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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1927
Page
10
The Lawrence post office pleads for early mailing as Christmas approaches amid a 200 percent rise in mail volume. Citizens are urged to mail cards and packages a week to ten days before Christmas, use special delivery or insurance, and avoid sending letters in parcels. Foreign packages mailed in November.
The annual New Years picture show hosted by Glenn W. Dickinson of Bowersock Var sity and Orpheum theaters and HOB Ober of Ober's clothing store will now start at 9 30 am Saturday December 31. It is free for boys and girls up to age fifteen in Lawrence and nearby trade territory. The change accommodates county schools in session January 2. The Bow ersock theater welcomes all local children as guests of the two hosts. Program details will be announced next week.
Charles E. Johnston will become president of the Kansas City Southern Railway Company on January 1. He started as a chain carrier at 16 and over thirty years rose through engineering and management roles including location engineer in 1906, chief engineer in 1911, general manager since 1914, and vice president. He succeeds J A Edson, who has led the railway for twenty two years and will be 74 in February.
A Kansas farmers group including master farmers from Copper Farm Press returned from a two week East tour visiting Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Schenectady New York Windsor Ontario Akron and Washington. They met newspapers Ford plants and serum makers and spoke with President Coolidge and Charles Lindbergh. Two master farmers Fred G. Lantad and R. C. Welborn could not join the trip due to farm duties. Postmasters named by Coolidge included Wm. F. Ham Atchison Charles S. Nation Emporia Harry A. Osborn Junction City Alvey P. Spessard Leavenworth Elmer E. Brewster Newton Josiah Foltz.
University of Kansas county clubs report ordering 253 decorative campus maps for distribution to high schools across the state. About twenty more clubs are expected to report, averaging five maps each. Plans include holiday speaker visits by Dr. Forrest C. Allen in multiple counties and appearances by John Bunn and others. Copies of the Sour Owl humor magazine and university data pamphlets will be distributed in high schools.
Woodlawn students will present Autumn Gold next Thursday with a 3 PM matinee and 7 30 PM evening show. Two thirds of receipts go to the Lawrence public schools orchestra fund and one third to buy orthophonic vietrola for Cordley school. Cast includes Dorthea Wiegartner Summer Blossom Ewing Wanetta Rake and dances by sunbeams flowers goblins elves leaves and fairies.
An advertisement touts Musterole as a cleaner alternative to mustard plasters. It claims Musterole relieves sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia headache congestion pleurisy rheumatism lumbago back or joint pains sprains sore muscles bruises chilblains frosted feet and chest colds and may prevent pneumonia.
Big Springs residents and friends of Lecompton township gathered at the schoolhouse last Friday evening for a farm bureau meeting. Douglas County farm agent Gilkison spoke on the year's work and presented a six reel motion picture The Romance of Sleepy Valley. George Bahnmaier and Mrs Harry Sutton were elected vice presidents to represent Lecompton township on the advisory board of the Douglas County Farm Bureau. Local visits included Nelson Thompson of Topeka and Mrs Walter Rubottom of Tecumseh. Betty Johnson earned a free trip to Chicago for 4-H work and will speak at the Douglas County annual meeting.
Community items report visits and movements of the Salkalds Craigs and Croshas in Vinland Kansas. Hay baling and hauling corn to Vinland elevator are noted along with a Pleasant Valley school program. A blizzard reduced temperatures to below zero and Elmer Myers sale drew many neighbors.
A dense crowd attended the event with good sales as the Myer family plans a move to Kansas City in about one to two weeks. The Griffis and Wray households visited the school on Friday while the McMillar and McQueen Lawson families helped with butchering on Saturday. Weather notes mention ice and snow on December 11. A local drugstore advertises fancy delicious Christmas candy at $2.75 per box.
The district court went into its second day under Judge Hugh Means with many cases set for Wednesday. Divorce matters may arise as the session continues over the next day or two. Meanwhile Mrs. Harry Lander, burned in an incident last Sunday, is recovering and hopes to leave her home and return to her store within days.
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