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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1940
Page
5
Society notices must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication to appear in the society column.
A compact roundup of upcoming events and club activities including luncheons, bridge and whist games, sewing and contract clubs, tea moments, garden and dessert parties, and various dining gatherings hosted by families and officers across multiple clubs and locations such as Colonial and Victoria venues.
Lawrence social pages list hosting garden parties by Mr. and Mrs. W O Brownlee for 24 guests at 6 pm with iris and roses along the back yard and later bridge indoors. They plan a similar event Monday May 27. P.E.O clubs host a garden tea tomorrow at 3:30 pm at 2245 Vermont honoring Louise S Maiken with out of town guests from Kansas City. Betty Alice Howard engages Robert Russell with a June 1 wedding. Numerous bridge luncheons and club meetings are noted, plus Poppy Day observance on May 25 with proceeds aiding veterans families.
Mrs Frank McFarland and Mrs George Warner host women of the congregation. Penfield Jones hosts a Wednesday afternoon children party at Clinton Park for Joanne’s fifth birthday. Congregational calendar picnic at W C Boardman home. Pleasant Valley school house hosts The Hoodooed Coon with a cast including Demeritt Clough Anderson Harrell Hershel Hiene and O Connor. Dorsey Liberty Auxiliary elects delegates to Salina June 4 5. First Baptist Women meet at 2209 Massachusetts street with Crusaders bells discussed. Mrs. Ross Moon hosts a family dinner before Manhattan move. Betty Washington chapter DAR installs officers with Regent Payne and others. Tea served by Mrs J W Murray and Mrs Robert McFarland. Bridge dinner at Howard Veatch home. Country Club dance with 25 couples. Birthday dinner for Mr Vogler and Mrs Hadl. attendees listed. Callers in evening included Wilsons and Fitzs.
Personal items report travel and visits among residents of Joplin Lawrence Topeka Kansas City and Tulsa. Families including the Ahlers Eriksen Graeber Wellman Maloney Trent and others are listed visiting relatives attending events and returning from trips to Washington D C and Oklahoma themes of weekend family social activity and university faculty travel are noted.
Oklahoma guest Mrs. Endacott arrives to visit her daughter Mrs. John A Endacott. Don Temple of Springfield Missouri visits his mother Mrs Dorm Temple and sisters Betty Myrtle Mee and Blossom. Dr. G B Patrick of Elkhart Indiana with wife stay with Prof J D Stranathan and Mr and Mrs Henry H Asher. Dr Patrick attended national pediatrics meetings in Kansas City last week. Mrs Harold Herren and daughter Yvonne of Corpus Christi Texas visit relatives. Opha Zetta Babb of Kansas City Missouri guests of Mr and Mrs Howard Veatch. George Ford of 913 Illinois street improving after illness since April.
Cincinnati May 20 A red headed girl described before the American Psychiatric Association exhibition shows a body temperature of 112 degrees during epileptic fits. Dr Esther B Dietz of Longview State Hospital explains the pituitary gland malfunction drives surges raising heart rate, respiration and muscle activity.
Judge Frank Gray chair of the Douglas County Red Cross reports the International Red Cross has completed welfare inquiry arrangements for relatives or friends in Norway. Blank forms are available at local Red Cross offices. The service, started last September, has assisted over 24,000 Americans and will soon cover the low countries.
Mrs. Coila Morrison leased her 1323 Ohio Street residence to Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Lessenden of Downs who plan to move to Lawrence on June 1. Their son Chester M. Lessenden attends the University of Kansas medical school at the Phi Beta Pi house. The family’s other son is in high school. Mrs. Morrison will summer in Ohio and return to be house mother for Phi Chi. Bob Morrison will train six weeks at Fort Leavenworth and in August join the National Guard at Camp Ripley Minnesota.
A large audience attended the final senior recital sponsored by the School of Fine Arts. Soprano Betty Lou Mechem and violinist Vincent Bleecker presented a varied program, receiving enthusiastic applause and warm congratulations from friends. Mechem displayed strong Italian songs, Schumann cycles, and English selections with refined artistry, while Bleecker offered Bach, Brahms, Fiocco, and Ravel in a mature, expressive display backed by Leora Adams on piano and a small string ensemble conducted by Robert Forman.
Eighteen advanced students from the school of fine arts perform solo numbers at Hoch auditorium at 7 30 tonight in the first of two advanced student recitals. A second recital follows tomorrow night with organ, piano, violin, voice, cello and ensemble works by Saint Saens, Franck, Debussy, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Haydn and others.
Alex Addington came back Friday from a visit to his sons in Texas New Mexico and Colorado spent much time in the mountains due to health. A Parsons of Topeka called from Chicago to McLouth for business tied to the burning of a farm house west of town. He and his wife were visiting their daughter in Chicago. The Nifty Needle club met at Mrs. Arthur Scott’s home last Thursday to work on a quilt for Mrs. Scott’s mother Mrs Hen
McLouth residents planned a May 27 outing for member families after a noon covered dish. A two thirty meeting and a McLouth rural high school reception featured a piano solo, a girls trio, a one act play, and a 1940 class song. officers elected were President Anna Sanders VP Ray Kimmel Secretary Ethel Graham. The W C T U held a March meeting with devotionals, a mother’s day focus, poems, and a white ribbon recruit service. Updates covered visits, illnesses, hospital stays, and plans for church lawn picnic and flower mission day.
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