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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1938
Page
5
Society notes list events at the Country Club with Tuesday golf matches, Wednesday Chi Omega alumnae buffet at Mrs Wayne McCoy's home, a bridge and thimble party for Education School wives at Mrs Joe Williams, and Thursday Progressive Contract Club hosted by Mrs Wovey H Hiina.
A series of local gatherings, weddings, church meetings, and family reunions fill a Lawrence calendar. Highlights include a Hill housewarming at West Eighth Street, Lois Vogler and Clarence Wood wedding in Leavenworth, births in Kansas City Kansas, and a Pine family reunion at Clinton Park with numerous relatives listed.
Mrs C C Stewart won a draw for low net. Mrs Harry Brown had the fewest putts. Women of the First Christian church plan Circle two at 9, Circle three at 2:30 with speaker Mrs Mercedes Cole, Circle five at 2:30. Miss Virginia Quiring and Edwin R Wood wed in McPherson.
A long column lists residents and guests including Dr. and Mrs. T Jerrell Carter and children Jerrell Jr and Marilyn visiting Washington DC relatives. Mrs. Florence Kunkel back from McAllister Oklahoma. Robert Corey visiting his mother Erna Corey before heading to Pensacola Florida. Betty Wacker returning from Pleasant Grove. George Johnston home on furlough visiting Lawrence and parents. E A Richstatter Joseph and Marcella Drowski guests of Zillners. Wettigs with Clovis Wettig from Topeka visiting Buechners in St Louis. Gafney arriving for University summer session. Harry Brookby from Evanston visiting Mills family. F M Holliday returning from Kahoka. Betty Ann Beal traveling to Des Moines and Lasl (Las) with Elizabeth Slaughter. H M Stucker family leaving for Chipita Park Colorado. Hervey Faris and children from Tucson joined by Mattoon, Fugates, for summer travels. Ted Cooksey, W H Blevins visiting Daisy Jenkins in Forest City Missouri. Carol Foster visiting Masters at Platte City Missouri. Iria Jenkins returning from Topeka with Donna Lee Thompson. Henderson Martin and Sibyl Martin from Glendale California lingering in Lawrence.
In Lawrence this morning a family headed home by car. Mrs Ray A J Phillips of Glen Dale Cal has been visiting the Goodrich and Lester households and departed for Glen Dale. Mrs Paul C Rankin and children left for their Ellis farm. Howard Price returned from a two week visit with J W Pettit in Columbia Mo and at the Lake of the Ozarks. Prof and Mrs W S Johnson plan a summer in the east visiting Bow man in Douglaston L I and S F Johnson in Haycock Point Conn then the Berkshires until September. Mr and Mrs Harry F Johnson of Dawson Neb spent last night with her father W C Simons and with his parents in Topeka. Mr and Mrs George Ansdell and daughters spent the weekend in Quincy Ill. Bert Dale remains ill at Memorial hospital. Mrs Pauline Simon will visit Chicago and other points in Illinois and Wisconsin tomorrow.
A 21 car Ringling circus train halted its western tour due to labor trouble and headed toward Red Field South Dakota to join the Al G Barnes show. The Barnes unit will expand and includes Frank Buck and Gargantua the gorilla. Frank Buck suffered a minor finger wound from a python bite at Massapequa zoo and was to be discharged soon. The injury occurred during feeding and Buck was hospitalized as a precaution against infection.
City Engineer B M Babb said the Barker avenue paving job did not start as planned because about 40 WPA laborers were called into harvest service. The project, costing about 42000 dollars, will be shared by the city county and WPA, with no definite start date given.
A marriage license was issued Sunday at the court house to Paul E. Albee and Evelyn N. Watson of Maryville Missouri. The couple was married by Mrs. Lorene Taylor probate judge pro tem.
Jesse Jackson and Harold Johnson, Journal-World workers, battled a rattlesnake and a blacksnake with light casting rods beside Rock Creek west of Clinton. Jackson snapped the rattler’s head after wounding it, Johnson killed the blacksnake, and both were stung by hornets in the timber. Johnson brought home a two pound bass.
