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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1939
Page
5
Contributions for the society column must reach the Journal-World office by noon on publication day. Submitters should ensure timely delivery to appear in the next issue.
A rundown of weekly gatherings including Monday events at the Lawrence Flower club and Congregational parish house with Mrs Penfield Jones and various luncheon and bridge groups. Tuesday plans feature Mrs Justin Hill and others at Country club and golf, plus educational and fraternal gatherings.
The Lindquist family announces the engagement of Clara Geer to Eugene David Klug of Wilmington Delaware with a July wedding planned. Nearby, Anna BereNice Bollman wed Dr Henry Herrington Asher of Ozark Missouri at Grace and Holy Trinity cathedral in Kansas City with a family ceremony and musical program.
The state convention of the B P W C featured remarks by national president Earline White of Washington DC and Gov. Payne H Ratner. Lawrence chapter members attend including Lora Mendenhall new president and retiring president Fay Brown among others. Various club meetings and Farm Bureau women events are scheduled for Wednesday, including the Current Event club, Brackett unit, Portia club hosting, and Congregational church calendar luncheons.
Various teas meals and club meetings announced including hostesses Mrs. W B Wilcox Mrs George Warner and Mrs W A Young with guests such as Mrs Mary Garey of Mitchell SD. Dinners at Evans Hearth and University club events with 28 attendees. Tea for 125 guests at Miss Buhler’s sister home and Royal Neighbors meeting postponed.
The home of Mrs. S. J. Runkle has been cancelled. Members with robes or capes are asked to send or take them to the meeting on May 18.
Mrs. Harold Longenecker returns home to Joplin after three weeks with Smithmeyers. several guests travel for visits in St Louis Palo Alto San Diego and Wichita while Wichita University Players presented Stage Door at Fraser hall.
A full Fraser hall enjoyed the Bushonge Marionettes in Pinafore with synchronized music and expressive puppetry. The Dushong sisters were praised for refined handling of the dolls while Ione Margarite Whshong and Mrs. Clifton Calvin contributed key speaking parts aided by Arthur Ellison. The program closed with dances and musical numbers attracting strong audience applause.
The El Dorado mine at Radium Cuy on Great Bear Lake in the Canadian sub Arctic is described as a world class radium producer mining and refining five grams each month.
Dr Ernest Fremond Tittle urged the united Methodist church to recognize the right of employers to organize and to set up a pension fund for workers including pastors janitors and publishing plant staff He called for church investments to avoid anti Christ properties and labor exploitation The conference also heard Bishop Hughes vow to push temperance while debating a proposed social creed supporting conscientious objectors and collective bargaining and measures for women child labor old age security and rural preservation
Frank Cunkle former member of the school of fine arts visited the University of Illinois Wesleyan Bloomington and will present a piano and violin sonata recital on May 11 with Miss Olga Eitner violinist. He now teaches music at the University of Nebraska.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth voyage toward Canada and the United States aboard the Empress of Australia. The liner faced a stiff breeze on its first full day out of Portsmouth with several absences from services, though the king and queen attended.
Miss Jane Chesky presents a senior piano recital in Frank Stronghall Auditorium at 8 o'clock with Jan Chiapasso as mentor. The program includes Respighi and Scarlatti pieces, Chopin Ballade, and MacDowell orchestral parts with second piano by Mr. Chiapusso.
Sixteen Cheyenne Mountain school students from Colorado will perform an exhibition of early American cow boy and European dances after returning from the National Folk Festival in Washington. Lloyd Shaw, a Central City dance caller, supervises the troupe. spectators will be invited to join on the floor after the exhibition. The group arrives by special bus tomorrow afternoon.
Scout troops and other groups in towns have been notified of the festival. The message urges participation and outlines planned activities and timetable.
The Westminster A Cappella choir of seventy voices directed by Dean Swarthout performed a concert before students and faculty at Haskell Institute. The program included 16th century pieces, Russian school works, Negro spirituals, and contemporary American compositions. A concert is slated for May 14 in Kansas City at First Baptist Church on Linwood Blvd.
Eudora Kansas resident Mrs C C Gerstenberger lists herself as exclusive distributor for Feodora products with contact details and telephone number 446 inviting inquiries.
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