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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1939
Page
5
Society column items must reach the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication. Submit contributions to the newsroom with name and contact details for verification and scheduling.
Tuesday events include B and P W club dinner at Colonial with Miss Wilma Miler from Finesse club and Mrs E F Caldwell from Lotus club. Wednesday shows Chapter CW of PEO with Mrs G B Landrith, Bridgettes picnic at Weaver Lodge Lone Star.
Mrs. E Russell Carter and Mrs J S Daniels hosted a shower for Miss Clara Lindquist at Winona Avenue with thirty guests and gifts of linen. The event included punch and entertainment. Miss Norma McBride and Donald Douglas McAlearney wed May 20 in Olathe. several social gatherings honored visiting Constan ts and family friends in Topeka and Lawrence. A long social calendar features garden talks at the Lawrence Flower Club and 4 H club meetings, with plans for summer baking demonstrations and family gatherings across Lawrence and Topeka.
Mrs. Rusty Ledbetter of Charlotte and guests from Pittsburg and Ottawa joined classmates for the Ottawa University twenty fifth reunion. Mrs. Ray Olinger and Mrs. N. Van Meter visited the Brewster home, with Rev. James Fisher of Canon City and Dr. H. H. Christenson of Wausau as dinner guests.
Mrs Harold J Brownlee and her son John arrive from London to visit Mrs J R Ulrich in Cedar Rapids IA. The two older children Jean and Joe stay in Cedar Rapids while Mr Brownlee plans to join in September for two months. Madeline Ashton from Kansas City visits her mother before sailing June 9 on the Vulcania to Italy. Caples family from Great Falls MT attends commencement with daughter Lucy a graduate. J W Quade of Springfield MO visits Mrs Fred E Goodrich in Ohio Street. Delphia Louk arrives from Long Beach CA for a two week visit with her parents.
President Roosevelt nominates Admiral William D. Leahy to be governor of Puerto Rico as the government creates a new Caribbean defense department. He also nominates Edward J. Noble of Connecticut to be under secretary of commerce, a former Civil Aeronautics Authority chairman and Republican businessman.
A German professor confounded finalists with a quiz story using Mendelssohn as an "'esel" joke and a student misinterpreted a word, triggering laughter and a near clash on campus. Elsewhere Myron Messenheimer, Lawrence native and KU medical student, earns green trimmings and prepares for a Colorado hospital internship after a long academic record.
Stopped on the campus last night to visit Delta U lodge brothers. Elam of International Geophysics Inc. Los Angeles is en route from Great Bend to St Louis. Frank Liscum and Lyman Terry, former Lawrence residents, are with the company in Great Bend. Garvin Hale KU student from Protection underwent a tonsillectomy at Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday. Hortense Harris Ottawa is described as doing very nicely after a major operation Sunday.
A brief classified item notes 76 percent of Journal-World subscribers read the page daily and provides a contact phone number 22 for more information.
Within 36 hours King George VI and Queen Elizabeth will exit Canada and cross into the United States at Niagara Falls to begin a four day visit. Secretary Cordella Hull will welcome them in Washington New York and Hyde Park as their royal train rests near South Parry Ontario before moving on through Toronto toward the Niagara peninsula.
A new convertible coupe with a power operated top that raises or lowers itself at a lever twist on the instrument board is now being placed on the market.
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