The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-14

her sister. Miss Edna Anton, whose
place in the fall.
The Ladies Aid society of the First
Congregational church will meet We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock at the
home of Miss Florence Campbell, 500
Lane street.
Following the business session an
informal social afternoon will be held
in honor of Mrs. J. R. Wells, who will
leave soon for Bartlesville, Okla, to
| esses will be Mrs. a. T. Daniels, Mrs.
B. S. Kerns and Miss Louise Griest.
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Miss Hazel J. Bullock, formerly in
structor in French in Washburn who
has spent the summer at Cambridge
where she has accepted a place on the
faculty of Dickinson college.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the First Methodist church
will meet Wednesday afternoon, Sep
| TENDER IS, at the home of Mrs. L. NJ.
Powell, FOL Taylor street. The assist
| ing hostesses will be: Mrs. E. H An
| derson, Mrs. c. E. Abbott, Mrs. W. NJ.
Anthony, Mrs. P. w Allen, Mrs. ].
Mrs. Mary Andrews, Mrs. o. w. Arma-
COST. Mrs. c. P. Adams Mrs c. G.
Blakely, Mrs. S. S. Beggs, Mrs. A. n.
Beers, Mrs. G. E. Bascom. Mrs. W b.
Barrett, Mrs J. E. Barrett, Mrs I. L.
Better and Mrs; r.; W. Burdick.
DIR. Milton Miller and sister, Mrs. A.
Brown, left Saturday for New York
| city. DR.. Miller's marriage to Miss
Dorothy Mason, of Staatsburg- on-the-
| afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr.. and Mrs
viii ]. Miller, who have been visiting
points of interest in the east. will be
| present at the wedding.
News has been received here of the
marriage in Kansas City a few days
| ago of Miss Marjorie Gilyeat and Mr.
Lawrence Carlow, both of Meade,
Kan. Miss Gilyeat is the daughter of
Mrs. Maud Gilyeat, formerly assistant
| among the high school and college
crowd.
Prominent among the neckwear
styles for fall is a new outstanding frill
resem bling in effect somewhat the
Medici idea which played such a
prominent role in neckwear fashions
several years ago. Unlike the Medici,
however, they are not wired and
therefore they can be readily flattened
or adjusted to suit the taste of the
| wearer. No doubt this fashion is the
outgrowth of the vogue for pleatings
which is expected to continue turnout
the fall season.
Mrs. D. V. Billings gave a birthday
party Monday afternoon at her home,
1903 Fillmore street, for her small son.
John Franklin Billings, it being his
second birthday anniversary. The
| small guests included: Charles, jr.,
and Victor Blakely, Bobbie Sanders,
Athena Jane and Frank McGrath,
| Joan Stevens, Bernard McNown, jr..
| Kenneth Grimes, Roberta and Drexe1
Grubbs, Marjorie Rice and Richard
Fast.
THERE'S A GIRL IN OUR TOWN
| Who is engaged to a home town
man now away at school. Before ar
irving at the place of learning, he
spent several days visiting in another
| state and a week OF so afterward the
girl in our town read with chills run
ming up and down her spine the an
nouncement of the marriage of her
supposed future husband and a girl in
| the town in which he had been visit
ing. After she had raved, cried and
figuratively speaking, torn her hair
enough, she wired for an explanation.
1t was found that an entirely different
person but with the same name was
married, and once more the filling of
that indispensable piece of furniture,
the hope box" is going forward.
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Notes and Personal Mention
Mrs. Allen and daughter. Miss Hen
rietta Allen. have returned from a
stay in G1enwood and Colorado
the last of the month for New York to
enter Miss Spence's school
Mr.. D. r. Hite, who has been con-