Lon Poff LA film actor returns to his Lawrence roots
Lon Poff born February 3 1870 in Bed Ind left home to seek work as a clerk in his father s drugstore later moved to California in 1914 where he appeared in both silent and talking pictures He acted roles including a schoolmaster in The Old Swimmin Hole Jim Davis in Shepherd of the Hills Father Joseph in The Three Musketeers and later appeared with Jennifer Jones Ingrid Bergman and in Father s Life Dividend He died in California and wished to return to Lawrence His survivors include sister Grace L Poff and former Lawrence residents attended services at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale California Poff was active in Acacia Lodge No 7 AF and AM the Two Thirty Three Club of Mollywood and the Screen Actors Guild pallbearers included Roy A Henley Violin by Dr Herbert Weide
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Los Angeles
Calif
N. Martel Ave
Pott
Ind
Kansas
Joseph
Mary Pott
Lawrence
Lon
Eldridge
Will Hutson
California
Stat
Hole
Charles Ray
Jim Davis
Harolld Bell Wright
Richelieu
Douglas Fairbanks Sr
Jennifer Jones
Ingrid Bergman
Acatia
Mollywood
Screen Actors Guild
Grace L. Poff
Poff
Asi
Old Lawrence High School
Lon Poff
Ernest Caldecott
First Unitarian Church of
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Mary E. Poff
Los Angele County
Roy A. Henley
Herbert ¥. Weide
Los Angeles City College
Kansas journalists to attend education convention in New York
Dean Burton W. Marvin of the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Prof. Elmer Beth will attend the Association for Education in Journalism’s second annual convention in New York City from August 25 to 29. Marvin will join a panel on copy editing makeup and teaching techniques while Beth serves as secretary-treasurer and directs the placement bureau.
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University of Kansas
William Allen White
Association For Education In Journalism
New York City
Burton W. Marvin
Association of Accredited Schools and Departments of
Elmer Beth
Association For Education In Journalist
R G Lee Descendants To Hold Reunion In Topeka
The descendants of Robert G and Melinda Lee will hold their 38th annual family picnic Sunday August 24 at Lakewood Park Topeka. They moved from near Upton Missouri in 1891 to a Reno area farm and later to Douglas County near Lawrence. They were the parents of HH children, seven of whom survive.
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Robert G
Melinda Lee
Lakewood Park
Topeka
Fragmentary line shrouds a creek plan and committee
A partial OCR line mentions a realm and committee members involved with a project at a creek area. Names and specifics are unreadable, but the text suggests a planning or approval scene linked to a named creek and a plenary committee.
Baker University Graduate’s Song Writings Gain Noted Publisher
Lucille Flickinger a Baker University 1934 graduate in music and wife of Harold Flickinger has had a dance tune arranged for orchestration by Ernest Beilman. A New York music publisher will consider the words and music after orchestration. Flickinger, of Osage Iowa, has written about 20 lyrics including I Want to Go Dancing as inspiration strikes.
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Baker’ University
New York
Lucille Flickinger
Heys High School
Ernest Beilman
Freddy Joe Orchestra
County Clefs
Hays
Flickinger
Lucille Hubbard
Osage
Iowa
Baker
Chicago
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Beth
Haynes & Keene
Als
Milady
Paris
Violette Cornille
R. G. Lee
Enair Iman
Plenie Committee
Jack Frost
Kroehler
Davenette
Simmons
Simmon
Pe. L. A
Auas
OFA
Drexel
China
Miller’s
Howell
Florence
Alexander Smith
Masland
Brosdlocen
Wal
Simmons “Ambagaador
Health
BATH
Sears
Elizabeth Arden
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