The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-05

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ing of the armistfce. After a short
furlo. Mr.. Trobert will return to
Washington. =
Mr.. Fred Rigby of Topeka is to be
editor of the Peace Book" the 1919
Jayhawker of Kansas university, this
year. Mr.. Rigby is a member of The
Journalism class of the university and
has had experience with editorial
work in the Topeka. high school.
1--WE are planning, the largest snap
shop section that has ever been in any
Jayhawlxer of the school," said Mr..
Rigby. Many unique campus scenes
Will be featured in the Peace Book"
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Mr.. o. F. Whitney of 1865 Lane
street, secretary of the Kansas Horti-
cultural society has returned from
Leavenworth where he held a con-
lsultation with Mr.. Carl HOLMAN and
other horticulturists in regard to the
fifty-second annual meeting of the So
ciety to be held here December IT
to 10.
The girls who live at the Sigma AL
pha 1ota sorority house in College Hill
will go to their homes to remain I'M
til after the Christmas holidays.
Among them are Miss Edna Smith,
who will go to her home in Macks-
Vile; Miss Beth Rogler, to Cotton
wood Falls; Miss Mary Munger, to At
| wood; Miss Sadie Lindenmeyer, to
Russell; Miss Gladys Elledge. to Sa-
betha, and Miss Gladys and Miss
Bernice Heath, to Peabody, Miss Mar
garet Worden. of klamath Falls, Ore,
will remain in Topeka with her aunt,
Mrs. John Sargent.
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guests to dinner last evening in COM
pliment to VI. and Mrs. Wolfe, who
left today fer permanent residence
in Wichita. Covers We're laid for a
few intimate friends of Doctor and
Mrs. Wolfe.
Mrs. E. L. Wilson, formerly of
Marysville, who is making her home
with DR.. Elvenore Ernest while her
husband, Captain Wilson, is in France,
| received letter last week in which
he said that it was torture of the worst
kind to be without the firing of the
machine guns. He said of course they
would get used to it but the sudden
cessation was painful He also in
| speaking of a time when they got into
the German lines instead of their own
! just before the close of the war. said,
The enemy not only directed US back
| but followed u.s." Captain Wilson is
battalion surgeon of the 124 machine
gun battalion of the ssrd division. l.,
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
| who waited and waited last week
| for her laundry to come from the
home of the colored woman who does
| it. She needed those clothes and didn't
see how she was going to get along
without them. Finally small boy
brought them and explained, Moth
er has the flu. and could hardly do
| your washing at all. She had to lean
| over the ironing board all the time she
| was ironing it yesterday" The clothes
were left on the porch and when the
| man of the household came he moved
them to the sleeping porch where they
were locked away from every member
of the family and where they remain.
If there is anything that the family
does not need it is those clothes under
the circumstances.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
| Mrs. s. j. Crawford is quite ill at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur
Capper, and Governor Capper./
Miss Alice Meade is spending a few
| days in Kansas City.
| Miss Mary Weightman is the guest
| of her aunt, Mrs. c. e. Ho1comb, and
the Rev. Mr.. Holcomb in Valley Falls.
Mrs. Thomas l.. King and two chill
dren have returned from an extended
visit to Mrs. Kings parents in Chicago.
| MT. Ii. ldylOT Is III WIFI Tie III
f1uenza at his home in Western ave-
| nue..
| Mrs. T. J. Ewart and her two
| daughters have returned from Chicago
where they spent Thanksgiving visit
ing relatives
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Scully are
visiting in Temple, Texas.
Miss Helen Neese is home from Nor
| tonville, where she has been teaching
in the high school, to remain until the
| influenza ban is raised.
Mr.. n. w. Benning left Tuesday for
| Atlantic City to attend the conference
| of the Y. NJ. c. A. He expects to be
gone about ten days.
Mr.. Maurice ~SchlegeI is ill with the
influenza at his home in Fillmore
| street.
Mrs. Yaeger. of Kansas City, Is the
guest of Mrs. H. O.. Maddox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Anderson are
both Ill with influenza at their home,
1857 Mulvane street.
Mrs. Van Schiller has returned from
Leavenworth, where she has been Wis
iting for few days
| Mrs. Loether and Miss Airline Loeth-
er. of Fredonia, have been guests OF
Mr.. ard Mrs. Lee Tu11y. Mrs. Tully
Mrs. Loether and Miss Loether are
spending a few days in Kansas City
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