The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-12

are: President. the Rev. Charles NJ
Sheldon; vice president, Mrs. Frank
c. Thompson, and secretary-treasurer
Mrs Tom Brown.
THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who momentarily stunned. shocked,
surprised and astonished the habitues
of Steinberg's dance hall Saturday
night. Attired in all the glory of a
hard-boiled shirt, in full evening re-
gala, exquisitely turned out in the
| conventional black and white of the
proper mode as dark, handsome
stranger he arrived at the party The
! tall, attractive woman with him. also
| strange to most of the persons at the
! dance, heightened the mystery by
keeping on her long street coat during
| their visit at the dance.
| OF all the various peculiarities of
| dress affected by the male race at any
dance hall, the black and white man
created the biggest sensation. The
+, woman who kept on her cloak also
hall knew either of them.
They're theatrical people" asserted
one pretty little miss, Il suppose they
are from the Novelty
Mr.. and Mrs John Mecord, who re-
| side on the West Tenth avenue road,
celebrated their golden wedding Sun
| day and about forty of their friends
gathered at the home with presents
and good cheer, notwithstanding the
stormy weather. The actual date of
the anniversary was April 5, but the
snow storm prevented its being cele-
! brated on that date. The hosts were
married in 1870 in Fairbury, ILL.,, and
came to Topeka, where Mr.. Mecord
had lived since 1865. After sojourn
| of one year in Topeka, where Mr..
Mecord was engaged in farming the
tract now covered by the populous
western portion of the city, on which
the Governors square and Christ's
| hospital are located, the couple went to
Denver for four years, and returned to
Kansas, where they settled in Shawnee
county, living at Valencia, Willard and
finally at Auburn. At the latter loca-
ton they lived seventeen years, and
ABOUT two years ago moved to their
suburban home.
Mr.. Mecord is an Ohio product.
having been born in Franklin county,
\ that state, December 27, 1874 Mrs
Mecord was born at Douglas. Isle of
Man, August 8, 1849, and came 10
America in 1855. They have three
sons and one daughter living, and all
reIiect the sturdy stock from which
! they emanate.
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After the close of the war and The
boys were all home again. the Red
cross canteen workers took off their
nats and capes with a sigh of relief
ana regret both. There had been a
certain enjoyment in the work thew
mad done and in getting to know each
! other as well as the members of the
! same teams did. To be sure some
tlmes 1t had been too we'll but that is
| mostly forgotten now. Several of the
cahteens planned that they would con-
tinue TO see each other once in a while
and they planned get together every
once in while. OF course il doesn't
happen SO often as they expected but
the Friday canteen has had several
parties and this afternoon they were
entertained at an informal sewing
party by Mrs. A. NJ. Petro.
The Friday canteen list includes:
Mrs Charles Mitchell. Mrs. R. T. Her
rick, Mrs. Roy Crawford, Mrs Clark.
MRS. w e, Davis, Mrs. Charles Elliott,
Mrs. Frank Hobert, Mrs. W. c. Nelson
OF minneapolis who is visiting, Mrs
Hobert- Mrs. l.. 7. Hussey, Mrs. James
T: DeBevers Kaye, Mrs Joe Keith,
Mrs. s. P. Kramer Mrs Harrison.
MRS Grace King, Mrs. Edmund KUN
MRS John Lagerstrom. Mrs. W. W.
Weob, Miss Genevieve Funk. Miss
Louise McNeal, Mrs. ]. H. O'Connell.
Mrs F. III. Scholle. Mrs w L. StaIons
Mrs. J. z. Thomas. Mrs. d. G. TiIlo+
son, Mrs. Raymond Wolf, Mrs. o. T.
Chopper.
The last time this canteen met was
Wnen they gave farewell party for
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The membership committee of the
I: M C. A will meet tomorrow at
1880 at the association building.
NO CHANCE.
know boy just a plain ordinary
boy and he owns a dog and the dog
is Just plain ordinary dog like a LOT
or dogs you and 1 see running around
all over town this dog is always at the
neels OF this boy and the boy is always
framing some sort of a deal to do
something or go somewhere and al
ways includes the dog;
Ihey wake me up in the morning
iots and lots of times playing out in
the street and at night when 1 come
home they are playing some where
around the neighborhood and the
other night he came over to our house
and wanted to work as he said it wa $
getting near the end of school and he
wanted to take a long walk down the
river and he wanted to get some
money together SO that he could buy
some things and he was going to take
his dog with him;
Then he told me that he had saved
) his money up from selling Saturday
. Evening Posts and doing errands and
things and had bought a license for
the dog and now the dog catcher
couldn't get him and he was SO happy
and he was going to work all he could
TO get more money so that when
school was out he could take hikes and
things so his dog could go along with
him.
And after he was gone I sat back
and wondered why it was that folks
could not be that way with humans
: and why it was that instead of work
ing and trying to figure the other fell
) lew in on things and help the other
fellow to have a good time we sit back
and WASTE our time trying to see the
best way to do the other fellow out of
all he has;
But I guess it is human nature and
there is no way of fixing a remedy
for it but think of that dog and what
he would do for that boy and what
the boy would do for him and pray