Christmas social calendar items and weddings in Lawrence notices
Local social calendar lists numerous Christmas parties hosted by groups and individuals including the P M club Mrs Ray Brew and others plus a bridal shower for Mrs Charlotte Corbin. Community events include a Rural Life group Christmas party with toy gifts for Salvation Army, and a LWV luncheon with talk on Sewage Treatment Needs in Kansas River Basins. Married couple announcements note Ann Lawrance and Forrest Griffith wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Women Voters
Dwight Metzler
Kansas State Board of Health
Kansas
Lawrence
E. E. Marsh
Lawrence Couple Wed In New York City Ceremony
The wedding of Elizabeth Rule and E. E. Griggs was held December 7 at 4 PM in the Christian church parsonage in Olathe. Rev. W E Babb officiated beneath a brass chandelier from Damascus. They will reside in Lawrence at 1328 Kentucky street after Mr Griggs rents his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernoon
New York City
E Randolp Gray
Dean Lawrance
William Hogan
Kansas City
Edward Price
Tulane
Okla
Sherry Netherlands
Lawrance
John B. Griffith
University of Kansas
School of Education
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
Griffith
New York Giants
Elizabeth Rule
E. E. Griggs
Lawrence
Christian Church
Olathe
W. E. Babb
Syria
Palestine
Damascus
Saul
Annanias
Jerusalem
Kentucky Street
Community Notes Include Births Clubs and Local Pasts
The notice compiles family milestones and social group events from Olathe and Welborn areas, including birth announcements for James Lee Hurley on December 7, farm ties of Melvin Schnider and Mr Griggs, and Mrs Griggs’ Eastern Star role. It also lists Christmas gatherings at Trinity Lutheran church and Vinland grade school teacher gatherings with officer elections for 1951, upcoming meetings and charity plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Schnider
Olathe
Griggs
Adah
Order of the Eastern Star
Standard Oil Company
The
Odd Fellows
James Hurley
Blue Road
Welborn
James’ Lee Hurley
Hurley
Anna Lee Peters
Bonner Springs
LeaRoy Hurley
Trinity
Trinity Lutheran Church
Erna Corey
R. W. Albert
Warren Hodges
Mra
H.R. McCleery
Ralph Davis
Ina Foster
Miss Stone Stubbeck
Mrs. Hodes
Mr. Albert and Sons
Richard and
Philip
Personal news: travels of Mrs Guy Bigsby and relatives
Mrs. Guy Bigsby returned yesterday from Kansas City after a two week visit with her socialite Wendell and Jerry Lee key as their parents were in Chicago. Master Sergeant and Mrs. Sam Seetin and their four sons from Westover Air Force Base arrived Sunday for a 30 day visit with Mrs. Bevah F. Eliot of 631 Ohio Street and Mrs. Mae Seetin of Attica Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Bigsby
Kansas City
Wendell
Jerry Leekey
Chicago
Sam Seetin
Westover Air Force Base
Westover
Mass
Bevah F. Eliot
Ohio Street
Mae Seetin
Attica
Kansas
WIN K U LETTERS Continued from Page 1
A list of individuals connected to Win K U letters includes names and locations such as Fink of Oxford with Bob Hanna Meade Phil Massey Chicago Jim Vann Pelt Lamont Paul Hand, Waltham Clarence Bender Russell Dick Gatz Carnegie Dick Judy Montrose Clark Bumgarner Coffeyville Jerry Link Phillipsburg Frank Cindrich Kansas City Frank Sabatini Chicago Bill Blair Osbourne John Griexs er Winnetka Wayne Woolfolk along with others in Protection council and various towns including Council Grove Junction City Fairbury Wilmette Quinter California Fla Carla Currie Howard Thompson Keith Jensen Ben Hall Lawrence Tom Brannan Crete Neb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fink
Oxford
Bob . Hanna
Meade
Phil Massey
Chicago
Jim Vann Pelt
Lamont
Paul Hand
Waltham
Mass
Clarence Bender
Russell
Dick Gatz
Carnegie
Dick Judy
Montrose
Clark Bumgarner
Coffeyville
Jerry Link
Phillipsburg
Frank Cindrich
Kansas City
Frank Sabatini
Bill Blair
Osbourne
John Griexser
Winnetka
Wayne Woolfolk
Directory lists biographical sketches of U S lawmakers
Scrivner U S representative from the Second Kansas district appears in a Lawrence directory describing 9 950 biographical sketches of senators and representatives in Congress a Continental Congress member list cabinet members under presidents and state by state congressional membership through the 80th Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Lawrence
Kansas
Scrivner
U. S
U.S
Continental Congress
Christmas circle luncheons and meetings at multiple homes
Christmas roll call and covered dish luncheons are planned at several homes with devotions, programs, and exchanges of small gifts. Circles D F G H meet at specified addresses with hostesses and officers assisting. Members are asked to bring food clothing or money for a needy family. Ladies' Literary League and Ladies Aid of Friends church also scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Society of Christian Service
The
First Christian Church
Circle A
Ferris T. Wolf
New Hampshire Street
