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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1927
Page
4
A collection of items from the August 29 1927 issue notes AP republication rights and public notices while discussing Chicago gunmen facing new mental test procedures. It covers legal process concerns, police uses of psych wards, and copper alloy hardness research with Copper and Brass Research association insights.
A Kansas press discussion urges a four cent gasoline tax while awaiting legislative action. Franklin county commissioners contract nearly five miles of concrete road at 22 432 49 per mile, a favorable rate, with future linkage to Douglas county projects. Ottawa Herald notes Franklin's history of lagging highway development and views this first step as a needed upgrade toward a statewide main highway system.
A writer in The Executive foresees a large postwar trade uptick as redemption money from Second Liberty Loan bonds flows into merchandise. With war fervor fading and holidays near, many original buyers may reinvest, while others redeem part of principal for goods, fueling business activity. Kansas note highlights John Coolidge dancing at Yellowstone and the Smith Sisters symbolizing relief for sore throats.
The first through train on the L L G line runs west to the state line on Monday night. Dr Rouselaux visits in temporary practice. Prof Fraser from the University delivers astronomy lectures at the Normal Institute. J F Wilder returns from the East with goods, and J I Kalloch travels to Paris Kentucky for blooded stock sale. Ex Governor Stanton, formerly of Kansas, stays at Eldridge House.
Twenty five years ago Lawrence residents and former KU students played in a Kansas City tennis tournament this week. Notables include Professors Arch Hogg and W E L Wiggins and others well known in Lawrence. Local word also notes Elks membership rise to twenty five dollars and various travel and social plans from Olathe to Everett's hall.
Maurice Maeterlinck, a premier poet and dramatist, marks his sixty fifth birthday. A Belgian from Ghent, he shifted from a law career to writing. His works include The Blue Bird and Princess Maleine, earning praise and a Nobel prize in 1911.
An expert from Kansas State Teachers College advises Albert Meyers living west of town to hire help to remove jackrabbits from his melon patch. Pests have caused about $20 in damage daily.
A Lawrence resident opposes using local streets Massachusetts and Seventeenth for freight cars to the University. The letter argues the city’s beauty, shaded streets and park system would suffer from noise and visual disfigurement and urges replacing rail with trucks and buses to preserve the town’s character.
Over Mundy Roads and on Have Hard for Colrado J. C. Lovejoy and son Owen returned yesterday from Manitou, Colorado after riding more than two days through Kansas mud. Heavy rains west of Salina flooded roads, delaying travel as teams pulled tourists from mud holes. Corn fields stretch to the mountains with good corn prospects in western Kansas and eastern Colorado. Wheat and forage crops look promising. hail damage noted at three spots. Wet weather makes bus travel hazardous and many could not return promptly, causing passenger discomfort.
Madrid reports in A. S. C. defends the United States against attacks tied to the Secco-Vanzetti case. The paper lauds the U.S. as a great democracy, civilizationally advanced and free, and condemns calumnies and agitation to justify revolutionary attempts and impunity for crime.
Verdigris river rose 19 12 feet at Independence due to heavy rains washing out a falsework at the new concrete bridge. Center span construction is now delayed five months with completion extended to January 1 1928. Total rises in the Verdigris over eleven months reach 319 121 feet.
Today Buffalo voters decide on adopting a new municipal charter. The article notes concurrent observances in Mormon circles and national gatherings in Detroit Salt Lake City and Amsterdam. It also mentions the Kansas Wisconsin game on October 8 with Fred Ellsworth and B F McCormick confirming attendance.
Baldwin residents share visits and relocations as Dr Dellinger opens a Smithton practice and several families travel from Hartford Columbus and California. Miss Hazel Summers marries Frank Johnson in Olathe and the community plans Baldwin’s first flower show while Rex Arrasmith buys Dew Drow Inn for major upgrades.
Mrs. Clark a sister of the late Dr Still and lived in Baldwin for years. She came to this country with her parents, Abraham and Mrs Still, before Kansas was named. Her last illness lasted twelve days due to a paralytic stroke at the home of her daughter in Iola. Burial was at Oakwood Cemetery beside her husband, who died in 1922. Rev WV A Nickel conducted funeral at First Methodist church. she was a trusted friend of the Clark family.
Oskaloosa reports prep for a large Valley Falls historical pageant next week featuring Ruth Patrick a granddaughter of county historian Albert G Patrick as Miss Jefferson County. Descendants of early settlers form the cast as hundreds attend the fair. County Superintendent Helen Fulton assists with pageant leadership.
In a Greek tragedy excerpt, Helen and Menelaus clash over a brewing scandal involving Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. Eteoneus delivers news of Orestes returning with weapons as Cassandra and a slave named Hermione loom in the tension. Cassandra is noted as particularly beautiful.
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