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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1940
Page
5
The Journal-World lists upcoming society events including engagements and weddings. Miss Alice Clayton and Carl B. Amyx announce their approaching marriage after a luncheon, with details on education and employers. Other engagements follow for Grace Hope Hamlin and Volney Hilford, plus club meetings, reunions, and a Nor Cal trip.
The Averill and Butell families gathered Sunday in Forest Park Ottawa for a reunion. Attendees from multiple Averill and Butell clan branch households across Ottawa Wellsville Paola Baldwin and other towns joined in a large family gathering.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hagerman and son Charles of Mason City Iowa visit C S Hagerman at 1215 Tennessee street. Prof Earl D Hay and son David return from Terre Haute with Hay's mother Mrs Walter B Hay staying months. Miss Hazel Anderson returns from Denver trip. Mr and Mrs Wilfred Hatfield and sons Gary Lary and Robert Rose of Lawrence attend a dinner in Ottawa.
Sunday notes report numerous residents visiting relatives and returning from trips. Dorothy Rose relatives and others travel to care for family, while Merwin Wilson, Harold Mattoon and Elizabeth Meguiar family members are mentioned among several short journeys to Alaska, California, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri and beyond.
City reports to Mayor John B. Gage show substantial savings in operating costs and a sharp reduction in serime for the first three months of the fiscal year. Horace R. McMorris notes $363,000 in bonds and $363,000 in interest paid, plus $600,000 in notes maturing later. Police data indicate robberies down 48 percent and burglaries 46 percent.
The Vichy cabinet tonight annulled a law forbidding newspaper attacks on any person for his religious beliefs, announced from Vichy France on August 27.
A home economics bulletin outlines preserving fruit with weights rather than measures. It covers choosing firm ripe fruit, uniform pieces, proper sealing, and glass jars, and details a tomato preserves recipe with ripe tomatoes sugar and lemons. Lost and found column notes prompt article returns via phone.
Rinse with detailed quantities. Mix 144 cups sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt, iy cups boiling water. Add lemon juice rind. Cook fifteen minutes. Add egg yolks and fruit rind. cook until thick. Cool. Make meringue from whites, powdered sugar, lemon juice. Fold part into custard, fill baked shell, cover with remaining meringue, Brown in moderate oven.
The North Lawrence Christian church Sunday school held its annual picnic Tuesday at Clinton park with about 100 attendees. Miss Ida Jean Carr was the dinner guest of Miss Caroline Traynor, and Miss Thelma Haas recently visited Mr and Mrs T B Laird in Meriden Kan. Miss Ethel Bell and Roy Matherly wed the prior Sunday.
Mrs. Earl Wright of Lawrence was honored at a Saturday night shower hosted by Mrs. Martin Rohe and others. Guests included Mrs. Charles Waugh and Mrs. Louise Olmstead. Mr. and Mrs. Bell welcomed a baby girl named Dorothy Ann.
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