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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1940
Page
6
Monday Lawrence Woman's Y club tea at club house. Tuesday Daughters of 112 luncheon at Evans Hearth. Mrs N K Nelson Tuesday contract club. Co-Operettes luncheon at Evans Hearth. Wednesday Elks club bridge and bowling.
Miss Helen Moore marries Howard Gilpin at First Presbyterian Topeka in a ceremony with organ music and chrysanthemums. Attendants include Glenn Gilpin and Riley Moore. bride wears mother’s gown. Reception at Colonial tea room. couple to Colorado then home in Topeka.
The society column records a wedding with Miss Helen Hay as sister attendant and J B Thomas best man, notes couples departing for Chicago, lists newborns at Memorial hospital, and previews upcoming club meetings including B H W, Women's Guild, Recreation Club, League of Women Voters officers, and Pleasant Grove P A meeting with ice cream.
Members of both organizations are invited to attend a cake free of charge. The notice encourages full participation and presence at the gathering.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Riley and Miss Betty Jean Flory of Overbrook visited in Manhattan with Mrs. Riley's sister. Frank Endacott returned from Topeka after visiting relatives and attending the Kansas Free Fair. A I Decker, Kansas state employment service director, is a patient at the Wadsworth Veterans hospital. Dolph Simons and sons returned from Brainerd Minnesota where they vacationed at Gull Lake. Earl Potter and sons Dewitt and Richard came back from Chipita Park Colorado. J Howard Parker spent time with Alma Freienmuth of Leavenworth. Mrs H C Brown and son David of Shenandoah Iowa are visiting her parents at 1216 Tennessee Street. Mrs Brown is formerly Ramona Marnar. Betty Jean Flory of Overbrook spent last week with her aunts, Mrs. Jack Riley and Mrs. Clar-
The article notes Thomas Yeatman Horton visiting his sister Virginia in New York City and his uncle Benjamin J Horton in Washington DC, stopping to see aunts Eva and Alice Horton on his way back to Wichita. The nearby Lost and Found column promises prompt results with items often returned within an hour after press time.
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