Social events and club notices from a Kansas city page
A Saturday dinner at the Hunsinger home honored Miss Florence Wise and Charles Mertz with gifts for sixteen guests including Fred Van Natta of Topeka as a visitor. Upcoming sewing club and linen shower events are announced along with out of town guests and church activities. The sixth grade English club at McAllaster school held a program and party with readings, music, and a patriotic theme, ending with refreshments and a cake presented by Walter Sneegas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunsinger
Florence Wise
Charles Mertz
Fred van Natta
Topeka
McAllaster School
McAllaster P.T.A
Carl Sandefur
Carl Beil
God Bless America
Shirley de Witt
Polly Anna
Mary Clepper
Edwin Commons
Walter Sneegas
Carol Sandefur
Sammy Ferguson
Tom Williams
Bill Halle
Marine
Geraldine Sommers
Rosemarie Burnau
Peter Pig
Norma Jean Stith
Local families visit Kansas City and nearby towns
Mr and Mrs E G Stith and Mr and Mrs T C Ryther with family visited Kansas City and dined with Lieut Edward O Willeford at the Municipal airport. Several relatives and friends travel, visit and relocate including Mrs M M Swan in Kansas City Kan and Mrs J B Henry's planned Memorial Day trip. Dr Ted Kennedy returns from Madison Wis. others return from Warrensburg and Yates Center visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. G. Stith
T. C. Ryther
Kansas City
Edward O. Willeford
Stith
F. L. Brown
Rhode Island Street
Remington Arms
Lake City
J. B. Henry
Manhattan
Wichita
Wamego
Harry Brown
Lawrence
Lincoln
Neb
Mississippi Street
N. W. McClain
Brown
Kansas City Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Missouri
Lloyd Stewart
Berkeley
Calif
J. H. Rutherford
Lena Mandel
K.U
John Simpson Mandel
Brooklyn
N.Y
C. H. Simpson
Harry F. Johnson
Lance
Charles
Dawson
Johnson
Kansas
C. W. Johnson
Dwight
Kan
W. C. Simons
Ted Kennedy
Madison
Wis
J. K. Kennedy
Don Warner
Warrensburg
C. D. Bunker
West Ninth Street
Leslie W. Nesmith
Dean Nesmith
L. R. Wallace
Yates Center
Eastman elected president of Collamer Players in Ohio
Arthur A. Eastman a KU graduate from Lawrence and 1930 electrical engineering alumnus was chosen president of the Collamer Players in East Cleveland Ohio. The group recently staged a civilian defense fund benefit performance. Eastman graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in 1925 and works as a lighting research engineer at General Electric Nela Park labs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur A. Eastman
Lawrence
Collamer Players
Cleveland
Eastman
Liberty Memorial High School
General Electric Company
Nela Park Laboratories
Graduation Hustle For Class Of 1942 At KU
The class of 1942 at Kansas University faces finals and final arrangements as they prepare to march from Frank Strong hall to Memorial stadium on a newly graveled path. Seniors donate books for the Victory drive autographed by each contributor as they collect for camp-bound troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Strong Hall
Memorial Stadium
Mt. Dreadweather
K. U
Hoch Auditorium
Kansas
E U commencment roundtable led by William Allen White
Alumni gather for a Fraser theater event on Monday June 1 with William Allen White as chair to discuss K U after the War. Citations for distinguished service will be awarded to Kenneth S Adams Thornton Cooke Bernice Van der Vries T W Butcher John H Kane and others. The event is free and public, with a 9:45 a m business meeting and 10:30 am discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E.U
Fraser Theater
William Allen White
K.U
Phillips Petroleum Company
Thornton Cooke
Columbia National Bank of
Kansas City
Bernice van der Vries
Chicago
Illinois
T. W. Butcher
Emporia State Teachers College
John H. Kane
State Regents of Higher Education
