Lectures Featured at Douglas County Teachers Institute
The annual Douglas County Teachers Institute at Memorial High School begins next Monday. A state tuberculosis association representative will speak in Lawrence, and Practical Arts publishers will send a speaker. Faculty includes Edith Hopkins, L H Hausem, and Beatrice Cook. Teachers will receive their supplies at a conference next Friday at 2:30 PM.
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Douglas County Teachers’ Institute
Memorial High School
State Tuberculosis Association
Lawrence
Edith Hopkins
Kansas City
L. H. Hausem
Emporia
Beatrice Cook
Lawrence City
High Schoo Auditorium
Local News Briefs and city projects update
A sewer petition from Seventeenth to Eighteenth street between Kentucky and Tennessee was presented to city commissioners and referred to the Public Utilities Commissioner. A building permit to expand the Burgert shoe shop at 1100 Massachusetts Street was approved. The addition will be a 28 by 32 foot rear room. The city commission will meet Tuesday morning to fix the next year's tax levy. City Engineer Walter Schreiner reports rapid hiring of work in the city. Fifteenth Street was opened to traffic from Massachusetts to Barker Avenue. Geiger and Rutherford will finish pouring Vermont Street concrete today, aiming to complete all current projects by September 15. Dicker Brothers of 229 Elm unveiled their first new car, a five passenger touring, with more models to follow. Fred Geis of Rent-A-Ford at 916 Mass announced a four cylinder Chrysler sedan addition and plans for eight more Fords soon, totaling fifteen Fords and one Chrysler when school opens. The building housing the company was redecorated recently. First Baptist Church activities on Kentucky and Eighth include 9:45 Sunday school with multiple classes, 11 o’clock worship with a sermon titled The Great Teacher, and a union service at South Park. The church extends a welcome to those without a home church, with Valspar and Barber’s Drug Store noted.
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R. ©. Burgert
Massachusetts Street
W. F. Reinisch
Burgert
Walter Schreiner
Fifteenth Street
Massachusetts
Barker Avenue
Geiger and Rutherford
Vermont Street
Fred Geis
Rent- A-Ford
Mass
Chrysler
First Baptist
Eighth
Kentucky
John_F. Watts
Charles. W. Thomas
Brotherhood
Philathea
South Park
Earth fissures found in Rex Phillips alfalfa field
Earth fissures up to two hundred feet long and from a few inches to a foot wide, with depths of two to twelve feet, were found in Rex Phillips's alfalfa field west of Lar ned after the Kansas quake on July 30. One cavern could hold several men. Phillips reported the discovery to the University of Kansas.
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Earned
Kani
A. P
Rex Phillips
Larned
Phillips
Kansas
University of Kansas
Power Company seeks city right to erect street lights
The Kansas Electric Power company asks the city commission for permission to install white way poles around its building at Seventh and Massachusetts. It plans three poles on Seventh street and two on Massachusetts, removing the city pole in front. The city would incur no erection cost, as the company would supply its own current. The issue was referred to the commissioner of public utilities.
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Kansas Electric Power Company
City Commission
Seventh and
Massachusetts Street
Seventh Street
Commissioner of Public Utilities
Death toll mounts to 43 from burns at naval hospital
Newport Aug 1 The Mackinac death toll rose to 43 as Miss Bessie Mullin of Pawtucket died at the naval hospital. Hospital authorities warned that at least five more patients may die from burns within the next few hours.
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Newport
R. 1
A. P
Mackinac
Bessie Mullin
Pawtucket
Naval Hospital
Comb
Personal notices of neighbors and visitors in Lawrence area
Mrs. M J Jardon sold white Nixon peaches at 2.25 per bushel to Mrs Montgomery Mrs Dockie Sutton Mrs Earle Lederer and Mr Dod son. George Williams Raymond Herbert and Edith visited Ada Williams family. William Nichols and family and guest Miss Rupp toured Lawrence area. Grace Vaughn was eight weeks old with brother W Vaughn family. Donald Black visited Morris and Charles Vaughn. Paul Curtis visited Jim Gale home. Neighborhood attended CG PA picnic in Holcoms grave. L 2 Tucker entertained at Sunday dinner Byron Holmes Arthur Rockhold and Clare. W S Black as evening callers. Jim Gale visited Lawrence to see Gale’s sister and Fibert Tuttle sick but better. George Williams and sons visited W W Vaughn. Mrs W W Vaughn and Donald visited Mrs W S Black Wednesday. W Black and Mrs Dot Williamson drove to Ed F orton ball game Friday, spent the evening at McKaughan’s near Wellsville. Mr and Mrs F X Jordon entertained at dinner. Miss Clara Kaiser and son Richard of Ottawa and Mrs Edward Boylen and Miss Josephine Aselage of St Louis visiting Kaisers. Mrs Baylen and Miss Aselage relatives of Kaisers had been visiting Max Kaiser KU. Christie and family and Miller and family Mrs White and Es dle part of Lawrence Daily Journal World. Stadium corner proposals for Haskell Institute Lawrence with bid opening at 2 pm. Plans available for $5 deposit. examined at Director of Athletics office. Total expenditure estimated 80 000 to 150 000. right to reject any or all proposals.
