The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-28

on and declared it fitted. They are
on and declared it fitted. They are
people around the boarding houses are
trying to find out who told"
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The Kansas Council of Women held
their luncheon this noon at Pelletier's
tea room. Two new mem bers of the
council present at the luncheon were
Miss Winston of Lawrence university,
representing the newly organized state
collegiate alumnae association. and
Mrs c. S. Huffman of Topeka, presi-
dent of the Women's Kansas Day club.
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Miss Margaret Hill, who leaves to-
| morrow with her mother Mrs. C. M.
Hill, for California. was guest of honor
at a line party at the Orpheum yes
terday afternoon with Miss Marian
Moore, Miss Jessie Elliot and Miss
Eliza beth Purdy as hostesses. Those
| in the party were Miss Hill. Miss Mary
I Rodgers, Miss Baby Gault Miss
Vreda Birch. Miss Louise McKown,
Miss Jane Bone, Miss Betty Bone
| brake, Miss Isabel Crawford. Miss
Moore, Miss Purdy ana Miss Elliot.
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Senator James Watson of Indiana,
who will deliver the address at the
Mems Kansas Day club banquet TO-
morrow night, will be entertained in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. David w.
Mulvane. Mr.. Charles Scott of lola
and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Healing OF
Indianapolis. Ind, are also expected to
arrive for Kansas day and be guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mulyane.
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The Rota club will hold its next
| meeting on the first Wednesday in
February at noon at the Chamber of
Commerce.
Mrs. De Witt c. Nellis has as her
house guests the following ladies, who
have arrived to attend the meeting of
the Kansas Council of Women today
and the luncheon of the Native Sons
and Daughters of Kansas tomorrow:
Mrs. Sadie P. .Grisham of Cottonwood
Falls, Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Billiard of
TonganoXie, Mrs. Katherine Hoffman
! of Enterprise.
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Mrs. Fred Wellhouse has arrived
from Toledo, Ohio, to visit her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ McGaw. of
West Fourteenth street Captain
Wellhouse. who is an electrical engi-
neer and has been in charge of a dis
| trict with headquarters at Toledo. has
been transferred to Birmingham, Ala.
where he will start a power house in
operation. After a visit in Topeka.
| in the south.
Lieutenant Stewart McGaw has re-
turned from France and is also with
| his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. McGaw. He
landed In New York about a week ago
and received his discharge from
Fortress Monroe. He will probably re-
main in Topeka.
OLD KAW RIVER DEAR.
In songs and PONIES and story books.
all rivers are eulogized. They sing of
the dear old Wabash. praise the
| Swannee to the skies. The broad Mis-
| sissippi gets it's share, likewise the
Kankakee, SO now I'll rhyme about
the dear old Kaw, how dear it is to
me- Oh. / love to roam along it's
ers. and squzz its oozy Shiny mud
| thru my toes by the hours The old
gnarled oaks and hickory trees I new
! er shall forget, and the quaint aroma
/ from VOLTS packing house is still
upon me yet. Up by the bluffs where
the trees hang low and the rifles
whirl and swish, oh, how beautiful
and romantic when some guy starts
cleaning fish. Then you paddle along
its cooling banks. just yourself and a
faithful dog, the world to you is sweet
and serene, when your boat hits some
dead hog. The apple trees are all
abloom, poison ivy covers each limb,
you peel off your clothes. dive off the
Y
back gets blistered in the sun, you
stand against the tree, you forget the
ivy, but in two days, oh, gosh. what
agony. How dear to my heart is this
sweet smelling river, as it winds down
its course like hot shining silver. 1t
CLEANS in the sunshine, it gurgles like
! laughter. its clear sparkling waters
taste like the morning after" Sweet
violets and bluebells dot its poetic
shore. mingled with tin cans. scrap
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Santa Fe bridge. the air is everything
but pure, then further up by the
Melan bridge out pops the naughty
sewer. If l should live a million years
twill be my unending duty to always
praise and impress on you Kaw rivers
smell and beauty. d. s. A.
The active members of the Sigma
Alpha Iota musical sorority were
guests of the pledges at cabaret
the sorority colors and the favors
were red roses. Each pledge gave a
stunt during the evening.
The hostesses were: Miss Helen
/ Scott, Miss Bernice Heath. Miss opal
1 Hoffman. Miss Mabel Hoffman, Miss
! Mildred Lewis. Miss Dorothy Drum,
! Miss Jessie Young: and the guests:
/ Mrs. II. J. Harshbarger. Mrs John
/ Sargent, Miss Ethel Grant, Miss Edna
| Smith. Miss Sadie Lindenmeyer, Miss
belh hOSleT, MISS NlISlilid 1dildIetIo'
/ Miss Gladys Eliidge, Miss Marion
| Worden, Miss Frances Cav, Miss
! Gladys Heath. Miss Dorothy Shove,
and Miss Irene Howard
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Notes and Personal Mention.
| Mrs w. ]. Bailey, of Atchison, has
arrived to attend the luncheon of the
Kansas Council of Women and the
! Kansas Day festivities and is the guest
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank p MacLennan.
! Miss Anna Goddard, of Oskaloosa.
| superintendent of the schools of JEFF