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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
5
Thursday and Friday Woman's Club Socials and Luncheons
The notice lists multiple gatherings including Thursday University Women's club with tea at Memorial Union and various luncheon events hosted by Mrs. Dick Williams Mrs. C L Lescher Merry Matrons and others at Evans Hearth Colonial and homes of members. Also mentions Friday bridge luncheon and A A U W tea at Evans Hearth at 4 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Women’s Club
Memorial Union
Dick Williams
C. L. Lescher
Merry Matrons
EB. H. Underwood
Progressive
Evans Hearth
Cc. J. Cotton
C. J. Topping
R. Cc. Miller
P.E.Q
George Wetzel
Ralph Tait
H.W. Stowits
L. A
Arthur Kirchhoff
P.E.O
Niotas Club
A. B. Ewing
N. OL. C
P. D
Local social notices include teas luncheons and club meetings
Mrs Theodore H Aszman hosts a Monday February 12 buffet lunch at her home and a February 14 luncheon at Evans Hearth with Mrs Roy R Moore. both luncheons conclude with a Kensington at the Aszman residence. The American Association of University Women holds a 4 pm tea at Evans Hearth after Cinderella with cast honors on site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore H. Aszman
Aszman
Roy R. Moore
Evans
Kensington
American Association of University Women
Evans Hearth
Deal Six
J. J. Kistler
R. R. Jackman
David McCreath
Paul
Community clubs and anniversary plans mark February events
Local clubs met for programs at Lake View schoolhouse and Colonial tea room while members, including Mrs. Frick and Mrs. Sweeney, hosted gatherings. A sixty year wedding anniversary and eighty fifth birthday celebrations were planned for Mr. and Mrs. Folks of Chula Vista with family attendees and remarrying service. A dozen groups gathered at the Episcopal parish house for an interdenominational meeting with 100 women in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Colonial Tea Room
Kirke Mechem
Topeka
John’ Brown
C. C. Potter
Leona Tibbetts
Lake View School House
Ben Rowing
Clarks Springer
Manhattan
Clarence Plummer
Mary Farley
Episcopal Parish House
H. G. Barr
T. H. Astman
Hortense Harris
Interdenominational sewing project marks civic progress
Mrs Kell and committee women report on a social service league sewing project started in June 1939. 126 women assisted 29 others to remodel or make from new materials 1446 garments time donation totaled $6.52. 16 children helped. Tea followed. churches rotate meetings monthly. Victoria club to meet at Mrs Bruchmiller 1145 Indiana street Tuesday. Valley Chapel ENE to meet Puckett home Sunday. Linus Dietz leads study What It Means to Endeavor Betty Woodward to sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwendolyn Hunt
Basil Matthews
Joseph F. King
R. S. Brooks
E. Russell Carter
Robert A. Hunt
Barr
J.E. Bowers
J. F. Kell
Social Service League Hall
Interdenominational
Kell
The
Victoria Club
C. H. Bruchmiller
Indiana Street
Valley Chapel
Christian Endeavor Society
Puckett
Linus Dietz
Betty Woodward
Local Social Roundup of Short Trips and Illness
Mr and Mrs Ray Wright depart for three weeks in Palm Beach and Miami Florida where he attends an insurance men convention A D Weaver leaves for St Petersburg Illinois to stay two months at the Hibiscus hotel Miss Barbara Owen visits Kansas City to see Miss Nancy Leming Mrs Lewis A Kemp Jr discharged from Memorial Hospital to home with satisfactory condition Don Moeller returns to Kansas City for the weekend Adelaide Shephard and Emma Poland arrive as guests at the Brune home until week end Mr and Mrs E E Sawyer of Lone Star called to Lincoln Nebraska due to illness of Mrs Sawyers brother in law Frank Jennings still seriously ill
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Wright
Palm Beach
Miami
Fla
Wright
A. D. Weaver
St. Petersburg
Ila
Hibiscus Hotel
Barbara Owen
Kansas City
Nancy Leming
University of Kansas
Lewis A. Kemp, Jr
Memorial Hospital
Maine Street
Don Moeller
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Inion
Adelaide Shephard
Emma Poland
E. E. Sawyer
Lone Star
Lincoln, Neb
Sawyer
Frank Jennings
Recreation Project Opens at Lincoln School Saturday
The WPA recreation program will begin at Lincoln school this Saturday with Miss Ruth Richardson in charge for the time being. Albert Wright Jr will be added soon under the supervision of county supervisor George Wongwai and a lay committee including the Rev J N Goddard Walter Campbell Mrs Farinda Lambkin Mrs Lillian Webster and A R McDuff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Lincoln School
Ruth Richardson
Albert Wright, Jr
George Wongwai
J. N. Goddard
Walter Campbell
Farinda Lambkin
Lillian Webster
A. R. McDuff
WPA Time Makeup Sought For Kansas Enrollees
