The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-11

| bers of the Monday Tourist club. yell
| low iris were used as table decorations.
! Covers were placed for twentyfour
guests.
Mrs. L. D. Smythe of Holton and
Mrs. Fred Holmstedt of Portland, Ore,
were out of town guests. The guests
| answered the roll call with funny
story. Mrs. Jay Hughes and Allison
Hill gave several violin numbers.
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| Mrs. L. C. Hodge. 1915 Boswell ave-
nue., was the hostess Tuesday after
noon at the guest day meeting of the
Nautilus club. Mrs. Henry j. Dotter-
WEIGH sang two numbers, and Mrs.
Hodge gave a talk on wild Flowers
of Kansas" illustrated by life size
photographs which she had made and
tinted.
The guests of the afternoon includ-
ed: Mrs Dotterweich, Mrs J. r.
Washington, Mrs. H. L. Quail, Mrs.
R. H. Cowgirl, Mrs. ]. F. Merrick,
Mrs. F. s. Kenyon, Mrs W; L; Quail,
Mrs. L. ]. Embleton, Mrs. E. F. Stan
ley, Mrs. F. E. Iserman. Mrs. E. J..
Griffith, Mrs. L. D. Noyes, Mrs. Fred
L. Crabbe. Mrs. Howard tanning,
Mrs. Charles Startzman, Mrs. Col
burn, Mrs. N. S. Holland, Mrs. ]. D.
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The Writers club of New York City
has planted a tree in Washington
Square as a memorial to Alan Seeger,
the young American poet, killed in
action while serving with the Foreign
Legion during the world war. Seeger
who is particularly famous for his
poem, Il Have Rendezvous With
Death,'' was the first American writer
to be killed in the war.
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The monthly joint social meeting Of
A a,-ir,p 7 4 ,ge
auxiliary will be held Thursday eve
ming in Legion hall. The auxiliary
business meeting will begin at 1880
o'clock. During the evening. DR.. Rob
Stewart will give an informal talk on
his work. as Thursday will be hospital
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben F. Abels, 1903
Tyler street, will entertain with fam
lily dinner Thursday avening in honor
of Mrs. Abels's mother, Mrs. W. G..
Harrington's, birthday anniversary.
The Boy Scout Mothers club of the
Westminster Presbyterian church will
meet Thursday afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Joseph
missioner Fazel will address the
mothers
The Music Study club will meet
Thursday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock at
the home of Mrs Frank G. Dreaming,
314 East Sixth avenue.
An interesting program will be
given by: Mrs. Morton Albaugh, Mrs.
G. L. Thorpe, Mrs. w. E. Bulls, Mrs.
Ray Yarnell, Mrs. F. A. Wilson, Mrs.
Raymond Murray. Mrs. H. B. Tasker,
Mrs. Dreaming, Mrs. H. L. Quail. Mrs.
Eleanor Sims Hill, Mrs Pendleton
Miller, Mrs. o. W. Doing, Miss Ma
belle G. Wright, Miss Lovelia Hilty
and Miss Helen Leeper.
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Tuesday evening. Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
Ramsey celebrated the fortieth ami
versary of their marriage with an in
formal party held at their home. 925
Morris avenue. Mr.. and Mrs. Ram
sey were married at Oakdale. ILL.,, May
10. 1881, and came to Kansas in 1885.
During the evening congratulatory
letters were read from their children.
Maj. and Mrs. Norman f. Ramsey of
Washington, D. C.; Mr. Lester Allen
Ramsey of Brooklyn, n. Y, and Mrs.
Otto E. F'risbie of Hysham, Mont.
Prof Frank S. Kenyon of the Wash
burn school of music, will present
Miss Jessie Young and Miss Pearl
Thiebaud in recital Thursday evening
in MacVicar chapel. Miss Reba
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Mrs. G. ]. Little entertained the
Potwin Darning club this afternoon at
her home, 1873 Woodlawn avenue.
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The members of the Washburn ORA
day evening at the Alpha Phi house
by Prof. and Mrs z. d, Schoenberger.
About fifty guests were present.
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The first memorial of General
Grant to be unveiled after his death is
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man which stands in Fort Leaven-
worth. and which is the work of Lo-
RADIO Taft, the artist and sculptor who
will arrive in Topeka Friday and will
speak Friday evening at Washburn
college.
The unwilling of this monument
took place about thirty years ago. a
number of persons from Topeka going
down for the ceremony. which was
conducted by Senator ingalls,. with
Mr.. George r. Peck giving the ad-
dress.
A special request has come to the
committee of women who are gather
| ing the pictures for the Boys Indus
| trial school that they procure a good
picture of the Christ. This urgent re-
quest has come from another institu-
| ton which wishes to place the picture
on its walls. Any person having an
| excellent copy of Hoffman's Christ or
any one or the famous pictures In
which Christ is the central figure may
call Mrs. ]. H. Luxton. chairman of
the educational department of the
Wonans club. The committee which
| is gathering the pictures for the Boys
Industrial school will begin calling at
! the various donors homes for their
gifts Tuesday morning.
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THERE'S A FAMILY IN OUR TOWN
That received one of those dreaded
little notices not long ago, Informing
| them that they had thirty days In
which to locate another "parlor. bed
i room and BATH" as the one in which
they were then living had been sold.