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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1928
Page
5
Social workers report many Lawrence families face hardship this season with job loss and illness. About 150 families are slated to receive Christmas baskets, while clubs and schools seek donors. Community groups urge residents to adopt a family or donate at city hall by Wednesday noon.
A compact feature highlights Aunt Het and humorist Robert Quillen as searing social commentators in a 1928 Publishers Syndicate distribution.
The Royal Neighbors and families enjoyed a lively evening with dancing after an entertainment themed long ago. Nora Lee dressed as a street urchin performed an addictive solo, Violet Piper sang as a Spanish dancer, and a village choir with Mrs Knootz and Will Price accompanied on the banjo.
Mrs J B Hoopes and Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes travel to Colorado Springs to end Christmas holidays with Paul Hoopes and family. Several residents visit Kansas City for weekends or holidays, including Miss Cora Sams, Mrs F A Cooke, Mr and Mrs Rupenthal, and Miss Mary Jenkinson. Local illnesses keep Mrs J B Woods and Fr W Phillips home. Mrs Mabel Waggoner visits from Dayton for her mother’s illness. Beale family news and university connections noted. Rumanian Defense League is listed as a separate line.
A new national defense league movement launches in Romania led by Deputy Stephan Tatarescu. It plans branches in major cities to study chemical warfare, frontier colonization, and public military instruction. Sponsors call the league defensive and pledge to promote preparedness.
Mrs Marian Strong returned from Olathe to care for her ill daughters Doris and Marion. Families in the De Soto area hosted and visited relatives in Lawrence Kansas City Topeka and Bonner Springs as multiple residents suffer from flu and pneumonia. Local schools closed early due to illness while community members gather for showers programs and church events amid ongoing epidemic concerns.
Lawrence area residents hosted and visited over the weekend with numerous social calls. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Finch, Miss Hannah Howe, Homer Hird and daughter Esther Hird, and many others sharing meals, club events, and attendance at the Farm Bureau meeting and Topeka events. A notable visit featured Albert Wallace from Durango visiting Asa Colman and relatives in Lawrence, with extended family present.
Part of a Saxon cross, about 1,100 years old, was unearthed in the graveyard beside the ancient Sempringham Abbey Church. The finding adds to a string of antiquities uncovered in the district during drainage excavations.
The passage notes Sempringham's centuries-old village site and its fame as the home of St Gilbert and the Gilbertines. It also mentions Mr and Mrs H H Patton of Oberlin Ohio arriving in Lawrence the first week of holidays to visit Patton's mother Mrs M Patten and sister Mrs A A Green Jr. and family.
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