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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1918
Page
4
A brief description of a fashion piece featuring a shawl collar crafted from batiste. The design emphasizes sand shade velour, banding, and batten details with a thin satin finish for a refined look.
Social items list dinners and visits from residents of Topeka and nearby towns. Honorees include Dr Noble S Elderkin of Oak Park. Attendees span Abe Wolfson family, Schrin kopskie clan, Greenbaum family, and locals like Cohn and Freedman. A Brown's Grove trip, a Great Lakes Naval Training School entry, and a Winona Camp Fire camping party are noted along with Red Cross activities and patriotic plans. The piece mentions travel to Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va, Mars Island, and Rock Creek camping, with dates in late summer.
A详 rough recital of Saturday events on the University campus and in Lawrence shows a large military celebration with a parade by armed detachment members and civilian instructors, a seven o'clock McCook field battalion parade, and a Robinson gymnasium dance featuring Kuhn’s orchestra for about five hundred couples. Also noted are social visits, a surprise sixth wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Walter Harding, household hints from the Joplin News-Herald, Dr Alexander Haggart moving to Tonganoxie, and various city updates on welfare, inspections, and local residents including Miss Opal Glynn and Martha Marie Hanson visiting Lawrence.
The National Suffrage Association backs a new melting pot for the Overseas Hospital in France at J A Zimmerman drug store 543 Indiana street. It joins six other pots at Wilson's Drug Store Innes Round Corner Weaver's interurban station and Kane's grocery. Mrs T H Chalkley leads the drive noting ample material collected with more arriving daily. The campaign continues about two weeks more.
In Topeka Kansas the State Highway Commission acts on a National Defense Council appeal to promote motor freighting. District chairmen will meet August 9 to organize the plan and a five member committee per district will assist in installing auto freight routes. The move aims to relieve overburdened railroads and aid farmers with daily deliveries and access to merchandise. Sheriff J R Woodward faces nomination challenges as draft duties limit campaign time.
Twenty four drafted men moved to Union Pacific station en route to Fort Riley with Grand Army relatives, lacking the usual parade. The departure was sudden after Saturday order. only Carl D. Kelley remains ill with typhoid in Class One, which will be filled again this week with reclassified men.
On the March anniversary of Ferdinand de Soto's 1538 Florida landing, he sought a legendary fountain of youth. Instead he met endless morasses and impassable swamps, failing to find the mythical cure and returning with a tale of misfortune.
Geologists estimate Aus trig s little developer tig deposits might be enough to supply about three fourths of Austria's metal needs.
President and Mrs. Wilson attend the launch of the Quinstock cargo vessel, the first large output at Hog Island, marking a new epoch in U S shipbuilding. Chairman Hurley says the ceremony signals mass production to replace wartime losses and speed victory over Germany in the war.
Provisions of wartime draft expansion move forward as hearings begin in Washington during the present recess. The measure, drafted by Secretary Baker with presidential approval, seeks to raise the draft age to 18 to 45 years and is to be referred to the military committees in both houses for early consideration. Chairmen Dent and Chamberlain indicate expected rapid passage with hearings by the House Military Affairs Committee and Senate Military Committee summoned to meet.
Howard L. Reedy reports Lawrence youths in Company fight for the Journal-World and read every word, ads included. Mrs. Reno, widow of Dr. W. W. Reno, visits in the city and plans to return to Cleve ind to live with her father Captain Henry Steere of the U S Army.
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