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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1941
Page
5
Society news should reach the Journal-World before 11 30 oclock on the day of publication. Writers are urged to send items by mail or phone with clear details and timing.
Monday gatherings include Lawrence Women's club at the club house with Mrs. Hugh Means Monday team whist club led by gee C H Ashton and Monday contract club led by Mrs T D Funk. sewing and bridge luncheons run by Mrs J B Henry and Mrs Henry Asher with Amigas and Pan-Hellenic scholarship events at Memorial Union.
Mrs. Fred Noll and Mrs. James I Perry host a bridge luncheon December 6 at 1 o clock at Evans Hearth. The Country club hosts a dinner bridge Thursday at 7. Mrs. John Riling chairs with Mrs. Penfield Jones and Mrs. Harry Nevin assisting. Friends in Council celebrate seventieth anniversary with a dinner Friday in the Memorial Union Old English room.
At the Lawrence Rebekah Lodge No 4 meeting on Friday night Mrs May Neever was elected Noble Grand and Miss Catherine Walker chosen vice grand for the coming term.
Nannie Lefford was captain and won the contest. The losing side led by Miss Catherine Walker will host a covered dish supper at the next lodge meeting. Mrs. J. A. Halberg and Mrs. Taylor Petefish were elected to membership. The lodge voted to invite another degree staff for the December 12 meeting. Refreshments of pumpkin pie and coffee closed the session.
The opening dance of the winter series drew about 30 couples to the Country club with music by a seven piece orchestra. Out of town guest Mrs. Edgar Wilson of Longview Washington attended. Various clubs host meetings and social events are lined up including Red Cross sewing at the Junior high, book reviews, bridge gatherings, and a Christmas party. Captain and Mrs. Fearing announce the birth of a son in El Paso Texas on November 9 1941 Harold Wayland, with Fearing to join in Bermuda in January.
Mrs P F Walker will lead the 1 o clock worship on Wednesday with Rev Harold G Barr delivering a sermon on Christmas Hymns and Their Story. April group hosts. red Cross sewing at 10. League of Women Voters meets 9 30 at 723 Louisiana St with Cultural Relations Between the Americas program led by L R Lind and Jan Chiapasso.
Mrs John Metsker has shown improvement after four days of pneumonia at her Haskell Avenue residence. Miss Ruth Dyche from Camp Whitside Station Hospital Fort Riley visited her mother Mrs L L Dyche on Sunday. Miss Cecelia Frances Mulvihill of Williamstown at business school in Topeka spent Sunday with her aunts the Misses Mulvihill.
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