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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1940
Page
5
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Wednesday events include Mr and Mrs R C Miler hosting dinner bridge at Colonial Ot the same day Miss Olive Pearl Hare attends events for Miss Jean L Russell Marriage of Miss June Ulm to F W Thudium Variety club and Mrs Ethan Smith at Evans Hearth Thursday includes Mrs H A Weaver Tuesday contract club Neerlecraft club with Mrs Harry Schleifer Social Order of the Beauceant lunch at Mrs W H McKone Scotch foursomes at Country club Friday features Betty Washington chapter D A R and a Kinehan and Flag day program at Colonia
Miss Elizabeth Meek and Wilfred McClain Jr. wed Sunday at First Methodist Church Arkansas City with Rev. Price and Rev. Rohl officiating. Reception, traveling outfits, and a Colorado honeymoon follow. The Meeks and McClains are KU graduates with ties to Lawrence and Wichita.
Dr Roach will depart July 1 from St Joseph Missouri state hospital two for internship at General hospital Cincinnati. Also traveling are Dr William Roach and Mrs Roach with sons William Laray Roach Jr and Harry Collins Roach of Cincinnati and Mr and Mrs Walter E Wilson with daughters Juanita Lee and Phyllis June of Richmond Missouri. The Scotch foursomes are set to play tomorrow at 5 PM at the Country Club.
Personal visits and travels mark the week with a parade of relatives and friends. The Young family returns to Little Rock after commencement attendance while Mrs. Teeters visits from Kansas City. Other readers visit Gull Lake in Minnesota and Williams Bay Wisconsin for summer camps and camps, with multiple local residents traveling or hosting during commencement week.
The first social function of the summer session is the annual opening picnic next Wednesday at the gymnasium. Games will be set up in Fowler grove and in front of the gym to provide recreation during the evenings.
Faculty members entering the Brynwood residence are greeted by ivory walls and dark woodwork inside plus a light tan exterior, giving the home a refreshed, brighter appearance.
Alumni visited dorm projects featuring pastel china and light oak furniture made in WPA shoots at Hays. Miss Carlotta Nellis will be housemother at Templin hall, with no housemother for Carruth hall as residents dine in Templin. Battenfeld hall housemother unnamed. Beds will be longer and single double deck steel with 0.35 pound mattresses to prevent spring marks. Bill Jensen leaves for Ames to continue journalism work after earning his master’s. Rain has affected KU commencements only in recent years, with most ceremonies indoors. Golf and fraternity activity marked the campus as the Kansas Bankers Clinic starts with feminine bankers at Corbin hall. Patty Berg and Betty Jameson move into the third round at the Trans-Mississippi.
A Republican caucus for Marion township will be held at the Globe schoolhouse on Monday to nominate township officers for the local government.
The notice states a meeting on the evening of June 17 at 8 o'clock with H A Rappard serving as committeeman presiding. The fragment provides the time and leader but not the location or agenda.
Prospect Mr and Mrs Dan Selzer and others from this area visited Mr and Mrs Charles Waugh at Hopewell on Sunday. Mildred Parsons stayed with Betty Kramer near Wellsville. Stonebrakers and Rohe family members visited Harry Werts Sunday. Martin Rohe Jr spent the weekend at home. Henry Rohe party attended Weeks reunion at Washburn Park Topeka with Eva Weeks from Sibley. Mrs Emery Vitt and Marcella with Miss Ellen Melville joined Edith Jo for Thursday evening.
A gathering of men convened at the Rohe home for a pipaling related to Henry’s threshing run. Mrs. Martin Rohe spent Thursday afternoon with her sister Miss Eva Weeks.
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