The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-09

some very exquisite pieces being
shown. The women who are in charge
today are Mrs. T. S. Stevens, Mrs. NJ.
NJ. Blinn, Mrs. j. K. Jones. Mrs. w. H.
Davis, Mrs. George Boone and Miss
Marie Mayhem. The following will
McDonough, Mrs. r. B. Hickox, Mrs.
w. P. Bishop, Mrs. J. F. Ensminger.
Mrs Chas Harmon. Miss Winifred
Hartley. Miss Effie Warren and Miss
Gussie Fuller y
Mrs Roland Perkins gave a birth
day party for her little daughter.
Polly, Thursday afternoon. The guests
were Jane. Marcia and Billy Mills,
Betty and Virginia Rhoads. Elizabeth
Patten, Katherine Ley, Mildred john
son and Alfred 4 Johnson q =
The Y. w. C. A. cabinet members
of the different colleges in the state
will meet in Topeka for a conference
today and tomorrow. Baker and OF
tawa universities, K. U. and the Agri-
cultural college of Manhattan will be
represented. The girls of the Wash
burn cabinet will be the hostesses.
The social session will be this evening
in the Washburn library. and tomor
row will be devoted to business.
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When the canteen workers were
ready yesterday afternoon to load the
baskets of leftover food onto the train
for the soldiers to eat after leaving
Topeka, they found that the coaches
were a few kilometers down in the
yards. So they hailed the engineer
of a switch engine, and six or eight
of them were loaded on. baskets and
all, and rode on the engine down to
the coaches and back.
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Owing to unavoidable delays Incl
dent to the many events occurring in
Topeka this week, the annual meeting
of the Kansas Federation of Art
which was to have been held at the
Topeka Art Guild rooms tomorrow aft
ernoon and evening, has been post
pOned until a week from tomorrow.
Tomorrow evening will be sketch
class evening at the Topeka Art Guild,
and the president of the guild espec-
tally requests full attendance OF the
members on that occasion, in order
plans for the Kansas Federation of
Art meeting, and that a suitable pro-
gram may be formulated for the &C.
casion.
There is a club in our town which.
Dame RumOr has it. is really going to
start something. The insigne of the
club is a gold owl bearing a purple
shield, upon which is printed Fiji
L 9" in gold letters The present mem
bers. Edith Austin, Alma Staten,
Maudie Butler, Marie Whitcombe.
Dorothy Engle, Mildred Whitcombe
and Emma Snyder, will give their
spring dance. at Kellams Hall May
%, at which four new girls are to be
pledged.
The recital given last night at the
File oluh nv Mr.. C1eOwOOd Jones'
companied by Mrs. Robert Carver, was
attended by an appreciative audience.
1t was the first real opportunity that
Topeka has had to hear Mr.. Jones at
his best. While he has always been a
favorite with Topeka audiences and
has frequently appeared on programs,
he has never before given an entire
program. He proved last night that
his scope is wide, and that he can sing
the heavier oratorio numbers as easily
and gracefully as he can the lighter
and more popular songs with which
the average audience is satisfied. His
voice showed wonderful range, and
his enunciation was perfect.
The program was pleasing and arts
tic from beginning to end The most
group, (a) Comfort Ye," from Han
ders Messiah, "Rudolph's Narrative"
from La Boheme," by Puccini, and
"Cielo Mar" from La Giaconda,"
by Ponchielli.
Though it is difficult to discriminate
in a program so varied and altogether
delightful, perhaps the most popular
numbers were 'Dumble-D um-Day,
by Lohr, and Uncle Rome" by
Homer. His tones in ''Dumble Dunn
Day" were flute-like in quality.
Mr.. Jones will go to Pueblo as as
sistant artist in a concert to be given
by the Oratorio society of that city
May %. The director of the society
was in Topeka several weeks ago and
heard Mr.. Jones sing, and made him
a big offer to sing a group of songs
at this concert, which is one of the
important musical events of the year
in Colorado.
! Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. William Allen White of EN-
poria spent Thursday in Topeka with
Mrs. Ralph Moore, 500 Lane street
Mrs. Ivor Macfarlane has returned
| from a visit to Holton.
Mrs. Louis Groh and Mrs. Lee Rich
mond of Rochester, n. Y, will arrive
1 tomorrow to visit their aunt, Mrs. c.
| W. Snyder, and their cousin. Mrs
! Harry Gavitt- They will remain for
Mr. T A Fairchild and Mrs. Har-
/ old Fairchild Of Holton were in To-
| peka yesterday to meet Mr.. Harold
Fairchild, who is with the 18th in
| fantry.
Miss Esther Hersh has returned
! from a visit with friends in Holton.
Lieut. and Mrs. Robert Yates will
occupy one of the duplex houses
which Mrs. ]. C. Wilson will make
out of her house at the Topeka avenue
upon Lieutenant Yates return from
| France. which will be soon.
| Miss Julia Larimer of Kansas City
/ who is daughter of Mr. and Mrs ]
B Larimer, will go to France in june
| to engage in postwar work with q