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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1940
Page
5
Society notes and schedule details for social events at the Country club Colonial tea room and regional clubs. The piece lists dinners, bridge showers, golf prizes, club activities, and a birth announcement at Memorial hospital, with dates and hostesses.
Miss Genevieve Hargiss returns from Tempe and Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Birch relocate to Pratt after vacation in Colorado. Mrs. Louise Nelson visits Russell. Mrs. W. B. Dalton recovers from Memorial hospital operation. Several families return from vacations in California and Colorado. Kirkpatrick extended trips include western Kansas and New Mexico, with numerous relatives noted in Russell and nearby towns.
Miss Mary Freese of Lawrence visits her sister Mrs George Ott in town for several days. Families from Kansas City De Soto and Eudora share dinners, hospital stays, and social calls. A windmill accident patient returns from Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Gerald and Mrs Ott receive a charivari after their recent wedding as friends gather at the Ott home.
Mr and Mrs H W Hargiss relocate to 1656 Indiana street from 1409 Rhode Island while Mrs Bert Phillips visits family in Kansas City. Several families announce moves to new homes, trips to Colorado and Denver, and study plans at Oread school with the Eaton family moving from Joplin to 1618 Kentucky street.
Ralph D. Childs, longtime Boy Scout leader known in Lawrence, now serves as assistant scout executive of the Tall Corn council in Des Moines. He previously led in Lawrence until 1929 and worked in Casper, Wyoming. Childs emphasizes swimming and lifesaving teaching as he oversees boys including 13-year-old John Crew who recently saved two youths from drowning. Childs urged honoring Crew with the Act of Heroism award.
Mrs. Leland Killion of Devon received a cut above the right eyebrow in a morning collision at Eleventh and Massachusetts. Her car, carrying eight, struck a 1987 Chevrolet coach driven by J B White of Kansas City who had stopped on a red light. The Studebaker coach carrying eight, driven by Clarence Esslinger of Clifton Kansas, sustained the impact and was moved to a garage for repairs. no other injuries were reported.
Prairie Center plans its annual homecoming and basket dinner at Friends church next Sunday with Sunday school at 10 and worship at 11 led by Rev. Martin Torrence of Prairie Center Methodist Church. The event, held on the third Sunday in August, rotates between the two churches. the Friends pastor is Mrs. Estella Garrison. Attendees should bring baskets and table service. Prairie Center lies four and a half miles east and four miles south of Endora.
Asa Colman county weed supervisor reports satisfactory progress in bindweed eradication in Dong Tai county. A 50 percent reduction is noted on treated patches using sodium chlorate with 411 acres under clean cultivation and small future applications planned. Three patches of hoary cress were found, with state weed laws likely to recognize it as noxious.
Reverend Robert P Loudemilk of Coffeyville will conduct nightly services starting Sunday at 7 45 at the Church Made from Brush located at Johnson and Barker Avenues in South Lawrence. Churches of God from nearby cities will participate with the local Church of God sponsoring.
Mrs Mildred Hoyt 91 widow of Rev Edwin A Hoyt founder of St Pauls Methodist church Wichita died today at the Methodist home for the aged in Topeka She is survived by two daughters Mrs Frances Almond Wichita and Miss Laura Hoyt Topeka
Topeka Aug 14 The federal and state crop report says rains last week improved crops in northeastern east central and southeastern Kansas boosting hopes for a good corn crop. Sorghums are recovering well and will contribute grain. alfalfa seeding and fall wheat prep rise as rain aids pasture and water supplies though some upland corn remained burned and feed remains scarce.
H. W. Hargiss, head track coach at the University, purchased the home at 1656 Indiana Street formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Hargiss moved into the 10 room house Saturday after listing and closing on the purchase.
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