Picnic and visits mark Mohler family gathering in Clinton park
A Sunday basket dinner in Clinton park honored Mr. and Mrs. Mohler and son from Huntington Park California. After croquet, many relatives joined the Mohlers for a Kansas City midget car race outing. Additional items note births, home demonstration meetings, and social gatherings in Kanwaka and Leavenworth counties.
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Clinton Park
Wayne
Kenneth Puckett
Dee Wood
Otis Smith
Clarence Wood
Kansas City
George Mohler
Tip Wood
Eldon Smith
Elgar Smith, Jr
Notable visits and family notices fill local personals page
Mr and Mrs J P Bleakley and Gen Jim arrive from London Ontario to visit Bleakley s brother Wf Bleakley Jr and Mrs Bleak . We and Mrs Robert Larra with Billy Lea spent a few days at Prof E D Kinney s home. Miss Kathleen Keene of Virginia Inn visits Kansas City. Mr and Mrs J A Bogue host Dave Qohla Bausen of Minneapolis. Miss Esther Freese visits Chicago. Ida Louise Nesmith undergoes a tonsil operation at Lawrence Memorial. George B Wills and Ray Coffey return from New York then head to Winfield to join Mrs Wilk and son. Wills starts with Fairchild engine aircraft in Winfield. Doris Edmiston returns to Lawrence after visiting Winfield. Grace Perky visits for a Linoleum event at Mrs Mary Alice Norton s Kansas City home. Dr and Mrs Walton Woods briefly visit Dr and Mrs Ralph J Canuteson as they travel from Manhattan to Kansas City. Dr Woods, a Pacific veteran, on terminal leave, former health service staffer at Man tan and University Health Service, is KU medical graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Larra
Billy Lea
Liberal
E. D. Kinney
Flossie Norvell
Nancy
St. Joseph
Ajrequesta
Milton Boise
Kathleen Keene
Virginia, Inn
Anc
Lou Cain
Louisiana T
Miss Cain
Keene
Kansas
Woodhaven
Long Island
Wew
York
Winfield
Wilk
Gon
David
Wills
Fairchild Engine Aircraft Company
Jeanne Miston
Lawrence
Doris Edmiston
Grace Perky
Army
The
K. U. Medical
One Act Comedy By Centenary Methodist Youth
The Centenary Methodist Church youth group presents The Greene's Grass a one act comedy in the annex tomorrow evening. Cast includes John Morgan Barbara Nehrbass Rowena Nehrbass Gor Wakefield Phyllis Nehrbass Bowlin and James Miller. An ice cream social follows on the church lawn with no admission charged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Youth Fellowship Centenary Methodist Church
Characare
John Morgan
Barbara
Rowena Nehrbass
Gor- Wakefield
Phyllis Nehrbass
Bowlin
James Miller
Fay
Mrs Gagliardo Tours East With Noted Authors
Mrs. Domenico Gagliardo completes an eastern lecture tour for the Children's Traveling Library of Kansas. She meets authors in Philadelphia New York and Buffalo attends luncheons and dinners and visits award ceremonies and literary figures including Dorothy Canfield Fisher Ellen Tarry Lois Lenski and Maud Petersham.
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Philadelphia
Ohio Street
Lawrence
Domenico Gaglardo
Children’s Traveling Library of
Kansas
Vermont
Fisher
Library Division
State Department ‘of Education
New York
Robert Lawson
Lawson
Labbit Hill
Mrs. Gagliardo
Ellen Tarry
Marie Els
Claire Newberry
James Daugherty
Paul Brown
Annis Duff
Elizabeth Jey
Buffalo
Lois Lenski
Maud and
Miska Petersham
Dames Talk Somerset Maugham by Mrs Calderwood
Mrs Natalie Calderwood University of Kansas English instructor will discuss novelist Somerset Maugham at a K A Dames meeting in Sunflower Village tonight at 7 45 PM.
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Natalie Calderwood
University of Kansas
Somerset Maugham
K. A
Wartime milk emergency ends in Lawrence Grade C barred
City Council declared the wartime milk supply emergency over and rescinded Grade C milk permits. Notice states Grade A and B milk are adequate and will be sold. Sanitarian W Larry Green explained the change and law repeals Grade C sales in Lawrence.
