The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-21

two weeks leave with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Kline. Ensign
Kline is stationed in the United States
naval steam engineering school at
Hoboken, where he has been ever
since he received his commission at
Pelham Bay.
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Mrs. Edwin Kist1er has asked the
following friends to assist her at the
Martha Washington tea which she will
Mrs. V. B. Kistler, Mrs. Warwick
Updegraff, Mrs. James Hayes, Mrs.
Robert Pierce, jr, Mrs George T.
Staebler and Mrs. Monte Kistler.
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Arthur Capper, the new United
States senator from Kansas, ate din
ner at my house the other day, and
praised the coffee. We expect that of
guests. Another senator diner at our
house some time ago, said nothing
about the coffee, and 1 recall that we
picked at him for some time Mrs
Capper amused US by telling about
an old servant in their employ she
calls Our John, a negro who runs the
automobile and works around the
house. He has worked for the Cap
as all old servants do. If Mr.. Capper
takes the car out, and takes it him.
self, Our John sullenly says to Mrs
Capper: Has Mr.. Capper been run
ming my car again?" Mrs. Capper
then admits timidly that he has
it all out of order" And off he
goes to tinker at it, and grumble.
But the Cappers lately got even with
Our John. During the campaign last
fall, Mrs Capper accompanied her
husband on speaking tour. When
the senator spoke at Osawatomie in
the afternoon, farmer named Petty
john, came over to take them to his
town, Olathe, for the evening meet
! ing. When they were ready to de-
| part for Olathe, Mrs. Capper, being
| afraid of Our John, said to Mr.. Petty
| john: Our John is very fast driver;
! he VIII never consent to follow any,
one. Better outline the road for u.s.
| thought it would be all right for him
to go ahead and show the road
| So they started, Our John grumbling
| because he was in the rear, and de-
termined to get in front in a few
minutes. After that, all the Cappers
or Our John saw of Mr.. Pettyjohn,
the farmer, was when he stopped on
| high hills. two miles ahead, waiting
for the Cappers to come up. Our
John was so Inundated that he has
been easier to manage ever since
E. W. Howe, of Atchison, in the Mi
ami (Florida) Herald.
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Mr.. Fred T. Bonebrake son of Mr..
ana Mrs. Fred b. Bonebrake, 1909 To-
peka avenue, has recently returned
from overseas. He received his dis
charge from Camp Funston Thursday
He was member of Company A, lie
engineer of the 35th division, and was
with his company during the Argonne
forest battle.
He was sent home as a casual after
being in the hospital with pneumonia
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Miss Ethel Everingham will go to
Kansas City next week to attend the
first biennial meeting of the Kansas
State Federation of Music clubs to be
held FEBRUARY "a to 81 in Kansas City
Kan. Miss Everingham goes as dele
gate from the Ladies' Music club She
will be with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
J. J. Everingham. in Kansas City, anc
will return to Topeka Thursday morn.
ing.
Mrs. W. II. Bowlby was hostess to
the members of the Music Study clut
yesterday afternoon at her home il
Buchanan street. Guest numbers or
the program were given by Mrs. Henri,
]. Dotterweich and Mrs Phil Eastman
who sang Mrs. Eastman. who came
to Topeka as a bride from Chicago
where she was member of the choi