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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
5
Society notes form a busy calendar with luncheons and hostess duties at Memorial Union and Colonial Tea Room. Members from Mary Lees to nine Lawrence girls gather for gatherings. weddings and engagements surface with Louise Bradford and Harold Gilbert news and Ann Shaw's engagement to John Brock Heffelfinger.
The article notes a dietitian at General Hospital Rochester N Y and details recent academic milestones for Mr Heffelfinger a Kansas University graduate who earned a master's in electrical engineering from Ohio State and was elected to the Sigma Xi honorary society. It also covers local 4 H club activities and farm bureau meetings in Douglas County Kansas with names of participants and upcoming events.
Local personals note several families traveling or visiting. Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Paulin plan a Newport Beach summer. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong will visit Lawrence en route to Berkeley where he will join the University of California. Armstrong previously taught at Cornell after KU engineering. Mrs. Armstrong worked in Douglas county relief. The group travels to Sapulpa to visit. Mrs. Culp and daughters head home to Salt Lake City via Scottsville after visiting Guy V. Keeler. Others depart for New Orleans Natchez and trips to Kansas City and Jamestown to visit relatives.
John Towns hin of Kansas City joined Dean and Mrs. L. D. Havenhill on a trip passing Ann Arbor and Beaver. The Havenhills traveled with their son Robert, returning through Kentucky. H Allermore returned from New York after attending Gray Fortune's graduation in Pleasantville high school. The trio also toured Chicago and Des Moines. George Ansdell and family came back from a week in Assoria and Jamestown. Don Miller and son Jimmy visited Fort Scott then returned to Lance. Rose Francis visited Great Bend to see her daughter Mrs. William Thayer. Fred Hopper and family left for Jackson Junction to attend the funeral of Mrs. Ballard Reed. Mrs. Morris Sabath of Chicago stayed weeks with her daughter Mrs. Ralph Wolfson, who moved recently from 946 Tennessee to 718 Indiana.
A Topeka report notes wheat from ten northeastern Kansas counties shows heavier weight but lower protein than last year. East central counties average 12.2 percent protein and 57.2 pounds per bushel, while six west central counties show 16.9 percent protein and 51.6 pounds per bushel. Samples were taken early July.
The Alford-Clarke post Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary will hold its annual business meeting Monday at the hall at Eighth and Vermont streets. Initiation services will be held. Mrs. Mary N. Clepper chairs the committee and will oversee a program including musical numbers and readings by Mary, Evelyn King, and Helen Transue. Refreshments will be served.
The Gospel Garden at 729 Ver Mont street near the Salvation Army hosts a series of evangelistic meetings starting Friday night July 12 at 7 45 led by Capt C H Crismier from Kansas City This marks his third campaign in Lawrence A song service precedes preaching each evening with a special Salvation Army Citadel meeting at 8 00 for corps members Captain Brigman announced The venue offers a refreshing retreat after a long warm day.
New record gold imports reached 1.162 billion dollars in June, the highest month ever. The Commerce Department tied the surge to massive shipments from Britain and France, likely payments for war materials and a flight from Nazi invasion.
A Lawrence Pereekee crew saved a blind horse from eight feet of water at the Arthur Emery farm northwest of Lakeview. Workers secured a chain and hoisted the animal to safety with a wrecker crane after a prior failed attempt. Earlier, they could not rescue another horse from a 40 foot well at the Jack Wiles farm near Williams town junction.
Loretta Young 27 to wed Tom Lewis 38 an advertising agency executive in about a month. Engagement to be announced at a party Monday. Stan Laurel sued for 16264 in back alimony. Ben Hecht offered Roosevelt Jr. a movie role but declined.
The chamber of deputies today approved a bill requiring compulsory military service, with the senate having already passed it. Uruguay will join a small number of Latin American states mandating army service for its youth. Remember to order the Journal-World sent to your summer vacation address.
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