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M. J. Jardon
Montgomery
Dockie Sutton
Earle Lederer
Dodson
George Williams
Raymond
Herbert
Edith
Ada Williams
William Nichols
Miss Rupp
Lawrence
Grace Vaughn
W. We
Vaughn
Donald Black
Morris
Charles Vaughn
Paul Curtis
Jim Gale
Holcom
Tucker
Byron Holmes
Arthur Rockhold
Clare
W.S. Black
St. Louis
Baoylen
Aselage
Kaisers
Max
Kaiser
Christie
Miller
White
Esrle Form
Community Visit and Local Socials Report
Ada Williams and son Oscar traveled by automobile to visit Will Moore's, with plans to stop in Wichita to see Mr and Mrs Verne Neeley. The Winters family hosted Sunday dinner for Leland Wise and family from Lawrence. Neighbors and friends from Baldwin and Lyndon joined afternoon and evening visits. Irene Jarden returned from Kansas City for a few days. Virgil White hauled flax seed to Star grain elevator in Wellsville, price noted at $2.20.
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Conard’s Park
Ada Williams
Oscar
Will Moore
Wichita
Verne Neeley
All Winters
Erma
Leland Wise
Lawrence
John Wise
Virgil Spurgeon
Baldwin
A. P. Foster
Will Winters
Art Winters
Walter Kennedy
Earl White
C.J. Daud
Inez
Lyndon
Winters
F.P. Thompson
Irene Jarden
Kansas City
Quantrill Raid on Lawrence Recalled in 1884 Pamphlet
A first complete account of the Quantrill raid on Lawrence on August 21 1865 appears in a 40 page Lawrence pamphlet published about 1884 by J S Boughton. The narrative portrays the surprise attack, the burning of much of downtown, many deaths including civilians, and the town’s suffering with 400 armed men present and 80 widows and 250 orphans among Lawrence’s population.
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Quantrill
Lawrence
J. S. Boughton
Layrenes
Mount Oread
Kansas Fourteenth
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Amen
Naval Academy
Ashapolis
Tyers
Restant
Secretary of the Navy
Robinson
Dawes
Nyers
Andre Terlingen
Belgian Debt Commission
Washington
Thennis’ Immeigre
National Bank of Advarnes
Telgisan Industries
Ahn
Otte TH. Ahn
Lilian Nordica
American Institute of Operatic Arts
Stony
Point
Hudson
New Yorks
Ilinois
Johnathon Cheney
Jae
Chieney
Iastad
Greb Hurten
Pittsburgh
Harry Greb
West Penn
Greb
Here
Erie
Greh
Jimmy Darragh
Victor . Lawson
Chicago
Auk
Graceland Cemetery
Victor Fremont
Lawson
Chicago Daily News
The
Daily News
Forest Hills
N. Y
Monray
Seventeenth
Eighteenth Street
Tennessee
Dicker Brothers
Oakland
Valspar
Barber's Drug Store
Earth
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Stadiu Serted
Haskell
Cornera Haskell Institute
Haskell Stadium Corporation
Sere Institute
Mayer - Treworgy
Machine Works
Japan Post
Wiliam C. Boyden
Chienago
Coolidge
Japan
Eldridge
Waas
Russ
Rere
Virgil White
Russel Deay
Achning
Poland
Walnut Lodge
Olatbe
Tyson
Egety
Bret Shes
Armistice Rainbow
Armistice
Rainbow
Presbyterian Church
Pontiac
Ormsby
Pabst
Daisy
H. F.H.R
Andy James
E. E. Gardhouse
Will Gulick C. J. Scott
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