The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-14

and her sister. Miss McDonough. Miss
McDonough has been employed in the
state livestock commissioner office.
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The men of the West Side Christian
church will give their annual social
in Edgewood park Wednesday evening
of this week. They will sell ice cream,
cake, lemonade and melons. Mr.. NJ.
A. Harding will conduct the orchestra
which will play during the evening.
Mr.. J. F. Roose will have charge of
the program.
Miss Mabel Rhine, of Des Moines.
formerly of Topeka, and Mr.. G.. A.
Swanson, of Lorimer, Iowa, were mar
ried Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. ].
Cherry, 500 Clay street. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. Ed
mund ]. Kulp. pastor of the First
Methodist church.
Mr.. Guy A. Brier arrived in To-
peka Saturday after eleven months
service in the army. Mr.. Br:er was
overseas several months with the
S. S. U. section 537, which as attached
to the French army. While abroad
he spent time in England. France,
Belgium and Germany. Mr.. Brier is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Brier.
His two brothers, Archibald and
have returned to Topeka. Mr.. Brier
received his discharge at Camp Dodge,
Iowa.
A camping party which left today
for a camp in the woods west of the
brick yards is made up of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Miller, Mr.. and Mrs.
Miss Irene Troxell. Miss Edith tt oXell,
Mr.. Fred Norris, Mr.. Walter Esche.
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Miss Kathryn Albaugh entertained
at luncheon at Pelletier's Saturday in
honor of Miss Mary Weightman,
whose marriage to Mr.. William Tom
nnson will occur this week Miss
Winfield Green will give a function
for Miss Weightman some day this
week.
The women of the Military Sister
hood who are working on the honor
roll will have lunch together tomor-
row at the Chamber of Commerce. A
business meeting will be held after
lunch.
FAME AND ME.
I'm hep to how Columbus felt
when first he sighted land. ken what
Sousa thought when he got up to beat
the band; I hear the yell the Wrights
let out as they leaped into the air,
And know mans delirium when he
gets jack to spare. I'm happier than
Newton, when he saw the apple skid
ding, and loonier than Antony at
Cleopatra's kidding. All because
well-recently. I hoped into renown.
oy mention in dispatches" in my old
home town. The village editor re-
called my adolescent aims; my fell de-
termination to set poetry into flames.
Then he went on inferring like, that
the re-al-i-za- tion, had metamor-
ton. He copied lines of mine. and
lowed they were not really bad" in
fact he said they had become a some
what current fad. And after that /
wouldn't change my stylus for a
crown, for I'm sure a devil in my old
nome town. N.S.A.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. S. Sheetz of 11O9
Garfield street. announce the marriage
OF their daughter, Mary Mildred. and
Mr. Thomas Cain, on May "a, in Kan
sas City, Mo.
The bride is a graduate of the To-
peka high school, and later attended
Mount st. Mary's academy at Leaven-
worth. Mr.. Cain is a son of Mrs. Alice
Cain, Of the College Hill neighborhood.
He was graduated from the Topeka
nigh school, and is now in business in
College Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cain will make their
home at 11os Garfield street
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Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Hull and their
daughter. Winifred, of Chevy Chase.
Md. stopped in Topeka yesterday to
lege avenue. The Hull family are
driving from Maryland to their old
home in Nickerson and to Lakin. They
started July l. Mr.. Hull Is first assist.
ant in the United States patent office
in Washington and Mrs. Hull is a phy-
stefan. For a number of years they
taught in the Reno county high school
at Nickerson. Mr.. Hull will return 70
Washington in a fortnight and Mrs
Hull and Miss Hull will visit Mrs
Hulls mother. Mrs. Sarah Madison.
until September. when they will drive
back to Washington.
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CONCERNING MEN
There are polite men in the world
aye gallant men even in Topeka: althc
some women bemoan the fact that the
good old days are gone and times amt
as they was! But there are still men
who turn every remark toward an.
other and pleasanter remark and
come up every time with flatterine
reply. True, they don't usually grow
in Kansas. They originate in the
south, but they are with US neverthe-
less and long may they wave. Attic
they sometimes are worse than the
other sort when you aren't used to
them and they take you unawares. II
is necessary to have two entirely diff
ferent lines-one for the average Kan
sas college bred man and another for
the gentleman reared on a southern
plantation. It's like this: When con-
versation leads you to say people