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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1944
Page
9
Numerous club luncheons dinners and meetings across Colonial Oroville and Kanwaka areas are documented. engagements and a December wedding for Louise Longe necker and Stephen E Stephenon in Boston are reported alongside girl scout investments. local meetings include Newcomers club Hesper unit and various P T A gatherings with donations, pattern classes, and Christmas plans.
Public instruction and John V. Lees discussed state aid to schools in a day of social events. Hosts, including fifth grade mothers, served coffee and donuts as Miss Opal Jayne Kennedy and Miss Jean Russell poured. A playground bounce ball was won by Miss Helen Shaw’s first grade for highest parent turnout. The Business and Professional Women's club hosted 60 members and guests at Miss Cora Sams’s home with numerous attendees from across cities, including Mrs. O. C. Langston and Mrs. G. M. Acker. Decor featured white chrysanthemums and Thanksgiving motifs, with party prizes in bingo, rummy, and bridge. The Soroptimist club prepared for a talk by Lt. R. R. Deverock at the Colonial, while Mrs. Howard Beaman of Kansas City was honored at a dinner. Educational discussions by local educators covered the futures of business, education, and international relations, followed by reports from the Delegates’ Assembly and regional planning. Lonnie Kelly performed a trombone solo. The Trinity Lutheran Service class hosted a party with several prize winners and light refreshments. Upcoming entertainments include Mrs. Sarepta Ostrum leading a group, and noted book reviews and club meetings at area homes. The Lost and Found column notes prompt results via phone.
Mrs P W Martin of Kansas City will visit ace Cc O Bowman over the weekend. Mrs F B Dodds returns from an eastern trip attending Tolman commissioning in Boston. She traveled to New York Cleveland Chicago, with 11 days in Boston and a week in New York. Mrs C E Forth of Bethel stays with daughter Mrs Albert Transmeier recovering from surgery in Rochester Minn. Mrs Newton Jerome and son Bobby visit her parents at Emporia, returning Sunday. Mrs Paul A Dinsmoor improves after major operation. Mr and Mrs W W Burdorff of Kansas City spend weekend here with sisters Mrs Wilbur Wright and Mrs Douglas Beene. Arthur B Weaver and Mrs Betty Brent, Weaver's manager of women’s ready to wear, have returned.
Mrs S E Perkins travels from New York markets to Fon Sam Houston Texas to visit Maj Car W Harding and family at 562 Graham road noting warm weather and requests for earlier pane. She sent word that a First Methodist church delegation, including Mrs C Stewart and Mrs Emma Welch, attended a joint Ottawa meeting with a district conference of ministers and laymen.
Topeka November 17 The Kansas legislative council completed two years of work and adjourned with a final burst of speed. Highlights include broad reform for elementary and high schools elimination of a constitutional convention proposal approval of pre marital tests to stamp out venereal disease modernization of the juvenile code and a uniform plan for county property. The council praised the state civil service system and Lt Governor Jess C Denions and Vice Chairman Paul R Wunsch for service and Rep F B Ross for his education committee leadership. Sen Kirke W Dale retiring Republican leader urged acceptance of committee recommendations for next January’s legislature. The controversial elementary school bill passed 19-1. The council also found present laws provide ample means for local cooperation with the federal government.
Government in flood control pros approved along with amendments to the state teachers retirement system. Sponsors said the changes would restore teachers unjustly excluded earlier. Chairman Denions named a committee including Senator-elect Wunsch and Sen. McGregor to ensure fair consideration by the 1945 legislature. Also listed are Rep. Maler, Rep. Stamper, and Rep. Hake from various towns.
A marriage license was issued yesterday at the office of Probate Judge J. B. Wilson to Kenneth Eugene Mitchell and Mary Kath erine Birker, both of Lawrence. The text mentions an adding machine invented by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician.
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