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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1925
Page
2
The state board of agriculture predicts the 1926 wheat crop will yield about 6.6 bushels per acre on 7,901,000 acres, a rare poor result in Kansas history. Corn shows a four million bushel drop while the overall yields lag behind last month’s forecast. Only three wheat crops in 20 years have been poorer.
Dr J B Henry and Mrs Henry returned from a trip to Portland Oregon and other Western points. Henry was Elks delegate to the national convention. They spent five weeks away. Lawrence man vows never again to drive home at night after dozing and veering toward Lansing. A Brainard Minnesota vacation planned for the family. Fort to Fort highway speeding fines issued to Arthur Rebick and W Bondi. Marriage licenses issued to Torneden Schrieder and Rogers Carter. District Court noted vacationers on duty. Local post office staff planned fifteen days in Minnesota.
Sheriff Cummings nabbed Jack Re Wigon alias QO. qf. New in Leavenworth area on a tip about a deserter from the 9th Field Artillery. He had previously deserted about five years earlier, returned with his company for a month, then left again near Tonganoxie. Captain White, commander, plans to pursue the prisoner this afternoon. Also noted: the Wichita Friends church annual young people's conference opened with delegates, and Probate Judge Je Menge married Margaret Jones and Mt Tries Niles W. Clark.
The South Park crowd heard Rev. Chas W. Thomas, University pastor of First Baptist, compare John in prison to modern doubt about the Kingdom. He cited Estes Park and Tripoli Syria conferences, church union efforts in Canada, and education initiatives promoting New Testament living, urging urgent Gospel service.
Mary Crawford, wife of Rev John Anderson Nelson, dies at 88. Evening prayer at her home in Brooklyn on Aug 4, burial at Mount Pleasant, Pa. She was longtime Lawrence resident and active in United Presbyterian church society. Also Liza A. Rush, 81, dies at Kansas City home of daughter Will Coleman. Funeral at Ramsey funeral home with burial in Dale Hill cemetery.
Fred Ellsworth secretary of the University of Kansas Alumni Association has spent the last week visiting towns where teachers meetings will be held in the fall. He has arranged KU alumni gatherings to coincide with the teachers convention and expects big reunions at Emporia and Salina. He will be on the road another week visiting and arranging meetings at additional conventions.
F E Vaughn reports from Portland Oregon that conditions are excellent for a vacation trip. He describes abundant showers and beauty in the climate with fruit simply great. He wishes Lawrence friends could join to enjoy the summertime scenery.
Workmen began pouring concrete for the Eldridge Hotel fifth floor this morning. The basement walls will be completed this week, and hollow tile for the walls is arriving. Professor Carman and family plan to return late this week to 1218 New York Street after his leave from the University of Kansas. Officer Bridgeman was wounded in an unrelated incident near Miami.
A local girls camp near West held a Sunday school picnic at Brown's cabin after a week of boating and swimming. About seventy five visitors attended throughout the week while supervisors Miss Margaret Cummings and Miss Elnora Andersons led activities with Mrs C E Martin as advisor. Guests enrolled included Bessie Murphy Esther Murphy Gracia Garbutt Daisy Dyer Elizabeth Dunn Lottie Anderson Madge Woodward Marie Kampschroeder Mildred Jenson Margaret Ann Smith Edith Gibler Edith Kampschroeder Rosa Osborn Alice Osborn Grace Kroff Louise Kroff Annie Kampschroeder Irma Cummings.
Glen M. Dickenson announces the Bowersock theater reopens after three weeks of renovations featuring new indirect lighting green wood frames and gold black marble accents. The box office moves to the theater entrance as lobby displays get redone with gilt blue frames paneled mirrors leather lounges and glass pendant lights. Future furnishings will be installed once workmen finish today.
Dr and Mrs A L Keith and Miss Elizabeth Barclay with John A Graham of Lexington visit. Mr KE B Schultz treated as guest of honor at an informal bridge hosted by Mrs M T Van Hecke with five tables. high score prize won by Mr Keith. WCTU institute to be held Aug 12 at United Brethren church with Cassie Quinlan leading. program includes Crusady song devotionals music and readings. Charles Farnham visited Kansas City. Wallace WCTU picnic postponed. Governor Ben Paulen and others dined at Broad View. Glenna Davis hosted ninth birthday party with about thirty guests and Japanese lanterns.
Misses Elizabeth Hilda and Hester Hairgrove of Kansas City were guests of Mrs. A. L. Ferris at Broad View Inn over the weekend. Virginia and Irene Moore left for Salida Colorado to visit relatives for a couple weeks. George Thompson returned from a Wilson vacation. Mrs M. R. Wyatt went to Garnett to visit daughter Mrs W. B. Elliott. Harold Henry of Chicago, ex KU student, stays at Sigma Nu. John A. Graham of Lexington Kentucky visits Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Shultz. he is a professor at Washington and Lee. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Keith of Vermillion S D visit Dean and Mrs. Frank Stockton. Keith is Greek professor at the University of South Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Don Temple and Misses Gladys Hazel Morgan and Lena Hazards visit Grace Hazards Sunday. Steel orders fall. Unfilled orders of United States Steel total 3,589,467 tons, down 170,991 from prior month. Car of semi anthracite coal on track at $12 per ton delivered. Allen Coal Co. advert. Artistic photos by Thompson Studio, 829 Mass.
Premier Painleve acknowledged 106 French troops were killed in engagements with rebels in Syria's Jebel Cruz district last week. He said overall losses were not yet confirmed and that attacks by Cruz tribesmen have lessened since the incidents, despite British and Arab dispatches.
Frank T. Stockton dean of the University school of business spoke to Rotarians on applying psychology in business methods at Weidmann's. Ted Schultz led singing. John Bell attended for the first time since an injury. The club announced it will support a program at the Lecompton Harvest Home picnic on August. Civil War veteran Henry Armstrong, 79, died at his relatives’ home near Coffeyville. He was born in Oklahoma with French Canadian, Delaware and Munich ancestry and worked in farming, mercantile pursuits, and as postmaster at Coodys Bluff, Okla for over thirty years. Mrs. M C Rice of Reck Island dead while visiting Cedar Rapids. She was 42 and prominent in Federated Club work in the third district.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Davis entertained many guests at dinner including Mrs W B Ross and children from Greensboro NC and relatives Delbert Perkins and family Mildred Saunders and Clarence Davis. Don Westheffer visited Kansas City with Oscar Westheffer. Ott and Richardson families visited Olathe and Kaw Valley guests. Poultry culling was demonstrated by H C Colglazier at J W Strong farm. Bert Brown hosted Genevieve’s twelfth birthday with games and refreshments. Attendees listed include Marion Hughes Garnet Hughes Laura Alicia Perkins Doris Davis Verda Sommers Lily Ziegler Dorothy Schlegel Louise Schlegel Fredericka Schlegel Arleta Grimes Cleo Grimes Wilmaurin Stadler Martha Hadle Lauretta Gerstenberger and W R Hughes Jr and three children Katherine and Bill.
A long list of relatives and friends gathered at Lawrence and nearby towns. Numerous visits include Corel and Hughes families, Doris Castle, Oscar Cox, and many others from Knoxville, Arapahoe, Lawrence, Norborne, Topeka, Willow Springs, and Norborne with dinners, picnics, and extended stays described in detail.
Westfal and Esther Wilbur along with several neighbors are visiting relatives in Topeka and Rock Valley. Lake View members traveled to a basket dinner, while many families shared Sunday visits with kin in Lawrence Topeka Collins and Ottawa. Mrs Brune and Hodson families are ill and traveling, with several local calls noted.
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