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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1940
Page
3
Jefferson City Post Tribune chronicles social notes including reunions, graduation trips to Bryn Mawr, university comings and goings, birthday celebrations, visitors from St Louis and Kansas City, and a Sunday Symphony outing at Busch Lake. Mentions families Sibley Axon Schulz and many local residents with events at homes and churches.
Porter Johnson marriage notices reveal Frances Elizabeth Porter daughter of Mr and Mrs G Johnson of Latour wed William Lawrence Porter son of Mr and Mrs W Porter of 303 Havana street in Harrisonville on May 15. Frances Elizabeth a Park College graduate and William a Missouri University alumnus and public health engineer now reside in Harrisonville. The second item records Miss Margaret Thornberry daughter of Mr and Mrs T E Thornberry marrying George Klug son of Mr and Mrs Jos Klug at the Klug home with a later wedding supper and short trip. The couple will reside at 109 Chesnut Avenue. Also listed are summer course enrollments at Central Missouri State Teachers College in Warrensburg including Dorothy Newsom Eileen Ambrose Margaret Farr Fay Finney Scott Jones and William Robertson. Finally Edwin R Barnthouse and family moved from 506 East State to 121 West Meocarty.
The Margaret Lowe Circle of the Baptist Church meets at 2330 Wednesday with Mrs. George Muir at 1012 West High. The J O Class gathers at 7:30 with the Van Meter sisters at 319 West. The Jeannette Beall Circle plans its annual picnic supper at 6 Wednesday at Mrs. J. C. Collet 1213 Elmarine. The Methodist Missionary Society holds an all day meeting starting 11 o'clock Wednesday in the church parlors. The Aldersgate Circle will be hosted at Dick's Cafe by Mrs. H. R. Stiv tomorrow at one.
Miss Anita Marie Klasinn daughter of Mrs Marguerite Klasinn of Hiawatha Kansas married Lieutenant Zachariah R Wall Jr in the Missouri hotel banquet rooms. Ceremony read by the groom's father before a rose and fern altar with candles. The couple will reside at the Prince Edward apartments after a Chicago honeymoon.
A column extols wives who embrace their husbands hobbies, noting shared enthusiasm strengthens marriage. It cautions against snubbing a spouse's new interests and praises wives who participate, boosting family harmony through mutual support.
The piece argues middle aged husbands seek diversion as family duties and lack of hobbies fade. It notes wives often miss clues, disapprove of change, yet fail to join, risking distance as men pursue golf music or a cellar workshop, with tension from unmet companionship.
Club notes list Mrs Elliott Farmer Mrs John Guy Gibson and Mrs William Tweedie as hostesses for Ladies Day at the Country Club with Mexico club members as luncheon and golf guests. The Capitol School of Dancing to present 131 pupils in fourth annual recital tomorrow evening in Junior College auditorium directed by Mrs Peg Crookshank and Miss Mary Bishop with Miss Mildred Thompson at piano. The program includes tap ballet ballroom and character dancing with Siddies Cabaret and Ballroom Ensemble. The Euphrosgene Club plans a no host picnic and day party tomorrow at the Log Cabin on the Osage. The Priscilla Club meets at 2 pm tomorrow with Mrs B E B Schreiber 209 Manilla. Rainbow Mothers host a picnic then dance Wednesday evening at 6 30 at State Park for Rainbow and DeMolay members and parents.
Quick frozen meats fish fruits and vegetables ease summer cooking in city a shack or beach. Tomorrow's Menu lists breakfast luncheon and dinner options featuring orange juice cereal peach ees with cream sauce toasted cheese sandwiches iced tea swordfish cucumber sauce boiled potatoes carrots peas corn twelve month strawberry tapioca coffee and milk.
Instructions read like a dated kitchen note with a recipe for swordfish and a cucumber sauce for six, plus a fragment on a twelve month strawberry dessert for four. It includes steps for broiling swordfish and making a cucumber sauce from chopped cucumber onion vinegar and seasonings, with chilling guidance.
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