Douglas County Fair boosts race purses to attract top horses
Racing officials Achning and Bidakley at the Douglas County Fair raise purses to equal top state fairs. A $500 outside purse secures a 2:17 pace as the feature event, with other races at $400 and added money. Fifty-four horses already entered, with plans for a new racing barn at Woodland Park. Local horses Ouvla and Tramp Todd head to Iola after Coffeyville and will race Thursday.
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Pikers Schedule Eight Games in Missouri Valley Era
St Louis sees the Pikers list eight games for the season featuring a Missouri Valley Conference slate. They meet Missouri at Columbia, Kansas Aggies Drake Iowa State Grinnell and Oklahoma University at St Louis. Also on tap are Missouri School of Mines Rolla and the Tech Doctors. Key dates run October 7 to November 28 with Missouri and Tennessee Doctors games at St Louis and Oklahoma at home.
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Pikers
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Columbia
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Indiana Prospects Good for Football Returnees
Bloomington Aug 2 Indiana University plans a strong fall with fourteen veterans from last year’s football squad aiming for varsity roles. Coach Suishamool builds on solid material from the freshmen. The schedule includes Notre Dame, West Virginia, and two others. Big Ten games target Minnesota and Wisconsin with Purdue on the slate.
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West Virginia
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Purdue
Elks Bowling Race Opens With Team Night
Tonight the Elks bowling teams, Reatz and Phillips, start a league chase for first place. Last night yielded strong scores with Radcliffe top scorer of Pierson at 218. Edmondson’s squad posted 257 236 238 while another team hit 270 264 239. Detroit’s heavy schedule prompts talk of testing departments and a future Garnett visit by Hackeil Indian squad.
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Phillips
C.’P. Radcliffe
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John Riling
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Professor Cady A National Park Fan Sees Western Venues
Prof H P Cady from the University of Kansas tours Yellowstone Glacier and Rocky Mountain national parks this summer. He claims expertise in locating trout streams and has simplified cross country motoring as a science, noting light camping gear and minimal hardship on his recent trip.
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Lawrence Ast
Prairie hay making and summer tasks fill Twin Mound
Prairie hay work dominates the day as men labor while women prepare for winter by canning. Local social notes record Miss Jennie Montfoort and J. Losh at a midway picnic, families visiting from Union and Richland, and multiple neighbors delivering livestock, visiting relatives, and attending church gatherings in nearby towns.
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J. Losh
John L. Gibler
Union
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George Heyl
Iva-Moore
Richland
Hoon
Philip Heyl Jr
Evelyn
John Simmons
Lettie Taley
Oral Hatcher
Lawrence Monlay
George Sullivan
Elmer Thurber
Topeka
Sarah Gibler
Clinton
Myrle Sullivan
Pearlie Harding
Pearlie
Myrtie
Doris
Lilah Harding
Carrie
Dover
Hazel
Georgie Rukes
Virgil Gaines
Earl Bulmer
Misses Gaines
Kansas City
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Earl
Roy Harding
Jack Harding
Sack
Georgie Miss
Myre
Sullivan Rukes
Ira Sinclair
Luella Gaines
Lillian
Zelma
Thaddie Petefish
Philip
Will Heyl
Jake Montfo
Local News Notes and Alumni Picnic Announcement
Social visits and farm work show residents visiting neighbors and relatives across Richland area. K A G Alumni plan a September 3 picnic in Independence with aims to form a regional organization and an annual outing rotating cities. Faith Sai So Leang becomes the first Chinese woman to graduate from an American dental school in 1905. Lawrence Business College opens fall term on September 5.
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Secretaries to School Chicago Aug 29
Nearly 300 men and women secretaries of chambers of commerce from the United States and Canada gather in Chicago for the National School for Commercial Secretaries second annual session. The two week course runs through September 2 and features staff from Northwestern University and other experts.
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Canada
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Julius H. Barnes
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Walter Dill Scott
Chamber of Commerce
Witnesses Forget Details In Herrin Massacre Inquiry
Witnesses before Illinois special grand jury on the Herrin mine war appeared to forget key facts about the storming of a Herrin hardware store on June 21 and the events of the massacre the next day. They recalled very little about mob member identities, while more witnesses are to be called. officials expect limited impact on the inquiry’s pace.
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Ill
Herrin
Associated Press
Lester
Edward J. Brundage
Illinois
Find Car in River
Wyandotte county authorities prepared to recover an automobile from the Missouri River tied to the steering wheel. A divers team reported finding a white man bound inside the car based on an anonymous tip. Reports of a second car were denied.
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Wyandotte County
Kansas
Shopmen Return to Work Signals End of Strike Break
New York August 29 reports that the end of negotiations between railroad and shop crafts led to nationwide disruption. A. R. E. officials say 6,499 workers were rehired across roads within twenty four hours after talks concluded. Florence Barrows and her son Leland returned from a summer in western Kansas and Oklahoma. The Lawrence Business College term opens September. A League of university women forms in Austria.
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Robert S. Binkerd
Association of Railroad Executives Today
Florence Barrows
Son Leland
Kansas
Oklahoma
Haskell Opens Monday With Large Pupil Turnout
School work begins at Haskell next Monday with hundreds of prospective pupils on the ground. Many applications await decision due to limited space, and numerous applications have been rejected. Other Indian schools plan September starts.
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Haskell
Indian Social Club Formed in Twin Cities
Haskell alumni Eva Flyingarth a Standing Rock Sioux and Mary Martin a Chippewa report that they and other former Haskell students have completed a three year nursing course in Minneapolis. They say an Indian Social Club has been organized in the twin cities with many members former Haskell students.
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Twin Cities
H. B. Peakrs
Haskell
Eva Flyingarth
Standing Rock
Family Reunion of W. R. C and Elizabeth Chandler Heirs
The fiftieth annual family reunion of the heirs of W. R. C and Elizabeth Chandler was held Sunday at T. H Chandler home at 1639 Learnard Avenue. Sixty five heirs attended with fifty from out of town Kansas Missouri and Nebraska represented. A large dinner and a big watermelon feed were held in the afternoon.
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T. H Chandler
Learnard Avenue
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