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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1916
Page
4
A spiritual leader warns that faith without honesty breeds spiritual disease and that professing beliefs one does not hold voids true worship. Mr Backus will share experiences illustrating the need for absolute honesty in religion during the Sunday sermon at 7 45 PM.
Plymouth Congregational Church led by Elderkin offers 10:30 worship and 3:30 Sunday Endeavor with evening sermon The Tangle at 7:43. Numerous area churches in Lawrence host morning services Sunday school classes midweek meetings and evangelistic plans for the New Year with pastors including Mrs. Sibley Nichols Testerman and Black.
Sunday services at First Christian Church include morning and evening prayers and sermons with morning subject The Mind of the Master and evening The Application of a Familiar Maxim. First Methodist Episcopal Church announces services, Sunday School at 12, Epworth League at 6 45, evening sermon The Last Resort. An advertisement promotes Dean's Kidney Pills with testimonial from Mrs. P W Ewing of Lawrence praising relief from back pains and kidney trouble.
Evansville Indiana hosts the Central States Conference on rail and water transportation with delegates from railroads, commissions, chambers of commerce, and business leaders. Speakers include railroad managers, shippers, and investor reps as Henry Murphy outlines aims for a permanent, yearly forum to tackle transport problems. After talks, delegates will share views on transport questions of public concern.
Forty eight farm and home institutes held in late November to early December in Kansas attracted 9 180 participants. Extension teachers from Kansas State Agricultural College led circuits with specialists in animal husbandry horticulture crop production irrigation and drainage poultry and home economics. Cottonwood Falls drew over 600 attendees and many institutes plan to send delegations to Farm and Home Week February 5 to 10.
The Smithsonian celebrates seventy years since James Smithson endowed its foundation in 1826. At the annual board meeting led by Chief Justice White, the trust fund exceeds one million dollars. The board includes Edward D. White, Thomas R. Marshall, Henry Cabot Lodge, William J. Stone, Henry F. Hollis, Scott Ferris, Ernest W. Roberts, James T. Lloyd, Andrew D. White, Alexander Graham Bell, George Gray and Charles F. Choate Jr.
Massachusetts, John B. Henderson Jr., and Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana note that after seventy years the Institution still follows its founder's general line while expanding with government affiliated bureaus. It now administers the United States National Museum and other services, including the National Gallery of Art and the International Exchange Service. McCullochs Drug Store displays Christmas stationery priced 25 cents to 3 dollars a box.
The Kanwaka church hosts a Christmas entertainment and tree on Saturday night. The Kanwaka Sunday school Young People’s class plans a rabbit hunt, meeting Thursday at George Dews to pick sides and set the time. Guy Bigsby leads a party Thursday to inspect hard surfaced roads in Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan for Portland Cement. Harry Van Neste spent Friday evening with George Bigsby and others, and attended a Rebekahs meeting where Miss Van Neste was initiated as vice grand.
A Kansas branch of the League to Enforce Peace becomes permanent with 2000 invitations sent. Former President Taft addresses the gathering in Topeka while Ex Governor Stubbs presides. The Kansas plan calls for judicial tribunals for justiciable disputes and a conciliatory council for other issues.
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