The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-16


Jessie McCarter. Miss Grace Over
myer and Miss. Frances Jones.
The following girls who are en-
of states office had a picnic Thurs
day evening at the waterworks: Miss
Lois Robinette, Miss Louise Smith,
Miss Rea Robertson, Miss Jeanette
1 Dooley. Miss Sara Dwyer, and Miss
Eleanor Brown x of ( Rol! a
Mrs. R. C. Ellis. 100 West street.
entertained with a surprise birthday
party Wednesday evening for her
daughter, Ida Lee, it being her fif-
teenth birthday anniversary. The af-
fair was held on the lawn. which was
lighted with Japanese lanterns. There
were about thirty-fiVe young people
present and the Rev. and Mrs R. A
Schell were special guests of the eve
ming.
There will be a special service at
1880 o'clock Sunday morning at Grace
cathedral for the women of the parish.
An offering will be taken for the
women missionary workers of the
Episcopal church turnout the land
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The July meeting of the Collegiate
Alumnae will be held Saturday noon
members of the association have
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Dorothy and Louise Kittell will en-
terrain the Girls Kings Heralds of
the First Methodist church at their
home. 1920 west street. Saturday
afternoon. Each of the five captains
| in the Heralds is working to have her
division make the best showing in at
tendance, mite box offerings and new
| mem bers. The girls will plan at this
meeting an ice cream social to be
given July %.
THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who is a fraternity fellow and a
member of Topeka's younger social
| of Topeka's charming girls the other
afternoon over soda at one of the
| Kansas avenue drug stores. That
girls nice, she's good looking, she's
| mighty clever and she has more real
common sense than any one I know
| ter watch that" said an older woman
| to the society reporter. as they lis
tened to the eloquent discussion;
| that's liable to develop into a dia-
mond on the left hand and later on an
announcement
Mr. and Mrs. o. G. Duff and their
family have come to Topeka to make
| their home. They are staying tenn
| porarily at the Risteen home in Har-
| rison street during the absence of Mrs.
Risteen and daughters. Who are in
New York. They will occupy the John
Norton home at Twelfth and Tyler
streets within a short time.
The family is wen known in Hor-
| ton, where they have made their
home and besides Mr.. and Mrs. Duff
| includes Miss Leah Belle Duff, the
daughter. who has been attending
school at Rochester, n. Y; Mr.. Lewis
Duff, the son. student at Kansas
university, and a little granddaugh-
ter, Virginia Lee
The Central w. c. T. U. will picnic
at Chesney park Monday afternoon:
Garvey will tell of the world confer
ence of the w. C. T. U. in London,
which they both attended as delegates.
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The barn at the Gene Stotts home
| on Hawthorne avenue was the scene
| of a thrilling performance Thursday
afternoon. Five small boys in the
neighborhood gave a circus. complete
| with a side show, a magician and a
| menagarie. The children sat on
benches in the barn and paid two cents
for the privilege of seeing this re-
markable performance. In the men
| agarie there was a coyote, a one
| winged chicken, a, dog looking a s much
like a lion as they could make him
| with the addition of a few stuck on
| whiskers and a shaved tail, two cats
| and a lonesome looking dog with a
| stocking over his nose, for an elephant.
| Then there was a very dignified
| Queen of Sheba; fortune teller and
| wonderful petrified man, made en-
| tirely of mud. Altogether the per-
| Torrance out-huckled Hucl1le cherry
| Firms effort and netted the proud
| promoters each thirty-three cents
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Notes and Personal Mention
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Auerbach and
family have gone to California on a
vacation trip.
Miss Edith Cornell, who has been
visiting in St. Louis, the guest of her
brothers and an aunt, will return
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