WCTU Hosts International Students at Ottawa University Dinner
Ottawa University hosted a seventh annual holiday dinner organized by the Women's Christian Temperance Union at First United Methodist Church. Twenty-two international students from Japan and Venezuela shared performances of Silent Night and a Spanish carol, with readings on Christmas customs. The event featured fried chicken, cream puffs, jelly glasses, and joyful fellowship, concluding with carols led by Emma Lou Sullins.
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Ottawa University
Women's Christian Temperance Union
First United Methodist Church
Florence Clark
WCTU
Japan
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Junko Aoki
Takako Arikawa
Megumi Tsuchiahashi
Naomi Shimizu
Kazuyo Okada
Makoto Miguta
Tatsuya Ito
Chieko Hideshima
Mirtha Aguilar
Jesus Ruiz-Lima
Ricardo Montoya
Freddy Marcano
Miriam Jimenez-Ruiz
Elio Farias
Venezuela
Emma Lou Sullins
Marle Mordy
Mary Black
Marjorie Collins
Club Forecast Luncheon and Evening Community Notices
Friday Retta Conclave and True Kindred Christian Women’s Club host a 12:30 p.m. luncheon at Elliott Hall. Latimer Neighborhood Community Club holds a 6:30 p.m. pot luck. Senior Club meets at 1:30 p.m. at the Youth Center.
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RETTA
True Kindred Christian Women's Club
Elliott Hall
Latimer
Pot Luck
Volunteers Of The Month At Ransom Memorial Hospital
Marguerite Bailey and Mary Largent of Pomona are named Volunteers Of The Month by the hospital auxiliary for December. They work as a team in the Gift Shop with many hours on Friday mornings and Saturday afternoons. Both enjoy crocheting and meeting people at the hospital.
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Marguerite Bailey
Mary Largent
Pomona
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Bailey
Largent
Marguerite
Mary
Dear Ann Landers On Shifting Work And Marital Woes
Dear Abby style column fragments discuss nurse wages in Nebraska, a Louisville pay gap, a midlife crisis affair, and requests for daytime nursing work. Readers critique shift work and dating intelligence, with advice urging persistence and smarter choices in partners and careers.
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Ann Landers
Nebraska
Louisville
Dearusband
Lover Boy
Immigrant Woman’s Hard Life in Early Kansas Mining Town
A fictionalized biography by Mary Molek portrays an Eastern European immigrant woman who marries a Slovenian coal miner in Chicopee Kansas. The narrative follows deep debt, isolation, and relentless sacrifice as the family endures treeless company houses, a dying baby, and unfulfilled promises, shaping her children’s future amid harsh mining town life.
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Europe
Chicopee
Kansas
Mary Molek
Wiet
America
Funes
Mineral
Cherokee-Crawford
Slovenia
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Carissa Lyi
Michael Harmon
Wichita
Carissa
Wayne Wallace
Chanute
Don Harmon
Topeka
C.L. Ransom
Maple
Elva Gregory
Newton
Kenneth Harmon
Melissa Diane
Vic Mitchell
Ottawa
RFD
Melissa
Robert
Olin Wollen
Pine
Larry Miffleton
Olathe
Bert Mitchell
Grove
Okla
Grace Sarver
Iva Wollen
Garnett
Carerba Lyn Harmon
Melissa Diane Mitchell
Marguerite Bailey and
Ann
James Watt
Skidmore
John Anderson
New England
Busy Hands Craft
Vera Mietchen
Ani
Cornerstone
Claude and
Pat Presswell
Main
Orig
Salea
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