Christmas Tea Event Highlights Mrs. A. B. Ewing House
The Christmas social featured Mrs. A. B. Ewing hosting a Friday afternoon tea with about 50 guests. Pink theme decorations, a pink Austrian pine, mistletoe angels, and a frontier of cards adorned the rooms. Out-of-town guests and hosts’ families attended, followed by an active Journal-World office party with readings, music, and Santa gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Ewing
Blossom Marie Frakes
Hugh A. Randall
Wichita
Robert A. Frakes
Lloyd Frink
Ambrose Saricks
Stella Albright
Guy Walling
Louis Fiorito
Bill Bodin
Irene Moll
Becky E. Frakes
Joseph Price
Kansas City
Margaret MacLaren
John B. Harris
Owen Edgar
Ralph Vartnam
San Anselmo
Calif
W. H. Dunn
Independence
John McKinley
Urbana
Mia
R. R. Snook
Nina Snook
McLouth
Lloyd E. Thomas
Scott
John Pettus
Bonner Springs
Myron Fields
Robert Matchette
Ralph Varnum
John Teeters
Kansasity
Corlett Cotton
Ewing
Robert F. Frakes
Roger L. Ewing
Raymond E. Crews Jr
Journal-World Photo
Local families plan Christmas visits across Kansas and beyond
Mr and Mrs Gerald Miner and sons Ronald and Mike travel to Scottsburg Indiana to visit relatives and Indianapolis then return in about a week. Bryan Springer on Christmas leave from Camp Chafee Ark stays with his parents. Other families, including the Tal madges, Lydia Sain, Mrs McCarroll, Andrew Murray and the Hunters, plan Christmas visits to Kansas City Chanute Beloit Valley Falls Concordia Overland Park and Tonganoxie. The J M Jewetts will spend Christmas Day in Overland Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Miner
Ronald
Mike
Scottsburg
Ind
Indianapolis
Bryan Springer
Camp Chafee
Ark
Charles Springer
Robert Talmadge
Mr. Talmadge
A. J. Talmadge
Kansas City
Lydia Sain
Carter Brookhart
Chanute
R. B. McCarroll
Hutchinson
Andrew Murray
Beloit
Murray
Ross T, Horne
Stinson
Roger Beth
Washington University
St. Louis
Elmer Beth
Les Beth
Champaign
Preston Hunter
Oliver Parsons
Tonganoxie
J. M. Jewetts
Overland Park
McNeffs
Ben A. Dalton
Florado
Ben Dalton
W. R. Atkinson
C. R. Atkinson
Burdick
F. D. Marcellus
Larry Marcellus
Leonardville
Larry Marcelus
Monitor-Regent
Jim Laughlin
Goldie Bardshar
Haven
Henry Werner
A. B. Mitchell
John Heather
F. S. Butcher
D. Butcher
Tulsa
Okla
Guy H. Barber
Scott M. Barber
Manhattan
A. Sloan
Ruth Mason
Cleveland
Ohio
H. M. Mason
Aubrey Linville
Kathi
Houston
Tex
Linville
Maurice B. Myer
Harold
Bus" Johnson
Sue Anne
Lamar
Colo
Johnson
Minnie Liggett
John G. Shaw
Mexico City
Lawrence
Quiet Family Day Slated As Eisnehowers Plan For First White House Yule
A quiet Christmas day with no official appointments marks President Eisenhower's first White House holiday. Doctors advised rest away from Washington but Eisenhower intends to stay in the capital, declining a warmer climate trip to Key West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisnehowers
White House
Washington
Eisenhower
Augusta
Joe Pinder
Chamber of Commerce
Key West
Fla
Pinder
Harry S. Truman
Virginia and her grandchildren celebrate Christmas memories
Virginia O Hanlon, now 66 and principal of a New York City school, spends Christmas in North Chatham with six grandchildren. She still recalls the Santa Claus question to the editor and the editor’s reply There is a Santa Claus. Her grandson James Harris Temple is 16 and her five granddaughters are 8 to 14. They love hearing the tale at Christmastide. The Great Lakes carry more than two thirds of inland U S transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatham
N.Y
Virginia
New York City
Virginia O’hanlon
Douglas
New York Sun
James Harris Temple
Kentucky Hatchery Capacity Under NPIP 1954 55
Kentucky reports 110 hatcheries under the National Poultry Improvement Plan for 1954 55 with total capacity of 5 479 244 eggs and over 13 million chicks hatched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Desoto Social Notes Include Visits And Church Program
