The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04

Inc large Yerandd at the country
club is the gayest place in Topeka
today. Many of the members and their
families are spending the entire day
at the club house. There will be a
golf tournament, one feature of which
is the p ice of one dollar which is be-
ing charged on every course in the
United States today This money is
girls asked to collect the fee at the
club today are Miss Eliza beth Hop
kins, Miss Ethel Chase, Miss Georgia
Neese and Miss Charlotte West.
There are to be a large number of
dinner parties tonight at the club,
most of which are family or quartet
affairs. .
Larger parties will be given by Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Wear, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leslie Guild. Miss Irene Miller and
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Burrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wear will entertain in
compliment to Mrs. Wears sister, Mrs.
c. R. Krauthoff and Mrs. James Hur-
ley, both of Washington, D. c. Covers
will be laid for sixteen
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Guild will have
a few close friends as their dinner
guests. Covers will be placed for ten.
Miss Irene Miller will entertain
few fri nds at dinner in compliment to
her guest, Miss Dorothy Mason, of
New York. Covers will be laid for
Miss Mason, Miss Helen Lucas, Miss
kins. Miss Marian Williams and Miss
Miller.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Randall Burrow will
have as their guests, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Burrow and their children,
Josephine and Frances. and Mr.. J.
r. Burrow.
A crowd which has had a picnic
together each year for a long time are
picnicking today on the lawn of Mr.
and Mrs S. D, Hahn, 6S3 Buchanan
street. The picnic has generally been
at the James A. Troutman home in
Potwin place. but owing to the illness
of Mr.. Warrick Updegraff at the
Troutman home. it is held elsewhere
today. The home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hahn has been occupied by Mrs.
Halm's father. Mr.. Peter Fisher. since
the lear 1858. Those in the party
Troutman, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Mills
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Rem
j. gton. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Washburn
and three daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
L. Copeland. Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Skin
ner and famil,-. Mr. and Mrs H. o.
Garvey, Mr.. md Mrs. J. W. Thurston,
Mrs Matte Nichols, Miss winifred
McKirahan nd Mr.. Peter Fisher.
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A picnic party which will drive to
the Murphy grove at Tecumseh this
afternoon are Mr.. and Mrs. v. B
KistTef, Mr., and Mrs. D. P. Paxton
Mr.. and Mrs Ed Kistler, DIR. and Mrs
George H. Litsinger, Mr.. and Mrs. E
w. Cine, Mr.. and Mrs. George STAINS
field, Mr.. A, W. Bronson, Doris Kist-
Ter and Harry Perry
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THERE'S A :, OMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who says that a great oversight
has Keen made by some one. She
went to the drug store the other day
to buy a bottle of Castoria and thought
OF course it, would be twenty-five cents
more than before the war, but found
1t costs just the same as it did two
years-ago. She supposed it would have
gone up 3-ll. price on account of the
large number of war babies who "cry
for it,
An interesting letter has been re-
ceived from one of the soldier boys
who has recently reached the other
side of the water. He is now near
Winchester. England. In part he says:
I'VE lit at Knotty Ash the other
day after a more or less uneventful
trip. Liverpool was one of the first
towns which we saw in England and
very little of that we saw for we went
thru there at night. At Knotty Ash
we stayed Saturday night and left
there Sunday morning. travelling
across England to Winchester, near
where this camp is.
"On the trip I saw England, or a
part of it, but an extremely interest
ing part Of it. The country is quaint,
if ever 1 saw any place that is. Our
trip was taken in the most peculiar
. kind of carriages which are divided
up into compartments, which held
eight men comfortably. but I Shouldn't
like to take trip from Maine to
(4a I've ar In nj these fro
skip right along. however.
I'VE passed thru many interesting
places. One was Sheffield. This Is
one of the largest steel manufacture
ing centers in the world, ranking