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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1940
Page
5
Society notices must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication. Submit notices detailing contributors and events for the society column.
Tuesday events include dinner bridge with Mr and Mrs Lauren Hunter and various clubs led by Mrs J R Ulrich and Miss Martha Kennenberg. Wednesday features Lawrence church women interdenominational group at 2 30 and multiple bridge and contract clubs. Thursday lists University Women's club tea at Memorial Union and Luncheon by Merry Matrons and others.
Mrs George Docking entertains the bridge club while Miss Helen Skilton hosted the Finesse club at luncheon. Numerous guests attend regional society events at the Memorial Union, Evans Hearth, Colonial, and other venues. Notable engagements include Miss Frances Collins Burrow and Norville Wingate and Lawrence women traveling to Topeka for Kansas Day club meetings.
The column lists receptions luncheons and club meetings in Lawrence with attendees including Mrs. Isa Wellman Mrs. David McCreath and Mrs. Dolph Simons. It mentions an Animated Newspaper sketch and a Hamlet tour with Sydney Smith and Kathryne Stevens attending various events and upcoming club gatherings and marriages.
Mrs. Herman Engel and children Stewart and Crosby of Wichita have left to join Mr. Engel in Minneapolis where he will head the Percy Kent Bag Company office. The family visits Prof. and Mrs. E. F. Engel last week. Mrs. Margaret Pearson-Speel- (text ends).
Hasell man was guest of Mrs Jamee Wise of Topeka over the weekend. Dr and Mrs F I Wilson of Kansas City spent Sunday with Dr Wilson's mother Mrs Jeannette Bischoff, who has been ill for a year but is much improved. Wilson known as Humpty at KU and now a surgeon and university instructor. Mrs Robert Green left for Memphis to visit aunt Mrs R Q Dickey while Mr Green attends a service school in Waterloo Iowa. Jack Fritzel returns from Detroit after month with the Altice family. Mrs Ben Barteldes to return from Joplin where she visited sister Mrs Ed Speck. Mrs Caroline Wolters of Nokomis IL visits sister Mrs Glenn Moody and family.
Twenty one high schools enrolled for the Speech and Dramatics festival to be held at the University on March 29 and 30. Approved by the state activities association, the event includes seven divisions with judges and awards for winners. The festival prioritizes nearby schools but invites any state high school, with KU Dramatics club offering a complementary play Friday night.
The Lawrence Co op Credit Union was officially organized on January 24 with Henry Peterson of the Farm Credit Administration in attendance to outline functions and obligations. Elected officers include Board Chair H. C. Tracy Treasurer James Pettee Clerk Norman Ginsberg. Credit Committee Edwin Stone Joseph F. King R. K. Nicholson. Supervisory Committee W. C. McNown Vant Kebker Ly E. Dodder.
An all day physical science conference for high school teachers and top students is planned at the University on March 16. Lectures and demonstrations from chemistry physics geology and astronomy departments under the extension division will be offered. Invitations have gone to local high schools and programs will be ready soon. This is the second such conference here with about 300 attendees in the spring two years ago.
The Lawrence Consumers Cooperative Association will celebrate a new room in their building at 1835 Massachusetts Street with a reception for members and the public from 6 to 10 PM. Coffee and cookies will be served by the Women's Guild. The store will close all day Thursday for preparations.
There was no school at Pony Creek last week due to cold and drifting roads. Lewis Hildebrand traveled to Kansas City on business while John White was ill on Wednesday causing his brother George to miss business college. Donald Powell attended a basketball game between Spring Hill and Ton Yanoxie on Tuesday night. Wennelth McCourtney was taken to a doctor in Lawrence with fever and a severe cold after returning from school. Snow plows opened the mail route on Friday and an alarm of fire sounded through Pony Creek later that day as crews fought the blaze.
A fire started when sparks from a flue burned through a bare snow free roof at the Ulrich residence. Neighbors aided. fire subdued. Meanwhile news arrives of Louis Schrimpf of Leavenworth's death, with funeral set at Sexton chapel and burial at Mt Muncie cemetery. Funeral details include Rev Beery officiating and widow surviving. Other local relatives named. Community notes report Reno Farm Bureau meeting with officers chosen and lessons given. Visitors pass through Forest Park Inn and travel to Kansas City with a baby for hospital care. The old society dinner and meeting postponed to February. Papenhausens visit from Kansas City.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a liver bile stimulant to treat constipation and sluggish digestion. It claims the tablets tone intestinal action and aid elimination, emphasizes the product as purely vegetable and sold in drugstores for 60 cents. It cites Dr F M Edwards and urges testing tonight.
In New York on Jan 30 the sugar futures market moved after rumors of failed British Cuban talks on a sale of 100000 tons of raw sugar to England. The afternoon list showed prices 3 to 5 points higher or lower as traders weighed the news.
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