Society notes on Valentine events across towns and clubs
Initiate and past noble grands programs at C. F. hall featured readings and a group sing along with a Valentine theme. Theia Epsilon plans a tea for University girls, while Mrs. Owen hosts a Valentine party for her daughter Barbara. Other gatherings include bridge dinners, a Happy Figur club party with talks by missionary visitors, and a mixed shower for Miss Bonnie Bishop with a mock wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
She. Rebekahs
C. F. Hall
H.G. van Neste
Will Johns
Gertieg. Johnston
H. G. van Neste
B. HH. Dale
A. L. Owen
Barbara
Iki
Betty Smith
Baldwin
Betty Kester
Alice Kinney
Dorothy Coheri
Delores Green
Inez Green
Myrtle Grover
Gladys — Gift
Barbara Edmonds
Helen Hay
Mary Evelyn’ Kennedy
Mary Isabel
Taylor
J. S. Redmonds
Rhode Island Street
Happy Figur Club
Harlan ‘Thomas
Africa
Vn. L. Heatherington
Harlan Thomas
C. <. Gerstenberger
Wilson Clark
Harolld Skinner
R. R. McCleary
George Forrester
Russell Riggs
Richard
Verry Patmateer
Lydia Tidrow
A. W. Lamb
George Wise Beee
Helen June
Miss Bishop
Ellis T. Johnston
Bert Jewett
James Sanders
Dora Griffith
Fleanor Tidrow
Helen June Wise
J. R. Good
Social calendar of gatherings in Lawrence club scenes
A saturated social page notes Alpha Chi Omega dinner dance at Hotel Eldridge with decor and ten piece orchestra, M G R bridge club dinners, Miereoles club meeting, and a Congregational social at Trinity Lutheran with Prof and Mrs W E Sanderas performing. Also listed are engagements, lectures, and Valentine party activities at Dread Training and Evangelical Sunday school events with numerous hostesses and attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Lutheran Church
Florence Wise
Eleanor Daubarman
H. Rowley
Erma Corey
W. E. Sanderas
Philathea
Evangelical Sunday School
Velda Nanninga
Lila Tuttle
Valentine
Mary Freese
Bertha Loraine McCall
Lena Wulfkuhle
Daisy Kirchner
Dorothy Pippert
Ruth Sowell
Lile Tuttle
Doris Foster
Helen Hall
Marian Beck
Emma and
Anna Schatz
Visitor to Mexican wilds finds autos and sewing machines
Mrs. Platt Craig of Durango Cole, touring Mexico with her husband, describes life in Chinobampo Sinaloa on January 25. She notes Ford trucks and Singer sewing machines, vivid yards with animals, local farms, and houses built solidly with back patios. She observes customs, language lessons, land prices, and a proposed Santa Rosa timber and farming property in Pomona, California, as they plan to visit La Dura and return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platt Craig
Durango
Cole
Mexico
Glenn Kieffe
Craig
Grace Kiefer
University of Kansas
Colo
Chinobampo
Sinaloa
Borre
Seattle
LE Just Bee
San Miguel
Batopilas
Mr. Shepherd
New York
la Dura
Waggoner
Fuente
F. R. Barry
la Tuna
Barry
Pomona
Cal
Santa Rosa
Greek Letters in Luminous Silver Theme Rites
Rooms on the first floor featured Chi and Omega lit by floodlights with hearts on silver ribbons and red crepe festoons from corners to center. A twelve piece orchestra provided music after a formal dinner while chaperons and guests including Miss Louise McGundy, Miss Prudence Stillman, and local couples attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chi
Omega
Mary Sr. Crark
Margaret Topping
J. S. Lyle
N. Ee Baden
Louise McGundy
Prudence Stillman
Kansas City
Wilma Marshall
Wichita
Daunita Burton
Chanute
Smi
Hershel Underhiill
Hubert Else
Evan A. Edwards
Lawrence
Lounging Pajamas Take Prominent Wardrobe Role
A vintage feature notes lounging pajamas shifting from night wear to daytime attire. Departments display bright colors and varied materials as pajamas rival boudoir robes and kimonos in milady fashion. College girls and stylish women seek bold color combos and quirky effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milady
Fashionable daytime and lounge ensembles in silk crepe and satin
The article describes styling options for women using black satin trousers with bright coats in red or orange, silk patterns in pongee natural shades, and Georgette with raisey velvet flowers. It notes softer colors suit average figures, highlighting orchid and rose tones in crepe and rayon fabrics. Pajama suits in wash silk and pongee offer dual wear, while coats complete ensembles for day or night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgette
Tyne
Making Biscuit Pillows from Crepe Strips
A dry goods saleswoman shows torn crepe strips to craft pastel biscuit pillows. Squares are basted onto muslin bases forming a tufted center. edges are seamed to the back. The result echoes old fashioned biscuit shows and grandma style decor.
