Vacation Reading Contest Planned for Rural Schools
Douglas County Parent Teachers association plans a summer vacation reading contest. Students in first to third grade must read three books and mail a letter with titles, authors, name, age, grade, and school. fourth to eighth grade read five books and mail a letter with titles, authors, and brief impressions. Prizes include reader’s pins for top participants and two individual prizes. school prizes awarded by class division to balance competition between one room and town schools. Last year winners were Coila Thurber and Marvin Hird.
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Douglas County
A. R. Colman
Colman
Iven
Jooks
Coila Thurber
Twin Mound
Marvin Hird
Kanwaka
Baldwin
Eudora
Lecompton
Auditorium at Lawrence Memorial High School Hosts Institute's End
The last day of the teachers' institute will be held in the Lawrence Memorial High School auditorium where Mrs. Colman will answer questions about the contest and offer any needed help.
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Lawrence Memorial High School
Teachers’ Institute
Colman
Friday Evening Town Events and Gospel Meetings Schedule
Friday night includes a String Trio at 6 15 p m and radio shows featuring Jenny Wren and the Old Man Donaldson among others at Philco Theater and Hudson Essex Challenger. Gospel meetings at the Church of Christ, 9th and Tennessee, draw crowds with Evangelist Ready and nightly services at 8 00 p m with open welcomes.
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Squibb
Ronald Jetmore
Jenny Wren
Donaldson
J. Armstrong
Quakers
V.— Wrigley Review
Philco’s
Hudson-Essex
Pennsylvania’ Orchestra
Mornin
Zephyrs
The
Blue Birds
Ton
Jenny Wrenckie
Kansas City Board ‘of Trade
Ikansas
Church of Christ
9Th
Tennessee
Ready
Barbet
Ady
Detroit Bootlegger Ransomed for 12000
Detroit April 26 AP reports Fred Begeman a Wyandotte bootlegger was freed after his family paid 12000 to kidnappers who held him nearly two weeks The ransom was 13000 less than the initial demand Police faced two other disappearances including Samuel and Mrs Gross and Robert Forester and Joseph P Sutton in the city as cases remained unsolved
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Detroit
Fred Begeman
Wyandotter
Liberty
Egeman
Samuel Gross
Robert Forester
Joseph P. Suton
Centenary Episcopal Church Announces Sunday Services
Centenary Episcopal Church at Fourth and Finn streets with FE Hesse as pastor holds Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Terry Craub superintendent. Morning worship at 10:30 a.m. sermon on Obedience to the Great Commission. Epworth League meets at 7 p.m. Agnes Pine president. Evening worship at 8 p.m. Cordial invitation to all to attend. English Plane Passes Karachi in India.
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Centenary -Episcopal Church
Karachi
Simla
India
Royal Airforce
England
Calcutta
Jarachi
Greenwich
Payne widow Elsie K Payne dead in Omaha
Mrs. Elsie K Payne died March 24 at her daughter's home in Omaha Nebraska. She and husband Wallace Claire Payne founded the Bible Chair and built Myers Hall on the University of Kansas campus. They led the work in Lawrence for twelve years and she was a versatile speaker and leader in church and city affairs. She leaves three children Francis W Payne Florence Payne Perkins and Helen Payne Sea Shore Jr. The body rests beside her husband in Indianapolis. In a separate brief, William E Riker leader of a religious cult near Santa Cruz California was released after being held for questioning over an Evelyn Rosencrantz affidavit.
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Ellie ‘K. Payne
Lawrence
Elsie K. Payne
Omaha
Neb
Wallace Claire Payne
Payne
Myers Hall
University
Philadelphia
New York
Cincinnati
Chicago
Christian Woman's Board of Missions
Indianapolis
Ind
Francis W. Payne
Rollin M
Florence Payne) Perkins
Iowa City
Iowa
Carl G
Helen Payne
Seashore Jr
Los Angeles
William E. Riker
Santa Cruz
Cal
Evelyn Rosencrantz
San Quentin convict charged with wife slaying case
A San Quentin inmate faced charges for allegedly killing a woman reported to be his former wife. Police received a report from Roland DeWatteville detailing a damaged Ford car motormeter found by vandals in the 1000 block on Massachusetts Street last night.
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San Quention
Ford
Massachusetts Street
Roland DeWatteville
Ohio Street
Nun Mother Conccepción to be sent to Las Tres Marias prison
In Mexico City April 26 AP reports Mother Concépcion, the Roman Catholic nun convicted as the intellectual author of General Álvaro Obregón's assassination, will soon be transferred to the Las Tres Marias island penitentiary. She will be among the first women confined there, a facility noted for harsh treatment of male prisoners. A new governor, appointed by the Portes Gil administration, says whips and similar punishments will be banned and prisoners will receive diversion aids.
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Mexico City
Concépcion
Alvaro Obrégon
Las Tres Marias
Three Marys
Mexico's
Island
Portes Gil
Western Oil Man Hawley Dies at 65 in Spokane
AP reports William S. Hawley prominent in northwestern oil circles died in Spokane at 65 after heart disease. He served as president of Big West Oil Co and led the Big West royalties syndicate, renowned in the Montana region.
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Western
Spokane
Wash
William S. Hawley
Northwestern
Hawley
Big West Oil Company
Big West
Montana
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