Vespers Attract Large Audiences At University
The K A school of fine arts presented two Christmas vesper services at the University auditorium with about 6500 attendees. The 4 pm and 7:30 pm shows drew capacity crowds, featured brass quartet prefaces, candlelit tableaux, and the Madonna Enthroned finale. Notable participants included Ruth Swarthout, Marie Wilkins, Alice Moncrieff, and Bernard Poco Frazier with faculty and student helpers, plus legislators among the audience.
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K.A. School of Fine Arts
University Auditorium
Lawrence
Beulah ‘Chiapasso
Alice Moncrieff
Helen Beard
Keith Bee
Rolland Maddox
Lila LeVan
Ican D. M. Swarthout
Christianson
Ruth Swarthout
Claudia Anderson
Little Bay
Whiteford Anderson
Robert Cooke
Joseph Wilkins
Fine Arts
Einderson
Jesus
Busser
Waldemar Gelich
Mervyn Anderson
Laurel Everette Anderson
Boughton
Bernard “Poco
Frazier
Mary
Joseph
Cesar Franck
Virgin
Marie Wilkins
University
Wildemar Gelich
Conrad McGrew
Karl Euersteiner
Raymond Stuhl
Mr. Anderson
Ted Val Sloan
Madonna
Herald Angels
Rosemary Ketcham
Raymond Eastwood
Karl Mattern
Eastwood
Mattern
Marjorie Whitney
Betty Schwartz
Maud Ellsworth
Arvid Jacobson
School of Fine Arts
First Presbyterian
First Christian
Trinity Episcopal
Barteldes Seed Company
Kansas Power and Light Company
Test Your Knowledge and Answers on Classified Page
A reader asks seven trivia questions from coal to psychology and world leaders. The piece directs turning to the classified page for the answers and mentions an insurance ad by Dr. Alexander demonstrating safe auto truck and fire coverage.
WPA to Create Naturalization Records Index for Douglas County
County commissioners authorize applying to WPA for a six month project to index Douglas county naturalization records prior to 1906. Two certified female typists and an examiner would work under the clerk of the district court to ease searches for resident inquiries. Also note Kansas State fullback Maurice Elder named to East-West All-Star game on January 1 in San Francisco.
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Douglas County
Board of County Commissioners
WPA
District Court
Manhattan
Kan
Kansas
San Francisco
Maurice
Red) Elder
Kansas State
Elder
Dana X. Bible
Nebraska
Last Week of Classes at Kansas Univeristy News Oddities
University of Kansas students begin the final week before Christmas vacation with exams and lectures stretching like medicine. The campus buzz includes upcoming issues of Jayhawker and Sour Owl, a Pi Phi girl’s lab mishap with potassium permanganate, and a football player’s humorous misfire in a physics class about greenhouse refraction.
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University of Kansas
Pi Phi
K. U
Lawrence Officials, Fire, and Arts News Summary
Lawrence recap covers Plank's return after 10 days out for minor surgery. a small roof fire at 1012 Alabama in the early morning caused no major damage. Mrs. Hilda Mauck Holmes debuts a short story in Woman's Home Companion. Community Service committee prepares to meet at the Chamber of Commerce to review monthly operations and plan January’s meeting. Ward Phillips departs for Baltimore to join the federal Social Security act administration. A Granada theatre revue titled O. K. America features 22 Orva Dodson school dancers with notable group and military tap performances. Resettlement Admin district supervisors meet at the courthouse to discuss administration issues. drought relief roll cuts push farmers toward direct federal grants.
Farm Bureau Meets in Douglas County
The Douglas County Farm Bureau held its annual meeting at Trinity Lutheran church with a noon dinner. Ralph Foster of Dwight spoke in the afternoon, substituting for Harold Harper of Beardsley. Mildred Reuter led group singing and the Farm Bureau Women's Chorus performed. Officers were elected and reports were given by county agent Deal Six, treasurer E. G. Haverstock, and Frances Perkins, president of the Douglas County 4-H Club Council.
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Douglas County Farm Bureau
Trinity Lutheran Church
Ralph Foster
Dwight
Fourth District
Wos
Harold Harper
Beardsley
Kansas Farm Bureau
Mildred Reuter
Farm Bureau Women’s Chorus
Deal Six
E. G. Haverstock
Frances Perkins
Douglas County
4-H Club Council
Local Man Flees Blaze in Cabin at Lake View
A cabin at the Lakeview club owned by W. D. Hawkins burned to the ground yesterday morning just after 7 o'clock. Hawkins slept inside and woke to the blaze. C. H. Plummer, caretaker, called the Lawrence fire department to protect nearby cabins about 50 feet away. The cabin and contents were a complete loss with no damage to other properties.
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Lakeview Club
W. D. Hawkins
Arkansas Street
Hawkins
Lawrence Fire Department
C. H. Plummer
Plummer
Lawence Business Women Meet at City Hall Night
Dr C H Lerrigo of Topeka will speak at the final Lawrence meeting in a series for business women. City nurse Mrs Helen Fitch organized the talks to discuss health topics. All women in the city are invited to attend. the meetings are free.
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Lerrigo
Topeka
City Hall
Lawrence
City Hall Council
C. H. Lerrigo
Kansas State Tuberculosis Association
Helen Fitch
Topeka Sigma Delta Chi Dinner Honors Ralph Baker
The KU journalism fraternity Sigma Delta Chi hosts a noon dinner at the Colonial Tea room in honor of Ralph Baker, president of the Topeka chapter and executive secretary of the Kansas Press Association. He will speak to university journalism students Tuesday at 10:30.
