The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-06

other things combined, should make
this one of the very attractive parties
of the season. The members of the
social club who are directly RESPONSE
BILE for the affair are: Mrs. David
Page, Mrs. Robert Stewart, Mrs. T.
NJ. Lillard. Mrs. E. T. Mahood. Mrs.
Merrill Mills, Mrs. Robert Carver
Mrs. Kurtz Kellam, Mrs. William
Kercher, Mrs. Glen Beaver. Mrs. Karl
Rankin, Miss Ethel. Frizell and Miss
Helen Estey. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
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Mrs. Charles Mitchell, commandant
of the Red Cross canteen service, will
entertain the captains and supply Of
ficers of the canteen at 1 o'clock
luncheon at the Country club next
Tuesday afternoon. 1t has been GUS
tomary for the captains to meet on
the second Tuesday of each month in
the evening, but Mrs. Mitchell decided
to depart from the regular Gus
tom at this time and entertain them
at luncheon to discuss matters per-
tanning to the canteen.
The guests will be Mrs. Jay House,
who has taken the captaincy Of the
Monday team in place of Mrs. Charles
S. Huffman, who has gone to her
home in Columbus; Mrs. w. G. Dickie,
captain of the Tuesday team; Mrs.
Hinkle Guy, of the Wednesday team:
Mrs A. G. Frost. representing Mrs.
Horace Humphrey of the Thursday
team; Mrs. c. S. Elliott, captain of the
Friday team; Mrs. Glenn Pratt, who
has been made captain of the Satur-
day team to fill the vacancy caused
by Mrs. Kurtz Kellam moving to Kan
sas City; Miss Emily Ryan, captain
of the Sunday team: Mrs. ]. A Cole,
assistant commandant, and Mrs. Roy
Crawford and Miss Genevieve Funk
supply officers.
The girls of the junior class of the
high school were addressing invita-
tons day or SO ago to a little party
to be given at the home of one of the
girls, and wanted to send one to a
boy in the class named Frank Sturges.
Looking in the telephone directory
they found the name, with the ad-
dress. 1.-The Devon"
So the invitation was dispatched to
Mr.. Frank Sturges, whom everybody
knows as the passenger agent of the
Santa Fe, a high-up Mason, the towns
most famous female impersonator.
and general good fellow.
In due time the girl at whose house
the party was to be given, received a
polite little acknowledgment of the
invitation from Mr.. Sturges, stating
how much he appreciated being re-
membered. but expressing his regret
at being unable to accept, his wife
never allowed him to go out at night
alone.
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Mrs. Ivan Dibble was hostess this
afternoon at the Country club to the
members of her bridge club and the
following guests: Mrs. William Col
linson, Mrs. John Hamilton, Mrs.
Jack Campbell. Mrs. Noel Wood, Mrs.
Jack Blair. Mrs. Donald Pierce. Mrs.
Clay Hamilton. Mrs. Robert Pierce jr,
Miss Clyde Bonebrake and Miss Ariel
Nichols.
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The mothers of town who are busy
with domestic. business or social cares
are congratulattng themselves that
they will not have to worry about
their children during Saturdays from
now on. Beginning with tomorrow,
they will have the chiIdren's hour at
the Orpheum, which the young women
of the Social Service club have made
possible, at 10 o'clock in the morning
Tomorrow's program will include Mar
guerite Clark in that most charming
fairy story, The Seven Swans"
with a good comedy and an educa-
tional pict ire as we'll
In the afternoons on Saturday, he
ginning with tomorrow, from until A.