Women Who Brought John Staine to Kansas
Anne January of Oss will be among the district participants at the Festival of Tresend Crafta dinner and coffee evening. Born in 1878, she moved to Kansas in 1898, taught, served as postmistress at Osawatomie, and helped found John Brown Memorial Park at Osawatomie opened 1910. She secured Roosevelt’s opening address and later recovered the John Brown statue from Paris in the 1930s.
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Anne January
Oss
John Brown
Osawatomie
Douglas county to boost 4 H membership drive
County agents and chamber officials outlined a county wide 4 H membership drive for March 1 to 7 aimed at raising county enrollment from 365 to about 1, quintuple? to 20 percent increase in state membership. The plan includes adult classes and campaign themes centered on Creating Better Homes for a Reynier.
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Douglas County
Mer
Deal Six
Chamber of Commerce
Community Notices and Social Gatherings Across Local Society
A collage of society notes shows numerous social events and club meetings. Residents including Mrs. Forrest Jack and Mrs. Thomas Manon attend committee gatherings, while the 4-H club meets at Don Craig’s home with a president’s roll call. Various bridge and pinochle clubs plan future sessions, and a Founders Day program is slated. A Valentine themed shower honors a recent bride, with gifts, pink decor, and guests from multiple local families. The Parsons couple rent the farm on Route 7, and Mrs. Louis Goodrick hosts a miscellaneous shower for a Topeka bride with out of town guests attending.
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Mra. V. A. Landia
Saturn
Mia
Ramea
Percy
Parsons
Ralph
Robert Uirich
Dillon
Lene Kchneon
Judy
Linda
Glenn Trapp
Rickey
Eunice John
Noelan Robieon
Want Landis
Leslie Church
Warren Lanxree
Neal Hanks Rete
Betty
Elite Bankara
Dudley Flory
Move Poole
Louis Goodrick
Lecompton
Mis. John McAlexander
Topeka
Doris Lindt
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Valentine
Trinity Service to Hold February Meeting at Church Parlor
Betty Rogers Donna May Singleton and Hazel McClanahan plan a February 20 7 30 pm meeting at Trinity Lutheran church parlors. A Lenten program features soloist Mrs. Robert Price reader Mrs RB Z Stephenson dramatic reading and Madrigal singers with accompanist Miss Ednah Hopkins.
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Trinity Service
Trinity Lutheran Church
Robert Price
Z. Stephenson
Ednah Hopkins
Thomas Pearson
Tontrux Pilate
Robert Brooks
Mra H
WC 'Rale
Arthur Cole
Robert Frice
Walter Keeler
Robert St
George Low- Davia
Mra
Stes
Harry F. Phenaon
Craig Ven de Kine
Local residents take California trip and visits in three states
Mr and Mrs Robert Laptad and relatives spent a month in California with a brief Mexico visit. They met their son Hobby with the U S Marines in San Diego and toured Los Angeles then visited in Tucson Lawton and other towns. Lanning family moved to Lawrence and Fitness manager Alfred Lawrence remains bedbound. Faye Sackman returns home after 25 years meeting with Mrs Transue. Wilson Houseworth Richland fined 75 and license suspended for one year for driving offense.
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Robert Laptad
Paul Laptad
Marguerite Vineyard
California
Mexico
San Diego
Laptad
Hobby
U. S. Marines
Los Angeles
Peari Laptad
A.D. Carroll
Tucson
Ariz
J. Eugene Holmes
Lawton
Okla
Holmes
Irene Laptad
George B. Lanning
Lawrence
Kentucky Street
Lanning
Tone
Investors Syndicate
Lannings
Wamego
Alfred Lawrence
Faye Sackman
Mirabile
Oliver Transue
Three Days of Shakespeare Life On Stage Here Friday
Fraser theatre hosts A Cry of Players a festival highlight dramatizing the last three days of young William Shakespeare in Stratford. The Topeka Civic Theatre production features a large Kansas cast with University of Kansas actors in key roles and is billed as a landmark pre Broadway event. Tickets are urged to be secured early at Green Hall Fraser box office or by phone.
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Fraser Theatre
Broadway
New York
Toka Civic Theater
Lawrence
Topeka
Civic Theatre
Will Shakspeare
Stratford
London
Sir Thomas Lucy
Herb Harvey
K. U
Shakspeare
Tom Shay
Ann
London Players
Uary
Paris
Lucy
Louis Sweet
Topeka Civic Theatre
Kansas
Green Hall
Information and Hospitality Center
Weir church buys surplus army chapel from Camp Crowder
The First Baptist Church of Weir Missouri has purchased a surplus army chapel to replace its church damaged last month. Raub Snyder, acting zone administrator for the War Assets Administration, said the church paid 1895 dollars for the Camp Crowder, Missouri chapel.
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Kansas City
First Baptist Church of
Weir
Raub Snyder
War Assets Administration
Camp Crowder
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Busanne Calvi
Ladiew
Ericssom Lechy
Ervin Ing Lie
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Orville Hixon
Marion Haun
Mire
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Rew
Forrest Jack- Sire
Shields
Thomas Manon
Merie Mekin
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Cottomhood
Don Craig
United Sates
Ho ‘Nh
Ernest Wilson
Eli Jones
Myrtle Wilson
Kereiter
Win Pauleon
Ghia Street
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Klawe Abegg
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Victory Club
Phil Overbaugh
East Twelth Street
Dave Mitchell
Ernest A High
Lyle Coburn
Jen
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Trav ·Ling
John Mur |Ason
Johnny
Percy Parsons
Roy Goff
Betty Rogers
Donna May Singleton
Hazel McClanahan
Memorial Union
Wilson Houseworth
Richland
C. J. Lane
Malott
Phillips
Gales and Service
Phees
Ae Tee
Union Bus Depot
Mara
Law
Overland
Greyhound Lines Southwestern
Greyhound Lines
Santa FE Trailways
Victrola
Truman
Lindley’s
Kansas Cleaners
Ray
Massachusetts
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
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