Community notes recall lively Moore housewarming and gatherings
The Journal-World society column reports a housewarming for Mr. and Mrs. Ben A. Moore at their farm northeast of Lawrence with a buffet supper and watermelon toast. Attendees include numerous local residents and friends, plus a piano recital by Mrs. Dalton's students. A series of meetings, weddings, and family reunions follow, featuring the Davis-Chandler marriage in Washington and gatherings in Topeka and Pleasant Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben A. Moore
Lawrence
Mrs. Moore
Elizabeth Josephine Davis
J. S. Davis
Williamsburg
Thomas Chandler
C. G. Chandler
Roxboro
N. C
Washington, D.C
Chandler
Lawrence Business College
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Maurice A. Crane
Topeka
Greenwood
L. K. Zimmer
Galen Gorrill
Local Families and Events Notice in Westphalia and Baldwin
Westphalia families including Mr and Mrs Claude Edgecomb and daughters Thelma and Anna Mae join Andrew Wagoner family Melvin and Rochelle and others. Baldwin residents Mr and Mrs Cloyd Beeghley and Mary Peterson noted. Kanwaka 4 H girls plan all day meeting at Mary Jane Toppings home. Rev W C Hansen announces birth of son at Memorial hospital. Anna May Draper and David Draper to present piano recital at the Colonial with Max Falkenstien and June Draper. Program open to friends. pieces include Moonlight Sonata and Czardas among others. The Lord of Misrule festival features dances and traditional pomp and ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Edgecomb
Thelma
Anna Mae
Andrew Wagoner
Melvin
Rochelle
Alva Filburn
Darrell
Westphalia
William Flory
Donald Churchbaugh
Elmer Churchbaugh
Cloyd Beeghley
Mary Peterson
Baldwin
Elmer Sawyer
Richland
Leslie Churchbaurch
John Churchbaugh
Lawrence
Anna May Draper
David Draper
Louise Wiedemann
Colonial
Max Falkenstien
June Draper
Draper
Valse Brillante
Debussy
Preyer
Brepsant
Hollaender
Hobby
Hobby on the Green and related musical pieces described
The fragment describes a dancer with a frame holding a horse head and tail, hung at waist level and hidden by a skirt. It notes Hobby on the Green as a prank, then lists Scherzo Widor and several dance titles including Max Falke and La Polka de la Reine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright
Anna May Draper
Local society notes of travel and visits
Dr and Mrs J B Henry depart for Mexico on a motor trip with planned stops in Carlsbad Santa Fe and Colorado Springs. Miss Cleo Grimes undergoes emergency appendectomy at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and is reported satisfactory. Other local residents travel and visit relatives in Kansas City Eureka Ir and Pomona Calif.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Henry
Mexico
Carlsbad
Santa Fe
Nlm
Colorado Springs
Cola
Cleo Grimes
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Miss Grimes
Mildred D. Watson
Henry Asher
Concordia
Mildred Landcraft
Donna Pontius
Kansas City
Frank Rowland
Evelyn Markley
Colorado
Boulder
Denver
Estes Park
George A. Ward
Arthur Ward
Lois Ward
Pomona Calif
H. A. Jetmore
New York
Minnesota
Jetmore
Richard Dickinson
Eureka
C. O. Rutledge
Hays
Mr. Rutledge
Local Residents Take Short Trips and Job Changes
Mrs George M Beal and Mrs Beal visit relatives while Elaine Linley and Emma Cain return from a two week stay with Chester Linley in Cimarron. Rosa Ise returns from Denver Greeley and California trips. J Norman Pinnick will assist C E Franks at Burgner Bowan Matthews Lumber. Oliver Wilcoxon moves to Lexington. Hobbs family visits Lawrence. Prof J W Twente and family travel to Belton for F R Twente’s funeral. Alice Russell goes to San Francisco. Louise Carney leaves for Seattle and California. Margaret Gibler improves after a heart attack with family at her side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
George M. Beal
Eal
Elaine Linley
Emma Cain
Chester Linley
Cimarron
Rosa Ise
Denver
Greeley
Colo
San Diego
Calif
California
San Francisco
J. Norman Pinnick
Lincoln
Kan
C. E. Franks
Burgner-Bowman-Matthews Lumber Company
Oliver Wilcoxon
Lexington
Carl Hobbs
Hutchinson
Lawrence
Earl Hobbs
Hobbs
J. W. Twente
Belton
Professor Twente
F. R. Twente
Alice Russell
Louise Carney
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Seattle
Wash
Exposition
Margaret Gibler
Clinton
Can't neck and drive official suspends license
In Massachusetts Registrar Frank A. Goodwin suspended for a week the license of a Springfield woman after an inspector saw her kissing her boyfriend while driving a bridge at 45 miles an hour. He said intercourse should be performed only when the car is stopped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Massachusetts
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Frank A. Goodwin
