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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1938
Page
6
Police report Elmer Stelzeride, 14, confessed to riding a bicycle to steal a kiss from more than 80 women in recent months. Fourteen victims identified him after a showup, and officers say he admitted selecting attractive women.
A luncheon menu outlines Hawaiian themed fruit salads with pineapple bananas apricots and lettuce cups topped by Tropical Dressing. The dressing combines egg yolks flour sugar salt mustard paprika celery salt pineapple and grapefruit juices with warm water to a creamy sauce. Also includes Sugary Twists cake and a Sugar Dip flavored yeast dough recipe with rising times and baking steps.
Ethel Phenicie Miller and Bert Harman were married Friday morning at the Presbyterian church in Lawrence. Rev. Thomas officiated in place of the absent pastor. Immediate families attended, including Miss Mary Ellen Miller and Howard Miller of St. Louis, and Miss Genevieve Harman with Gordon Harman of Tonganoxie. The couple plans a two week honeymoon to Minnesota and Canada before settling in Tonganoxie.
Miss Dorothy Pinkham of Abilene Kansas spent most of last week with Miss Elizabeth Dunn and Mrs Dunn at Valley Chapel. Mr and Mrs Fred Gray and children drove to Topeka to visit her parents Mr and Mrs F J Bucheim and Mrs Bucheim returned home with them.
Community members from Lawrence to Merriam gather for threshing oats with large equipment, family meals, and social visits. Irvin Ingram helps with wheat crop duties at Elza Bond’s, while Mrs. Katherine Washburn and Rolla Webb visit Schellhorns. Ice cream social set by Valley Chapel ENDS society at Woodward home.
Reno J E Dwyer John Dwyer and Jimmie Dwyer Jr left Sunday morning in a recently purchased pickup. 4 H club girls met Janet Wiley Friday afternoon for a social session with Miss Iva Holliday from Leavenee present to judge the year’s work. About eighteen attended, sixteen girls and their mothers. Refreshments included fruit salad cake and lemonade. Mrs C W Hemphill and daughter Mrs Floyd Gilliland called Friday. Rev and Mrs Will Overhulser and daughter Patricia Ann and O N Halsted visited from Bed Ta for a vacation with Mrs Anna Kline and Miss Bertha Halsted in Tonganoxie. Overhulgers traveled to the Ozarks Saturday morning. W Phenjcie announces the arrival of her daughter Mrs
Mrs Mary Belle Wells and her sons George and John Henry left Lone Star for Washington state to join their mother Mrs Beatrice Gale. The group traveled by auto with Mr and Mrs George Miller who also plan to settle there. Tom Grant and Charles Harrell of Lawrence sawed hay for J W Garbutt. Mrs M D Flory hosted the Jolly Stitchers club with Edna Flory as guest. Mrs Fox returned home after weeks with daughters in the country. John Daggett of Pleasant Grove bought the Jergin farm one mile southwest of Lone Star.
A partial ledger fragment shows assorted values including negative cents and a few positive figures. Readable entries include references to cents and coins with dates or labels largely obscured.
A roundup of local visitations and gatherings includes Mrs. Maggie Rothrock and friends at Lone Star, a birthday dinner for M. D. Flory, and guests from ElDorado Springs, Ann Arbor, Topeka, Lawrence, Richland, and Ft. Pierce. A family reunion at A. E. Metsker’s honored Betty Nelson of Ft. Pierce and included Ida Cole and multiple local families. Dr. Walter H Marseille, a German psychologist and mathematician, claims to have invented five suit bridge.
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