Local club events and community notices featured in Topeka gatherings
The Kanwaka Literary Club met with Mrs. Ed Hyland in Topeka as Mrs. Ralph Colman read Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mrs. Robert Lawson spoke. Other society items include Sierra Club plans, DAV Auxiliary conference in Cincinnati, a patriotic tea at Lawrence Library, and various local organizational hosting by units of American Legion and Daughters of the American Revolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanwaka Literary Club
Ed Hyland
Topeka
Ralph Colman
Shay
Oliver Wendall Holmes
Robert Lawson
Washburn University
Japan
Annie B. Sweet
Elmer Petesch
Betty Washington
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Disabled Veterans Auxiliary
Jayhawk
National Society of New England Women
United Spanish War Veterans
Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Woman’s Relief Corps Auxiliary
Raw Valley Barracks
American Legion Auxiliary
Ewing Jones
Dorsey-Liberty
Unusual Marriage Request In Letter From Omer California
A reader asks if she should invite her former teacher to officiate at her upcoming marriage. Neighbor uncle relations and family dynamics are discussed as possible etiquette considerations. The second letter from Red Rock Oklahoma questions spousal fidelity and urges the husband to control himself and respect his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Landers
Dad
Sats Omer
Calif
Oxnard
Farm Bureau Women Hear Talk on Noise Pollution
Mike Johnston, 15, Lawrence High sophomore, spoke to about 50 Douglas County Farm Bureau Women at the Hotel Eldridge. He defined noise as sound without value and warned that sound pollution rivals air and water pollution in harm, citing airplane takeoffs and rock bands as high decibel threats and urging civic action to control it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Johnston
Lawrence High
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Eldridge
Margaret Fuston
Young Johnston
Four-Leaf Clover 4-H
Johnston
Lis
Holiday Bazaar and Dinner Sponsored by Baldwin Church
The First United Methodist Church in Baldwin hosts a Thursday Holiday Bazaar from 9 30 am to 7 pm with coffee and doughnuts in the morning and lunch at 11 30 am A ham or turkey dinner is served 5 30 to 7 pm Gift items include food and Christmas decorations The event features a Children's Booth White Elephant Booth Country Kitchen Kiddie Corner and babysitting from 9 30 am to 5 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First United Methodist Church
Baldwin
Maness Couple to Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary
DeSoto residents Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Maness will host a 2 to 4 p.m. reception Sunday at Memorial Hall DeSoto for relatives and friends marking their Golden Anniversary. The couple wed November 8 1923 in Lawrence. Hosts include their children Junior Maness and Robert Maness. No gifts requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Maness
DeSoto
Memorial Hall
Junior Maness
Robert Maness
Shawnee Mission
Maness
Mary Ellen Findley
Lawrence
Heart Fund Head Named in Douglas County
Celia Patti of 2030 Ousdahl has been named chairman of the Douglas County Heart Fund Drive for February 1974. Dr. M. M. Swan, president of the Kansas Heart Assn, announced the appointment. Patti and her husband have lived in Lawrence 20 years and she is active in local and state groups. The Heart Unit met at Dr. Hampton Shirer’s home to plan the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celia Patti
Ousdahl
Douglas County Heart Fund
M. M. Swan
Great Bend
Kansas Heart Assn
Patti
Heart Fund
Douglas County
Kansas
American Heart Assn
American Heart
Lawrence
Douglas County Heart Unit
Hampton Shirer
Local Notices of Dismissals and Births
Mrs. Connie McNamara and infant daughter from Shirley Market at 1722 W 24th, James Grant, Eudora. Birth announced for Mr. and Mrs. John Mark of 1709 Ark, a girl born Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connie McNamara
Shirly Market
R.J
James Grant
Eudora
John Mark
1709
Ark
Also Mentioned on This Page
Beta MU
Beta Sigma Phi
Gerald Dwyers
Stan Flory
Sierra Club
South Park Recreation Center
Wayne
Bly
Lawrence Parks and Recreation Dept
Army Corps of Engineers
Douglas County Environmental Improvement Council
Virginia Wright
Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary
Cincinati
Ohio
DAV
Cole Springs
Lawrence Library
Col. J. G. Mears
Kansas University
United States
Clifford T. Davis
Harold Volk
American Legion
Frances Black
Nettie Wismer
Ruth Richardson
Esther Botts
Icotta Moore
Jim ‘ Wright
Ida Lyons
Edith Rice
Walter Keeler
Mary Hays
the Daughters of the American Colonists
John Pound
Mildred Watson
Ann
Spain
Red Rock
Oklahoma
Red
Farm Bureau
Larlin
Wis
Vista Restaurant
IV Homes
MR. and
Mrs
Executive Answering Service
the Farmer’s
Marling
Sealy & Englander
Twin
Massachusetts
Thyrs
ED Marling
Complete Furniture
Colligan Soft Water
Talletion
Hey Colligan Man
Margie Schulz
Mary Racy
Maple Sn
Anna ‘Spooner
Lyons
Ella Calvert
Douglas County State Bank
PHATE
Prairie Room
Kansas Union
Blanc & A Scauly Salons
Mini Plaza
Hillcrest
Ieee Center
Shopols Center
Dillons Plaza
Braque
Cezanne
Gauguin
Gris
Homer
Lichtenstein
Manet
Monet
Picasso
Renoir
Utrillo
van Gogh
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