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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1933
Page
9
Mrs Sophia Kellogg and delegates Wingfield and Morris were chosen to attend the YWCA Girl Reserve mid winter conference in Atchison November 17 18 and 19. The program featured scripture Psalms 22 a vocal solo by Rose Pekarek and readings on the Origin of Thanksgiving. William Drake was taken to Research hospital Kansas and is now home.
Mrs Ha Hall’s daughter in Lawrence. Mr Drake’s friends hope for improvement. Mr and Mrs C V Gann visited in Valley Chapel then left for Missouri. Mrs Gray injured at home, treated by a doctor. Neal Banks and Paul Kennedle assisted. Various locals visited relatives, hosted dinners, and shopped in town. A telephone was installed on 734 line at John Dunn’s home. No school Friday due to State Teachers meeting in Lawrence.
CAPTAINS CREEK and surrounding towns report weekend visits and gatherings. Mr and Mrs Howard Daviness and Betty hosted guests including Mrs Harold Gordon in Eudora. Lawrence trips, masquerade parties, and school baseball at Prairie Center are noted along with regional visits by Nellie Richardson, Mildred Ambler, and Naomi Jewell. Louis Middleton survived a crash near Little Rock with injuries. Lester Smith undergoes cancer treatment in Kansas City.
A scrambled Saturday crossword with numerous across and down clues. Entries include references to football, vegetables, chemicals, and geography, with partial solutions and garbled phrases. The page lists numbered across and down hints, some partially legible, many misspelled or jumbled.
Mrs. Lewis and her daughter Miss Clara of Eudora visited last week with relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Howard, Mr. Miller and family, and Edwin Rice and children. William Rice and Will Nichols took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Edar White and family. Vernon Adams and Mis Vernay attended, Andrew of Kansas City, Allie Andrew and Mrs. Edna Townley with family, Fern Andrew of Olathe, Leslie Andrew of Eudora, Rev and Mrs. Eli Wheeler and daughter Elletta Ann stopped at Chalkley Hill.
Crowder school entertained pupils and guests with a Halloween program on Monday afternoon October 30. The program included readings, songs, dialogues, and a drill performed by first and second grades. Afterward guests enjoyed fortunetelling, contests, apple bobbing, and stunts, with refreshments served by Miss Norwood and aides.
Local Lecompton high school reports show Dorothy Armstrong and Eugene Collins among students who were neither absent nor tardy during the past six weeks of school. Numerous families, including the Collins, Hodson, Emmett, Atwood, and Armstrong households, hosted or attended various gatherings in Lawrence and Lecompton, with Halloween and Sunday school events noted.
Community W CA members gathered in the high school auditorium November 1 for a Thanksgiving program led by Mrs. Gibbens. Delegates were named for the fall convention in Atchison. Guests and students shared thanks, with Rose Pekarek singing, Maurine Bruner at piano. Earlier, L A H S students enjoyed a masquerade ball and desert mission ghost stories. A State Farm Bureau funded evening of free educational talking pictures drew a large audience.
Entries for an essay contest on Horse Sense and The Benefactor are listed alongside the Department of the State Farm Insurance Company at Bloomington IL. The notes mention guests, family visits, and community events.
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