Thirty Fifth Men Here Three Hours In Lawrence
The itinerary shows the thirty fifth man and company A with three hours allocated to arrival in Lawrence. Mayor confirms dates set for late April or late May.
18 Apr 1919
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1919
Page
1
The itinerary shows the thirty fifth man and company A with three hours allocated to arrival in Lawrence. Mayor confirms dates set for late April or late May.
Lawrence units of the 84th Division from overseas arrive with multiple groups expected April 2 3 24 26 29. Mayor Kreeck forms a city committee to supervise three separate receptions at crossings and station with Red Cross commissary service and banded greetings by KU and Haskell bands.
The University of Kansas seismograph logged a quake starting two minutes after 4 PM yesterday, lasting 1 hour 6 minutes. It was about 940 miles from Lawrence, likely northeast Mexico or the Gulf of Mexico, with potential land damage if the epicenter was on land.
Sixty students have signed up for the University ROTC under Col. Harold Burdick. The commandant aims for 350 names and believes the target can be reached with little difficulty.
The May term will hear seventy six civil suits and seventeen divorces starting May 3 or 4. Seventeen divorces and twelve criminal cases are slated, including robberies linked to a University incident. Defendants Burns Wallace faced theft, while McGowen and Thomas face burglary charges. An appeal on a school law case from a prior peace court ruling is included. The city traffic case against Herbert Wallene is set for May 4.
German and Battic troops seized Libau overthrowing the Lettish provisional government. Lettish reserve troops were surprised and disarmed. The city is now held by Germans. Premier Altman protested to General Von Der Goltz who denied it. Lettish officials were arrested and Riga remains under Soviet control. In a separate item Mrs Myrtle Bootee was charged with forging a $3 check signed by Mrs Custer. preliminary hearing set today.
Lawrence student Wagstaff chairs the university student committee to select 120 participants for KU May Fete on May 24 at the university golf links. Major Arthur Nevin, back from service, is composing the music for the production staged by the YWCA this spring, unlike last year due to wartime conditions.
KH Ptacek Douglas county farm agent visits Fadora this afternoon for a gopher exhibition. He will explain gopher killing methods and assess local farmer needs.
The Farmers' Union will hold a general meeting in Sigel on Wednesday. County farm agent FF. T. Ptacek will attend the session.
The Lawrence Wireless club will hold its first meeting of the year in the Physics room of the Manual Training Building tonight at 8 o'clock. Returned men from the service will speak. Everyone is invited to be present.
The proposed peace agreement reopens debate on Helgoland fortifications. Allies agree not to demand razing coastal defenses as part of the naval question.
Peace conference plans ready if German delegates refuse to sign. Marshal Foch leads experts drafting coercive options including occupation of territory and blockade. Bie Four resumes talks with Wilson as 15 000 women from Lille Roubaix and Tourcoing petition for punishing deportations.
Miss Alice Wolverton, a former Kansas teacher and Red Cross nurse who served in France, will join the Lawrence Presbyterian Church as a visiting nurse on a two week leave. She plans to lecture on hygiene, organize a nursery, and provide emergency care in cooperation with city health efforts. She will have an office in the church and work with charity needs.
H W Boltz secretary of the Y M C A in Douglas county is named county representative of the Public Health Service to lecture high school students on staying fit after the war. He has contacted several high schools to arrange lectures and slide programs. He also serves in the Public Health Service venereal disease division.
General Metcalf announces counties will avoid large parades and instead run county level welcome efforts for the Thirty-Fifth division. Televised and telegram notices will inform families as soldiers finish demobilization at Camp Funston. Kansas guardsmen accompany homebound troops to ensure meals and smooth return home.
A local high school student faced a police court fine after picking tulips in a yard near the City Library. The court imposed a $1 fine plus costs, totaling more than the flower gathering expedition’s assumed value.
Hours April 18 The thirty third session of the grand lodge of the A O U W in this city this week closes as a notably eventful season The order remains financially sound despite influenza pressures and adopts four new insurance plans replacing the old step rate Others from Kansas including Hugh Farrelly Edgar Bennett L M M Penwell and Judge Sims participate in the deliberations The organization now lists 60 000 members in Kansas and continues to grow.
Governor Coolidge asked Postmaster General Burleson if the state could take over telephone operations during government paralysis. The Massachusetts Senate authorized conferring with William Driver of the New England Telephone to settle the northeastern strike affecting five states. Mayor Peters met Burleson in Washington to press a public solution and share the workers' demands.
The Unitarians invite Dr Samuel Eliot of Boston to preach on Easter Sunday. Eliot serves as president of the American Unitarian Association and is the son of a former Harvard president. He arrives amid a meeting of the Indian Committee at Allenpointed in New Mexico.
Thomas J. Lamb was again ruled insane by a Shawnee county court jury. The 25 year pattern shows him in and out of asylums due to alcohol and narcotics use. He was deemed homicidal but recommended for care in a private institution. Lamb plans to appeal claiming a railroad to avoid accounting for a $4 0 000 estate. Witnesses testified his brothers supported him in Lawrence for years.
J W Anderson of 1020 Barker Avenue learned from the War Department that his son Dr Lionel A Anderson had been commissioned captain just a day before dying in Belgium. He served in the medical corps since last May with British forces, and his death was reported in Lawrence.
Topeka state highway engineer delays bidding on the Fort to Fort highway as county officials wait on Mud Creek bridge decisions. Douglas county seeks two 50 foot spans instead of forty. Acting state engineer M W Watson to visit Tuesday with bids likely advertised then. Tractor show opens tomorrow in Lawrence at Ford company rooms drawing about forty farmers.
Lieut Commander Patrick N L Retlinger is expected to fit the Navy Curtiss seaplane for a fast Atlantic crossing by airship as part of the planned attempt. The report notes the likely pairing of pilot and craft in the bold transatlantic plan.
Medal honors for Victory Loan workers crafted from steel used in cannons seized from Kaiser forces will be presented by the United Government in the Tenth Federal Reserve district. County chairmen will award medals to poster artists and newspaper advertisers, with sample pieces sent to county headquarters. A mass start signal will rise at 9 am as bells and whistles join in the drive, with final medal distribution planned after the campaign ends.
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