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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1939
Page
5
Society items must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication.
Lu ncheon at the club house hosted by Mrs Ivan Rowe and guest meetings at the Elks and Evans Hearth clubs feature bridge tournaments. Mrs C R Stewart and Mrs A Amidon host dinner bridge and tea with Miss Mabel Elliott. Additional Brid ge activities spread across Colonial venues with Mortarboard and Lioness club events.
Chancellor Lindley is guest of honor at a University Club dinner hosted by Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star with guests from Lawrence including judges deans and professors. Separate events include a Neimeyer Pratt wedding in Niles Center Illinois and a tea at the Colonial with Grace Parker engagement news and local society notices.
Local clubs and church groups list upcoming events through the week. Dinners, showers, and birthday observances fill the schedule at homes on Barker avenue Tennessee street and West Ninth street with planned greetings, program duties, and transportation to Topeka.
Social gatherings span honors for Mr and Mrs Henry of Kansas City guests at a weekend dinner. Prizes awarded to local club members and a McAlaster school sixth grade assembly is planned. Harmony circle picnic at Clinton park and tea at Mrs Cameron's home are scheduled with church women invited.
Initiation services at Sonic Temple with officer attendance at 1 30. Finesse club luncheon hosted by Mrs Robert Haggart with guests Mrs EB H Lupton and Miss Helen Skilton. Cordley P T A tea for preschool mothers at Cordley school with speaker program. W A McNish of Clinton celebrated seventieth birthday with family and friends. Lawrence Flower club garden well at Frank E Jones home features 350 iris varieties. Lydia group of First Baptist to sponsor a tea for Mrs John Peyton leaving for Colorado. Friendly Hour club meets with Mrs J R Davis. Mrs Sarah Bond O Connor celebrated 99th birthday with dinner for relatives. Numerous other local families noted in social items and a classified Ad for turning extra furniture into cash via Ad-Taker.
Personal items list Mrs E Dooley and family returning from Victor Colorado with relatives in Lawrence. Mentions Mrs Perry Barber visiting Blytheville Arkansas. Mrs Marvin Fortner from Gulfport Mississippi arrives for visit with Mr and Mrs Sam Kelsall. Lyman Terry of International Geophysics visits mother in town. James Weed family from El Reno Oklahoma visiting relatives. Mrs W W Goldsmith of South Haven Michigan visiting Lecompton Lawrence. Dora Goggins noted as former Douglas county resident. Extended Mother's Day gathering at Mrs Edward Klein's Kansas City relative’s home.
Nina Griffith, student of Prof. Jan Chiapasso, presented an invitational piano recital at Frank Strong hall. The program opened with Beethoven Op. 27 No. 1 and included Chopin Fantasie and Nocturne for Left Hand Alone, Scriabin Nocturne, Godard Wings, and Mozart Concerto in C minor with Chiapasso on second piano. The performance highlighted a full tone and technical facility, earning warm congratulations from the audience.
A Ford coupe owned by Emmet Park a K A student from Chanute was stolen from a parking area near the Memorial Union building. It was later found on East Fifteenth Street near the cemetery with fuel and oil nearly exhausted but no items missing from the car.
A doctor explains constipation comes from lack of bulk in the diet. The remedy is eating high fiber foods like Kellogg's All-Bran, drinking water, and joining the Regulars. Kellogg's promotes All-Bran made in Battle Creek and sold by grocers.
Phi Epsilon attended in a group occupying especially reserved sections. Ushers for the evening were Roberta Mitchell Hilda Slentz Jane Schlaegel and Mary Katherine Rutherford. The final senior recital of the present school year will occur Thursday evening when Helen Campbell soprano pupil of Meribah Moore and Martha Boucher pianist from the studio of Howard C. Taylor will join in a program of songs and piano numbers.
Attorneys for KCMO Pro test move by WREN presented depositions yesterday in Kansas City at the law offices of Riling and Riling. Testifying were Alfred Heck Mrs H E Don Carlos Al Green and H J Hanna. WREN took depositions last Friday. The FCC hearing on the Lawrence station proposed changes is set for May 23 in Washington DC.
Bruce Roper reported to police that his bicycle was stolen last night from in front of the Dickinson theater. The incident was noted as a theft with no immediate suspects.
Raymond Jennings reported last night that a spare tire was stolen from his Ford car. The incident prompted a police report and investigation into the theft.
Kansas University alumni announce plans to attend spring commencement. Ex-Governor Walter Haxman will be in Lawrence to participate, joined by Marie Sealy former Maceys director in New York and head of the New York Alumni association. H Burnett a Jacksonville and Monte Carlo alumnus returns for the first time since leaving school. C W Fletcher 97 president of the Tite-flex Metal Hose company and Helen Filkin Fox 29 Newark N J also plan to be present.
Kansas University announces 36 senior ROTC members will graduate this spring and join the Reserve Officers Association as junior members as part of a 100 percent record. The school is one of three nationally with this achievement. Also notes that loose or ill fitting valves cause loss of compression in engines.
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