Township Uses a Motorized System in Road Maintenance
Wakarusa township maintains about 100 miles of dirt roads with a fully motorized patrol. The 1932 road and fire levy is set at 1.25 mills with a $25 wage cut for each roadman starting August 1, funded by a 6.9 million valuation. Brown notes strong worker spirit and reports cost reductions from $79 to about $60 per mile, plus rock paving on Learnard Avenue.
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Wakarusa Township
E. L. Brown
Wakarusa Board
Wakarusa
Brown
Frank Topping
Edward Johnson
Douglas County
E. E. Trueblood
Learnard Avenue
Fifteenth
Twenty-third Street
Mary Alice Baker Obituary Highlights Early Life and Family
Mary Alice Baker born April 14 1859 in Ilarion Pennsylvania died July 22 1932 at 73. She moved with her parents to Tennessee and then Kansas in 1879. She married W A Marshall in 1894. he died July 30 1910. Survived by daughters G W Cooper Vinland KS, Mrs Charles Smith Emmett Idaho, Mrs Howard Randolph Kansas City MO, and son Harold W Marshall Sibley KS with five grandchildren.
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Mary Alice Baker
Ilarion
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Kansas
W. A. Marshall
Marshall
Howard Randolph
Kansas City
Harold W. Marshall
Sibley
Memorials of faith and a Salvation Army July report
A devoted church member and long time treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society is remembered for steadfast faith. The Salvation Army reports July aid in Lawrence with 296 garments, 17 pairs of shoes, groceries for 43 families, and meals for transients down this month. Captain Beasley plans the October Home Service Appeal. An address on limiting station expenses to actual public needs is noted.
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Salvation Army
Lawrence
Beasley
Pleasant weather forecast for Kansas with mild temps
Topeka August 3 AP Pleasant summer weather was forecast for today and tomorrow by meteorologist Flora. Temperatures not above 90 to 95 degrees with clear skies and little rainfall were expected across Kansas. Overnight lows were projected around 70 in the east and south and cooler in the west. Last night stayed cool with lows about 56 at Larned and Liberal. A farmer, Mrs Isaac Wilson of Clearfield Pennsylvania, still owns land her husband bought 57 years ago for $1 25 an acre.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Flora
Independence
Larned
Liberal
Isaac Wilson
Clearfield
Baldwin News highlights local visits and travel
L C Walters of Eudora transacted business in Baldwin. Mrs. W D Williams and daughters Mary Margaret and Marian Louise return from Fort Scott. Miss Martha Phipps of Carthage plans overland trip to Colorado after Baker University sessions. Numerous Baldwin residents host, visit, or travel to nearby towns and events including religious education delegates and a Baldwin basket dinner.
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Mary Margaret
Marian Louise
Fort Scott
Harry Newcombe
Martha Phipps
Carthage Mo
Colorado
Miss Phipps
Baker University
Alfred Kuraner
Alfred Junior
Baldwin
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