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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1940
Page
3
Community club events and social notices cross Kansas
Friday and Saturday club gatherings fill the social calendar with bridge luncheons tea dances and dinners. Women’s groups including Delta Dek Vendredi Gamma Phi Beta Alumnae and No Name host events at Colonial Evans Hearth and homes across Topeka with prizes, programs by Kansas composers, Cinderella performances and upcoming meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James. Davis
J. Club
Wade Pierce
Delta Dek
T.”D. Funk
Madge Bullene
Vendredi Club
Core Don Haines
Warne Adiphin
Colonial
Girl Scout Leaders Honored at Colonial Luncheon
Miss Barbara Embury national Girl Scout worker visits for two days of training with Lawrence leaders and council members. Luncheon committee led by Mrs. Harry T. Craig and Mrs. B. Stouffer. Embury speaks on the history and local council role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girl Scout Council
Colonial
Barbara Embury
Lawrence
Miss Embury
Comee
Harry T. Craig
B. Stouffer
Galen Goril
Karl M. Kreider
Local Personal Notes Include Illness and Transfers
Mrs. Lucy O Neal confined to bed for three days remains able to see friends. Donald Metzler son of Mr and Mrs L M Metzler recently moved from East Chicago Ind to Youngstown O in Phillips Petroleum testing division. Mrs Frank Stark formerly Miss Frances Drury leaves Cedarvale for home. Mrs W T Courtney joins Mrs W F Shaw of Kansas City Kan in Topeka to accompany Dr Jonathan Carter and Mrs W F Eby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy O'Neal
Pennsylvania Street
Altho
O’neal
Donald Metzler
L. M. Metzler
Phillips Petroleum Company
East Chicago
Ind
Youngstown
Frank Stark
Frances Drury
Cedarvale
W. T. Courtney
W. F. Shaw
Kansas City
Kan
Topeka
Jonathan
B. Carter
W. F. Eby
Kansas Day Activities Highlight Women's Clubs and Dinners
Various Kansas Day events unfold including Penwomen’s breakfast, a Kansas Council of Women dinner, Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas dinner, a reception at the executive mansion, and a Women’s Kansas Day club luncheon. Dr. J W Lauck visits at Mrs T J Leasure’s home. Miss Edith Lauck plans to depart Sunday night for Pittsburgh Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Leasure
Evans Hearth
Edith Lauck
Pittsburgh
George Melvin
H. B. Kibler
Lauck
Joanna Hill
Conrad McGrew
Kansas
Kansas Council
Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas
Executive
Kansas Day Club
J. W. Lauck
Maple Hill
Liberty Memorial high school radio program on KFKU under Hobbs and Williams
Liberty Memorial high school presents a 30 minute program on KFKU starting at 6 PM. Soloists Phyllis Burgert and Reed Whetstone join the girls quartet and L.M.H.S. clarinet quartet performs with Winifred Hill on piano. The program features Barcarolle, Without Words, Prelude and Scherzo, Ave Marie, The Spirit Flower and other vocal and instrumental pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Memorial High School
Oliver P. Hobbs
Joe M. Williams
KFKU
Phyllis Burgert
Martha Dooley
Winifred Hill
Barcarolle
Tschaikowsky
Mendelssohn
David Bennett
L.M.H.S
Clifford Reynolds
Margaret Harwood
Charlotte Price
Rudy Carl
Schuetky
Hazel Lanier
Kathleen Robson
Ruth Hill
Annabel Keeler
Robyn—Henrietta Adams
de Ol
Ave Marie
Schubert
Raymond Eberhart
the Spirit Flower
Campbell Tipton
the Nightingale
Ijerulf
L.M.H.S. Girls Quartet
Why Read the Bible Sunday Sermon at First Presbyterian
The third sermon in a series on Christian living will be preached by Rev. Theodore H. Aszman at First Presbyterian on Sunday morning. The topic is Why Read the Bible with an up-to-date view for modern living. Music includes Praise to the Lord by Westminster A Cappella Choir and I Will Praise Thee, O God sung as offertory. Charles Yeomans and Vivian McBeth will participate in recognition of young peoples day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore H. Aszman
First Presbyterian Church
Astman
Westminster A
Alfred Whiteford
Clayton H. Krehbiel
Lansing
Charles Yeomans
Westminster Forum
Vivian McBeth
Taxis ‘Society
Teachers file for jobs at university bureau
One hundred fifty applications have been filed by university students with the Teachers Appointment Bureau since a January 22 meeting called by Director H. E. Chandler. He said the list likely will grow to 174 to 200 by the end of the spring semester for fall 1940 teaching positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Chandler
Chandler
Painter Karl Mattern Sees Work at Philadelphia Exhibit
Karl Mattern of the University drawing and painting department will display his oil painting Small Town at the 135th Pennsylvania Academy exhibit opening January 28 in Philadelphia. Mattern painted the Kansas scene in 1938. The exhibit runs until March 3 and showcases contemporary American art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Mattern
