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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1940
Page
5
Society column items must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication. Submissions should be placed in the society column mailbox or mailed with date and contact details for confirmation.
Tuesday events include a guest meeting at Mrs. E. F. Price home with Miss Wilma Miller and the Finesse club. Evans Hearth hosts a Tesora club gathering and bridge tournament with Daughters of 1812 luncheon. Book Fellows with Mrs. Parke Woodard and Mr. and Mrs. John Brand host dinner bridge. Elks club features bridge and bowling. Wednesday sees Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae, Dinner for Thirty Niners at A. B. Ewing’s, En Regle club, Harmony circle book review tea at Mrs. Price, and Lioness club dinner at Wiedemann’s. Mrs. M. S. Winter attends Wednesday contract club. Thursday brings Newcomers tea at Mrs. Deane W. Mailett’s home, Progressive contract club with Mrs. Wade Pierce and Mrs. C. L. Lescher, and Merry Matrons luncheon.
Lawrence readers learn of Lucy Wright Parker and Frank Preyer wedding in Platte City. Other items note KU secretary resignation, Detroit home, and varied society events including church dinners, DAR meetings, bridge clubs, YWCA and Girl Reserves activities, and public notices scheduled through January in 1940 era.
Lawrence Woman's club met at the club house with officer elections and committee reports. New president Mrs. H E Don Carlos was re elected, with A B Ewing as second vice president and William Kollender as secretary.
Mrs. T. G. Fitch returned from Muskogee Oklahoma where she spent several weeks at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. R. Banker. S. J. Runkle has been in the Norton sanitarium since the publication date.
Donald Taylor visits grandparents in Lecompton and returns to Topeka while Eva Stauffer departs Rifle for Denver. Gladys Holloway injures on ice with broken bones and bruises. Ted Smith and Myrtle Parish travel to Kansas City on business. Lecompton Rural High School to stage The Red Headed Stepchild January 18 with cast including Lucille Paslay Mae Jean Damm and others under Miss Lola Newcomb. J J Svoboda home burned near town with family in Lawrence. fire origin unknown and no possessions saved. United Brethren church plans January 14 program It’s Up to the Men. Helen June Traynor visits Stull and attends vacation with Evelyn Houk. Joe Stauffer's seventeenth birthday celebrated by friends and gifts. Owl school staff new.
The text mentions the Hill family reunion held on New Year’s Day at the Fred Rothberger home in Exdara attended by Mrs. C W Sehon Mrs Julia Martin and Phyllis. It also notes the Lasswell funeral in Harrisonville Missouri for Jones Lasswell who died January 6 with Pete Bahnmaier Eva Lasswell and George Lasswell present.
Purely vegetable Olive Tablets advertised to stimulate liver bile flow and improve constipation. Dr. Edwards' formula claims to aid digestion of fatty foods and elimination. Available in 15 30 and 60 cent sizes at all drugstores.
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