County Commissioners Plan Tax Levy To Bare Minimum
County officials plan a minimal tax levy for the coming year. Kennedy cannot forecast the exact rate, but the board aims to include essential operations and offset decreased valuation. Some budget items rise due to valuation drops while roads and gasoline tax impacts may reduce total expenditures. The session was postponed to Friday due to line issues affecting Kennedy and Bretsinger.
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Seounty
Kennedy
Appraisal Ordered for Leavenworth Bank Assets Sale
Topeka Aug 12 A P An appraisal of assets of the defunct State Savings Bank of Leavenworth sold to R F Hayden of Topeka has been ordered by the state banking department. Hayden bought bank property including loans bonds and farms for 48000 with a book value above 212000. Officials aim to determine real versus book value difference. The receiverships of four more banks will be investigated and a report on American State Bank Wichita will be issued in September.
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Topeka
A. P
State Savings Bank of
Bone
American State Bank
Wichita
Obituary of William B Weidler Kansas City Outdoorsman
William B Weidler a lifelong outdoors enthusiast and founder of the Buck Creek Hunting and Fishing Club died recently in Kansas City. Born 1858 in Ohio he moved to Lawrence then Kansas City at seventeen and spent decades in roofing work. He was known for hunting and fishing near Lawrence each year and leaves brothers Mark Weidler Ed Weidler and Carrigan plus others.
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William, B. Weidler
Wm. Weidler
Kansas ‘City
Lawr
Lawrence
Kansas City
Weidler
Ohio
Mark Weidler
Kansas
San
Diwe
poMrs
Esis Carrigan
Smiths return from California motor trip
Sociog Mr and Mrs FD Smith with daughter Hazel and Galen return from a Santa Fe route journey through Santa Barbara San Francisco Lake City Estes Park and other points after visiting Vernon Smith and family in Los Angeles and relatives. Mr and Mrs O A Sitz of No wata announce birth of son Otto on August 12. Dr Mrs Litzavik Lena Hecke remembered. The M P M bridge club was entertained at Mrs M E Rico's home.
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FD. Smith
Hazel
Cretora
Galen
New Hampshire
Street
Los Angeles
Cal
Vernon
Smith
Lawrence Jume
Sant, Barbara
San Francisco
Alt
Lake City
Estes Park
O Bryon Family Plans Trip and Kepler Returns
Personal items note Dr. J W O Bryon Mrs O Bryon and Leonard will travel Friday to Chicago to meet Janes O Bryon pursuing study in art and cartooning After a short Wisconsin visit they will return to Lawrence for fall time H B Kepler returns from two week camping trip at Kepler camp on Cedar River near Cedar Rapids Iowa
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J.W. O’bryon
Leonard
Will
Chicago
Janes
O’bryon
Wisconsin
Lawrence
H. &. Kepler
Iowa
Kepler Camp
Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
May Close C of C Pool Enrolment Dwindling
Only about thirty girls have registered for August swimming at the Chamber of Commerce pool with ten in the full month group. Officials may close the pool if registrations do not rise, as monthly fee income cannot cover expenses.
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Chamber A Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Briefs include planning consultant and curious worms
Herbert Hare of the Lawrence City Planning Commission visited to gather information for zoning work. A Lawrence woman muses that earthworms sing, aiding robins in worm hunts. A prominent local returns to a car at the Country Club, finds an egg in the rear seat, likely laid by the club’s poultry flock.
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Herbert Hare
Lawrence City Planning Commission
Lawrence
Lawrence Woman
W ‘Eh
Wi Newegg
Browning refutes gossip with letters from his adopted daughter
Wealthy real estate operator Edward W. Browning released photostatic copies of two letters allegedly from his adopted daughter Mary Louise Spes. The letters, unsigned, address a mother and "Mine dear Daddy Browning" and express affection while denying rumors of improper conduct. The daughter had been removed from Browning's custody after a claimed attempted suicide last Saturday amid a published series accusing Browning of advances. Nearby items note Mrs. Paul A. Lang with Ottawa delegates praising the Baptist Assembly and a separate item about Italy's debt discussions resuming in Washington after French-American talks.
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New York
A. Pj
Edward W. Browning
Ec‘ntel
Mary Louise Spes
Cinderella
Zor
Browning
Daddy Browning
Earth
Maysic
Money to Buy Fixin's for Lawrence Guardsmen
Funds collected by Merchants Association committees in Kansas City business district support Kansas National Guard troops at Camp Whiteside Fort Riley. Money funds extra food supplies as the mess fund limits are thirty cents per day per soldier. A report from solicitation in several city blocks is not yet turned over to the association. funds must be delivered by Friday before the guards depart for camp.
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Merchants’ Association
Lawrence
Kansas
National Guards
Camp Whiteside
Fort Riley
Massachusetts Street
Brookhart derides GOP promise on farming aid
Senator Smith W. Brookhart spoke in Davis City Iowa declaring the Republican platform failed to balance agriculture industry and labor. He warned farmers will receive less for this year’s bumper crop than last year’s short crop and urged cooperative credit agencies after noting government aid to other industries but not agriculture.
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Davis City
A. P
Smith W.brookhart
Republican Party
Elks Bowling Scores Highlight Wigton Lead
Wigton totaled 227 263 219 for a high 235 in the series while Reatz posted 7 248 266 212 267. High men were Wigton with 235 and Cowden with 230. Ask about special tuition rates in effect until August 21 at the Business College.
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Business College
Wigton
Reatz
Cowden
Topeka reads push for Great Bend Hays rail line approval
Golden Belt Railway seeks state public service commission approval to build a railroad from Great Bend to Hays to serve agricultural interests and connect Union Pacific and Santa Fe lines. Company pledges $1,000,000 taxable property in Kansas if granted. Lena Safford sues for divorce from Fred Walter Safford over neglect. They married November 19, 1924. Well Baby Clinic set for tomorrow at city hall with mothers asked to bring babies by 3:30 PM.
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Topeka
Public Utilities [Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Golden Belt Railway
State Public Service Commission
Great Bend
Hays
Kansas
Union, Pacific and
Santa Feroarts
Lena Safford
Fred Walter Safford
Saffords
Demurrer Filed in Township Road Access Suit
George Richards Rudolph Houk and Fred Wulfkuhle on Kanwaka township board file demurrer to suit by W E Petefish against George Strahan Mack Dornan and board to force opening a closed township road The demurrer claims lack of district court jurisdiction lack of capacity to sue and insufficient petition facts.
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W. E. Petefish
George Strahan
Mack Dornan
Toad
Kanwaka
George Richards
Rudolph Houk
Fred Wulfkuhle
District’ ‘Court
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