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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1940
Page
12
Cosmetic counters spotlight festive packaging and gift ideas for the holidays. Bottles shaped as a castle tree and peg jewel cases join lamp forms, purse or boudoir shapes, and sachet balls in bright colors. Sets include bath powders, soaps, compacts, and makeup kits with leather cases and mirrors.
Christmas shopping centers on books for every interest from mysteries and biographies to cookbooks and travel. Modern fiction features Hemingway and Roberts while journals on journalism and news rise in popularity. Affordable pocket editions and classic readers expand libraries at low cost, with colorful children’s books and revived Horatio Alger titles among top picks.
Christmas lighting trends show indirect light floor lamps with large central bulbs and night lights, wall pin it ups, wallette models with adjustable height, boudoir and table lamps in white or pastel shades, and new fluorescent tubes that no longer flicker.
A Gladstone area page records a quilting gathering at Mrs Irene Brechelsen’s home with helpers including Mrs W J Selzer and Mrs H Deckwa. Visitors include Pearl Brechelsen of Garden City and Alvin Breithaupt of Wellsville. Observed local travel, school events, funerals, and Thanksgiving dinners across Lawrence, Eudora, and Garnett with multiple families noted.
Overbrook residents report Roland McDonnell of Richland appointed revenue collector for the government and remaining a Richland State Bank director after a long banking career. Rotary club welcomes Hunt and Bruitt. Thimble club hosts turkey dinner at the Coffman home with guests Hart families and others.
Mrs Russel Baker notes Wayne will sing two bass solos at church Sunday morning. Various local social visits are listed, including Mr and Mrs Noah Shuler hosting their Rock club, and families visiting relatives in Garnett Clements Emporia Ottawa and Salina.
Union couple Marion and Mrs McCall returned from a wedding trip to eastern Missouri. Relatives and friends hosted suppers and dinners at several homes including Will Niebrugge Milton and Roy Barkley homes. Visits included Milton Niebrugge in Kansas City and Liberty Maryland, and trips to Lawrence and Centropolis amid church and club events.
Lawrence and Mr and Mrs Fred Eegleston of Baldwin visited P K Beck on Sunday. Joe Wray and Delta Wray with Ralph Ikenberry dined with Roscoe Anderson in Kansas City Kansas Friday. Anderson is a Churchbaugh relative. Delta Wray and Ralph Ikenberry visited Ezra Churchbaugh Sunday evening. Friday dinner guests included Mrs Carl Schwartz Virgil Schwartz and Mrs Ted Wacker. Virgil Schwartz Pauline joined a Saturday night visit to Albert Schwartz family. Marion McCall hosted relatives at the Niebrugge home Thursday evening. candy bars and cigars were shared before the McCalls left for Liberty Missouri.
The chairvar notes that Mrs. McCall was previously Miss Martha Niebrugge prior to her recent marriage, indicating a name change due to wedlock.
Weather and muddy roads force postponement of November 22 events in Pickens and November 26 events in Pleasant Valley. New dates set for December with Pleasant Valley program rescheduled for December 2 and Pickens event moved to a later December date.
A long list of Kansas City and Lawrence residents visited or stayed with local families this week. Guests included Bara June and John Keith and many others, with multiple dinners and social calls across Kansas City, Lawrence, and nearby towns. Mrs. Mary Foley plans a Detroit trip for Thanksgiving with relatives.
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