Lawrence School News Colorful Activities and Visits
Lawrence School reports describe a fifth grade poetry club Gardenia with officers Arlene Bill Clinton Laughlin Phyllis Fultz and Donald Barnett and five groups. Woodlawn fifth graders publish Mickey Mouse Monthly and tour Lawrence Daily Journal-World plant. Wood lamp windows, nursery song recital, Lincoln library shelves, and Christmas activities across Cordley Old High and Junior high schools are noted along with band parade and basketball practice.
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Gardenia Poetry Club
Arlene Bill
Clinton Laughlin
Phyllis Fultz
Donald Barnett
Woodlawn
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Journal-World
Mickey Mouse Monthly
Henry Hudson Explorer Under Dutch Flag
English explorer Henry Hudson conducted three voyages seeking the Northeast passage. He sailed from London in 1607 with ten men and a boy on a ship, then in 1609 commanded the Half Moon for the Dutch East India Company to explore the Hudson River in North America. No clear outcome is given.
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Henry Hudson
London
North America
Dutch East India Company
Hudson River
Jimmy Morris, GY
Pinckney
Lincoln visit by Dr Riley Rodgers and family recount
Dr. Riley Rodgers of Chicago visited Lincoln school with his nephews Dudley and Roger and his son Riley III. Miss Marcia Carter the city school librarian has catalogued the records related to Old Lincoln.
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Riley Rodgers
Chicago
Dudley
Roger
Lincoln School
Old Lincoln
Riley III
Marcia Carter
Juniors Work on Photos for Spring Junior Snapshot
Several boys of the Junior Academy of Science under Miss Beach plan to develop pictures for the May snapshot page of the Spring Junior. The group operates a dark room on the first floor of the Manual building for member photographs.
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J. W Fazel
The
Copper Engraving Co
Junior Academy of Science
Miss Beach
Junior Academy
Manual
Eighth graders stage Not Aunt Agatha in local program
Miss Wismer's home room presented Not Aunt Agatha a play by eighth grade students with roles filled by Carolyn Martin Jimmy Linville Kathryn Joe Pollom Jane Elbel George Bateman and Ruth Ellen Craig The plot revolves around a poor family and a wealthy aunt who plans to take one member to New York A follow up sketch featured Ernest Jefferson introducing farm animals Another play titled Daphne's So Delicate was presented afterwards.
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Miss Wismer
Agatha
Carolyn Martin
Jimmy Linville
Kathryn
Joe Pollom
Jane Elbel
George Bateman
Ruth Ellen Craig
New York
Ernest Jefferson
Daphne
Humorous Junior High Play Features Quirky Characters
Vernon Ash ly Elaine Jost Eldon Johnson Jo anne Ruese Margaret Biewener Bryce Hinkson Sammy Pat Moyer Elidon Willy star in a health themed comedy. The play sketches 53 junior high students working for pay earning 15 cents to 3 dollars weekly. Some spend earnings on themselves while others buy books clothing and pay fees.
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Vernon Ashly
Elaine Jost
Eldon Johnson
Joanne Ruese
Margaret Biewener
Bryce Hinkson
Sammy Pat Moyer
Elidon Willy
St. Bernard
Lawrence firm clerking and caring for children report
Junior High pupils in a Lawrence survey rank aviation top for boys and nursing for girls across seventh and eighth grades. Ninth graders shift to engineering, nursing and stenography, with some unusual aims like jockey and detective. Only five girls want to be housewives.
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S ‘Lawrence -Firm
Jacobs
Kansas Farmers Endorse Cotton Marketing Quota Vote
Montgomery county farmers voted 21 to 0 for the 1940 cotton marketing quota. State AAA officials expected no replies from Chautauqua or Labette counties, the only two in Kansas eligible to vote in the referendum.
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Manhattan
Montgomery County
AAA
Chautau Ber
Labette
Kansas
Appreciated Gift a Mail Subscription to the Journal World
Subscriptions to the Journal World are growing in popularity as readers renew and sign up. Call 22 for details about gifting a mail subscription and supporting local coverage.
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Journal-World
Home Made Plane Crashes Near Sabetha
A single seat home built aircraft powered by an automobile engine crashed about 14 miles south of Sabetha. Forest Cromwell, 23, of Wetmore and Norman Shipman built the plane. Witnesses said the craft went out of control in the accident on December 11.
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Sabetha
Forest Cromwell
Wetmore
Ag Cromwell
Norman Shipman
Cras
Jbetha. Uo
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Verner Newman
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Birch
Charles Newman
Elmer Hackley
Elmer
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