The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

chairman, made it the real work of
the club year, even to getting an ap-
preparation thru the legislature, to
com plete the necessary sum.
Tho there was delay. owing to unr
natural conditions enforced by the
war; it has been less than two years
since the idea was projected. That
fact should impress one, when the
sidered, the raising of the necessary
sum, and the very great amount of
labor done by Merrell Gage, before the
statue was sent away to be cast.
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| The musical numbers of the service
at Grace cathedral Sunday will be as
i follows:
1. Organ Prelude .................. Selected
Mrs. ]. A. Campbell
! g. Anthem. "save Them, Lord" (for
time OF war; 'i cboir -Tozer
Christian the Morn Breaks sweetiy
| Quartette.
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| What is reprisal?" asked Mrs.
Jude Johnson last night, as she read
the war news and scratched her back
at the same time. "Reprisal." said
]
was sharpening her claws on his
! comely leg, lis an easy matter to ex-
plain. l will start the explanation
i in this manner: You will recall that
my highly esteemed mother-in-law
j got as sore as a goat because l mar
ried you. and has felt considerably
| peeved about it ever since She has
ever felt that I did her an injustice
and has ever sought to get even with
me, and this winter she got even by
moving in with us, to absorb the heat
/ of my coal and to fill her inards with
my war grub. That, Mrs. johnson,
is reprisal- It's reprehensible prac-
/ tice, l assure you."-Atchison Globe.
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/ THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
| Who gets wonderfully excited over
| the small and personal events of the
| community. A fire broke out in her
neighborhood few days ago. A Har-
rison street woman, commenting on
! the misfortune, remarked, Il should
! like to have seen Mrs. Blank when it
occurred. What a happy day she
must have had with so much going
on"
The marriage of Miss Ida May
Brooks of Task, Tex, and Mr. Vern
| r. Hunter, formerly of Topeka, took
place February in Task. Mr.. Hunter
is in the army service with the Fifth
engineers and is stationed at Corpus
Christi, Tex. where he and his bride
will make their home until he is
called abroad.
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Mr.. Arthur Soderstrum announces
his fifteenth student recital to be
given tonight at the Y. w. c. A. He
will be assisted by Miss Marie Hobbs,
contralto; Miss Hilda Christian, inter
pretative dancer, and Miss Dorothy
Shoop, accompanist. Rev. Fred c.
Sutton will present the medals in the
gold medal practice contest. Friends
are invited to attend the recital The
program is as follows:
Duet-Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
Doris Bright, Daisy Child
Bonnie johnson.
Validity Away Observation-Disclosures. Root
Don Hotter
Evelyn Bower. i'epnet
Interpretative-Dance Egyptian. go. FrIml
Hilder Christian.
Reverie-When the fights are Low.
Calvin sfoudt. eng mann
Alpine Glow Observation-Disclosures Oesten
W. Elsie Elsie knauber
i Carl Weber.
Duet-willow Grove. Sorentino
8, From he It Land L MOI Of the A{ SKY
i que Miss Marie Hobbs cadman
Reverie-Devotion ..........E Eng Iemann
Daisy Child.
Cradle Song-Jocelyl.. GODDARD
Josephine Wingert
Waitz-Roses de Beheme. Kowalski
Edna Upper.
Sonata-Op. 40, No. 1...... Beethoven
Doris Bright.
Dance-Narcissus. Neyin
Hiljer Christian.
(a) Rapsodie Mignonne. KoeIliug
fto) CrescehoO LasSen
LiHnie Donaldson
Duet-Waltz from Faust. Gounod
Nan Wilkinson, Arthur Soderstrum
GOLD MEDAL CONTEST
October 1, 1911-February l. 1918
i First prize, Doris Bright, 3i1 hours
| Second prize, Daisy Child 81 hours
Honorable mention. Edna Lipper Bonnie
johnson.
/ The high school faculty and the stu
dents will give an evening of stunts
/ tonight at the high school building
The faculty members will impersonate
certain of the students, and the stu
dents will give impersonations of the
faculty members.
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A musician who is making his first
visit to Topeka is Jules Falk Bel
gian violinist, who is giving two con-
certs in our town, for the benefit of
the Orphans home fund. He gave a
| recital Friday night at the First Bap-
| fist church, and will give a second
| concert tonight in the same building.
| Mr.. FaIks reputation a violinist of
ability was first established by a sue
/ cessfui career in great music centers
of the old world. and it was after he