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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1910
Page
4
A digest of church services and schedules across multiple denominations. Christian Science, Baptist, United Presbyterian, Christian Church, Second Presbyterian, and other congregations offer Sunday services, Sunday school, and midweek meetings. Details include times, locations, pastors, and related activities such as youth groups and prayer meetings.
The church announces W. S Davis has moved to Parsons Kansas and will occupy the pulpit tomorrow morning with no evening service except the endeavor meeting at 7 pm Prayer. Wednesday evening service at 8 pm invites all to worship. Also features Pineapple Tea Cream and fried spring chicken at local cafe.
Real estate exchanges and quitclaims listed with names Nelie Liming John Sieh and Albert Wright plus Baldwin street parcels. A note about Mr King’s absence and mail carrier Joe Sturdy, a lightning strike on Jack Roe farm destroying a barn and 6 acres of oats.
The column lists visits and travels including Miss Williams from Lawrence, Mr and Mrs Kennedy taking Theodore to hospital, Miss Knache from Baldwin to teach, and Clarence Shiek moving his family to Deblin. It notes a LaLeup Picnic trip, sister visits to Lon Beau, Ruth Jones visiting town, plus the Presbyterian church addition framework complete and a Ladies Missionary Society meeting at Mrs Will Hoskins. Robbie Lift recovering from typhoid fever and Wm Pardee funeral at High Prairie.
Ladies are invited to visit 827 Mass St to receive premium certificates worth hundreds of dollars. Certificates allow free or half price items from the store except cigars and tobacco. Chases Fine Chocolate Candies also half price with certificates. Show window displays announce the offer including stationery, leather goods, and toilet articles.
A design for a proposed concrete bridge was presented to county commissioners by RE Noyes. Ira G Hedrick of Kansas City prepared the plans featuring a nine span structure with solid concrete piers, a double roadway, and two five foot sidewalks. Construction could take nine months to a year, with cost influencing approval and a bond election likely in November. Also notes about Mother Grays Australian Leaf remedy and several local notices appear in the same column.
Government offers positions including Railway Mail Clerks and Custom House Clerks with salaries up to 2500 annually. Examinations will be held nationwide for clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers, and related government jobs. Thousands of appointments expected. anyone over 18 may obtain free information by writing now.
Miss Nola Ayres of Horton Kaw married Mr. Benjamin Young in a Thursday ceremony at 3 pm. The couple will reside in Halsted Kan where Young has been in school two years. Ayres, a Kappa Kappa Gamma member, and Young, a former Varsity nine captain and Phi Delta Theta member, are prominent locally. Young has since trained Halsted high school basketball teams. Also, the Butterfly Sewing club met at Miss Elizabeth Weber’s home at 330 Ohio Street for an afternoon of sewing and refreshments.
Owen Grady a centenarian living four miles west of Tonganoxie died at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday after an illness since last February. He claimed to be 1100 years old last November, though family suspects about 105. An Irish native he came to the U S in 1840, worked as a butcher in Philadelphia, and reportedly ran the first packing house there. The Grady family moved to Atchison county in 1857 and later to Tonganoxie eight years ago. He was father of fourteen, survived by eleven, with 28 grandchildren.
The Bell Telephone team defeated the Post Office 10 to 7 in a game marked by miscues and near scores as seven postal workers failed to connect with the hall and seven Telephone men chased a tricky sphere. The lineup featured Nesbit to Bell and Traddeston against Brown and Ward with scoring by innings showing a chaotic but decisive win.
Judge Hilary C Guest a temperance advocate said in Cleveland that alcohol makes men pugnaclods. He cited a man drinking glass after glass in a saloon as his wife urged him to leave after 11. The man retorted and returned home half an hour later staggered with contusions and abrasions.
Still at her desk Mrs Helen Mclean Kimball clerk in the office of the comptroller of currency recently celebrated her ninetieth birthday. She remained at her desk most of the day and received the congratulations of friends. Her husband Cel BE A Kimball was killed at Suffolk Virginia in 1863. Nockwear corsets and brassieres at Mrs Shearer’s Togvery offer the latest fashions and trends.
A quirky note states that the only thing that lasts forever without refrigeration is waiter uniforms, implying practical, naturally made clothing.
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