Missionary Mrs Lawson Linked To India Since 1880
Mrs E H Lawson spoke on India at a Foreign Missionary society meeting. Sent by Cincinnati Methodist to India in 1880, she sailed at twenty after breaking her engagement. She lived in India thirty eight years with four trips home, now visiting Lawrence with her son the Rev Paul B Lawson. Her family includes six children and a Cincinnati branch missionary. She notes India as home and reflects on early temptations and calls to mission work. Rinehard reports unusual zinnia blooms this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Lawson
India
Foreign Missionary Society
First Methodist Church
Cincinnati
Methodist Church
Mrs. Lawson
Woman’s Board
Woman’s
Woodlawn Mothers Restore Damaged Library
Three Woodlawn PTA mothers Mrs. Charles Lowe Mrs. Ralph Tripp and Mrs. O A Ginness helped at the city library learning book mending from Miss Emma Houghton. They will apply the skills to reconstruct Woodlawn school library ruined by fire, built under Mrs Lowe’s leadership to over 1000 volumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodlawn
Parent-Teacher Association
Emma Houghton
Charles Lowe
Ralph Tripp
O. A. Mel Ginness
Lowe
Associa
City School Plans Book Restoration After Damage
A group notes many city school books were damaged by water while distant students could not access the library. Fifty volumes were saved while others were soiled. women plan to clean and repair legible pages to save reading material until a new school building provides space for new books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tion
Betty Washington Chapter Invited to Tecumseh Unveiling Marker
The Topeka chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will unveil a marker on the Oregon Trail at Tecumseh on July 7 at 4 40 PM. Betty Washington chapter is invited to attend. Clara Francis of Topeka will speak. she chairs DAR preservation efforts and is Kansas Historical Society librarian. Industrial school boys with their band will participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Daughters of the American Revolution
Oregon Trail
Tecumseh
Betty Washington
T. E. Griesa
Clara’ Francis
Francis
D. A
Kansas Historical Society
Industrial School
Thirty Children Learn Expression at Mrs Bair Class
Thirty children aged four to eleven attend Mrs Myrtle Bair’s summer class at the Baptist church basement learning expression through singing dancing and reading. They practice character parts in a short play with help from assistants Miss Aleene Carter Miss Virginia Arnold and Miss Elizabeth Dunkel as about ten to twelve mothers observe each session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Bair
Baptist Church
Bair
Aleene Carter
Virginia Arnold
Elizabeth Dunkel
Lawrence Woman Grows Notable Salmon Pink Geranium
Mrs. H. D. Rinehard of 1341 Massachusetts street tends a salmon pink geranium that has drawn neighbor notice. Planted from a ten cent slip less than two years ago, it stands nearly three feet tall with ten branches and nine blossoms as passersby admire the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Rinehard
Massachusetts Street
The Way to a Man's Heart and Simple Syrups
A compact home recipe note presents Baked Eggplant with onion celery and tomato baked with bread crumbs and egg. It then explains several canning syrups: Thin Syrup two cups sugar four cups water, Medium Syrup two and a half cups sugar four cups water, Thick Syrup five cups sugar four cups water, and a method to thicken for very sour fruits.
Camp Fire Column Wins Local Honor For Kezhekone Unit
Fiva Belle Lawrence wins local Camp Fire essay prize on Why Camp Fire. The piece describes Camp Fire goals of work health and love, independence, health, cooperation, and character development for girls. Reports on Truseley and Owaissa groups, joint hikes, beadwork, bird studies, and weekend camp activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiva Belle Lawrence
Kezhekone
Girls camp cooks and crafts feats during weekend river trip
Gladys Beddow and Marguerite Lescher supervised meals for a four girl rank during a June weekend camp at Kennedy's cabin. They baked beans in a bean hole and built a reflecting oven for salmon leaf. Girls hauled rocks for the bean hole, faced a scare from a local public safety shot, and remained under unit guardian Mrs. W. R. B. Robertson while Miss Hope Selig was away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Lake View
Gladys Beddow
Marguerite Lescher
Litahni
Wallpaper Tips And Travel News In Brief
Wallpaper advice on saving remaining paper after rooming and drying pongee blouses before ironing. Mrs. W F Stucker of Kansas City visits weekend with Mrs Crowder and Mrs McNeill. Miss Lena Wolgamott returns today from Kiowa county public health work. Mrs C A Hunter visits friends in Topeka. Window glass in all sizes offered by C E Matthews Lumber Co. Phone 34.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Stucker
Kansas City
Charles Crowder
J. D. McNeill
Lena Wolgamott
Kiowa County
C. E. Matthews Lumber Co
New Amendment Urges Federal Marriage and Divorce Law
Mrs. Edward Franklin White, deputy Indiana attorney general, urges a federal uniform marriage and divorce law via constitutional amendment. She cites wide state differences in grounds age and health rules, says current status allows mixed legality of marriages and legitimacy of children across states, and outlines proposed causes for divorce and interim decree terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward Franklin White
Indiana
Congress
United States
South Carolina
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Tennessee
Woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Chicago woman recounts weakness nervousness dizziness and insomnia improving after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says sleep appetite and energy returned and urges others to try the remedy as she has for decades praised in letters to the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Chicago
Ilc
Lydia E. Pink
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lawrence
Miss Church
Nou
Feng Poorbells
Wis
NEA Service
Garney
Truseloy
Truseley Camp
Maurine Gruner
Evenlen Hartenstine
Chelawenssa
Truseley
W. R. B. Robertson
Edna Brinkman
Potter Lake
Mrs. C. A. Hunter
Bulletin
Daisy
Mrs. Nay
Bor
Clark
TLE
Mrs. White
Ralph Ward
L.L
Mass
Phone
E. W. Penchard
Vermont
GLE Pencil CO
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!