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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1929
Page
5
Reports from Fraser hall show Chancellor and Mrs E Hy Lindley hosting after the Kansas Oxford debate with about twenty five guests including Rhodes scholars W. E. Sandering and Ralph M. Hower. The piece also lists numerous social gatherings among faculty, students, and local groups with teas, bridge clubs, and planned Christmas events at Wesley Foundation and other venues.
Thursday Newcomers club tea at Mrs H Ashton. Dinner dancer at the Country club. Thursday team whist with Mrs C D Cowgill. Various Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Phi and Rebekah events. Christmas party at Mrs T G Funk home. Home Aid Society and Sigma Kappa activities. Beaux-arts and alumnae gatherings. Sophomore Hop at Memorial Union. Baptist Women Christmas party at Mrs W C McConnell home. Vendredi and other club notices. Cooperative Dancing Club hobo party at I O F hall. Current Event club met at Mississippi Street with Cuba talk and readings. Edward T Riling hosted Fiks lodge officers dinner. University engineering wives event at Margin Hall. Nora Witt program at Barber School Friday.
Mrs G K Fagin left for Lathrop Mo after visiting her sister in Lawrence. A B Carter and family offered support as relatives. John Drinker's play Bird in Hand drew Kansas visitors including Kangas Ilsi F Hi Smithmeyer and Mrs Iles Brooke. Victor Walling of Chicago, a railroad official, and his wife visit Lawrence relatives. Virginia Hutson, Pi Beta Phi president, begins a three week tour visiting chapters in Lincoln Laramie Denver Boulder Salt Lake City and Manhattan. Mrs Cora O Hara spends the day in Kansas City with J Weeu and Mrs.
A string of brief society notes records people shopping in Kansas City and Topeka, travel for funerals, and visits across Lawrence and Parsons. Mentions include Mary Foley and Mrs John Carlson in Kansas City, Fr Carter in Topeka, Marsh family from Chicago arriving in Lawrence, and Legion banquet in Topeka for national commander C. L. Bodenhamer. Also notes Mrs V M Vaughn returning from El Dorado after a sister’s death, Emma Welch visiting from Colorado Springs, and Mrs Gertie Telmston traveling to Parsons for Rebekah session. The items reflect a flurry of social movements and local engagements.
Mr and Mrs George Morris hosted a large Thanksgiving reunion with many relatives and families from Topeka and Highland Park. Attending were Charles Wilson and family, Warren Morris and family, Clarence Morris and family, Elrey Claire and Lily Laura Morris, Floyd Morris and Nellie Morris, Harry McGrew, Jane Duncan, Otis Morris and family, Ray Morris and family, Roy Rake and others. Also present were Will Duncan, Eva Winser, Alex Slaughter, Charles Durrow, Lloyd Durrow, and Mrs Durrow's sister Nettie Mae Duncan, all sharing the holiday at Morris residence.
Mrs Casebiet and son Noah of Topeka hosted Thanksgiving dinner with Harold Slaughter family guests. John French Jr. attended the A J Bevitt Topeka home gathering. Gerald Bahnmaier and families hosted friends from Paxico and Topeka for Thanksgiving meals. Many local residents, including the Slaughters, Smiths, and Webbers, shared meals and visits across Clinton, Valencia, Richland, Wichita, and Lawrence areas.
Thanksgiving visits are noted for Joseph Logan with his sister Viola at Lou French’s home in Kansas City and for Mr and Mrs Harry Gibbons at Mrs William Platemyn’s home. Nettie Mae Duncan of Topeka joins relatives nearby, and John Holloway returns from Unity Bible College in Kansas City. A Division No 1 rummage sale at North Lawrence Christian Church is planned for Saturday December 7, with a 620 Mass Advent and Christmas Bazaar at Trinity Lutheran Church on December 6 offering dinner and supper. An apron sale is listed at Unitarian Church bazaar on December 6 at 2 p.m. Facial text references chicken pig joke.
New York P T A plans a carnival in the school building Friday evening December 6 at 8 o clock featuring readings music both vocal and instrumental dances a play by teachers numbers by children a picture show carnival games and a variety of eats Admission 1 cent.
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