The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-17
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Mrs. d. P. Paxton will entertain at
bridge luncheon Friday, at her
home. BIS West Tenth street, in honor
Mrs Charles Brown of Mohawk. New
York Covers will be laid for Mrs.
Wilbur, Mrs. Brown. Mrs H. G. West,
Mrs. c. S. Huffman. Mrs: V. B: Kist-
Ter, Mrs H. A. Coe. Mrs. Clement
Smith. Mrs. F. w. Watson, Mrs. A. w.
Bronson, Mrs. George Port Ashton,
Mrs. T. R. Paxton. Mrs. Thomas
Creary Mrs. ]. F. FARRELL. Mrs. Will
liam Redwood Smith and Mrs. Paxton
There will be a subscription party
Friday night at Kellam Hall. for the
college and high school crowd. Mr..
Walter Cole and Mr.. Russell Zarker
will have charge of the arrangements
Some of the man from the University
at Lawrence. and some from the col
lege at Manhattan, are coming to To-
peka for tEs occasion.
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Mrs. Norman F. Hay, whose must
cal compositions have several times
pleased Topeka audiences has recent
ly had a song accepted by the Delmar
Music Publishing Co. of Chicago. The
name of the song is Someone" and
the words were written by Bob Law
tom also of Topeka. Mrs Hays mu-
sic pen name is MAX O'Neill-" The
song will be out in very short time,
and Mrs Hays friends are looking
forward to hearing it.
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The Kappa Sigma spring formal
will be May 80. There will also be
a reunion at this party, for the re-
turned members and the older alum
nj Many of the active members
were with the 35th division in France,
especially with the 10th engineers.
The Kappa Sigma fraternity will
also give a dance at the house Satur-
day night.
The Service committee of the Y. w.
C. A. High School club will give an
egg hunt Saturday afternoon at Cen
trail park for about forty children
from the Provident association. There
will be sack races, egg races, three
legged and whee1barrow races. The
baskets for the eggs are being made
bv the Girl Reserve clubs of the city.
The girls who are giving the party for
the children are Helen Green, Gerald
inc Gregg, Helen Diehl, Elizabeth Tip
pin, Barbara FARRELL and Mary Neis-
wanger. Miss Lulu Mckee will assist
in entertaining the children with
stories and games.
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The Kappa Sigma fraternity of
Washburn college announces the
pledging of Leonard Smith of Yer
million. Mr.. Smith is a Junior in the
law school and has just finished nine
months with the A. L. F. as a lieu
tenant aviator. The following men
have also been pledged during the last
part of the second semester and this
semester: Arthur Erickson and De
Loss Erickson of Virgil. Kan; Will
liam Jeorge of Formosa, Kan;
Charles McCarter of Highland Park
and John Heating of Topeka.
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Announcement is made of the mar
riage of Mrs. ]. NJ. Kepple, 1911 Col
lege avenue, to Mr.. Peter Racknor,
1913 Polk street. The ceremony took
place yesterday evening at the Wes-
leyan Methodist parsonage, the pas
tor. Rev. T. ]. Pomeroy, officiating.
The wedding was a very quiet affair,
with only relatives and a few close
I friends in attendance.
Mrs. Racknor is well known So
cially ana has many warm friends.
| Her home has been the place of many
pleasant gatherings.
Mr.. Racllnor has been a resident of
Shawnee county over thirty years. He
came to Kansas in 1881. For several
years he was engaged in the shoe and
harness business at Burlingame and
Scranton. In 1889 he moved onto his
farm nine miles southwest of Topeka.
ago last January, when, death having
| broken up his home, he retired from
the farm and moved to Topeka. He
Joined the Wesleyan Methodist church
in 1902 and has been an active work
er ever since.
Mr.. and Mrs. Racknor will be at
home to their many friends at 1911
| College avenue on and after April 20.
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The art exhibit at the Art Guild will
close this evening. with a program ar
ranged by the officers of the Native
Sons and Daughters of Kansas. The
affair is for the purpose of honoring
Kansas most noted artist, Mr.. George
/ NJ. Stone. Mr.. Stone will talk about
the pictures of Arthur Covey, another
Kansas artist, whose pictures are in
the exhibit. Some of the recent paint
ings of Mr.. Stone will also be ex-
| hibited.
An attractive musical program has
| been arranged by Mr.. Glenwood Jones,
Miss Helen Hogeboom and Mrs. Rob-
| ert Carver.
| Willard Wattles, the Kansas poet,
will come up from Lawrence and be a