John Cox
Carl Perkins
Europe
Circle B
Chris Kraft
Massachusetts Street
Leon Armstrong
Circle C
Joseph Hall
Vermont Street
Howard Krimminger
New York Street
Robert McFarland
Charles Brown
E.G
Otho: Rasmussen
Leon Abele
Circle G
George Lowman
Emery Road
Harold Steeper
J. C. Milliken
Community notices and holiday gatherings listed
A sequence of local society items notes a covered dish luncheon for women at Mrs Earl White's home on New York Street with Mrs Charles Cox addressing devotions. Other entries include the Douglas County Medical Assistants club Christmas dinner at Castle Tea Room with wifi exchange, a Lawrence Education Council dinner at the Eldridge Hotel, and Eagles Auxiliary No 309 meeting with charter presentation. Mr and Mrs Charles N Eberhart host a Christmas tree trimming party with several guests listed. A historical note recalls the arclight used in early electric street lighting also applied in early radio telephony experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorril
Kappe Alphas Theta
Lawrence
Commerce Rooms
Mra
Harold G. Barr
Castle
School of ‘Education
Memorial Orion
Seta
Hom
Dlu Jere
Lydia Alien
Lawrence Teachers Council
Eldridge Hotel
Earl White
New York Street
Charles Cox
Douglas County Medical Assistants Club
Castle Tea Room
Books This Christmas at The Book Nook
Books spanning Bibles poetry art philosophy history travel fiction and biography arrive for Christmas. The Book Nook at 1021 Mass invites browsing and gift ideas with contact via phone 666.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Book Nook
Mass
Winter program at Topeka hospital by Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity hosted a winter program at the Topeka Veterans Hospital on Saturday afternoon under the local American Red Cross chapter. A quartet—Clarence Elliott Claude Ellison LeRoy Brinsey James Blair—sang with Stanley Burt at the piano. Minstrels Charles Kelly Albert Grayson and George Cole performed. Three dancers Opal Fleming Barbara Curtiss Geneva Evans accompanied the group with numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpha Phi Alpha
Eterans Hospital
Topeka
American Red Cross
Clarence Elliott
Claude Ellison
LeRoy Brinsey
James Blair
Stanley Burt
Charles Kelly
Albert Grayson
George Cole
Opal Fleming
Barbara Curtiss
Geneva Evans
Biographical Directory Move to Lawrence Library
Errett P. sent a copy of the Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774 1949 to Lawrence city library marking a civic archival exchange. The gesture places a key reference on early U S legislative history within the local collection for researchers and patrons.
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of the American Congress
Lawrence City
Errett P
Also Mentioned on This Page
P. M. Club
Ray Q. Brew
George Lawrence
Adam Kay
M. J. Patterson
Mis. Charlotte Corbin
Douglas County Rural Life Group
Salvation Army
Harold Boehle
Wayne Powell
Francis Flory
Emil Heck, Jr
L. M. Jackson
Welsh Air
Anita Tingte
Barbara Colburn
Star of the East
Kennedy Mariliene Workman
Melva Kay Frans
Utherne Potts
Schumann
Barbara
Lyle Colburn Voral
Wee Elson
Rollins
Donna Lee_Jackson
Iran
Anita
Tingle
Metra
Kay Franz
Willis
Schubert
Hanging Gardens
Davies
Yce Luailin
Caral Weeks
the Herald Anneis
Fea
Ryder Lyla Colburn
At. Marrs
Freddie Johnson
Little Town of Bethlehem
Redear
Marie Johnson
Kohlmann
Donne Lee Jackson
Les
aeveen_ Breen-Sampson
King
Neidlinger
Barbera Coyburn
Lyla Colburn
Jean Jackson
Donna Jackson
C. E. Stanwix
Walnut Street
Karnaka
Fred Lobb
Indiana Street
Olie R. Parsons
Misa Ann Lawrance
Don Lawrance
Lee's Summit, Mo
Forrest Martin Griffith
Lee's Summit
Ladies Aid
Dorsey-Liberty Post No. 14
American Legion Auxiliary
Lawrence Woman's Club
Winter Hospital
Zodiac Club
Kenneth Rose
Barker Avenue
Mexico
N. W. Storer
Co-Operette Club
Jack Richards
Missouri_street
No Name Club
H. W. Hoffman
Alpha Zeta Chapter
Epsilon Sigma Alpha
Betty Eberhart
Mavis Wiseman
Jeanne Wilde
Marian Haun
Colleen Harris
Frances Johnson
Eberhast
First Baptist Church
C. W. Thomas
Mississippi Street
Thomas
Glen Turner
Darwin Hart
L. R. Johnson
Katharine Willard Eddy
Pire
Hong
New York P.T.A
Vinland Grown
Thursda
Vinland
Albert Wacker
Clara Reusch
Ferne Vanderhoff
Marion Madi
Ethel Reeves
Nora Witt
Rollie Deay
Fred Gottstein
Albert Schmidt
Floyd
Maud Smelser
Faculty Womens’ Club
Helen Wagstaff
Stockton
Calif
America
Bleck & Decker
Stanley Tools
K. U
Ladies’ Literary League
C. J. Posey
Stanton Olinger
Mary
Sholam Asch
Ladies Aid of the Friends Church
Bullock's
East Seventh Street
Lawrence Education Council
Eagles Auxiliary No
Charles N. Eberhart
Tom Quinn
Daighter
Carol Ann
Speed Flanders
Dick Haun
Kenneth Anderson
Fred Kurata
A. V. Phillips
Ala
Granada Theatre
Fannie Fatso
Genevieve Ruth
Congress
Maxine Lindley
School OF Dancing Studio
Vermont
Weaver's
Guy
Pullman
Wera
Wester
Tite
Helen Harrison
Weaver’s
Main
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