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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1937
Page
5
A slate of social events fills the week from Lawrence, with numerous contract and bridge clubs meeting across town. Marriage notices include Josephine Marshall and Maxwell G. Berry and Delia Bond and Edwin N. Gentry, both in mid February and Kansas City. Also noted are university musicales, teas, and club dinners featuring local families, sororities, and alumni groups in ongoing community life.
The educational unit of the Presbyterian Women's Guild will meet to plan programs, discuss outreach, and coordinate community service efforts with officers guiding the agenda and members invited from the local church community.
Biel presided over last summer's convention while Mrs Higgins and Mrs Adams poured. Sorority colors blue iris and candles decorated tables. Several hosts plan gatherings including Mrs Ethan Smith and Mrs T J Sweeney Jr for bridge and Imperial contract club respectively. Bre W J Baumgartner to host Twentieth Century club review of This England by Mary Ellen Chase. J D club meets at Mrs Ida Hundley's home. Current Event club to meet with Mrs Dora Dunakin Reynolds. Scotty Phillips celebrated first grade with a tacky party at Holloway's hall decorated in red white and blue. George Washington birthday refreshments served by Mrs G H Phillips and aides. Mercredi club to meet at Mrs B P Deichert's. Mr and Mrs J R Payne entertained guests. Mrs Warren Casey hosted a bridge luncheon. Lawrence Music club to host consort of music at Colonial Inn with Washington, Livingston, Custis performers. dance to follow at 8 o'clock. The Classified Way promotes quick buying and selling. d-Taker offers writing help. Phone 22.
Mrs J W Miller returns home at Tonganoxie after weekend with Mrs Frank Miller. C C Nelson K Nelson and Ed Lindquist attend Democratic meetings in Topeka. Ellis T Johnston confined at home with influenza. Bernice Robinson visits relatives in Emporia. Mr and Mrs John Cretors of Kansas City, formerly Lawrence, weekend with Mr and Mrs L H Menger. Cretors now with Cook Paint and Varnish. Emma Robinson of Iola weekends with Alma Price. Doctors O Brien and Twente attend National Education Association meetings in New Orleans. Mr and Mrs John Simrock in Las Animas, Colo. Simrock brick mason at Fort Lyons veterans hospital. Mrs Al Yancey leaves for Tulsa to visit sister Gussie Huett after car accident. Huett in Enid. Dean E R Stouffer to visit DePaul University Chicago and Wheaton College Wheaton. Parrish recovering from fractured hip, moved from Memorial Hospital to 721 Mississippi. Mrs Ellis Johnston on business trip to Topeka. Great Andromeda Nebula light travel time noted. State bank in Moscow deposits exceed a million, totaling 556000000 rubles.
Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas will speak tonight to the Kansas City chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at the University club in Kansas City Missouri. He just returned from Washington where he met congressional leaders and President Roosevelt on proposed federal subsidies for research. He also talked about subsidizing athletes with a committee from the National Association of State Universities.
Miss Esther Sanders hosted a card night at the Sanders home in Lone Star. Obituary word reached of Mrs Newt Matney from Fall River Kan. Local residents hosted and visited families across Lone Star and Lawrence areas. Various visits, meetings of the Valley Chapel Ladies Aid and Jolly Stitchers club were reported along with teachers meeting in Lawrence.
A birthday party centerpiece featured a cake with candles while guests from Valley Grove Lone Miss Esther Sanders and Alvin McKinney in Baldwin Fall River Perry Pleasant Grove Osage City joined to visit relatives. Various trips included funerals and social circle meetings with neighbors and friends across Perry Lawrence and Globe areas.
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