The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17
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ADJ. Gen. and Mrs. Charles S Huff
man have asked guests for dinner to-
night at the Country club. Covers will
be laid for eleven. Judge and Mrs.
L. S. Ferry will entertain nine at din
ner at the club this evening and JUS
tice and Mrs. Silas Porter will have
table with covers laid for six guests.
The Mt. Princeton hotel at Buena
Vista. Colo, which is owned by Mr..
J. c. Gafford, has been a popular place
with Topeka people this summer. Mr..
and Mrs. Gafford and Mr.. Hamilton
Chase are spending the summer there
and other Topeka people who have
been there within the past few weeks
are Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Crosby, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold T. Chase, and Miss
Ethel Chase. Mr.. and Mrs Byron
Davis and Judge and Mrs. w. E. At
Gibson.
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The active chapter of Alpha Phi Will
be entertained Tuesday afternoon by
Miss Marjora Blank, at her home, 91S
Lane street.
Miss Gussie Fuller, chairman of the
textile department for the State Fair,
which is to be held here from the
9Th to the 14th of September. an
nounces that the entry books for the
needlework department will close on
Friday. September 8, at six o'clock
All expecting to exhibit in this depart
ment must enter before that date or
their work cannot be displayed.
This department includes many d.
visions and a number of very good
prizes are to be given in the different
divisions. The knitting is divided into
two classes: the fancy knitting in
wool, cotton, linen and silk and the
army and navy knitting. There will
also be prizes for the army and navy
knitting for the girls and boys under
sixteen years Crocheting will be in
another class and that in cotton, wool,
linen and silk will be accepted.
Prizes will be given for all kinds of
embroidery, tatting, quilts, hand-sew-
ing and children's handmade gar
mentS. There will be several very
good prizes for the hand-sewing. There
Is to be a special department for the
hand-work of women over sixty years
of age and another for girls under fif-
teen. Another class will include re-
pairing of all kinds, as patching and
darning.
A division for miscellaneous articles
will include lamp shades, knitting
bags, candle shades, handmade rugs,
basketry. bead work and other hand
made things.
HOME, JAMES,
New York. Aug. 17.-An appeal 'to
women of leisure" of New York state
to save the harvest by volunteering
for farm work at good pay was made
here today by the industrial commits
sion of the state department of labor.
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Miss Annetta Nicoll, daughter of Dr.
D. T. and DR.. Dorothy Nicol, left to-
day for Admission, Ala, where she will
be bacteriologist with a sanitary unit
of the Red Cross. Miss Nicoll offered
her services to the government at the
beginning Of the warGand has had
several other chances to enter service,
but felt that she could be of the great
est help in the work of which she has
made a speciality.
Miss Nicoll has been city bacteriolo-
gist for four years and during the past
two years has been head of the de-
partment. Miss Nicoll attended Wash
burn college for three years and re-
ceived her A. B. degree from Cornell
university. specializing in bacteriology.
The next year she taught at the State
college at Pullman, Wash, and re-
ceived her masters degree from this
college. The year following she bel
came city bacteriologist, which posi-
ton she resigned to go into Red Cross
work.
Miss Nicoll is an unusually good
looking and attractive young woman,
combining a large amount of blonde
beauty with more than the average
brain power. She is tactful and vi
vacious and will be missed in Topeka
social as well as business circles.
She Joined the Beta sorority while
in Washburn college and has been
made member of Alpha Phi national