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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1939
Page
10
Readers are asked to submit society notes to the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication. Contributions should include names and brief announcements for local events, engagements, and social happenings.
The social calendar highlights engagements, weddings, and club gatherings. Notices include Margaret Buena Vista Payne Lohman engagement announced by the Anderson family of Stull and Lawrence connections through John H. Lohman. Social clubs host bridge and luncheon events with prizes and out of town guests.
Elks women enjoyed a bridge and bowling evening at the club rooms with refreshments. Prizes went to Mrs. Willard Brown and Mrs. Frank Strong in bridge and to Mrs. Maurice Cohen Mrs. H. Cohen and Mrs. Allen Phillips in bowling.
The article lists Tuesday pairings including Mrs. V. K. Bruner and Mrs. C. Stew among others, plus a note that Scotch foursomes were played last night at the Country club. It also covers a Jayhawk 4-H club meeting at the Hayden home with fair exhibit plans and a waste paper basket demonstration.
Local society column details many residents traveling to visit relatives and friends across the Midwest and West. Mr and Mrs Carl Schubert head to Blackwell Oklahoma, Evelyn and Kaye Eustace return from a 9000 mile western trip, and numerous others plan visits to Cleveland Ludington Denver Muskegon Los Angeles and more. The Willamette meteorite theft note appears briefly alongside classifieds prompt.
Wilbur Leonard, rooming house inspector, reports 165 of 200 houses approved and seven rejected. Twenty five placed on a conditional list pending improvements as inspections begin on large apartment houses near the campus. He plans to visit 500 properties by semester end.
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania on August 18 Mrs Thomas McCullagh a 20 year old mother revived her four month old daughter Beverly smothered under a rubber sheet in the crib by breathing into the child's lungs and praying until the infant revived She recalls she kept breathing and praying as Beverly started to come to.
Marriage licenses were issued late yesterday afternoon to Fred Richard Davis and Tillie Rosina Hay of Baldwin and Noel J. Rhoades and Vivian Mae Walters of Topeka.
A fire at the unoccupied A. B. Burks home on a De Soto hilltop destroyed the large structure early Sunday hours after Clarence Zehner spotted flames. The cause remains undetermined as the Burks were away in Owensboro, Ky. Rev J M Torrence and family traveled to Eudora for an August anniversary gathering with Mrs. A J Smith's kin.
Mrs. Smith and family celebrate birthdays and two wedding anniversaries. Mrs. Sallie Miller of Indianapolis visited relatives, plans a Colorado trip. J A Giebner spent weekend in Sarcoxie. George Frain from Kansas City visited the Taylor family in town. Elmer Jewett family and Myrtle Leamer toured Odessa. Mrs. B S Taylor ill, Mrs. Turner improving. Mrs. E R Gay visiting Lawrence before returning home. Local roof work on Minnie Koeller’s residence and planned move of Scothorne family. Town expands water service to Sinclair garage and Silver Wheel and rural mains extend to several farms.
Mrs Nellie Dent and Mrs Grace Ross led a yard of coins collection at the Methodist church with help from several volunteers. Totals neared twenty dollars as attendees enjoyed the program. Mrs Clarence Hodge and Mrs Clarence Tripkos later attended a Farm Bureau luncheon in Olathe to learn about serving unusual vegetables for the September meeting.
Margaret Wipprecht has resumed work at the Tonganoxie Mirror after three weeks of throat trouble. Mrs. Kate Jones, previously seriously ill, has improved and can be about the house. Shirley and Marjorie Stewart visited grandparents last week.
Mrs Borst and family live east of McLouth ath 4 W Holey and family took Rosa Fay Holey to Kansas City for a specialist exam the doctor called her condition favorable. Roy Viets of Kansas City visited Grandfather Viets Neal and Mrs McDaniels. Clovis Holey from Lawrence visited here and Mrs Ethel Holey and children. Lola La Duke Houseworth and her son stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs La Duke and Lloyd. Jim Erwin remains under a doctor's care for three months. Lee Forester works at the Erwin farm. Carl Silkey does substantial plowing in Nackey and Villa Eden. Blanche Reed of Topeka visited her mother Mrs Eliza Stewart and returned home Tuesday.
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