The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-26

IL willard. Mr. ana Mrs. Willard and
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Willard will be
Topeka avenue, Friday evening" No
invitations have been issued. but
friends are invited to call.
Miss Thelma Huston. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Huston, 1929 Polk
street, has entered the movie game
in California. She works in two diff
fersnt film companies. one of them be-
ing William Harris company
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ALL IS VANITY.
A Topeka woman went into a store
for shoes one day last week. The
clerk finally tried on pair with which
she was immensely pleased. She
stepped back and forth before the
floor mirror, turned her foot so as to
see it from every angle. and found it
to be good. The shoe was all she
as prices go now She SO expressed
herself. and told the clerk she would
take that pair. When he was doing
them up she asked him what number
they were and he told her. You may
keep Them" she snapped. Il won't
wear so large a pair of Shoes" and
flounced out of the store. presumably to
find a place where the number would
be the same. but the clerk more willy.
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at her homo in Monroe street Tuesday
evening by a number of her friends
and neighbors, the occasion being her
S1st birthday anniversary. The guests
came with well filled baskets of food,
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wienie roast was given at Lake
wood park Tuesday evening in COM
pliment to Miss Geneva Schramm of
Marysvillc, Kan, who is here visiting
her sister. Miss Trcss. Those present
were Olcan Mangus, Beatrice Ander-
son. Gladys Cooley. Laura Gilmore,
Helen Willbourn. Earla Lynch, Anna
Hollenbeck. Geneva and Trcss
Schramm.
Scoutmaster Williams had a feed
contest" last Tuesday night to see who
was the biggest eater in his troop.
Money prizes were awarded stosEthe
winners in the contest as follows; First
prize, Keith Montgomery, Forrest
Newell; second prize. Ernest Reece,
Carroll Shrader; third prize. Emmett
Fry. Troop 81 is a live wire troop
and leads all of the other troops of
Topeka in athletics.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Wiede announce
the marriage of their daughter Mona
Ida to Charles Edward Plath Tuesday
evening at their home in Morris ave-
nue.. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev Robert A. Schen
Mrs Plath was graduated from the
Topeka high school in the class of
June, 1917. and was graduated this
year from Christs hospital training
school for nurses.
Mr. Plath is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Plath of Clay street. He also
was graduated in the class of June,
1918. and will be remembered because
of his prominence in Y. NJ C. A. work
here. He served in the medical divi-
sion OF the navy during the war and
at present is manager of grain ele-
vator in western Kansas.
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With September close at hand, and
the weather already indicative of fall,
the thought of the young turns nat
urally toward school and college. The
thought may be tinged with antieipa-
ton of fun and pranks, rather than
of deep seriousness of purpose. But
il so, who that remembers youth, will
sit in Judgment? Some, there may
be. will go to be fitted for social lead
ership. some for the task of making
a living when college days shall be
past, and some simply for the benefit
that a trained mind gives in the home
as we'll as in business
A very incomplete list of boys and
girls who will leave Topeka in Septem-
Der or October for other places in
cludes: Miss Isabel Crawford. who
will return to Miss Sommers school
in Washington. D. c.. and Miss Mar
got Dillon and Miss Muriel Barnes
who will accompany her; Miss Men
rietta Allen. who will return to Miss
Spence's school in New York City:
Miss Babbie Gault. who will enter
Oakesnere Mrs. Merritt's school for
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