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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1919
Page
10
Mrs Mina Helen Backer Kansas politician and national suffrage worker dies Sunday at home. Funeral held this morning at First Methodist Church with S S Klyne in charge. Burial planned for Delphos Kansas later.
Three Lawrence speakers headline the Kansas Christian Endeavor Union district convention in Ottawa on April 26 and 27. Rev Arthur Braden of Lawrence opens Saturday night, Madilene Carter speaks Sunday, and Hugo T Wedell of Lawrence closes the meetings. A large delegation from Lawrence and other endeavor workers attend.
The board of education voted to abolish segregated rooms at Pinckney and New York schools, citing poor progress and high costs. Seventeen pupils at Pinckney and similar numbers at New York led to a savings of about $1,615 and extra room. Nine new teachers were hired and seventy-six incumbents received roughly $6,630 extra annual pay for 1919 20.
We thank friends for kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our mother aunt and grandmother also for the flowers from C S Anderson and Relatives. The list includes Louise Tutcher Marcia Carter Katherine Edie Susan Friend Mary Dillard and many others.
Ernest Elston learns his brother George has arrived from overseas with the 60th Field Artillery Brigade at Camp Mills New York. John Myers wires home from Hoboken of safe arrival with the 110th Ammunition Train. Charley Clarkson returns to work at Anderson Bakery after France. Easter visits fill family scenes as relatives travel to and from camps and towns including Fort Logan, Camp Fenston and Adrian Missouri. Various residents attend dances in Tonganoxie and Kansas City while others plan trips to Leavenworth and Pawnee Rock for weekends and family events.
An advertisement touts Gets-It as a fast corn remover with claims of effectiveness in seconds. It urges readers to try the product and guarantees satisfaction, highlighting distribution by Lawrence and Ree and promotion by local druggists.
A local column lists visits to Topeka and Kansas City from residents including Mr. and Mrs. Monk and Harold, Ed Barber of Los Angeles to return home, and others traveling for business or to see performers. It notes a state penitentiary binder twine shortage despite a record crop forecast and mentions an illness and death notice for Helen N Backer. The second National Milk and Dairy Farm Exposition opens in New York City today for a week.
Lawrence officials press War Department to grant Battery B of the 130th field artillery a longer layover on their march to Camp Funston. Mayor George L. Kreeck emphasizes efficient welcome with Red Cross workers in uniform and multiple committees organized to assist.
Several property transfers are listed with grantees and grantors including Scott Walker Reed to J H Kinney for 700 dollars and Wilber Postman to Asa M Postman for 1 dollar. transfers involve lands in townships 14 to 15 and ranges 18 to 20 with parcels described and sizes ranging from 10 to 40 acres and payments up to 2 500 dollars.
Roscoe School at District No 44 in Douglas county will close tomorrow with a community dinner and a baseball game. About fourteen rural schools have closed in the county, with examinations planned Friday and Saturday. The report notes a local funeral and a Civil War veteran linked to G A R, while a grandson serves in France. The Andover air disaster reports five crew burned and two injured.
Adrian Gentry an eighty year old gardener collapsed and died on a vacant lot at Fifth and Arkansas streets just after 6 30 pm. Police and coroner investigations noted heat and strenuous labor may have contributed to the death. His body lay beside the plow after he sat to rest.
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