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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1908
Page
2
The article describes a holiday along a 145 mile route with cheering crowds at farms and crossroads. Farmers repair gullies to ease bridge approaches while wives and children wave from dooryards. Wellsville’s main street is festooned with bunting and flags as vehicles pass. some drivers face tire trouble but continue, with scoring rules discouraging aid at stations.
Seventeen cars completed the route with perfect scores in the Decoration Day event run. Long schedules, tire troubles, and swift repairs tested drivers from Edgerton to Ottawa and into Lawrence.
A long road stretch near twenty five miles saw leaders push hard into Edgerton. The White Steamer entered by H. E. Rockridge led briefly before R. C. Greenlee's Thomas flyer closed the gap. Five cars from Ottawa finished with perfect scores, including Simons in the Olds mobile, Moriarty in the Packard, Holtzhauser in the Hartford, Day in the Pierce Great Arrow, and Goodrich in the Studebaker.
George Deerwester clerk in Vernon Green's city auditor office faced a police court charge of disturbing the peace. He was fined $2 after patrolman James Mulloy testified Deerwester refused to accompany him and made threats during a attempted arrest.
John LaFarge of New York to complete twenty windows for B'nai Jehudah temple at Linwood boulevard and Flora avenue by mid September. The designs will depict Hebrew historical scenes with borders featuring symbols like the altar sword and justice scales. LaFarge, 73, has rarely worked in Western cities and never for Jewish temples.
Reports from Crow to night say four people died in tornadoes near Crowley Louisiana on May 16. The dead include Henry J Young and a child of Thomas Young at Chataigne and two unnamed Black residents at Plaquemine Ridge. About a dozen injured and roughly twenty buildings destroyed, with crop damage reported as small.
A Kansas City committee persuaded City Counselor Edwin C Meservey to run for the Court of Appeals. About fifty Republican lawyers met at the Hotel Baltimore and adopted a resolution to support Meservey. A campaign committee including H M Beardley WwW Michaels Theodore Remley I D Hook D J Haff E Morrison W H M Pratt Leslie ns G W Duvall J N Watson H ee Cook Clyde Taylor J H Harkless R B Middlebrook C C Madison R G Burnett John H Thacher James G Smith J A Hatefeld Solon T Gilmore organized to advance his candidacy.
Without effort by the canvassing committee, voluntary subscriptions yesterday added 1100 to the YMCA building fund. The committee starts work tomorrow and will continue the campaign until 32736 is raised to complete the needed goal.
Charles Pepperdine and L. E. Trout, painters for the Bank of Commerce building, survived a 170 foot fall yesterday afternoon. A witness described the accident as miraculous, noting both men were not fatally injured and were taken to Wesley Hospital for treatment.
Pepperdine and Trout escaped serious harm when their scaffold collapsed at the Bank of Commerce Building on May 6. Pepperdine sustained a fractured left leg, shattered right ankle, and burns to the right arm. Trout suffered a broken right leg, crushed foot bones, a scalp wound, and burns to the hands.
The War Department reports Fort Crook Nebraska suffered storm damage estimated at 100000 and grants authority to proceed with repairs. Also note the death of Mrs. Mary Menninger 68 a Wyandotte county resident dying at her Kansas City home funeral set for Tuesday at St. Anthony's. Charles H. Moore treasurer of Commerce Trust company is ill with inflammatory rheumatism.
The May 16 Weather report states Missouri will have showers on Sunday and Monday partly cloudy conditions. Oklahoma is expected to see scattered showers and thunderstorms. Nebraska and Kansas forecast pair Sunday cooling in the western portions, with Monday turning fair.
The funeral of C D Markle of 2138 Locust Street Kansas City Kansas, who was fatally burned by hot water Friday, is set for 3 pm at Chelsea Place Congregational. Burial will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Detectives led by Robert Phelan Scott Godley Alonzo Ghent and Sam Wilson raided a third floor room at 10 West Tenth street arresting ten men for gambling. Police seized poker chips cards and a poker table and took them to headquarters. Mark Singer posted a 26 bond as keeper. other men furnished bonds.
Washington May 16 Taft momentum grows as conventions select delegates. Official tallies show 584 Taft delegates pledged with 417 instructed and 36 by indorsement, 81 by personal declaration. Unpledged delegates total 169, with over 100 favorable to Taft.
The inland waterways commission bill, introduced by Ohio's Burton, won passage in the House under suspension of the rules. Critics from the Democratic side blasted President Roosevelt's remark that he would keep the commission active regardless of Congress. Burton defended the President, saying the commission will volunteer services again to restore order where chaos now exists.
Disputed points in the wage and working conditions agreement are to be discussed as sections are taken up numerically. National president Thomas L Lewis has called a meeting for Tuesday morning to decide whether terms offered by operators will be accepted and how long negotiations may last.
Thomas Claggett, a Mount St. Mary's graduate, was brought to the general hospital with his mind temporarily deranged by the heat. Watchman M. G. Hevalow fired two shots into the ground to halt Claggett near the Missouri river bank, after which Claggett hid in a ditch and was captured at 2723 Gamble Street, St. Louis.
Washington May 16 Representative James E Watson resigns from the Ways and Means Committee Speaker Cannon appoints Representative Crumpacker of Indiana as his successor The transition follows the usual party line and affects committee leadership in current session Baseball Critic features a playful interchange about Fanning and Muggins with sports humor.
A Philadelphia Ledger item notes a venerable colonel after forty years of service asking for active duty. The commander-in-chief replies good and sends him to the Arizona desert to chase mirages before the colonel gracefully salutes and withdraws.
Boys playing near Twenty fifth and Summit streets yesterday afternoon found a two day old boy baby dead in a shoe box in O. K. creek. The coroner took charge of the case.
Incomplete OCR fragment shows scattered names and places including Cicero, Butler, Kansas City, and Kansas references. lacks a coherent event or context to summarize a full news item.
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