Society News Deadline Set for Journal World Issue
Society items must reach the Journal-World before 13 30 on publication day. Readers are urged to send notices promptly to ensure inclusion in the next issue.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1940
Page
5
Society items must reach the Journal-World before 13 30 on publication day. Readers are urged to send notices promptly to ensure inclusion in the next issue.
The Country Club hosts a winter formal on Saturday night with an orchestra playing 9 30 to 12 30. Social calendars list a Christmas banquet by Adah chapter No 7 O E S and numerous church and Kiwanis activities involving 116 children at Trinity Lutheran church and a pageant by Woodlawn school students.
Local notices list multiple families traveling or visiting for the holidays. Mr and Mrs Oliver Perry Barber plan Christmas in Blytheville with relatives in Washington and other eastern points. Mrs F M Gray visits Blairstown. Extended family plans include trips to Los Angeles St Louis Indianapolis Muskogee and Syracuse and weekend gatherings in Great Bend and Baldwin.
The article notes fine arts students and CA A aviators continuing classes while winter holidays close the Memorial Union fountain January 6. Alumni clubs plan window displays and speeches across counties including Paola Osawatomie and Belleville. Ciphering contests and Christmas programs are scheduled with university faculty participating.
Lisbon dispatch reports former King Carol of Romania was invited by Germany to live in Holland or Belgium until his status is clarified. Dec. 21.
Kansas 1940 crop value reached 165.389 million dollars, up 22 percent from 1939, with production over 30 percent above 1939 and near 92 percent of the 1927-36 average. Wheat yielded 123.848 million bushels, corn 41.028 million, oats 43.596 million, barley 18.176 million, and sorghum 27.638 million, while hay and forage crops rose sharply and fruit and other crops also posted gains.
A fragment notes Emmanuel Temple Church located at 601 North Second Street in North Law. The text provides partial address details without further context or events.
Elder L Brewer conducts Sunday school at 11:00. Rev Sima from Christian church in Bervica preaches at 8 p m. Emmanuel church cafe hosts a Saturday bazaar at 4046 Locust. Trinity Episcopal at Eleventh and Vermont lists rector Rev John B Bowers and wardens H W Hollands A M Ockerblad treasurer R H Wagstaff organists Alice Russell Mary Evans Oliver Hobbs. Fourth Sunday in Advent offers 8:00 Holy Communion 9:30 church school 11:00 Morning prayer and sermon. Monday 7:30 church school Christmas party and Christmas Eve Holy Communion at 11:80.
Perry high school teams swept three games at McLouth last Friday night. The Perry girls won 38 to 20, led by strong defense and decisive play.
Residents of Pickens and vicinity report visits by families from Kansas City Lansing Oakland and Fall Leaf. Social events include a miscellaneous shower for Mrs Foley with games and lunch and a Pinochle gathering at the Martin home. Several children earned perfect spelling scores while Mrs Hoopes was surprised at school.
On December 18 children sang Happy Birthday To You at the start of the school day. At noon an angel food cake and a sack of popcorn were shared at lunch. The cake was baked by Mrs. Ralph Dunlap and the popcorn donated by Lola Mas Henik.
Donald Conner son of Mr and Mrs A B Conner and former Journal-World carrier, now with Dave Marshall's orchestra in Hollywood, will perform on NBC Blue Mondays December 28 and 30. He plays bass viola and oboe after three and a half years at KU and four and a half years with California dance orchestras.
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