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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1908
Page
4
A jumble of advertisements and notices from Lawrence includes silk apparel with a $4.98 price, home goods, wallpaper, spraying materials, garden plants, electrical services, music tuning, and dinner options. It also notes a barn fire on Louisiana Street, a funeral, and local furniture and carriage ads amid general storefront promotions.
March 1908 showed 6th percentile warmth with mean 47.35 F, highest 75.5 F on the 25th and low 20.5 F on the 6th. Rainfall totaled 0.86 inches, 1.53 inches below March average, with measurable rain on 4 days and 7 days of trace amounts. Snow was absent, wind averaged 11,446 miles total, and daily mean wind velocity 15.38 mph. Maximum wind velocity reached 56 mph on the 27th. cloudiness averaged around 62.9 percent at 7 am and 55.87 percent at 2 pm. Overall, clear days numbered 2, cloudy days 4, with 9 fogs recorded in the month.
The Leavenworth Times reports a busy social calendar with the Miercoles club meeting with Mrs. G. C. Bradley, Stay Spinster club with Miss Frances Johnson, and the Methodist Men's club with Mr. F. S. Hester. Celts invite to a Thursday High school dance at Fraternal Aid ball, Music Club pipe organ recital by Mrs. John Bell at the Methodist church, and K U Studio class hosting a Friday spread for Walter Simpson departing for Kansas City. Various informal gatherings hosted by Mrs. Ulrich, Mrs. John Sutt, Mrs. M. B. Lantz, Miss Pearl Lapid, and Mrs. George Chambers, plus a Seven-girl Hoodoo club spring evening with boy guests at Mrs. Nellie Burnhim’s home. Mrs. Fieurie Barker and Mrs. Forter attend a dinner hosted by Mrs. Clarence Goddard with yellow daffodils as decoration. A noted wedding is slated tomorrow at 30 o'clock at Fairview church for Laura Tutte and Mr. Ker, with a reception to follow. the couple are prominent in Doug County society.
A morning gathering of Douglas County Camp M W A was held in M W hall. Delegates from South Law Lawrence Lake View Lone Star Belvoir Baldwin and others were elected with J M Liston Baldwin as chairman and Lou Zuttermeister as clerk. A credentials committee was formed and delegates John Akers T M Ha rence were elected to state camp with alternates J M Liston and C F Richards. The next Douglas County meeting will be in Baldwin.
A brief shop note describes Satin akin cream offered with fragrant floral blooms and vegetable spices, priced at 25 cents.
Mrs John Stevenson and sons Don and Harry return home from Taylorville Illinois. Don, badly wounded, now walks with crutches after fears of paralysis. Harry, who went to assist, was severely hurt after an incident in a restaurant.
In the Schneck case an application for a writ of habeas corpus was considered by Judge Smart in chambers this afternoon at 1 30 Rufus Melvin attorney for Schneck traveled to Ottawa to attend the hearing of the application
All city schools including the High School will close tomorrow at noon for a holiday so teachers may attend a meeting in Leavenworth.
Syd Boughton and Win Newmark reportedly shot forty three ducks at Camp Fresh Air upriver yesterday. The tale circulates as a lighthearted All Fools Day feature with references requested and inquiries directed to iO, P. Barber & Son.
The Christian Endeavor of the Congregational church held a business meeting last night. Routine business was transacted and Miss Carrie Woolisey was elected delegate to the Union recently organized here.
A list of residents and visitors in Lawrence reports Elmer Ray in Topeka, Alice Strickler and Miss Mildred Poindexter traveling to Chicago and Topeka, George Eisley en route to Spokane, Jake Levin from Kansas City on business, and many others visiting or returning home from cities including Ottawa Lamar Joplin El Paso and Leavenworth. The item notes travel for business visits family visits and university ties with Washburn KU and local addresses.
The Aurora Theater daily pleases large crowds with a high class program. Enthusiastic patrons praise the vaudeville acts led by William Schoene whose ceiling-stunt contortions rank among world thrillers. Other acts sustain the theater's strong reputation.
In Kansas, about half of the county poor farms are empty aside from the keeper and salary. The rest house few inmates, with sociologists foreseeing an end to county poor farms. Prosperity and intergenerational care cited as reasons for declining use.
Lawrence mourns the death of Thomas Smith who died March 11 in Baltimore Maryland. Survived by a widow and a son, Smith had spent many years in Lawrence and served as a factory manager at the Lawrence Canning plant. Local friends recall his long tenure and community involvement.
Readable fragments describe a Mass Street view from 1805 with wooden awnings horse troughs and a line of now changed businesses. The Western Bakery and Hazeltine’s shop are noted alongside Journal office Woodward's Drugstore and several dry goods stores.
A Missouri bulletin from the Experiment Station at Columbia details experiments feeding 36 pigs around 50 pounds on corn milks with various forage crops. It ranks corn with skim milk as cheapest and finds green clover saves about 70 cents per hundred pounds of grain versus bluegrass, while alfalfa saves about a dollar. The report urges clover and alfalfa pastures over bluegrass or timothy or dry-lot feeding for hogs and offers the bulletin for free distribution on request.
A Monroe asserts no sale of the Strang line and declares reports of a sale false. He notes the Strang line will become an electric line and stop using motor cars, with possible future merger of Strong and Interurban lines uncertain.
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