Winfield Settles on 30 Cent Gas Rate After Dispute
The Kansas public service commission set Winfield domestic gas at 30 cents per thousand cubic feet, with Winfield Natural Gas Co to use local supply. The rate, effective March 4, 1926, mirrors a similar rate planned for Arkans Valley Gas Co at Ark City.
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Topeka
State Public Service Commission
Winfield
Winfield Natural Gas Company
Arkan Valley Gas Company
Arkan City
Henry L. Doherty
Compar
Wichita
Hutchinson
Newton
Wea
J. T. Tussey
Public Utility Commission
Oklahoma
Kansas Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Ed T. Hackney
Public Utilities
Public Service Commission
Commission Today
Deaths and Funerals In Wichita And Alamo
Mrs Sta Johnson died Monday at her Wichita home. Funeral service Friday at 3 pm at the Lutheran church conducted by Rev Ey Stauffer. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery. George R Uttinger died in Alamo Texas. arrangements to be announced. He left Lawrence for San Antonio in February and was ill there. Survived by widow and eight children: Merna Uttinger Albion Ind Mrs J R Elliott Hunter Ind ., Clarence Ray Erie Pa Ralph Montell Mrs Joe Arthur Alamo Texas Ethel Marcella George Uttinger all at home.
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Antonio Johnson
Sta Johnson
Wichita
Lutheran Church
Ey Stauffer
Oak Mill Cemetery
George KR. Uttinger
William A. Pine
George R. Uttinger
Alamo
Texas
Uttinger
Lawrence
San Antonio
Merna Uttinger
Albion
Ind
J. R. Elliott
Hunter
Girla
Clarence Ray
Erie
P. Ralph Montell
Joe Athur
Ethel
Marcella
George Uttinger
Rob K. C. Jewelry store robbed at opening by two armed men
Jewelry and diamonds valued around 3000 dollars were stolen from the M. Daniels store in downtown Kansas City when clerk Harry Cohn opened for business. The pair, wielding revolvers, forced Cohn to unlock the safe and removed two boxes of gems before fleeing in a motor car.
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Kansas City
Apr. H
A.P
M. Daniles
Harry Cohn
Colin
The Week's Events: March 31 to April 4
Schedule lists Engineers' Professional Meeting and Ko on March 31, a high school scholarship contest, the operetta Rings in the Sawdust on April 1 by the Glee club, a Community Good Friday service at First Presbyterian on April 2, a county scholarship contest at the courthouse on April 3, and Faster services on April 4.
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Engineers
High School
Presbyterian Church
Court House
Grace Hazard Conkling to Speak at Kansas University
Grace Hazard Conkling poet and lecturer will deliver the principal address at Kansas University’s all University convocation on April 7 at 10 o clock. A Smith College graduate and English instructor, she has an established reputation as a poet and author of several verse volumes. Her talk is expected to cover modern poets with readings from her works and others.
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Grace Hazard Conkling
University of Kansas
Smith College
Conkling
France
Germany
Hilda Conkling
Goff to Undergo Blood Transfusion for Bailey Rescue
Houston catcher Frank Goff rushes to hospital to donate blood as he prepares to undergo a transfusion in a heroic bid to save Bill Bailey left hand pitcher of the Western League in a critical condition after ruptured artery and successive hemorrhages. Bailey was moved from Orange Texas where Omaha club trains to Houston for treatment.
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Houston
Tex
Frank Goff
Houston Baseball Club
Bill Bailey
Orange
Texas
Omaha
Bailey
Elks Minstrels Back With Two-Show Run at Bowersock
Reserved seats for the Elks minstrel show on April 11 and 12 at Bowersock Theatre go on sale Monday April 5. Mail reservations begin tomorrow, with exchange for those already bought from lodge members. Harry Snyder of Topeka directs a two-part program featuring a 30-voice chorus, four vaudeville acts, and acts by Parson Henry Asher Karl and Verle Bratton. Fritz Meyn known as The Boy Ten-FoA will sing ballads and Canary-bird renditions. The show aims to draw full houses as in two years ago.
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Bowersock Theatre
Harry Sny+yer
Topeka
Alk
Bowersock
Snyder
Fritz Meyn
Ten- Fo
America
Lawrence
Henry Asher
Karl
Verle Bratton
Kansas fiddlers to represent state in inter state contest
Gish of Rock Creek and W Workman of Perry will represent Kansas in an inter state old fiddlers contest broadcast from WOS a Jefferson City Missouri Friday night April 2 at 8. Other states Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky Iowa Illinois Oklahoma Nebraska also send two fiddlers each. The winner is decided by the list in and voting via telegram long distance calls. Special telegraph facilities kept open for votes and attractive prizes offered. London Has Airplane Club.
