Baldwin. Miss
May Short. Miss jamie Matson, Miss
Ethelyn Cole and Mr.. Wendell Powell.
Mr.. Paul Huycke and his daughter,
Miss Bernadette Huycke, entertained
at Thanksgiving dinner. Their guests
were: Miss Marie Dunn, of Chicago:
Mr.. Phil. Dunn, Mr.. Thomas Boland
and Mrs. Edward Miller. all of st.
Mary's college. Mr.. Huycke was a St.
Mary's college man.
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Mr.. and Mrs. r. N. McNown an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter. Edith, to Mr.. Courtney c. Rogan,
which took place Wednesday, Novem-
Der 81. Mr.. Rogan is in training at
Camp Funston, and as soon as he is
discharged he and his bride will go to
housekeeping in Topska
The Spalding Reading circle will
postpone its meeting for Monday
night, December 2. until the first Mon
day after the closing order is lifted.
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The Ceramic Art club, which was to
have met next Friday with Mrs. w.
II. Davis, will be postponed until after
the lifting of the influenza ban.
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The following guests were enter
tanned at Thanksgiving dinner by Mr..
S. n. Hawkes. at his home in Western
avenue: Mrs. c. p. Dunaway, Miss
Eleanor Dunaway and Mrs L. F.
Alexander of Kansas City. Mr.. Robert
Chambers of Stockton and Rev. and
Mrs. Fred Gray of Topeka.
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= The meeting of the n. N. S. club.
which was to have been held Tuesday
of next week, has been indefinitely
order.
The regular meeting of the Minerva
club. to have been held next Monday,
has been indefinitely postponed.
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Mrs. Fred Gray was hostess at a
dinner party Friday night which was
attended by the following guests: Mrs
c. z. Dunaway and Miss Eleanor Dun
away of Kansas City, Mrs. C. w. Smith,
Mrs. J. r. Wells. Miss Esther Wells,
Miss Helen Hawkes., Miss Ruth
Ia wi nc rr0n Nd Me-
Oscar Bolton. The company was
made up of former Stockton, Kan,
residents.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Lii
lard at bridge Friday night were:
Judge and Mrs. Robert Carver, Mr..
and Mrs. Monte Kistier. Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin Kistler, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Staebler, Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Hamilton,
Mr.. and Mrs. Kurtz Kellam and Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Blair.
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The first contribution toward the
erection of a memorial tablet for the
Kansas soldiers killed in the war was
made at a meeting of the executive
committee of the Military Sisterhood
Friday afternoon at the Y. w. c. A.
The Sisterhood subscribed $1,000 for
the fund.
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a meeting of her bridge club Friday.
| Mrs. James Hayes was a guest.
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The Red Cross garment room will
be opened Monday for the workers to
sew on a shipment of material for
pajamas which has just been received
| from st. Louis.
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The Alta Vista club will not hold Its
meeting Monday, as planned, on ac-
count of the influenza ban.
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Now the war is over, let us all hope
| that the soldiers are not going to let
a lot of silly women spoil them. Ev-
cry man in a uniform knows that just
around the corner is a woman wait
ing
A business man was telling me the
other day that as he was returning
from Washington, an army captain
two civilians and good looking wo-
man were on the same Pullman with
him. The young woman aboard was