The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-20
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Mrs E E. F'rizelI, of Larned, who
has been here during the legislative
season with Representative Frizell,
was hostess at a very pretty luncheon
today at the home of her sister, Mrs.
]. II. FrizelI, in West Tenth street The
guests We're the members of the Portia
club and few additional friends.
The table decorations were in white
roses and ferns and covers were laid
for Mrs Charles MOser and Mrs E. j.
Pettijohn, of Dodge City, Mrs. w. w.
Bowman, Mrs. S. J. Crumbine, Mrs
o. L. Moore, Mrs. Eli G. Foster, Mrs
H. H. Welty, Mrs ]. NJ. Kinkel, Mrs
D. c. TiIlotson, Mrs. w. T. Coolidge,
Mrs. c. H. Searle, Mrs. J. d. Gardner,
Mrs. jill. F'rizelI and Mrs. Frizell.
The Rota club is TO stage a three
ringed circus in the near future 1t was
decided at a meeting at the Elks club
last night that the women of the Rota
club would have community circus
Easter week, probably at the audi
torium. The cast will include two
hundred persons and nothing will be
spared to make it a success. There
will be a ringmaster and the animals
acrobats, Indians, dancing girls
clowns. bareback riders and tableaux.
In fact everything which goes to make
a great circus a success.
Mrs. Florence MagifI Wallace, OF
Chicago. was present at the meeting
of the club last evening and presented
the idea of the circus, which she had
previously taken up with the commit
tee in charge of q spring festival to
the club members. 1t was enthusiast
tically received and the club decided
to begin work on it early in March.
Mrs. Wallace has been putting on
entertainments in the east for seven
years and has had wonderful success
She has staged the community circus
in number of the states and in three
of these the ringmaSter was the gov
ernor of the state. Mrs. Wallace has
been a ma gazine writer for fifteen
years and for some time had charge
of the home entertainment department
of the Ladies' Home Journal She is
also playwright. having written RE
vue Dansant," Yesterday. Today and
Tomorrow" the star Rock Pageant
Society Circus and others.
Mrs. Wallace left this morning for
Kansas City, where her headquarters
are, but will return to Topeka in
March to begin rehearsaIs for the COM
munity circus.
A new member voted into the club
at the meeting last night was Miss
| Grace Martin Gilmore. Miss Gilmore
is teacher of esthetic and social dane
/ ing and was taken into the club with
that classification.
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The D. A. r. will hold their usual
Washington birthday celebration Sat
| urday afternoon at 2:30 "a the home of
Mrs. P. I. Murphy. 925 Quincy street
| Lieut.. Col. Frank L. Travis will talk of
his experiences in France. Mrs. Beryl
Johnson will give several vocal num-
bers and Mrs. F. I. Richards will play
a violin solo Miss Katheryn AL.
baugh will give a reading. Out of
town members of the D. A. r. are cor
daily invited to attend.
A meeting of the board of directors
will be held after the business meet
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Whitney have
received a letter from their son, First
Glass Yeoman Frank Whitney, in
! which he said that all naval men at
the base at Queenstown had been or
! dered to stand by and mend some Ger
man ships to bring them home. He
also said that the assistant secretary
of the navy had said that in two
months all naval forces would be out
of Europe. The men have been Or
dered to send their personal effects to
New York.
The dinner dance planned by the
Elks for this week has been called off
on account of some repair work which
is being done on the Elks club build
ing.
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Mrs Alice ]. Love of 1874 Harri-
son street has received the first note
of thanks from the Belgians for arti-
cles of clothing sent to Belgium at
the beginning of the war in 1914. Mrs.
| Loves articles were included in a box
sent by the Good Government club
before Christmas of that year and no
one had ever heard from the things
sent until recently, when Mrs. Love
received the following letter from
Belgium:
1.-The committee of assistance has
the honor of thanking you very warm
ly for the clothing which you sent at
the beginning of the war. We wanted
to have thanked you sooner, but tie
way the barbarians were keeping their
yoke or US and our existence for more
than four years was very sad, and
| they kept us from answering you. Nc W
we have the joy of being freed from
the oppression of a cruel enemy
thanks to the noble intervention OF
the United States. We hastily wish to
manifest our gratefuIness for the as
sistance which you have given to our
unfortunate Eelgians.
; Kindly accept, madame, our most
respectful sa1utations.
20. BENT, Treasurer"
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A number of young people came UT
, from Lawrence to attend the dance al
| Kellam hall last night. Among those
who came up yesterday afternoon and
| | returned to the university today are