Oklahoma
E. B. Black
American Society of Civil Engineers
Karl Krueger
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Roy Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
J. C. Nichols
Irving Hill
Lawrence
Alf M. Landon
Topeka
Hugo Wedell
Justice Wedell
University Red Cross sewing room closes after semester
The Red Cross sewing room on campus, opened in Fraser hall, will close at semester’s end after 40 co eds knitted and about 150 sewed. Volunteers, including town and faculty women, worked 2 to 5 pm on Tue Thu Fri, producing dresses, robes, bed jackets, and hospital shirts while wartime knitting expanded to include refugees and service members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
University
Fraser Hall
Paul Lawson
A. T. Walker
F. C. Allen
Lewis Young
Harry Craig
Edward Brush
George Baxter Smith
Army
Navy
Lawson
I. B. Chubb
Local Marriage Licenses Issued at County Clerks Office
Saturday licenses granted to Warren Means of McLouth and Louella Lindsay of Oskaloosa. Roy W. Mull Jr. and Pauline F. Reese of Lawrence. Raymond W. Tripkos of DeSoto and Lois E. White of Eudora. William C. Os borne and Belle Ward of Topeka. Probate Judge Frank Gray performed the Means Lindsay ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Means
McLouth
Louella Lindsay
Oskaloosa
Roy W. Mull, Jr
Pauline F. Reese
Lawrence
Raymond W. Tripkos
DeSoto
Lois E. White
Eudora
William C. Osborne
Belle Ward
Topeka
Frank Gray
Means-Lindsay
Brooklyn Father Sentenced in Wave of Attacks Across 100 Victims
Eugene Levine 31 from Brooklyn pleaded guilty to five indictments charging assault robbery and larceny. He confessed to attacking more than 100 women and was sentenced today to 82 years six months to 155 years in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Eugene Levine
Brooklyn
Vlea
Classified ads show monthly livestock and farm product sales
Farmers sell thousands of dollars of livestock and farm products each month through Journal-World classified ads, highlighting ongoing agricultural commerce and local market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-World
Postpone State Meeting for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
The annual state meeting scheduled to be held in Independence this fall was postponed by state officers at Topeka. Funds saved will be used to buy war savings bonds. Attending were I C Stevenson grand treasurer Mrs Beulah Rogers state secretary both of Lawrence and Mrs Mary Mertz state treasurer of Eudora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekah and
Odd Fellow
Independence
Topeka
I. C. Stevenson
Beulah Rogers
Lawrence
Mary Mertz
Eudora
Roosevelt asks Congress for 280 million for WPA relief
President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate 280 million dollars for the 1943 work relief program plus 2.767 million for administration. He noted an average employment of about 400000 monthly with some 3000000 still unemployed and urged expansion of social security measures to aid the residual group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Works Projects Administration
Whic Congress
Excelsior Signings and Community Events Across Town
A sugar rationing signing took place at the Excelsior school house Monday. Families like Lindholm and Thomas visited relatives in Salina and nearby towns before returning home. Ottawa senior class stages a play at the high school auditorium with Bud Flora in the cast. A 90th birthday party honors Mrs. Regina Steen with relatives from Topeka, Ottawa, Baldwin and Baldwin relatives attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Excelsior School House
Walter Lindholm
Duane
Patricia
Jack Thomas
Salina
McPherson
Hutchinson
Newton
Carl Schwarz
Hallie Hale
Irene
Edith
Lawrence
Warden Church
Walter Pohl
Everett Bond
