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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1939
Page
7
Mrs. Clara Evans of 928 Vermont street won the Market Basket prize this week for her fruit salad recipe. The recipe includes a pineapple peach salad with gelatin and a peach syrup dressing, plus optional chopped nuts. Future prize will go to the best tomato preserves recipe.
Fear of a broader war sparked by Germanys aggression against Poland unsettles traders in New York. Leading industrials fall 1 to 7 points as bonds and foreign currencies weaken. War commodities rise sharply. A late note mentions a 184 pound Georgia watermelon from 1937.
Dr. W. W. Davis, chair of the Kansas University history department and athletic board, with wife and son Lane, are scheduled to sail from Cherbourg, France. Lane’s letter from Murten, Switzerland, dated August 21, confirms the trip. The public library will close all day Monday in observance of Labor Day.
Residents from Eudora, Gardner, Ottawa and surrounding areas traveled to Kansas City for a Sunday outing at Swope Park and attended various family dinners, reunions, birthdays, and social events. Numerous names appear with visits to Lawrence, Enid, and Garner, plus notes on enrollments and local weddings and trips.
Frank Kellerman aided Lafe King with hay at the Ottawa area farm this past week. Mrs. Charles Hoover and Mrs. Julia Mulvania were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bales on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. S S W Bales of Centropolis visited in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Allen and children Robert Gene and Betty Louise of Kansas City also called on Mrs. George Tad.
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