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Gish
Rock Creek
W. Workman
Perry
Kansas
WOS
Jefferson City
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Iowa
Illinois
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Contested County Event Postponed to April 17
The county scholarship contest in arithmetic spelling writing and silent reading set for April 8 at the Junior High School auditorium was postponed to April 17 by County Superintendent O J Lane due to poor road conditions. Winners from Marion and Palmyra townships advance to the county contest with multiple students named in each category.
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O. J. Lane
Marion Yeret Wreiting
Mary Schalbar
Alberta Miller
Lila Featherstone
Alice Hoover
Alma Lamb
Alvin Stahel
Genevieve Scott
Charles Carnahan
Earl Tagall
James Woodrutt
Lloyd Featherstone
Fred Bond
Julius Homberger
Ralph Sherry
Leatha Bond
Aletha Fawl
Lloyd Simon
Palmyra
Irene Nutt
Lucille’ Sutor
Alaina Laughlin
Eunice Hammond
Eva Ehart
Esther Eckman
William J. Loving
Eva Ebart
Nina Sutor
Lucille Sutor
Spelling
Nutt
Emma Hammond
Eugene Reed
Eleanor Jones
Leslie Miller
Norma Jones
Edith Kelley
Thelma McPheeters
William J., Loving
Fannie Abel
Dorothy Jones
Records of Captain Cook Found in Alaska Inlet Legend
Anchorage March 30 AP Efforts by boatmen in Cook Inlet seek to recover records deposited by Captain Cook centuries ago at Point Possession and Ninilchik. The tale from a native chief recounts Cook erecting a stone cairn and trading goods with local peoples before moving the records to Ninilchik where they vanished. An old Russian settlement rumor suggests the relics passed to former serfs turned settlers. APPREHEND GANG LEADER.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Cook Inlet
Cook
Possession
Ninilchik
George Howe
Alaskan
Kenai
Point Possession
Cock Inlet
Head of Jewel Thieves To Face Murder Trial
Richard Reese Whittemore, leader of a jewel thief gang, identified as murderer of a Delaware police officer and two Buffalo bank messengers, was turned over to Buffalo detectives to stand trial for murder in upstate New York. Charges for robberies totaling nearly $1,000,000 were waived to pursue the murder case after the armored car raid in Buffalo that killed the two money couriers and netted $92,000.
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New York
Richard Reese Whittemore
Delaware
Buffalo
N. Y
Austin J. Rocke
Upstate
Whittemore
Tombstone fragment sought for Tom Paine memorial restoration
The Society of Lovers of Old Liverpool seeks a fragment of Tom Paine's tombstone to restore it to America. J M Dow notes Paine’s travels from France to London and back to the United States, where he died in 1818 and his tombstone was later smashed by vandals over his anti-sectarian writings. William Cobbett was in America then.
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Liverpool
Society of Lovers of Old
Tom Paine
America
J. M. Dow
London
United States
Congresa
New York State
William Cobbett
Paine
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Aids Elderly Bowels
An ad urges readers past fifty to use Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for natural regularity without gripping or nausea. It promotes mild daily help over harsh purges and claims the product is harmless and pleasant to take, available as a 60 cent bottle.
Fragmentary Stone Fragment Discovered in Liverpool Case
A large fragment of a fractured stone was brought to Liverpool by an angry party and presented to Edward Rushton, a local magistrate who died in 1850. The stone had last been seen two decades earlier in a suburban warden's possession.
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Liverpool
Edward Rushton
Arrest of former Romanian deputy in embezzlement case
Pressburg dispatch reports police seized former Romanian deputy Theophil Bayescue for embezzlement. Authorities said the arrest revealed the prisoner’s substantial and puzzling proportions.
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Pressburg
Hungary
A. P
Theophil Bayescue
Unusual Prison Remand Treatment and Bees Beliefs
Report notes a prisoner on remand could not fit in standard scales or cells. The warden arranged a private space in his apartment for internment until trial. In Cornwall, locals hold a superstition linking bee removal from wives to certain death unless on Good Friday.
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Cornwall
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Lawrence High School
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Okla
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Ita
Liberty Lands
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C. W. Carman
Elks Minstrels
Airplane Club
Pomerania
B. H. Fuller
B. U W. Fuller
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Batlert
PEPS
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Fort
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