Springfield
Grocer Fights Off Bandit After Fainting Incident
Des Moines Iowa August 1 1924 P I O P O B Israel a grocer fainted when a young bandit pushed a revolver at him at his store counter The bandit walked behind the counter shook Israel and ordered him to put up his hands Israel revived grabbed a billiard cue and struck the bandit driving him from the store
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Int
Pi—O. B. Israel
Israel
Mouse Bite Fatal to Bay Metropolis Boy
Albert Dale Jessing nine year old son of a Massac County farmer died after a mouse bite caused rabies. A laboratory analysis confirmed the rabies diagnosis as the cause of death in Illinois Bay Metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Metropolis
Ill
Albert Dale Jessing
Massac County
Mrs Ella Farrelly Dies in Chanute at 85
Mrs Ella F Farrelly 85 widow of Hugh P Farrelly a prominent lawyer and Democrat died at her home in Chanute Kansas She was former grand master of the Kansas Masonic grand lodge twice elected to the state senate and was a 1912 U S senate candidate Her husband died in 1926
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Kan
Ella F. Farrelly
Hugh P. Farrelly
Farrelly
Kansas Masonic Grand Lodge
U.S
Shower honors for Mrs Ralph Schimmel in Hesper
Friends hosted a Friday shower at Mrs Ralph Schimmel’s home with conversation and contests. Prizes went to Mrs W W Garrison and Mrs Roy Kurtz. Guests listed include many local families and visitors from Kansas City and Pasadena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Schimmel
W. W. Garrison
Roy Kurtz
George Votaw
Herbert Knabe
Norma
Genevieve
Eldon
Votaw
Velda
Marlene
Rush
Ivan Votaw
Raymond Stanley
Howard Miller
Albert Miller
Sunday Visitors At Henley Home Mentioned
Mr and Mrs Ralph Votaw and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Irvan Votaw. Jesse Henley of Whittier California visited his brother Nathan P Henley and Mrs Henley over the weekend. Mrs Mildred Watson, Miss Nan Armstrong and Miss Anna McCracken, all of Lawrence, called on Mrs Barkley Winson Sunday afternoon at the B P Henley home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrison
John D. Mills
Hesper
Paul Frazier
Eldon Wotan
Frederick H. Neis
Clarence Neis
Topeka
Thomas Thornton
Maw Riedel
Walter Riedel
Kansas City
Frederick H. Neil
Cr. Hill
Eunice
Esther Pfleger
Chicago
Charles Til
Barkley Winslow Land
Pasadena
Cal
Tonganoxie
Nathan FP. Henley
Winslow Pwill
Frances Davis
Oliver Dean
O. E. Votaw
John 2D. Mills
Ivan Votaw
Ralph Votaw
Lela
Dorothy
May
Chester Baecker
Baecker
Herbert Knahe
Henry Knabe, Jr
Gardner
Marvin Henley
Colorado Springs
N. P. Henley
New York S
North Carolina
Irvan Votaw
Jesse Henley
Whittier, Cal
Nathan P. Henley
Mrs. Henley
Mildred Watson
Nan Armstrong
Anna McCracken
Lawrence
Barkley Winson
B. P. Henley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Society
Journal-World Office
William Met
Aes
Laura Men Allen Mann
Don Waggoner
Goldsberg
N.C
J. H. DeNinger
Edwirt
Bonnie Birt
Rosemary Cert
Jackie McCabe McCaln
W. B. Dalton
Toss Penny Fugene Hurwitz
Carol Tupy
Barbara Hurwitz
Marcia Ann Hailkenbure
Ruth Mary Tupy
Acy Buchler
Helen Stringham
Mary King
Jeanne Ringo
Martha Dooley
Ellen Jane Lupten
Neas Chubh Iia
Ruth Paldi
Miss Paldi
Dalton
Central State Teachers College
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Muskegon
Women’s Missionary Society of
Trinity Lutheran Church
Arthur Olson
Massachusetts Street
Pleasant Valley Farm Bureau
J. C. Maloney
L. O. Armstrong
Holloway’s Hall
Milton Slusser
Vermont Street
William
Miles
Delbert Perkins
Will Green
Elmer Wise
Perkins
Helen Wise
Walter Heck
Mosdames
Harlan Miller
Charles W. Alfred K LeRoy McLean
John Wise
John Strang
Arthur Heck
Vrank Walters
Emil Heck
Gus Wulfkuhle
Fred Wack
Rev Rushey
Edwin Raymond
Pine
Har
Will Green Rose
Trelyn Wise Charlies
Wwe
Polbart Perkins
Robert Gree
G. Perkins
Misse
Kathryn W
Helen Hey Festher Hack
Reife Schonewenserdt
Jeannette Perkins
Donna Jean Katherine Heck Perkins
Ees Walters
Stilhweater
OfIa
Enita Patison
Martta
Ann Wise
Pleasant Grove
Barnhart
Covington
W. D. Brunk
Brookline
Amos Barnhart
Albert Crumpacker
Everett
Clarence Barnhart
Maxine
Centropolis
Fred DeVore
Walter Wright
Vanity Beauty Shop
Norma Shearer
Burgess Meredith
Los Angeles
Helen Hayes
Herbert Marshall
Kanwaka 4-H Club
Mary Jane Topping
Bouree
Miner
Bach
David Ibran
Beethoven
Ann Raper
Nemozart
David
Nee Monti
Czardas
Etude
Chopin
Max Falke
Ien
Valse Bluette
rigo-Chiapasso
Bedivan
Duralife
Weatch Furniture Co
The
Journal-World
Colonial Tea Room
Iva
Netherlands
Juliana
Beatrix
Ella Farrelly
Mass. St
Ward
the World Company
Tom
Weaver
Schaffer
KOTEX
Ac Kores
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