Desoto residents report visits to Kansas City by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jewett and others to see Mrs. Dow formerly Grace Maareks. Emil Schersand's family moves to Santa Ana California. Birth announced for Lee Roy Crow of Rifle Cole. De Soto Methodist church hosts junior department program with Milton Woodbury singing The Holy City. Mrs. Clifford Morse travels to St Louis to visit her son Hobart. Wilow Springs HDI holds Christmas meeting with desserts, secret pals and gift exchange. Barber shop opened by C. C. Atkinson in Linwood SW-2. Archie Bedford en route from Japan for Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Jewett
Maurice DeBoever
C. B. Scothorne
Kansas City
B. S. Dow
Santa Ana
Calif
Schersand
Ralph (Fay) Harbison
Maude Huff Cheever
Maurice Henderson
Lee Roy
Roy Crow
Rifle. Cole
Crow
K.U
Methodist Church
Jarce Chorus
Milton Woodbury
DeSoto High School
Holy City
Arthur Golden
Clifford W. Morse
St. Louis
Hobart Morse
Morse
Mra
Louis F. Taylor
Ferrell Martinson
Gon Carl
Ralph McLaughtin
Wilow Springs
HDI
Memorial Hall
Montana Kaegi
Bertha Hel) Whitelaw
C. C. Atkinson
Linwood
Archie Bedford
Japan
Local Social News and Holiday Activities Across DeSoto and Lawrence
A partial roll of local attendees and events includes Yale decoration reminiscing a long awaited reunion for a daughter, eighth grade skating party in Lawrence, visits by Ed Smith from Marectine and several residents to Olathe and Clinton. DeSoto homes glow with blue decor led by Billy Middleton. family gatherings occur in Humboldt and Gardner while Christmas programs unfold at DeSoto grade school and Grace church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally Schmidt Bedford
Arch Bedford
Lawrence Tink
Wells
Vernon Thornton
Louise Keegan
Ed Smith
Marectine
William Ray Smith
Smith
E. C. Smith
Guy
Sharon
Kenny Gene
Clinton
Nellie Freeman
Reece Hospital
Gardner
Emily Ballance
Kansas City
Karen Brune
Eugene Brune
Also Mentioned on This Page
Journal- World
Bill Mayer
Eugene Field
Bill Haley
Martha King Davis
Harold Skinner
St. Luke
Arnold Alexander
Herald Angels
Levi Lawrence
Clayton Stone
Rich Clarkson
Jack Zimmerman
Marshall Caswell
Mr. Caswell
Frank Black
Williamstown
Dorothy
Jean
Dwane Charles Schaake
Charles Schaake
Miss Black
Oskaloosa High School
Reuter Organ Company
Schaake
Lawrence High School
Kansas State College
W. A. Dunbar
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekah Lodges
Odd Fellows’ Mall
Will Gorrill
Gertie K. Johnston
Norma Husted
Johnny Hickock
Sherry Sheard
Shirley Shirk
Leslie Weidman
Wanda Knapp
Nancy White
Connie Vandeventer
LaDonna Fisher
Gilbert Weidman
Elaine Hickock
John Bowman
Tacy Weidman
Harold Hickock
Vernon H. Smith
Vernon H. Smith Jr
Steven
Shirley Smith
Denver
Renz Edwards
Renz Ir
Ens. Gad Smith
Ross Wulfkuhle
Asa Colman
J. W. Holland
Clarence Sims
Ft. Scott
Charles Stuart
Lynn
Topeka
Ralph Colman
Richard F. Harp
Harp
Oliver Lane
Randel Salmon
Salmon
Sue
George Parsons
Parsons
Oklahoma City
Kenneth Sloan
Sloan
Roy Harp
Claude Shriver
Hertha Lowe
Margaret Lowe
Americus
Lena Shriver
Lloyd Shriver
Princeton
John F. Shriver
Pittsburg
Jerry Waugh
Maurice B. Myers
Jeannine Schindler Mature
Beverly Chatfin Jameson
Jane Kloot Simpson
Dolores Dean
Elaine Gilchriat Drake
Jean Quisenberry Quinlan
Judy Veatch Brewster
Virginia Rose
Mary Selig Alien
Doris Lyons Hannebaum
Joann Elbel
Mary Ann Wolfe McClure
Masonic Temple
Orlie Carpenter
Carl Holbeck
Richard Kummer
Kummer
Mary Jewett
Enworth
Helen Shaw
B. L. Shaw
Sara
Leavenworth
Marvin Krueger
Dorothy Jean Black
Dwane
Frank M. Black
Yale
Great Lakes
United States
Vaal Srsa
Dally Vic Melton
Moon
Osten Bez
Allison
Thomas
Mess. Se
Journal-World
Desoto
Robert Ross
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
George Randall
Clyde Goodrum
Eastern Star
DeSote
W. L. Blaylock
Humboldt
Grace Church
Gladys Bond Blaylock
The
Baptist Church
Perry St
Vermont
Independent Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Massachusetts
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