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K. U
Sigma Delta Chi
Colonial Tea Room
Ralph Baker
Topeka
Baker
Kansas Press Association
Christmas party hosted by Current Event club
The Current Event club plans a Christmas party this Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. Walter Palmateer’s home 404 Elm Street with gifts to be exchanged. Mr and Mrs J W E Riggs entertained yesterday afternoon from 4 to 6 with about sixty guests present. Mr and Mrs Ray Wright announce the birth of a son at Memorial Hospital named Lawrence Thomas.
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Walter Palmateer
Elm Street
J. W. E. Riggs
Ray Wright
Satussey
Memorial Hospit
Lawrence Thomas
Miss Ruth Wellman Goes to Fort Lauderdale for Work
Personal notes show Ruth Wellman traveling to Fort Lauderdale Florida to take a position with R H Gore Publications. Several Kansas City and Lawrence residents visit family over the Christmas holidays including Leona Baumgartner Laura Rohrer Elizabeth MacKenzie and Jack Turner family members and others.
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Ruth Wellman
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
R. H. Gore
Leona Baumgartner
Kansas City
W. J. Baumgartner
Laura Rohrer
Junction City
F. P. O Brien
Elizabeth MacKenzie
Kan
John Cameron Swayze, Jr
D. HW. Swayze
Suzanne Swayze
Gladys Hardtaker
Kenneth Rankin
Omaha
Ned
J. R. Edmonds
Sol Marks
Rave Steinberger
Jack Turner
Terry
Powell
Wyo
Lawrence
Terry Shop
W. A. Dill
Billy Joe
White Cloud
Florence Dill
Wesleyan Chorus Delivers Handel Excerpts In Service
A capacity crowd greeted the Wesleyan chorus of the First Methodist Episcopal church under Dorothy Enlow Miller as they offered 45 minutes of Handel excerpts. Theo Ericsson and Ellen Shafer sang solo parts, with Anna Lee Hasen at piano and Max Hodge on organ providing accompaniment. Early next year the Wesleyan choir plans concerts in Kansas City and Ottawa. Robert Lingo was fined $10 in police court this morning for drunkenness.
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Wesleyan Chorus
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Dorothy Enlow Miller
Theo Ericsson
Ellen Shafer
Anna Lee Hasen
Max Hodge
Wesleyan
Kansas City
Ottawa
Death Notices for William Grobe Veteran Soldier
William Grobe, 66, retired U. S. Army sergeant of Troop H, 16th Cavalry, died yesterday at the Fort Leavenworth veterans hospital. He lived in Lawrence six years after earlier residing in North Lawrence and 508 Locust street. Funeral and burial will be at Fort Leavenworth Army cemetery. services time not announced. Survived by son William C. Grobe of Lawrence and two brothers John and Harry of Wichita.
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William Grobe
New Jersey Street
Veterans’ Hospital
Fort Leavenworth
16Th
U. S. Cavalry
Lawrence
Locust Street
North Lawrence
Grobe
William ©. Grobe
Fort Leavensworth
Army
William C. Grobe
John
Harry
Wich
Card of Thanks for Albert Farnham’s Death
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy after the death of Albert H. Farnham. Mr. and Mrs. George Corwin, brothers and sisters, and sympathy during our bereavement. Mrs. P. F. Johnson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Robinson.
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Albert
H. Farnham
George Corwin
P. F. Johnson
Nolan Robinson
Obituaries and Memorials From Lawrence Area
Obituary notices for Inez Marie Hagenbuch 15 of Lawrence Memorial high school, died after a week illness. Funeral at Schubert Funeral home with burial in Memorial Park. Survived by parents Dr. and Mrs. Frank George Hagenbuch and two brothers. Also listed are Richard Grigsby 87, Jennie June Harmon 50, and related survivors and funeral arrangements in Lawrence.
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Inez Marie Hagenbuch
Memorial Hospital
Frank George Hagenbuch
Mississippi Street
Lawrence Memorial High School
Schubert Funeral Home
Seth W. Slaughter
First Christian Church
Memorial Park Cemetery
Frank George, Jr
Ralph David
W. H. Scrioner
Lawrance
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Mexico
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Solomon
Hawkeye State
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A. A. Gish
Alabama Street
Charles B. Holmes
Hilda Mauck
Woman's Home Companion
Community Service Committee
Chamber of Commerce
C. D. Clark
Mildred D. Watson
A. E. Woestemeyer
Clark Phillips
Kansas Electric Power Company
Baltimore
Orva Dodson School of Dancing
O. K. America
Granada Theater
Maxine Lindley
Resettlement Administration
Court House
Miss Bertha Flynn
Homer Wood
Farm Bureau Meets
Lake View
M.be Church
Robert Lingo
Firestone Auto Supply & Service Stores
Para
Altadesign
Defroster
Yee
Axotto
Firestone Tiree
Genuio Iambek
Black
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Stardity
Voice of Firestone
Hita
Mary Dipree
Wichita
Richard Grigsby
Robert Langley
Kentucky Street
Lanngley
Nell Strong
Miami
Salina
George Jack Grigsby
Wadsworth
Funkchapel
Jennie June Harmon
Tonganoxie
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Reno
Floyd Moss
Bert Harmon
Gordon Harmon
Geneviev Harmon
Edith Phenicie
Sioux City
Earl Wilkingon
Joplin
Ie ‘City Real Estate
the Family Theater
Weineas
Marc Connally
Warner Bros
Wm. Keighley
Susan Todd
Ralph Phenicie
Kansas City, Mo
Mrs. C. Phenicie
Logan-Moore Lumber & Coal Co
Orley M. Smith Coal Co
Krum Koa] Kompany
Harry Turner Coal Co
University Coal Co
Johna’ Coal Co
Jayhawk
Fitch
Price
Aaa
Schulz
Vermont
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