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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
5
Society news items must arrive before 11 30 on publication day. Writers should submit details by phone or in writing well ahead of use time.
The column covers a Friday luncheon for Mrs. Kenneth Landes and Mrs. Ernest Boyce at Colonial Tea Room. a West Side Presbyterian church reception for Dean and Mrs. Lawson at the Frowe home. travel notes from their motor trip. marriage announcements for Estelle Eddy and Frank L. Pinet at St. John’s in Lawrence and Ruth Christianson with Gordon Gray in Brady Texas. wedding party details and attire. 4-H club meeting at Brackett school. a birth in Douglas County. Rebekah meeting. engagement of Anne Bradford to Lieut. Col. W. Brooks Bradford with Camp Wolters, Texas to host the wedding plans.
Lieutenant Den niston, Cornell graduate and member of Scabbard and Blade and Alpha Tau Omega, appears in social notes. Mr and Mrs Hugh Thurber of Topeka announce the birth August 5 at Stormont hospital of a son named Forrest Hugh. The Stanwix family plans a reunion next Sunday at Clinton park.
Mr and Mrs C G Bayles plan a Minnesota vacation with Shirley and Bob. Fred Foster and son Dean stay at the Bayles home to arrange for Dean’s University entry. Beverstock and Bradford families depart for a month westward including Santa Fe and Grand Canyon.
Local residents hosted visits and dinners with extended families from Topeka Kansas City and Independence. A gas well was brought in on the Willitts farm and repairs and renovations swept McLouth with new tables booths and painted offices across town.
Mrs Will Curtis and Harold Gilbert visited out of town over the weekend. Town men were doing interior work for Mr and Mrs Hugo Schellhorn Monday. Mr and Mrs Fred Gray and children visited with her parents in Topeka last Sunday. The weather is very dry hindering wheat plowing and corn suffers daily. Mrs Willis Dunn is staying several days in Colorado Springs.
Ada Hays Edith ONeil and Grace Preston attended a Sunday school potluck at Mrs Mallory s. George Kyle family and Donald Pearson family visited Edith ONeil for Sunday dinner. Edward Revey and family with Howard Lawrenz visited Nora and Irene Van Tries. Wayne ONeil returned from Independence Missouri for weekend. Shelbar family from Lawrence called on Walter Parsons. Mrs Shelbar stayed. 4 H club picnic at roadside park. A F Neil Irene attended basket dinner for Mrs J W Brecel sen s 7th birthday. ice cream served. Harold O Neil and father H J O Neil visited M A O Neil for Sunday dinner. Lonnie Barnes visited Wednesday. Henry Bell May and Beulah Corn visited Grace Hays Sunday evening. McMullens from Nebraska visited George Smith and Dr R H Waters. Waters family from Fayetteville Ark called on Mrs Hays. J Hays visited Maxine Averill. Maxine reported Shellack to leave hospital Tuesday. Richard Kramer Billy Sheppard and Miss Smittendorf spent Sunday afternoon in Kansas City.
Mr and Mrs William Atur Murphy visited Eugene Lavin in Topeka on Sunday. Farry Studebaker of Lawrence stayed several days at Earl Rake home. Mrs Ray Baldwin joined Gus Hartman family to Williamsburg to see niece Ona Mae Milligan stricken with paralysis. Miss Lillie Wulfkuhle visiting Relvue Kansas spent days with home folks. Henry Montfoort family of Twin Mound spent Sunday at Daisy Bowen home. Carrol Lee Maust of Lecompton remains a mentioned local connection.
A detailed social notice lists numerous families visiting and hosting in the region around Stull Seneca Topeka Lawrence and Tecumseh including Slusser Rake Moor Kamp Schroeder and Spencer households. Birthday celebrations and illnesses are noted with several households hosting relatives and friends.
The passage records family and visitor news including Pauline awaiting surgery on Tuesday morning and plans to bring a young nephew home briefly. Dr Maust of Lecompton visits John Rake on Monday. Mentions of Mrs Mugler from Leonardsville staying with daughter Mrs Lloyd Musser and Mr Musser. O A Bidinger builds a garage for the Herman Buchheim home. June Swadsey from Wisconsin visits aunt Mrs Tom Connore and family and travels to Lawrence to see relatives.
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