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

Springfield he met Miss Marland.
Since then she has visited in Topeka
several times and will not be a strang-
er in the city when she returns as Mrs.
Sargent.
Mr.. Sargent is one of the prominent
young business men of the city, being
manager of the Sargent Cut Stone
company and active in the business
Washburn college and is a member of
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
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The Elks' club dances in the future
will be held on Friday evenings. 1t was
thought that they would be given on
raised by twenty-five or. SO Of the
members of the B. P. o. E., who spend
the first five days out of town travel
ing for their firms.
Now who on earth would ever have
the courage to do that?" said a To-
peka woman as she finished reading
a front page story in the Los Angeles
Tribune, telling of how three nine
months old triplets had become the
Thora Spaulding of Kansas. What"
exclaimed some one else. ''Miss>Thora
Spaulding, who formerly ran the Tots
Toggery down there on West Eighth
listener, the very same one, listen,
here's the story" And she read the
1.-The high cost of rearing babies did
not deter Miss-Thora Spaulding and
Miss Maud Spaulding from adopting
forsaken triplets in Los Angeles while
on their way from Topeka, Kan. to
visit a sister in Oakland. Calf. They
arrived yesterday with their three g.
months-old foster charges, Billy, Be-
linda and Bertha.
Three babies at once were too
much for their father, who promptly
upon their birth in Los Angeles de-
serted the young mother. The girl
wife tried for nine months to support
them and then overtures were made
by a moving picture company who
wished to adopt them. When word of
the adoption by a corporation of the
small boy and two girls was notsed
abroad, would-be parents rushed to
children for themselves. The Misses
Spaulding have named the triplets
Burton, Elizabeth Ann and Helen
Louise. Out in Broadmoor where the
now foster mothers sister resides,
there is great excitement"
''Humph," spoke up the listener\" Il
should think there would be-"
Mrs. Charles Wolff entertained the
members of her bridge club Friday
afternoon at the Country club.
An announcement of a wedding
which comes as a surprise to the many
friends of the bride is that Of Miss
Myrtle Shook and Mr.. T. Hamilton
Van Scoy. The marriage took place
in independence, Mo-. March IL.
The bride is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John S. Shook of $50 FILL
more street, and formerly attended
Washburn here. For several years
Mrs. Vac Scoy has been head artist
at the Hicks & Conlee studio at Kan
sas City, Mo, and has painted several
fine portraits, one of them being a
likeness of Dean H. Whitehouse.
Mr.. Van Scoy is the son of the
Van Scoy Moving Picture corporation.
and is a scenario writer and actor. H :
and his bride will leave shortly for
San Francisco. and will make their
home in Ingleside, a suburb Of the
city.
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Announcement has been made by
Mr.. P. r. Wolfe of the marriage of
his daughter. Mrs. Mabel Potter, and
the Rev. William r. Ward of Lansing.
KAN The marriage took place at the
Oakland Methodist church in Pitts
burgh, Pa, August IS. and was fol-
LOVED by a wedding dinner at the VIII
liam Penn hotel. After a trip to