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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1957
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes show a woman returning to Oklahoma to visit her daughter and family. Mentions Mrs. Elton Arensman and relatives including a grandson Mike Arensman, with ties to Elia B. Titus at 901 N. 9th. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
Weekend Baker University commencement activities highlighted visits by Wayne Campbell a 40 year Baker alumnus and Mrs Campbell to relatives in Kangaa City then returning. Local guests included the Heer and Frisbies families with extended kin from Hannibal to Shenandoah. The newly formed home demonstration unit Kountry Kousins discussed standards of excellence and planned a light lesson with the Sorensons. Traveling visitors also included Dibbens, Ward, Milne, Bates, and Winfree family members attending various reunions and a dental convention in Indianapolis. Several locals headed to Denver and Chicago for youth training and graduation events.
Miss Stell Pajmnas, secretary of the IBM and works’s champion typ ist, spent a week at the Bryant Garland home during vacation. Before vacation she toured business schools and women’s clubs, proving 140 words a minute typing is possible. The Columbia Bel Canto trio George London Frances Yeend and Mario Lanza will open the 1947 48 season in November at the community concert association. A Girl Scouting training film was shown at a leaders meeting. Miss Yernadene Piland married Richard J. Craig at the Presbyterian Church. The Neighborly Janes Club met with seven guests. Arche Pemberton opened the Vanity Beauty Shop at 613 Main.
A quirky cake recipe instructs mixing two cups flour, one cup sugar, cocoa and soda, then adding oil, vinegar, vanilla and water. The batter is poured into an eight inch pan with three wells for ingredients and baked at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. The note claims the method saves mixing time and results in a good cake.
Mrs Inez Dunn the Soroptimist club’s first president organized an installa tion ceremony at War ren hate in a tribute to her father the late Ben A Allen who previously installed Garden City Rotary officers. Officers installed included Mrs Cecil Baker president Mrs Aubrey Whitehurst vice president and others with gavel presented to the incoming leader.
The June HDU meeting at Kansas State College covered cash donations to the hospital fund and tobacco house project, a lighting presentation by Mrs. Drussel, and door prizes won by Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Stevenson. Guests included Miss Brown and Mrs. Sughrue. Reports noted road signs to be installed, a police bloodmobile drive, and completed flower planting at Plymell Community House. A thank you note from Ivanhoe Valley Grange praised hot lunches at the Plymell Vacation Bible School.
Calendar of social events lists multiple WSCS circles meeting Thursday at varied times and locations including Mrs. W. Treblwick at 306 Center, Mrs. Ralph Miller, Mrs. Roscoe Marion, Claudia at 1 pm, W. Henkle, Mrs. C. F. Gress, and others in Garden City area. Events continue with Friday chapters FF and X Chapter meetings led by Mrs. Paul Masoner and others at Gillespie locations.
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