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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1936
Page
2
AP reports Dizzy Dean pitches toward his best big league season with 21 wins and a six game win streak. He aimes to top 35 victories, near his 1934 peak, while leading the St. Louis Cardinals as Giants and Dodgers contend in a tight NL race.
In Beattie Kansas a collision occurred on highway 69 near Stauffer's store as Art Wyland turned toward the store drive while Ernest Proesch approached from the south. Wyland suffered cuts and a slight head injury and was taken to Memorial hospital with a probable tomorrow release. Proesch's mother rode with him and was uninjured. A second crash five miles west of Lawrence on highway 40 involved M C Kensinger of Maricopa California and L C Omera of Lawrence with a Studebaker sedan sustaining heavy damage.
Contributions toward aid for 47 year old Alice Williams, injured at a Reno incident, reach 44.20 with seven further gifts totaling eight dollars since Monday. Funds benefit direct medical aid in University of Kansas hospital via Mrs J C Porter at 73412 Massachusetts Street.
A list of trivia questions prompts readers to turn to the classified page for the answers. Questions cover citizenship abroad, Pio Fedi, most westerly Canary Island, University of Alaska location, largest city in Sicily, Fergus Falls river, Mount McKinley location, invention of the reaping machine, Roentgen rays common name, and color mill term.
Wiley Brothers owners of three grocery stores purchase the West End grocery at 547 Indiana Street. Fran Strong and C. H. Pringle will turn the store over Monday. Pringle and John Strong bought it over 15 years ago. Frank Strong later bought his brother’s share. Millard Wiley will run West End. Elza Wiley runs Fourteenth and Massachusetts. Theodore Wiley runs North Lawrence store.
Heard that Lawrence County Attorney Heard in Lawrence R B Stevens has temporarily closed his office at the court house while his secretary is on vacation. He will be in Stevens & Brand offices in the Lawrence National Bank building until September 1. Dr F C Allen athletic director will return to his office in Robinson gym tomorrow morning and will coach at a school starting Monday in Topeka thru the week. Bob Stevens, injured recently in a horse jumping accident at Culver Military Academy, is a Liberty Memorial high school student and football squad member. injury may delay his return to grid practice. A junior league baseball game between the Co-Ops and Odd Fellows will be played at South Park Saturday at 5 30. Local residents near twenty third and Massachusetts urge the highway department to install large slow signs away from the intersection to reduce braking and screeching as two cars approach from opposite directions.
In Nanking, China, city leaders promote matsheds as a solution to a severe housing shortage. About 150,000 residents, roughly one seventh of the capital's population, cannot afford better housing, with 37,000 families living in squalid hovels. Matsheds priced at about eight dollars each would relocate to designated areas outside the old walls.
W A Cloud administrator for Lorella Francis of Topeka filed a $5,000 damage suit in Shawnee district court Thursday. The suit seeks against Bert Tickhurst doing business as Kaw Valley Oil Co and two casualty insurers. The fire killed Miss Francis and Joe Duree, the truck driver, when the oil transport crashed into a tree near downtown Ottawa on July 26.
A union meeting for young people will be held Sunday at 6 o'clock at the First Christian church with speakers on the Jewish religion by Mrs George Abrams and Bernard Schaaf. Dorothy Enlow Miller will perform a piano solo. devotionals will be led by the Baptist group. the Friends will supervise the program.
Philadelphia Athletics overcome Washington 3 to 2 behind a sixth inning burst including Moses' single forceout Johnson's triple and Higgins' single. Horace Lisenbee and Buck Newsom pitched strong for the A's in a classic contest.
Read today marks the anniversary of Quantrill s raid on Lawrence Kansas seventy three years ago as guerrillas from Missouri burned the business district and homes killed many men and left about 175 dead before retreating across the border. The town bore smoke as pursuers closed in and bands of fighters scattered back to Missouri.
Amid economic slump and famine, Buddhist monastic life grows in China with 738,000 entering monasteries per China Buddhist Association. Monasteries feed and house them. their aim is spiritual salvation, not income. Other items note a St Paul kidnapping confession and the 1919 Weimar Republic formation.
Kaw Valley notes report a Bert Mitchell family reunion near Manhattan with 73 relatives and multiple local attendees. Various kin from Lake View Clearfield Franklin and North Lawrence share updates including birthdays, visits, and a new baby Leonard Bert born to Carl and Mrs Mitchell.
Lorina Bentz of Topeka spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shirar and family. Clarence Trans meir and children from Overland Park visited Thursday through Sunday with the W. T. Lemon family. The group, including Mrs. William F. Ziegler of Elgin Illinois, shared Thursday dinner at John Garrett’s. Beulah Flory’s birthday was noted at a Wiener roast hosted by Ted Flory’s home, with many relatives present.
A series of social calls and visits are noted across Kansas and nearby states. MCLOUTH and others attend a reunion dinner in Lawrence. Topeka residents Mr. and Mrs. John Aaron host. Dallas visitor Marjory Shoemaker visits J J Gros hone. Lawrence, Leavenworth, Oskaloosa and Philadelphia residents are mentioned with kinships and weekend visits.
Warren Gook of Wichita plans to join Garfield high school faculty next year. The notice mentions several local visits and social calls, including Thomas Ehart from Harrison Arkansas and Mrs. Millie Daugherty of St. Joseph. A government aid water project in McLouth is noted with a bond election set for Friday the 28th.
L L Davison announces the marriage of his daughter Mia to R E Goldberg of Kansas City in August. Annie Jones visits Lawrence to see her sister injured in a car crash. Jennie Roushnell from Kansas City stayed with Mrs. Fred Pyle last weekend. Mrs. Albert Lobb and relatives visited Mrs. Martin Adams at General Hospital in Kansas City and W T Lobb after an auto accident. Daughters of Arnold Park Illinois visited John White’s family Sunday to Tuesday. Southern Kansas Mutual gifts W A Courtney 1000 dollars for a new barn. See J C Evans for Safe Insurances and quick settlement.
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