Golf Snare Involves Editor And Veteran Holton Er Man
A perplexing golf story centers on an editor and a veteran named Holton Er Man. The article hints at a fascination that drives the unlikely link between editor, veteran, and sport.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1921
Page
6
A perplexing golf story centers on an editor and a veteran named Holton Er Man. The article hints at a fascination that drives the unlikely link between editor, veteran, and sport.
Holton Kansas August 24 veteran editor M M Beck of the Holton Recorder says he will not retire from editorial duties soon. At eighty-three the oldest active Kansas editor he continues daily office hours and writes for the paper while joking about life after age one hundred. Beck, born November 22 1858 in Indiana, has long served in journalism and public life including a period as Holton postmaster and partnership in the Recorder.
Local items note several Lawrence enterprises planned for the coming weeks. Weather and city activities, including school preparations and street repairs, are reported with updates on tax levies, university openings, and a recent crime accusation in the area.
A fur coat stolen in Lawrence last Christmas has been recovered in Oklahoma City. The garment belonged to a young woman who had been in Lawrence during the holiday season.
Franklin residents record a flurry of moving days and social calls. Mr and Mrs Robert White helped relatives move. many neighbors and kin visited in Lawrence and surrounding towns. A hospital stay for Mrs Hagan’s sister in law is noted, along with sales, church group meetings, and farm tasks amid seasonal rains and crop damage.
Florence Topping dines with Mr and Mrs Frank Topping and Richard Sunday. National Oil truck seen on business Wednesday morning. Richard Topping and Kreho King join Boy Scouts hike to Leavenworth. Florence Claxton to teach Model School this term. A E Welsh in Lawrence on business Monday. Ethel Kindred returns to Lawrence Thursday afternoon. Birch Harwood visits Lawrence Sunday. Farmers Union picnic on Labor Day at Brown’s Grove. Frank Topping, Charles Lemont, George Perdue and Wallace Tittle work on road a.s.a.p. Emma Olsen to visit at John Garret’s this weekend. Eisele and Kaiser families of Eulora dine with Kaisers. Pete Pusch visits daughter Mrs Charles Travis in town Wednesday. Charles Boone’s shingles treated.
George Evans of Gibson Sapey Company reports Tanlac sales in New York already near 740 000 bottles annually if trends hold. He notes East markets see unprecedented demand with Albany Buffalo Rochester and Syracuse branches involved. Lawrence by Round Corner Drug Co. and other druggists supply about 5 600 bottles locally.
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