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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1937
Page
5
Lawrence area clubs and events fill the week with meetings, entertainments, and notices. Easter programs, bridge gatherings, and luncheons are listed for Amigas Lotus Y M L L and Valley Chapel Farm Bureau while the Epworth League hosts an Easter breakfast and the Rebekah lodge reports member applications and jubilee plans. The marriage of Louise Gibson and Wendell Kasson is announced and a birth is recorded at Memorial hospital.
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Yesterday's gathering included a Shakespearean inner quest speaker on the subject Crucifying Christ. Mrs. Rappard read Luke 23 and closed with a prayer. Guests were Mrs. Lee Fults and Miss Gladys Cox. Hostesses and schedules for other clubs and dinners are listed, with plans for an April 7 meeting and various hostesses named.
Professor and Mrs. J J Kistler depart for Washington D C to attend the Chi Omega achievement award ceremony honoring Katherine Cornell on Tuesday at nine oclock in the White House. Maurice McKone of Flint Michigan arrives tonight for Easter with Mr and Mrs W H McKone. Tex Pullin returns to Sinclair Oil work after illness. The Larrabees of Liberal and the Combues of Leavenworth will spend Easter with Prof and Mrs E D Kinney. C H Withington returns home to Jefferson City after visiting his mother Mrs A B Withington, who is recovering from a hip injury. Her daughters Helen and Annabelle Troutman care for her. Dr and Mrs H M Bentley of Sterling are visiting their daughter Mrs George Wilbur.
Mr Wilbur and Dr Bentley mark Sterling ties with forty years of service. Ottawa resident R M Bundy visits Lawrence friends Dale Evans and Mrs Cummins families for Easter at Bismarck Grove. George Lowman returns from Indiana to care for ill mother. Gordon Eliot heads to Tucson, Mrs Downey and Mrs Stone tour Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown. Wagstaff to Independence for Easter with ill health improving. Kilworth of Tacoma arrives to join his brother John L Kilworth for Easter. Mrs Brooke travels to Burlington to stay with sister. Olinger party heads Fort Wayne with Wilma Miller visiting South Bend. Mrs Larrabee and Billy Lee visit Hugoton. Mr and Mrs Marks go to Kansas City to visit Dix Edwards.
A hosiery company representative at Weaver's advises that stockings should enhance outfits this spring. Emphasized colors include three shade ensembles such as blue with beige or gray and red earth tones. Warmer copper tones are preferred over matching shades, with hosiery in at least three weights recommended to enliven costumes.
Mr and Mrs E D Harrell celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary Sunday at their Clinton area home south of Clinton. Married March 22 1887 in Clinton they have long resided in Douglas county and are parents of Walter Harrell of Waterson Kan Russell Harrell Ray Harrell and Mrs Charles Belles of Clinton Belvoir neighborhood.
The spring meeting of the women's Interdenominational group will be at Trinity Episcopal church on Wednesday March 31 at 2 30 in the afternoon. Rev H Lee Jones of the Unitarian church will speak on Todays Children in Tomorrows Homes. Tea follows with hospitality by Mrs W H McKone and Mrs Clifford Pine. The officers are Mrs Howard E Koelb president Mrs H W Edmondson vice president Mrs Alfred Lawrence secretary treasurer and Mrs E B Raber program chairwoman.
Mrs Howard E Koelb outlines plans for children’s home care with Rev H Lee Jones and Mrs Alfred Lawrence contributing. The notice lists Hymn 152 Benedictio and related church announcements for upcoming services.
A notice from W C Cox and Co of the Federal Reserve Bank building Chicago seeks descendants of Mrs Phebe Ann Mason, who lived in Lawrence about 90 years ago. The estate is valued around 900 dollars. Readers with knowledge of the Mason/Magen family are urged to contact the Cox firm to share details of lineage.
John N. Oliver of Mt. Auburn Iowa and Hannah Oliver of Lawrence Kansas, both 85, met today for the first time in 80 years. Their families lived near Ottawa Illinois until early childhood, then parted when a move separated them. Oliver came from Guthrie Oklahoma to Lawrence with the Tripp family, who will escort him to Iowa for a visit.
Master with their son Marvin Tripp invites those without a church home to Easter at the Salvation Army. A special Easter program is planned for Sunday night including a play titled Dark Hour and Dawn at 8 o'clock. The Salvation Army will also hold the Missionary effort and Self Dental ix gathering for the public.
The Varsity offers two first run films this weekend. Off to the Races is a pleasing comedy around a harness race at the county fair starring Stim ville. Trouble in Texas features Tex Ritter the singing cowboy in a horse opera.
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