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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1939
Page
8
The Market Basket prize was awarded to Mrs. Cobre EB Miller Route one for her Cottage Cheese Salad recipe. The dish combines cottage cheese gelatine olives celery pepper and whipped cream to form a mold served on lettuce with dressing. The prize next week will go to the best dish for Easter dinner.
Rep. Woodrum of Virginia criticized the WPA for swinging The Mikado in relief aid debates calling it unlike past Gilbert and Sullivan works. He voiced unease with the production while emphasizing he does not oppose the operas themselves. The piece also notes a Womens Relief Corps meeting at the courthouse Saturday at 2 oclock with a white elephant sale fundraiser.
The Oak Ridge Farm Bureau held its regular monthly meeting Friday afternoon at Mrs. G. H. Brune Jr. home with Mrs. F. S. Alford assisting. Mrs. Perkins was absent and Mrs. James Holladay presided. The Rural Youth roll call was read and plans were made for the annual meet.
The second district Farm Bureau meeting in Fort Scott was presided over by Mrs. Ralph Colman. A report on supper proceeds from Midland was favorable. New member Mrs. Lowell Sterling joined. Plans include cornhuskine contest care and first aid lessons at the Grange. W J Small enlarges dehydration operations in Bismarck with a new $50000 building and 40 tons per day capacity. A spring warehouse and Tod Brown visit noted.
The community notes report funeral services for Mrs Missouri Murphy of Lawrence, led by Rev Goddard. Other items mention Fay Brown teaching at Memorial High, closing school events with Oak Ridge club, music by Mrs David Perkins chorus at Farm Bureau in Fort Scott, 4-H festival at Leavenworth with excellent Douglas County rating, and local student honors.
A traveling correspondent writes of a southern sojourn visiting Crary and Della and Doro, with fifth and eighth graders and a school board member Will Hayden. The trip includes a stop at Pasadena to watch the Rose Bowl, impressions of the Rocky Mountains, and observations on local irrigation in Imperial Valley.
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