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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
5
Society contributions for the society column must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on publication day. This notice directs readers to submit items promptly to ensure inclusion.
The notice lists multiple Thursday and Friday club activities at the university and town, including dinner bridge, luncheon, tea, and dessert bridge hosted by Mrs. Mitchell Green Traylor and other hosts. It covers contract clubs, P E O chapters, Mothers League, and interclub gatherings with program notes and upcoming meetings.
The report lists numerous social events including luncheons and dinners at the Evans Hearth and Colonial Tea Room, bridge and ecard tournaments at multiple clubs, births at Memorial hospital, oyster supper at Belleview school, and upcoming meetings planned by Belleview Grange, North Lawrence Christian Endeavor, Kanwaka Farm Bureau, and Elks women. Several prize winners are named, and notable hosts include Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Eide, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wright, Mrs. J E Nelson, and Mrs. Francis Reding.
Miss Helen Cynthia Rice leaves for Minneapolis to pursue a master’s in English at the University of Minnesota. Hamiltons, Benedicts, Thompsons, Hazens, Koopmans, and others return from holidays or travel to visit relatives in Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Montana, with several heading home after brief visits.
A long list of families from Baldwin and nearby towns hosted Christmas meals and gatherings. Guests included Barkley, Hobson, Turner, Miller, Oshel, Sizer, Jardon, Hird, Clary, Rockhold, Cook, Stevens, Newland, Detwiler, Wetwiler, Hobson, Holeen, Embrey, Kimball, Miller, Wagner, and Floyd Miller family members among others. A school party with Santa Claus and student gifts was held December 22 with parents attending.
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A sequence of holiday meals and visits across Kansas includes Topeka, Baldwin, Ottawa, Osawatomie, Eudora, and Wichita. Families hosted relatives and friends from nearby towns, with gatherings at the Dyer, Stoneking, Schehar, Cunningham, and Jackson homes. The Cowley county grand jury will convene next month after organization and judge instructions.
The Cowley County grand jury convened in Winfield Kansas on January 4 to hear cases and issue indictments. Local officials indicated routine proceedings and no immediate public announcements were released.
The No. 10 Sunday School held a Christmas Eve program with songs readings and a short play The Inn at Bethlehem Santa Claus visited. A large family reunion of eight of ten Coates children was held at their home in Fredonia with relatives from Tracy California Lawrence Ottawa and Overbrook among others.
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