Topeka February 1 WPA Administrator Clarence G Nevins said he would ask the St Paul regional office to permit Kansas WPA enrollees to makeup 130 hours of lost time instead of the current 65 hour maximum. Many workers in the state ran beyond 65 hours as outside projects closed during severe January weather. If not raised they face permanent wage loss during peak needs for fuel clothing and food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
WPA
Clarence G. Nevins
Federal
St. Paul
Kansas
Nevins
Sees Better Times Ahead By Edward A Cudahy
Edward A Cudahy chairman of the board of Cudahy Packing predicts better times for American business. Speaking in Pasadena on his 80th birthday he says this year will be good and next year even better, with improvement more legitimate and sounder than past flashy bursts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
Edward A. Cudahy
Cudahy Packing Company
Chicago
Kidney Danger Signs Watch for Nature's Warning
Health alert urges quick action to protect kidneys and remove wastes. It lists signals such as disturbed sleep backache rheumatic pains headache dizziness and abnormal urination and promotes Bukets kidney evacuant with a 25 cent money back offer at Round Corner Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Round Corner Drug Co
Taxi and Plymouth collide at Ninth and New Hampshire
A taxi driven by Leo Redding and a 1939 Plymouth operated by Dwight Jost collided at Ninth and New Hampshire this morning. Passenger Elizabeth MacKenzie of 909 Rhode Island Street sustained no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth
New Hampshire
Leo Redding
Dwight
Jost
Elizabeth MacKenzie
Rhode Island Street
Anniversary salute to Judge David J. Brewer in Leavenworth
Leavenworth county attorneys paid tribute during services marking the U S supreme court’s 150th anniversary. They honored Kansas native Judge David J. Brewer the lone Kansan on the high court. Brewer served as associate justice from 1889 to 1910 and held multiple posts after moving to Leavenworth in 1859.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kan
United States Supreme Court
David J. Brewer
Brewer
Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Federal Circuit
Harrison
Nocturnal bird raids hit Wakefield lumberjacks
In Wakefield Michigan on February 1 reports say a mysterious bird has been stealing caps from lumberjacks at a local camp. One man claimed an attack by a bird that carried off his cap, and four others report missing headgear with two sustaining head cuts from talons, believed to be a great horned owl or hawk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield, Mich
Wakefield
Marriage Licenses Issued in Topeka and Nearby Cities
Marriage licenses were issued this morning to Robert E. Richard son 27 and Frances May Irvin 25 and to Paul Garrett 21 and Dorothy Catron 18 all of Topeka. Yesterday a license was issued to Joe T Pagel 24 of Lawrence and Helen J Beach 26 of Soldier Kan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Richardson
Frances May Irvin
Paul Garrett
Dorothy Catron
Topeka
Joe T. Pagel
Lawrence
Helen .J. Beach
Soldier
Kan
Orson Welles Divorced After Private Reno Trial
Orson Welles was divorced today at a brief private trial in Reno Nevada. Virginia Welles charged cruelty and was granted custody of their 22 month old daughter Christopher. The couple married November 19 1934 at Palisades New Jersey and details were kept private.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Nev
Orson Welles
Virginia Welles
Chicago
Albert Hilliard
Colony School House Fire Cleared by Local Farmers
About six farmers formed a bucket brigade at Colony school house north of Coffeyville Kansas and extinguished a roof fire. The image damage was estimated at 200 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colony School
Coffeyville
Kan
Colony School House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bridgettes
J. C. Skinner
Dolph Simons
King’s Guards
Methodist Church
Joan Laughlin
Kansas City Garden Association
Kaw ‘Valley Garden Clubs
Athenaeum Club
Linwood Boulevard
Campbell
Alfred Carl Hottes
Better Homes and Gardens
American Legion Auxiliary
A. B. Elliott
National Association of Letter Carriers
J. E. Mercer
Missouri Street
Donald Breithaupt
E. E. Reep
Arnold Stoebner
Howard Hoffman
al’ Noever
Michigan
Riverside Farm Bureau Lab
Elmer Husted
Bureau of General Information
University Extension Division
Phillip Frick, Jr
Frick
Fort Scott
Ethel Craig
Bureau of Correspondence Study
University Law School
T. J. Sweeney, Jr
Imperial Contract Club
J. Frank Jones
Otto Barteldes
No Name Club
F. W. Cutter
I. C. Bushing
Sir Henry Irving
Kappa Alpha Theta
Chris Miller
S. A. C. Sewing Club
Harold Emick
Wills
Chula Vista
Cal
Three Score and Ten Club
First Congregational Church
Lester E. Bond
Folks
Ill
Colorado Springs
Packing Company
VOGUE
Mass
Kansan
Orson
Welles
Vicks VA
Dans la Nuit
In the
American Institute of Laundering
America
Hamilton
Elgin
Waltham
W. Parsons Jeweler
Haynes & Keene
VJ. S. Pat
Schaffer
Kelly Heavenly _ Coral Oliander Royal
Belle-Sharmeer
Belle
Sharmeer
Duchess
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