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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1923
Page
5
The executive committee of the Business and Professional Women’s Club in Lawrence met last night at Mrs. Harriet Rynerson’s home to plan a February all-women business and professions gathering, with further details to be announced.
Sweeney and Lewis visited Kansas City on business. Dr J F Brock conducted business in Baldwin. Catherine Campbell left Ottawa for home via Lawrence to attend a Kansas Council committee meeting here. Ming V Wastell went on Top business. Burgener headed to St Boe for an extended stay. Howell of Eas Orange GnA stayed with sister Mrs E A White ten days, returning home last evening to attend final matters for Mrs R J Howells. M C B Randle of Topeka assisted in Lawrence today. W Cross has returned.
A weekend visit includes Mrs. J P Coffman returning from Kansas City to her home, accompanying her father GM Stratton of Clay Center Kansas who is bound for California to spend the winter.
The Women's Glee Club under Miss Agnes Husband delivered an “unusually splendid” recital in Fraser Chapel, with solos and duets. Prof Waldo Gelich and Miss Louise Miller joined a Kansas City program, while state essay winners were announced for Fire Prevention. Potter Lake debates and Fraser Hall naming are noted as campus chatter.
A motorman on the University car line reported repeated trolley detachments near Greenhall as a rope stretched between trees tripped the line. He searched for pranksters but found only the stretched rope causing the incidents on multiple trips.
A man muttered curses about university boys and cut down the rope that caught the trolley on a trip. He faced no further trouble afterward.
The University of Kansas band directed by J. C. McCanles will perform in Fraser Hall chapel at 8 o clock tomorrow. The varied program includes Fest Overture, Atlantis Suite, Nocturne Morning Hymn, Gipsy Life, and Polish Dance among others. Dr Florence Barrows notes special attention to colon and rectum diseases.
Douglas County Building and Loan Association stockholders met yesterday at the association office and re elected officers and directors. Willer B Metcalf remains president, Paul A Dinsmoor secretary Jon C Exnick treasurer Ross B Brodhead land attorney Walter Thiele.
The Lawrence high school will host its first debate against another high school in ten years marking a return to interschool competition. The event signals renewed activity in local scholastic debate and features a team lineup from Lawrence supported by faculty guidance.
A small fee for the debate will be charged. The event is set for Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Paola High School, in the study hall, with local students expected to participate.
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