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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1940
Page
8
Society notices must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on publication day. Submit items for the society column to appear in the next issue.
Saturday features a dinner bridge club at Evans Hearth with Mrs T H Marshall. Monday activities include Otto Barteldes and other contract clubs at various homes. luncheon for Mrs Everett Stith. Marston McClaggage and Mrs Ww H Schoene noted among club participants. Tuesday highlights Finesse and Coterie clubs with Mrs R R Jackman and Mrs Semple.
Mrs Ralph Ward's daughter Mrs Martin Denlinger assisted as hostess. The chapter voted a donation to the shoe fund. Refreshments followed. Mrs Don Livengood entertained the S A C sewing club with thimbles and refreshments. Next meeting with Mrs Charles Lescher. Past Presidents club of the Social Order of Beauceant to meet with Mrs J Fred Broeker Monday at 7 30. New officers to be installed and junior past president initiated. Progressive Reading club to hold a winter picnic at Mrs F Dodds home. Mrs W E Bear Mrs P Lindsay and Mrs Mather Sprague committee for sea ve d pottery and coverlets display. Mrs E P Addy to demonstrate luncheon table setting. The Women's Guild of the Lawrence Consumers' Co Operative Association to meet with Mrs Hilden Gibson Monday at 2 30 health topic. Mr and Mrs Garvin Gillum named son Gary born December 8 in Warrensburg Mo. Gillum teaches commerce at Liberty Memorial High. Mrs Perry Barber hosts Monday contract club. Past Noble Grands club opened year with $5 shoe fund donation. Mrs H G Van Neste reported six baskets of Christmas food distributed by the club. Committee for program and refreshments listed: Miss Minnie Preisach Mrs Beatrice Stapleton Mrs Mabel Rumsey Mrs Dora Reynolds Mrs Josephine Nelson Mrs Jeanette Bishoff.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McCabe hosted their dinner bridge club last night. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. David Evans, Junius Underwood, and Forrest A. Jackson.
Mr and Mrs H W Hargiss with Clarke and Shirley Nan return from a two week Phoenix trip visiting Carlsbad Cavern New Mexico. Mrs George Hackman and Miss Mary Hackman return from Ithaca New York. Whitney Griffing of Billings Montana visits Mrs Jiffing and Mrs Eil Thorne. T B Williams Chapman department commander G A R visits daughter Mrs J C Rogers. Miss Martha Byrn and Miss Marta Byrn in Kansas City. Mrs Ralph Hartig and Mrs Leslie Welch also in Kansas City. Paul Friend ill at home.
Readers receive New Year wishes as Valley Chapel column lists neighbors visiting relatives in the western part of the state. It notes New Year parties at канwaka Literary club, churchgoers and school resumes, trips to Lawrence Kansas City Bucklin and Pleasant Grove, and family news including births and a death in the extended community.
Miss Ice, reared by the Carters and the Cana vans, lived in Lawrence until her parents died. Mrs. Ralph McNees underwent major surgery at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Bond accompanied her. Several gatherings occurred as neighbors and relatives visited in Lawrence and nearby towns, with dinners, Christmas celebrations, and New Year woodcutting.
Christmas week visits noted across Hopewell and Independence communities. Families from Salina Joplin La Junta and Lawrence shared dinners and gatherings with Gale Taul Jardon Hammond Black and Williams households. Community clubs held meetings and holiday events with readings and gift exchanges.
Three medium apples are peeled and cored then sliced into half inch thick rounds. A sugar syrup is made by boiling water sugar and cinnamon candy for five minutes. Apples are arranged in a flat pan and baked slowly until tender.
Practical kitchen note advises using stale or dry bread for stuffing to avoid sogginess. Recommends toasting fresh slices before mixing and to bake bread in advance to achieve the right texture for poultry dressings.
To obtain perfect walnut halves place the nut on its flat end and strike with a hammer on the sharp point. This method yields clean halves suitable for decorating.
Mr and Mrs A F McClanahan and family tour Mexico covering 13000 miles describe contrasts from metropolitan to primitive customs. They praise Pan American Highway good roads, friendly natives, and affordable meals while noting clean hotels and varied markets. They also fish at Acapulco and pick coffee and bananas.
Mrs. Mattie Crooks reports a 1300 mile journey to North Carolina visiting Raleigh Durham Greensboro and Chapel Hill. She notes prosperous towns new schools consolidated high grades and free common schools. visits Duke University UNC and reflects depression over.
A vintage recipe card describes 1% cranberry salad with lemon gelatin sugar pineapple apple raw cranberry and chopped nuts. Gelatine dissolves in boiling water then cools before mixing with remaining ingredients and chilling in a mold for at least three hours. Mrs E J Coy 1421 Kentucky St.
Raw cranberries offer higher vitamin C and color to meals when used without heat. Relish, made by grinding cranberries with orange pulp, sugar, and a pinch of salt, lasts two to three weeks in the fridge and pairs well with meat or poultry.
A reader quiz panels etiquette questions on dining and hosting including whether to eat lettuce under fruit salad, using candlesticks without candles, lighting on lunch tables, who should suggest retiring for the night, and who pays train fares when visiting a fiancé. The piece ends with a wedding present etiquette solution and a tested recipe for a cranberry salad molded with gelatine and marshmallows.
Dolls shaped like Cinderella will be given to Lawrence school children after the play Cinderella. Selected by the AAUW education committee, the fair-haired blue-eyed dolls wear replica costumes similar to Cinderella’s King’s ball gown. Mrs. T D Funk dresses the dolls for Lawrence Children’s Theater.
The text notes that freezing temperatures whiten white garments when dried outside and warns to handle clothes carefully to avoid tearing when removing from the line. It also states that woolens should never be exposed to freezing temperatures.
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