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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1919
Page
5
The Lawrence Reading Club met Tuesday afternoon at 1300 Haskell Avenue with many members present. Guests enjoyed refreshments, and the next meeting is set for Tuesday October 2 at 3 Shaner 1216 Ohio.
In Topeka this afternoon the Scottish Rite Degree Team heads to Manhattan to perform in the third degree. Sigma Kappa hosts a pledges dance at Eagles Hall with chaperones and out of town guests. Alpha Delta Pi hosts an informal house dance for pledges with Gordon Saunders providing music. A six thirty dinner honors Ruth Peairs whose Albuquerque wedding to James Skinner is next week. Presbyterians host a kitchen shower. Topeka partygoers attend J. A. Washburn game, while a Hallowe'en pie supper is planned for Barker school. Jean Stouffer is welcomed after birth. Comedy Club and Camera Club announce meetings and activities.
Personal notes record various residents traveling for business and leisure. Ady J. Anderson, Ausherman, Miss Ruth Boerstler, Miss Kathryn Lane and others visit Topeka Baldwin and Chanute for shopping and weekend stays. Attendees at Sigma Phi Epsilon and Zeta Tau Alpha houses are noted with occasional Commonwealths. Bert Wiggins visits Kansas City relatives. Shavaid shaving aid advertised at City Drug Store.
A flurry of weekend visits and hometown trips is noted as residents travel to Topeka Ottawa Lawrence Leavenworth and Kansas City. Names include Ernest family from St Joseph Ella Willshire Ruth Traul Stella Richards Mary Tudor Harold Evans Ruth Wright and others visiting relatives and attending events. Local shops advertise sweets at Greene's Chocolate Shop and Learnard area guests from Erie Pennsylvania are mentioned.
Miss Minnie Ramsey departs for Chicago to visit sister Mrs W D Pugh. Mrs Richard Dalton of Middletown Ohio arrives for visit with daughter Mrs C R Albright. Mrs Lena Fischer Olney and Miss Lena Melvin travel to Partridge Kansas for Ber enice Gandy wedding. Various local residents host or visit over the weekend including Herman Broeker ads and Lawrence social links.
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