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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
6
Society news should reach the Journal-World before 11 30 o clock on the day of publication. Please write or phone items in well before the time they are to be used.
Thursday Country club dinner bridge and music club at Colonial. League of Women Voters luncheon at Episcopal parish house. Mrs E L Treece Mercredi club Mrs Arthur Marks E O W club luncheon. Mrs Harold Constant Bridgettes. Miss Gertrude Gilmore Thursday contract club. Friday Mrs Arthur Birchhoff Friday bridge luncheon club Evans Hearth. Helianthus club with Mrs Lisle Eby Mrs George Dunkley Mrs I E Hart ley luncheon Evans Hearth. Vendredi club Miss Madge Baillene. Mrs Howard Taylor bridge luncheon Delta Dek club dinner Colonial. aprcente Art club Miss Edna Wardali re William F Bodin shower for Miss Margaret Nanninga. American War Mothers luncheon home of Mrs E T Gardner. Saturday American Association of University Women Christmas tea home of Mrs Co E Friend. Betty Washington chapter DAR luncheon Colonial Country club informal dance.
The Year Round club held a Christmas luncheon at Evans Hearth with a long list of members and guests, centerpieces of evergreens, and carols led by Mrs Stanley Norman. Other events included church loyalty dinner at First Christian with 185 in attendance and musical performances, a Nineteen Hundred and Now shower for Mrs John Harold, and Corbin Hall’s fifth annual Christmas dinner featuring medieval pageantry and a wassail served by pages and a 50-strong carol group.
The report details multiple holiday gatherings in Lawrence including a decorated hall with a boars head centerpiece, carols, and a Yule log. Notable participants include Miss Eloise Wright and Miss Jean Jones, with guests like Chancellor Malott and Miss Emmy Jean Harbin. Also notes Women’s Athletic Association dinner and a tea by the American Association of University Women.
Dick G Williams and Lyle S Powell Jr plan a 25 day furlough from Culver Military Academy Culver Indiana to Lawrence with parents returning January 6 George L Molitor KU graduate and Round Corner Drug employee has finished aircraft school in Kansas City and will head to Dallas as a head instructor Vincent F Burton departs for Washington DC to join the soil conservation office Mrs L C Harris Delta Chi house confined to bed Read the Journal-World classified page for bargains.
Thirty nine Rain bow 4 H club members attended the vocational agriculture achievement banquet held by the Douglas County Bankers association at the Eldridge hotel in Lawrence. The report lists members receiving pins and numerous relatives visiting from Baldwin, Overbrook, McPherson, Richmond, Moran, and Forest Grove, plus notes on the Baldwin football team and local social events including Thanksgiving gatherings and a Guernsey calf purchase.
Willow Springs Farm Bureau met at the Mill Kring home on Wednesday afternoon last week. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Ben Gibson gave an instructional talk on footwear and hosiery. December’s meeting will be the seventeenth at Millard Jackson’s home due to a Lawrence meet. Ruth Weatherble and Carol Hall of Moran brought their father Tom Hall to Kellerman’s Sunday morning. he accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall who left for Forest Grove Oregon Monday. Kellerman will aid with chores while Mr. Hall is away, and they plan to visit Bert Hall in Idaho. Other attendees included O M Hird and various Jardon and Clary family members from Topeka and Baldwin. Junior Eberly of McPherson stayed with Dale Hobson Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hall dined with John Cline and Nettie Friday. Thanksgiving guests included the Turners, Milo Embrey, Oscar Turner, Betty Ann and Judith Kay, Homer Clary, James Osher, Walter Dyer, and Maxine.
Thanksgiving dinner guests included Lucille. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Merchant hosted in Hopewell with Thelma Dyer of Kansas City and Agnes Lewis also attending. Bert Emery moved to a new North Ottawa home joined by Hobson and Dyer families to help settle. Leroy Stoneking rents Emery house and plans to move soon from Griffith place as Gerald Hobson's family visits Beorse Sizer in Lawrence and Ethel Hall visits Manhattan kin.
Saturday visits and Sunday meals tied local families together as many hosted relatives from Eudora Lawrence and Lyndon for Thanksgiving. The two birthday twins Rex and Wanda celebrated, while Gilbert Garey and David stayed with grandparents. Dale Hobson attended a Baldwin high play, and students enjoyed a Thanksgiving vacation as Velma Embrey led the Red Cross drive in district 10.
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