Travel Photos Taken by Miss Wight Presented to Museum
Spooner Thayer museum has recently acquired about three to four thousand photographs by Annie I. Wight of Lawrence, mounted in sixty five albums. The prints document travels across the United States, Canada, Europe, and a world tour in 1926, including highlights from the Columbian Exposition in 1893 and the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. Miss Wight, a longtime music teacher and traveler, went on a notable 1925 European cruise aboard the S Y Inn, capturing views such as the midnight sun. She lived at 1012 Pennsylvania Street and practiced law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spooner-Thayer Museum
Lucy A. Wight
Lawrence
Annie I. Wight
Pennsylvania Street
Annie Wight
United States
Canada
Europe
St. Louis
Wight
S.Y. Inn
Snita Fbergen
Forcing Shrubs Inside for Winter Bouquets
It is said that one may have delightful bouquets this time of year by bringing inside branches of flowering shrubs. Branches from last year’s growth placed in water create attractive displays. Shrubs easily forced inside include Goldenbell, redbud, Japanese quince, pussy willow, dentzia, weigelia, mock orange, and spirea.
Mothers cry out against liquor in Upland saloon tale
The account recalls WCTU mothers confronting a barroom bartender in Upland Indiana urging prohibition’s moral force. It contrasts past public courage with modern calls to repeal the eighteenth amendment, praising sobriety as a bulwark against ruin while warning of “yellow dollars” and legal jeopardy faced by families and courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Upland
Ind
Judiciary Committee
Kansas
J B. J
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Theia Epsilon Pal
GC. W. Thomas
Mississippi Street
University Girls of Baptist Preference
George Reed
Green Owl
Ray Merwin
Frank Banks
M. T. Sadler
Hugh Means
Mistern Star
Matemple
Will
Elizabeth Stilwell
E. Vis Babo
George K. Mackie
J. A. Keeler
Fischer
A.F. McClanahan
Mary Lou
Eske
Dora Nibarger
Allan Stutz
Albert Pendleton
John Robert’ Thiele
Joyce “Roby
Sally Fitzpatrick
Mary Tudor Hanna
Fran
Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
Publishers
Syndicate
Social
Salendar
Petty Nvasmipton
Minpter
D. A
Mia
R. C. Rintie
Kay Pri Alpha
Shapter Cube
Neal Hop
Memorial Union Building
Ces Smalley
Jean and
Rwood
Jean Murray
Buddy
C. H. Daugherty
M. G. R. Bridge Club
Miereoles Club
J. Frank Jones
Michael Schutz
Emma
Theodore Flory
Eldridge Hotel
Florence L. Snow
Washington, D.C
Ad. Anderson
Cla. Preyer
Skilton
Carl A. P'reyer
Ruth Jree
C. S. Skilton
Margaret Drennon
Jla Martin Brook
Carl A. Preyer
Patti Johnson
C. F.nelson
Lawrence Authors
Alpha. Chi Omega Sorority
Eldridge
Crystal Room
Frances’ Goodell
Emma Eagan
Edith S. Miller
Eva Oakes
Tota. No
R. W. Holmes
West
Fourth Street
Ivah M. Barrett
Sheila Kaye-Smith
John G. Stutz
W. C. Blanchard
Gertrude Gilmore
Walter Thiele
C. B. Russell
Double Dee Club
Floyd de Weese
Myron Dicker
M. P. M. Bridge Club
Walter Varnum
Dread Training School
Robinson Gymnasium
C. H. Stockwell
Birs
R. C. Ardrey
Chester W. Brown
H. E. Eustace
G. W. Stratton
Forrest CG. Allen
J. L. Hoover
Helen’ Kerr
School of Fine Arts
Mildred Holmberg
Rowena Hammons
Department of Home
Mexican Wilds
Mr. B
Platt
Mari
Roma
Miss Wight
Mrs. O. Jacqmain
Weta
C. H. Sabin
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Pennsylvania
St James Ee
Ory Oe
Flowerfone
Myers and Son Greenhouse
Mich
Etn
Mount Hope Nurseries
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