The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-04


state penitentiary.
Guests at the dinner following the
wedding Included: The Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ward, Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Cole
Pa, Miss carmie Wolfe of Topeka and
Mr. P. R. Wolfe Of Topeka
Miss Louise Curtis. who will leave
next week for her home in Omaha,
Neb., will be the guest of honor at a
dinner to be given this evening at Pei
letters Tea room by Miss Nell Thorpe.
Miss Curtis has been girls work secre-
tary for the past two years at the Y.
W. c. A. Covers will be placed for six
guests.
The kansas women's committee on
child welfare and the Kansas chill
dren's code commission will have
fall conference September 10 and II
at the Commercial club rooms.
Friday morning, the meeting of the
child welfare committee will be called
to order by the chairman, Mrs. Festus
Foster, and then will follow the re-
port of the secretary, DR.. Florence
Brown Sherbon and the reports of the
district chairman In the afternoon
at 2 o'clock the reports from the sur
veys which are being taken over the
state will be heard.
Friday evening q joint session of the
committee and the code commission
will be held at o'clock at dinner at
the Chamber of Commerce, with DR..
Wilbur Mason presiding. There will
be greetings from Governor Allen fol-
lowed by talks from representative
persons from both the commission and
the committee on child welfare.
On Saturday the meeting of the
Kansas childrens code commission
will be held. the conference beginning
| at 10 o'clock. Judge Ralph Cav will
open the meeting. and there will be
reports from the drafting committees
| concerning children in industry, edu-
cation, protection of maternity, health
l of children, adolescence, dependent,
defective and delinquent children and
the general interests of children. At
the afternoon session Mr.. Frank OdeI,
ster and Mr.. E. D. McKeever will be
heard.
Girls at the Delta Gamma sorority
house at 1924 College avenue this
winter will be Miss Marie Wentz, of
Valley Falls; Miss Lois SchGffer, OF
Atchison; Miss Ruth Speer. of Mus
der; Miss Chrystal Wheeler. of Hutch
inson; Miss Zeola Van Wrinkle, of
Ionia; Miss Ruth Helen Brett, of
Ponca City. Okla; Miss Ruth Clark, of
Weston. Kan; Miss Hester LEIGH
tenhahn. of Junction City.
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will be-house mother.
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Topeka, Kan, Sept. 4, 1920.
| Dear Elizabeth: Well. I'm back
and had a good time. I suppose the
proofreader will frown when she reads
this, so I'll say I have returned and
that I enjoyed myself immensely,
| ter English. You know when 1 left
here 1 went. up to Algoma. Wis. I
don't suppose you have ever heard of
| the town before, but they have a
| cheese factory, veneer factory, a
| postoffice, a weekly newspaper, two
| drug stores, two dentists and Lake
| Michigan, and that's enough to have
| in one small town. It's all one needs
| for vacation anyway. When ar
river there, reporter who had come
down to meet the train was busy with
his notebook, and at first I thought
he had come to meet me, but need
not have felt so flattered. for he met
the two trains a day all the while 1
was there and asked all the folks who
got off their names for his sheet.
| Well, Elizabeth, had a taste OF what
| it is to have your name misspelled in
| the paper. That reporter fellow
thought my name was Mones, and ev-
| erywhere 1 went, after that when 1
was introduced, I had to stop and ex-
plain that no, my name wasn't Mones,
! it was Jones. I'm going to have more
sympathy now for folks when l get
their names misspelled in my column.
The first day I was there I went OUT
and sat on the breakwater at quarter
of five in the morning and started a
| letter to you. 1 was finding lots to
write about when I dropped my PEN
ell in the lake. 1 thought I'd be real
quick and grab it out and nearly Tell
off the preakwater and lost my hand
kerchief in the effort so gave 1t up
and went home.
There were some of the funniest
people on the train. and everywhere
went there were brides and pride
| grooms Did you ever hear of the
Ahnapee & Western railway? 1 never
1 did either, till two weeks ago, but that
road produces more plain SCOT than
any one road in the whole United
States. Across the aisle from US sat g
newly married couple, and the birds
almost wore out two handkerchief
keeping the SCOT out of the bride
groom's eyes. Then there was funny
old man who, even tho it was as hot as
all get out, wore his overcoat. Finally
he could stand it no longer. and
took it off, hanging it up over hil
head. Then he sat down. only, to jumI
up and take off his suit coat. Is thai
what you call a mans coat? Anyway
he took 1t off and produced a black
alpaca one from his suitcase and put
it on. The last I saw of him he wa.
wiping SCOT off his face, too. There
was a young couple on the train, and
they had their Aunt Clara for e
chaperon. Ny sakes alive, Elizabeth
that woman carried a green silk bal
over a yard long and wide; well she
could have put a family washing in it
She could produce everything from
THAT bag, from mink furs and hats tC
raisins. Anything shat the young
couple wanted Aunt Clara took the
bag off the hook and imm ediateIy pro.
duced it. She even had pair of shoes
in it They teased her to death about
it, but it came IN mighty handy. Aunt
Clara was going out in the wilds tC
camp, but nevertheless she had nine
pairs of shoes and had paid $3.50 ex.
cess baggage. What was she going tc
do with all those clothes. tell me?
They dance on Sunday up there, and
they have movie shows on Sunday and
j Vet they don,t lnnk any rznrsa tl,ar r, NJ