Mrs Nellie Brink Corse 27 of Salix Iowa and her two children Billie Corse 2 ½ and Bobbie Corse 8 months died in a head on collision on US highway 71 seventeen miles north of Parkville Missouri. Her husband Howard Corse driver of the Corse car was seriously injured. Allen Prost 18 a passenger had a severe head injury. Roy S Jacks and Miss Bernice Homan both of Kansas City in the other car suffered lacerations.
Elkton July 5. The romance of Dr. Joseph Irwin France once a U S senator from Maryland and a 1932 Republican presidential hopeful, and the Russian emigrant he wed in Paris in 1927 has ended in divorce today.
Rochester Mayo doctors report marked improvement in James Roosevelt son and secretary to the President undergoing gastric ulcer treatment at the Mayo Clinic. The news comes from physicians treating the high profile patient as he recovers.
Gettysburg Pa July 5 1948 Comradeship marks the last retreat of blue and gray as veterans depart the field of their 75th battle anniversary They leave together in peace pledging eternal unity President Roosevelt had urged unity as they witness a peace light atop Oak Hill Fireworks parades speeches and a celebration costing 1 261 000 attracting at least 500 000 visitors The 2000 veterans journey home as the rearguard to a much larger generation who fought in 1861 65
Senator Logan of Kentucky, an administration ally, stated he is certain Roosevelt and Garner will not pursue third terms. He noted no direct talks but expressed confidence they would refrain. He also said Garner would be strong if a 1940 presidential bid occurred, while Burke suggested Garner might accept a 1940 nomination but not the vice presidency.
Wilbur Mansfield, released from federal prison a month ago after serving part of a six year mail fraud sentence, files for bankruptcy in federal court. He lists $118,566.69 in liabilities including $23,000 in federal judgments. Assets total $150 in wearing apparel, a watch, and a ring.
Four Republican hopefuls for governor tighten campaigns with multi town stumpings across Kansas July 5 including Thompson McGugin Ratner while Newcomer and Atchison speech plans noted. Democratic Gov Haxman rests in Minnesota as candidates map weeks of travel and events.
Mrs Ella E Fowler of Holton Kansas director of scientific temperance education for the W C T U of Kansas will speak on alcohol education at the Centenary M E church Thursday evening July 7 at 8 oclock She has just returned from a three month stay in Evanston Illinois where she attended an annual seminar on this subject All who work with young folks are urged to attend.
New York reporting that 242 business failures occurred in the United States for the week ended June 30, up by 9 from the prior period. Dun and Bradstreet notes 155 failures at the same time last year and 6,709 for the first half of the year, a 45.5 percent rise over 4,612 in 1937.
Beulah and western North Dakota faced disrupting effects of a cloudburst. Homes washed off foundations and basements flooded while hundreds of feet of railway track were destroyed and power systems disrupted. A westbound Northern Pacific passenger train derailed near Hebron though no injuries were reported.
Mrs. J. E. Johntz of Abilene Kansas was named chairman of the credentials badges and elections committee of the General Federation of Womens Clubs. The appointment was announced by national president Mrs Seidie Orr Dunbar.
Philadelphia report notes radio commentator John Facenda warned listeners to handle fireworks carefully in a pre Independence Day broadcast. The following day a firecracker exploded in his hand causing severe burns and hospitalization.
Secretary Wallace said private crop estimates show a wheat bumper crop. The 2 percent loan of the parity price would apply with a maximum 75 percent loan rate, while minimum rate noted as 52 percent. Officials wait for the July crop report before formal announcement.
A man from El Dorado, 29, Harvey Gooch, a harvest hand, tried to seize the throttle of the Santa Fe Chief near Wright on July 4. Engineer C. A. Colvin and crew subdued him in the locomotive cab. Sheriff Dowdy took Gooch into custody at Kinsley and jailed him on the incident. Gooch claimed he recalled nothing after drinking.
American illustrator James Montgomery Flagg published his first cartoon at age fourteen, marking the start of a noted career in illustration. The anecdote highlights his early talent and the era’s young artists breaking into public art.
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