University
Department of Drawing and Painting
Pennsylvania Academy
Philadelphia
Mattern
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Retail Trade Is Fair In Subzero Conditions
Sub zero temperatures and heavy snows kept many potential buyers away from stores this week. Dun & Bradstreet reported retail trade for the nation was about eight to six percent higher than a year ago, but the volume was spotty overall and only faintly up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Student Seeks Aid in Final Exams At Kansas
KU students face finals amid chatter of cheating and crib notes while a student recites the Lord's Prayer on a exam question. Fire-damaged notes complicate another student’s study plan as a floodlit pond is prepared for skating practice. A vivid campus diary notes shavings, smoking bans, snipe censuses, and anecdotes about deans, professors, and staff in a lively university snapshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbie Lodge
Marianna Bantleon
University of Kansas
Sweden’s Weather Gap Cited by Swedish Exchange Student
Ingrid Fres tadius, a Swedish exchange student, says Stockholm enjoys four to six weeks of skiing weather annually while the speaker notes four weeks of similar conditions here. The piece mentions Ingrid’s younger brother being drafted into the Swedish army just before Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uate
Ingrid Frestadius
Stockholm
Sweden
Ingrid
Wyman and Reagan Wed in Hollywood Elopement
Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan plan a 5 30 p m wedding after leaving the studio. The couple will spend a weekend at Palm Springs for a desert honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Wyman
Reagan
Hollywood
Ronald Reagan
Motion Picture
Palm Springs
Opposition to bank expansion blocks Finland relief plan
In Washington on January 26 opposition to financing Latin American exports threatens Senate action on expanding the export import bank's capital. The move aims to free a 20 million dollar non military loan for Finland. Senator Bankhead may seek to bar the bank from advancing funds to any government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finland
Washington
Senate
Bankhead
D-Ala
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Lillian Black
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W. W. Desehner
Guy Keeler
Shirley Bayles
Elizabeth Crafton
Betty June Sullivan
Caroline Baker
Philharmonic Orchestra
Marion Gray
Margaret Westbrook
No Name Club
Tuesda
M. A. Liscum
Lowell Bailey
A. J. Anderson
Music Club
Kate Riggs
Nancy Longenecker
Waters
Minnetonka
Lieurance
Don Haines
W. Hutson
Grace Winsor McElhiney
J. H. Nelson
Alfred Lauter
Preyer
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Riggs
R. Price
Marion Peters
Hill
Call of
Robert Price
Robert Oyler
Thurlow Lieurance
Orcutt
Ruth Orcutt
Brook
Paul Smart
Miller
Nymphs
Emily Preyer
Shilton
W. C. McNown
E. C. Allderdice
L. H. Frink
H. M. Stucker
Lucy Riggs
Old Friends Club
Ernest May
Martha Kannenberg
Leonard Axe
Dread Bridge Club
Pinckney School
Francis Drury
Edna Steele
Stark
Valentines and Hearts
J.J. Kistler
A.A.U.W
Deal Six
Fred Ellsworth
Ivan Rowe
David McCreath
Nees Olsen
Kistler
Cinderella
C. D. Stough
Contract Club
Karl Euersteiner
Jack Vincent
E. C. Buehler
Bert Nash
S.C. Hinshaw
E.C.W. Bridge Club
Lloyd Gaines
C. C. Stewart
M. E. Simmons
Tennessee Street
Helen Gardner
Dorothea Bartz
W. A. Budaly
Jessie Knotts
Wilfred Budaly
Maxine Schmittendorf
Doris Penney
Cordley School
Pinckney ‘School
Robert Wood
Miss Steele
Cordley
Eugene Thornhill
Halstead
Harry Williams
Ness City
Rebekah State Assembly
Beulah Rogers
Rogers
Mr. Thornhill
F. A.russell
E. R. Elbel
RB. B. Wagstaff
Clarence Gorrill
Ledrue Carter
Armin Woestemeyer
H. W. Keene
C. W. Pollom
L. BE. Bice
Mareel Rich
Woodlawn P.T.A
George Pickens
S. Montgomery
Bureau of Visual Instruction
Pickens
Woodlawn
Albert
Hayden
T . le Smith
D. E. Kunkle
Beard
Stanwix
Jefferson County -Christian ‘Endeavor
Oskaloosa
McLouth Brethren Church
Jefferson County
Laura Zook
Valley Grove Society
Home Aid Society
Carl Bruchmiller
A. R. Waldron
O. E.devore
William McKinley
Will Johns
Frank Lescher
A. B. Ewing
DeVore
Three M
Es - R. Taylor
New York P.t.ax
Lloyd Houston
Cecelia _Ensman
State Board of Vocational Education
Electa. Kindlesperger
T. H. Aszman
Aid To Living
K. U
June Griesa
K. U. Man’s
Potter Lake
SNIPE
A.k. U
Walter William Meininger
Daily
Kansan
Walt
C. H. Mullen
Men’s Student Council
C. H
Deane W. Malot
Kansas Editors
Wichita
Otto Springer
K. U. German’ Department
University of Pennsylvania
Sig Alphs
Dick Amerine
Ee of
Tehoe
Haynes & Keene
V. Reg
VapoRus
Veatch
For All
Flower
Weaver’s
Jewelry
Wards
Montgomery Ward
Srano
OTEX
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