The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-29

home. 1920 Boswell All the women
of the College Hill neighborhood are
invited. There will be no meeting on
Friday.
Division 2 of the Central Congrega-
t1ona1 church which is to give party
this week at the home of MRS. Lyndon
Day. 1857 Garfield avenue, has post
poned its entertainment from Wednes-
DAY until Friday on account of the
death of Mrs. j. E. kirkpatrick.
Out of the fears and the anxieties
of fathers and mothers, out of the
broken connections that are inevita bic
in wartime, there has grown up
new department of the Young Mems
Christian association, the bureau for
tracing missing soldier and sailor
boys 1t was heartsick letters from
the home-folks, mostly mothers, that
led to the creation of the new bureau
of the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton. 1t follows missing soldier and
sailor boys almost around the world
sometimes. to bring back word of
their safety to their people at home.
1t goes even into the prison camps, to
ascertain their whereabouts. During
the last month, the bureau received
thirty-five letters, and was able to
trSce twenty-one of the boys.
The Ladies' Aid club will meet to-
morrow afternoon with Mrs. Frank
Squires on Tyler street. The ladies
are asked to bring thimbles, needles
and thread as the Red Cross work this
week will be hand work.
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The small boy in one of the patriotic
homes of the town spent some of the
happiest moments of his HE when he
heard that soap must be saved as the
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ed for explosives. But his soap-bubble
broke when he learned that he and
his mother had different ideas as to
what was waste and what conserva-
ton. Those hands had to be scrubbed
just the same as tho soap were plen-
tiful and he accuses his mother of be-
ing a bit unpatriotic.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Crosby expect
to leave soon for a trip to New York
City.
Mr.. Harold L. Shirk will arrive
Wednesday from Fort Sill to spend
short furlough with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. F. Shirk.
Mrs. w. B. Myers, of St Charles,
Mo-, is the guest of her daughter, Miss
Audrie Myers at the Alpha Phi soror-
ity house.
Miss Mary Whitney, of Emporia.
,
school, was in town yesterday for the
meeting of the Kansas Council of
Women.
Miss Esther Clark has returned
from short visit to her home in
Chanute.
Mrs. David Page and her two sons,
Thomas and David, jr., will leave soon
to join Lieutenant Page in Detroit,
Mich.
Mrs J. H. Riddle, of lola, is the
guest of Mrs. c. c. Brown for Kansas
day.
Miss Clair Armstrong returned yes
terday from Camp Funston, where she
spent the weekend
Miss Margaret Osmond. of Great
Bend, arrived today for a short visit
to Miss Helen Shirk.
Henry H. Hall, New York Life
Adv.
Mrs Charles Brooks, of Wichita, is
the guest of Mrs. David W. Mulvane.
Mrs. F. E. Vest is visiting her
nephew, DR.. Cecil Vest, in Baltimore,
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Mrs. George Sharitt will leave soon
for her home in San Diego, Cal. Mrs.
Sharitt is here packing her furniture
preparatory to shipping it to Cali
fornia.
DR.. and Mrs. C. B. Reed will move
in two weeks to the Carr flats on
Tyler street.
Mr. Vernon B. West is here from
Fort Sill for a short visit with his
parents, Justice and Mrs. J. S. West
T Mrs. r. C. McKline, of Macomb.
I'LL, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Bruce L. DeGarmo-
Mrs J. T. Botkin is confined to her
bed with the grippe.
Miss Inez Tuttle has returned to her
home in Walla Walla, Wash, after a
visit with her sister, Mrs. Ralph Nc
Intire and Mr.. McIntire.
Mrs. Dean Davis of Kansas City.
who has been i'll for two weeks at
Stormont hospital, was taken to the
home of her mother, Mrs. w. d.
Woodford. today.
Dr. Lillian Malone is suffering with
fractured arm as the result of a fall,
Sunday. She will leave in q few days
for a visit at her former home in Ar
kansas.
Mrs Eva Morley Murphy of Good
land is the guest of Mrs. c. w. Smith
during the Kansas day celebrations.
Miss Hortense Nielsen of Chicago
arrived yesterday for a visit to Miss
Nanon Herren.
Miss Edna Hopkins spent the week
end with her grandmother, Mrs. S. B.
Pierson, in Lawrence.
Mrs. Margaret Wiggin will return
tomorrow to Chicago after several
weeks visit with her sister, Mrs Geo.
Eagle.
Mrs E. S. Lewis has arrived from
| Chicago to spend two or three months