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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1952
Page
5
A flurry of holiday events fills Lawrence with gatherings from Beta Theta Pi to the First Methodist Church. Wedding invites, endowment receptions, and bank Christmas dinners share space with VFW, Pinckney school, and the India Home Demonstration Unit, each area noting gifts, music, and charitable acts amid decorations and a village-spirited roster of hosts and honorees.
Local Christmas parties abound with Crown Drug Store employees hosting a party after closing at 10 pm. Chapter CW PEO and University Club hold festive gatherings with films, gifts, and takeoffs on a TV program. Members and guests enjoy decorations, candles, and seasonal treats as Santa visits planned for Sunday.
Miss Bernice Nash leaves tonight for Roseville California to visit her brother recuperating from February car crash. Mrs Richard Docking flies to Anchorage Alaska to join Lt George Richard Docking and settle there. Arthur Nelson of Boston arrives to spend holidays with his mother. Alex Ramsey is reported in good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. Miss Ida Hoge arrives from Wellington to spend holidays with her sister and relatives in Kansas City and Lake Lotawana Missouri. Marian Peek returns from a three week Miami vacation. Mr and Mrs Clifford Shaffer and son Arthur and Charles Dun-l
An item notes the secretary position transitioning, with reference to June events and the next meeting agenda. The fragment suggests ongoing duties and personnel changes surrounding the secretary role.
Cookies for Christmas story updated with jam and nut meats. Pinkster ingredients include lara cups, brown sugar, egg, flour, salt, pecans, raspberry jam, and lard. Mix sugar and lard, add eggs, fold in flour, shape walnut-sized dough, dip in egg white, then pecans. Bake at 300 degrees F for five minutes.
Samuel Finley Findley of two sisters Mrs Elizabeth Hunt Kansas City and Norma Findley of the home dies after ten months service with the Sith division Battery B 189th Field Ulery in Tenet beathe obit notes the family and residence with limited readable details from the fragmented text.
Matilda Hopkins born in 1867 in Chicago came to Lawrence with her family in 1870. She married Edward Everett Hop king in 1893, lived in Kansas City until his death in 1901, then returned to Lawrence with her daughter Ednah. She died November 7, 1962 at home.
Fragmentary report notes Rev R W Albert of Trin Uatheran Church conducting a service on a date in November. Viott Voeliner Reno Neve Julius Terneden listed with Funk's and Richard Preis as vocalists and Mrs Maurice Clark as organist.
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