Orvil Pohl
Esther Ferne Elm
Marjorie Gibson
Ottawa High School
Bud Flora
Kenneth Pohl
Chester Gibson
Ottawa
John Gibson
Stella
Lucille Keagy
Centropolis
Conrad Gastrock
Regina Steen
Frank Steen
Will Steen
Mildred Betterley
Marie
Topeka
Orliff Steen
Larry
Ernest Pohl
Baldwin
Steen
Perry Stover
Art Madl
Henry Pohl
Mary Kring
Donald Gibson
Baldwin High School
Baldwin Lake
Eunica Pohl
Tri
Local Social Notes Mention Several Mrs Hartman Names
A fragmentary social column lists Mrs Fred Hartman and several other women including Mrs A Bidinger Mrs I B Hraft Mrs A J Hildenbrand and Mrs Charlie Houk among attendees at gatherings and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Hartman
A. Bidinger
I. B. Hraft
A. J. Hildenbrand
Charlie Houk
W M S Meeting At Wulfkuhle Home With Visitors
August Kampachroeder and several ladies attended the W M S meeting at Mrs W C Wulfkuhle home on Thursday afternoon. Mrs August Walter led the study lesson and prayer calendar was presented. A business session followed with refreshments served. Warren Hartman of LaMars Iowa visited over the weekend with his parents. Delbert Cayton of LaMars accompanied him. They returned home Sunday morning. O A Bidinger is doing carpentry at the Arthur Wulfkuhle residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delta Girls
Tri Delta
Baldwin
Ernest Pohl
Will Steen
Topeka
Carl Berger
Charlene
McPherson
Frank Steen
W.M.S
Worden Evangelical Church
Donald Gibson
Baldwin High School
Anna Hamilton
Newton
Walter Lindehim
Roy Shuler
Shuler
Carrie Deay
Lawrence
August Kampachroeder
August Walter
Ralph Ice
J. O'Connor
Elmer
Andrew Bahnmaier
W. C. Wulfkuhle
Warren Hartman
LaMars, In
Fred Hartman
Delbert Cayton
LaMars
O. A. Bidinger
Arthur Wulfkuhle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iota Nu
Clinton Park
Joseph A. Wahl
Henry Pringle
First Christian Church
L. W. Lee
Ru.h. Club
C. D. Young
Ethel Harmon
Old Friends Club
Philip Ernst, Sr
G. Willman
Pauline Reese
Robert Reese
Roy Weldon Moll
R. W. Moll
Royal Humbert
Mary Lou Nelson
Martha Dooley
de Koven
Grieg
Muriel Haber
St. Joseph
Bond
d’Hardelot
Betty Mott
Alan Underwood
Lloyd Purcell
Bob Evans
Betty Banning
Montgomery Ward and Company
University of Kansas
Midland Radio School
United States Air Corps Technical School
Scott Field
Belleville
Moll
Belleville, Ill
Elizabeth Jacqmain
Louisiana Street
Meadowlea
Paul
America
Minnie Mae Kilgore
Arlene Miller
Hugh Turner
Gethsemane
Bill Fears
Barbara Tallamonis
Haskell Institute
Owen Richards
Minnetonka
Eugene Nininger
Winifred Hit
E. M. Brach
Olga Carl
Mendelssohn
Pentacostal
Jac
Sigma Kappa
Jeanne Moyer
Virginia Smith
Mary Louise Liston
Pittsfield
Mass
Mary Alice Hardman
San Juan
Puerto Rico
University Club
Henry Shenk
E. D. Liddy
Mothers’ Discussion Club
Roy Davenport
Connecticut Street
Wiley Jewell
W. C. Hunsinger
Walter T. Johns
Priscilla Sewing Club
O. T. Davis
Maine Street
Jean Stouffer
Alice Ann Jones
Charlotte Steele
Betty van Deventer
Jane Geiger
Jane Montgomery
Jean Steele
Egnars Gage
Ruth Wy Jedemann
Congregational Church
Walter Keeler
Solon Ayers
J. W. Twente
H. C. Bigelow
Trinity Lutheran Church
John Long
L. S. Haile
Philip Commons
Gerald Sommers
Sam Ferguson
Arthur Eastman
Little Theatre Group
GIA
Union Ballroom
Max Killess
Portis
Dr. F. C. Allen
White
Emporia
Vickers
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
WPA
Social Security Board
Arkansas
California
Roberts
Excelsior
Yarnold-Stull
Nook
State Dairy Commission
EAM Ae
Hamilton - Elgin - Waltham
W. Parsons Jeweler
Paris Fashions
Nies
Haynes & Keene
the Independent
Laundry & Dry Cleaners
Vermont St
Fototte
Granada
Walt Disney
Dumbo
Technicolor
William Tracy
Joe Sawyer
Edward G. Robinson
Larceny Inc
Victor Mature
Rose Landis
Eleanor Powell
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