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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1920
Page
3
Social notes from Topeka and Lawrence list engagements and weddings including Miss Mary Samson to Marvin Harms of Edinburg and Miss Margaret Whitney to Herbert Adams Sloan. Also mentioned are Ruth Kingman and George Washburn marriages, plus local social events, dinner guests, and birth announcements.
Mrs. Fincham heads Pratt Music Club as secretary while Miss Marion LeSner of Lawrence recalls her pre marriage days. Annabel Garvey of Topeka elected secretary of a new General Federation unit for overseas workers at Des Moines meeting. Kanwaka Literary Club to meet September 2 on Dorothy Dix. Nellie Reece Evans leaves for Omaha to serve as W C A secretary. Charlotte Morrison to York City for Columbia University studies. Amelia born to Mr. and Mrs. Mick Fichard. Oak Ridge Birthday Club meeting postponed due to Elroy Ford's death. Birth announced in Alabama: Austy Fairfield.
The De Molay order will host a meeting at the Masonic Temple in Lawrence Wednesday evening September 1. Interest in the new boys order under the Scottish Rite Masonic bodies is growing. Lawrence will be formally installed in September with three cities receiving charters that month, Denver and Chicago among them.
George Ware long associated with Butler-Sanderson Motor in Lawrence is appointed Dodge sales and service agent in Leavenworth. He is arranging to move soon, has visited Leavenworth to secure a location, and his family will relocate once a home is found.
Judge C A Smart of the district court will be the principal speaker at the Douglas County C I A picnic at Woodland Park Thursday at 1 PM. The planning committee expects a large countywide crowd for a day of entertainment.
Mr and Mrs Lou Zutermeister visit friends and speak of fondness for California and its roads. Their daughters live in California and their son works for a moving picture company. Mr Zutermeister notes gas line shortages and the need for fuel.
A Topeka man Richard McClelland spends a few days at the Charles E Sutton home in Breeze Daye as readers nationwide enjoy good books. The note reflects widespread enjoyment of reading across the state.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Peirce returned Saturday from a driving trip to Richmond Indiana with visits to Indianapolis Connerville and Centerville where they attended an old settlers picnic. They left August 11 and faced muddy roads on the outward journey but avoided bad weather on the return.
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