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Lawrence
Journal World
Larry Green
City Sanitarian
Service announces returns and enlistments of local servicemen
Mrs. Carl B. Amyx receives a salt from Sergeant Amyx upon his return from Europe aboard the Lehigh Victory. He goes to a separation center for discharge after 18 months in the European theater. Other locals, Neil L. Tucker and Jerald Hugh Vausbinder, enlistments and stationing are noted, along with Eugene Parker’s promotion at St. Albans Naval hospital and Roger Ewing’s promotion from private first class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl B. Amyx
Amyx
New York
le Havre
France
S. M. Amyx
Alice Clayton
Michael
Ross H. Clayton
A. S. Murphy
Rhode Island Street
Eugene Parker
St. Albans Naval Hospital
Parker
Roger Ewing
A. B. Ewing
Harvest Progress Amid Warm Humid Week Across Kansas
The report notes active plowing of harvested wheat fields and corn in tassel or laid by in southern and eastern Kansas. Temperatures reached near 90 degrees, keeping conditions warm and humid and allowing corn and sorghums to advance. The week included continued harvest of oats and barley in some areas.
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Kansas
Corporal Stationed At Fairfax Field Kansas City Within MP Detachment
The corporal serves in an office at Fairfax field Kansas City with an M P detachment. Eugene Tait and Dick Kirchhoff are at Dallas Texas as air cadets undergoing pre flight training at an army air field. Both will return to Lawrence in fall to enter K U.
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Fairfax Field
Kansas City
Eugene Tait
Dick Kirchhoff
Dallas
Texas
Army Air Field
Lawrence
K. U
Harvest Nears Finish As Showers Hit Kansas Wheat
Topeka reports from July 9 indicate showers interrupted the wheat harvest in northwestern Kansas while southern and central regions neared completion. Hail caused local damage and stored grain endured high moisture from rains. northern sections saw substantial rainfall totals including Russell 4.24 inches and Goodland 3.22.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Weekly
Wahers
Marshall County
Colorado Line
Russell
Goodland
Tribune
Rural notes on grain harvest and pasture conditions
Rye progress in eastern counties with threshing under way. Pastures in good condition from recent rains. South central regions report hogs affected by market shifts. Cattle on blue stem pastures show changes amid market conditions.
First American Flag Designed by Franklin and Washington
In 1775 Benjamin Franklin and George Washington designed the first American flag then called the Grand Union, marking an early symbol of the colonies’ unity and independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
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J. E. McConchey
Robert Whiteford
Mc- Conchey
Margaret Whiteford
Lela Whiteford
Mission
Jimmy Mc- Conchey
Kanwaka
Karnaka Hall
M. C. Elliott
Olin Button
Harry Sutton
Donald Elkin
Patricia Stanwix
J. M. O'Connor
Russell Houk
Henry Hood
Rochester
N. Y
George Robert Hood
Kent Homemakers Home
Thomas Cawley
Carmen Shoemaker
Leavenworth County
Wet Knot Club
Mary Beth Pollard
Louisiana Street
Ralph Collins
W. C. Brownlee
J. P. Bleakley
Gen
Jim
London
Ontario
Mr. Bleakley
Wf. ¥. Bleakley, Jr
Bleak
Centenary Methodist Church
Thomas Jefferson
State University
Ice University of
F. A. Bliesner
Harold Bliesner
Bliesner
Idaho
Oscar Klein
Chester A. Bliesner
Fresno
Calif
Bliiesner
Clarence A. Bliesner
Fred Bliesner
Lawrence Typewriter Excharege
Sunflower Village
Just
Neil L. Tucker
Howard Tucker
Connecticut Street
Army Air Forces
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Jerald Hugh Vausbinder
Elsie Vausbinder
Navy
Arinello Beauty
Richard Hanson
China
Mr. Hanson
Peking
North China
Shanghai
Hansons
E. G. Day
Elizabeth
Dickie
Mrs. Hanson
Peter
Ance
RelaGiySen
East Lith St
Mra
W. M. McGrew
Oliver Transue
N. J
Swope’s Creme & Beauty Shop
Royal College Shop
Adelane’s
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