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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1927
Page
8
Local congregations present a busy Christmas program lineup with sermons, pageants, and choir performances. Plymouth Congregational marks a festive morning service and broadcast. Trinity Lutheran hosts a large carol and pageant event. First Methodist and Nazarene offer morning worship and youth activities. several churches list Sunday school, evangelistic services, and charitable gift drives for the season.
A local church notices meeting times and officer elections. Evangelical League of Christian Endeavor and multiple churches including Free Methodist, Ninth Street Baptist, St. Pauls Evangelical, First Baptist, First Christian, Trinity Episcopal, and First Presbyterian set prayer meetings, Sunday school leadership, and holiday services. Christmas program announced. Leaders named: Ge W. Newby, A. M. Werkenthin, Elmer Pippert, O. E. Ingle, H. E. Eberhart, Helen Hatch, Frank Pippert, Miss Lent Washkub le, Doris Foster, Paul Foster, Mrs A M Werkenthin, Lloyd n Eggleston, G. N. Jackson, William H. Butler, and others. Service times span morning to evening with sermons, cantatas, and choir offerings.
E J Sullivan after forty eight years with Western Union retires and leaves for Pitts field Illinois to make his home. He was local office manager for many years and December 1 passed relief by W H Robbins now in charge. Frank Covey arrives from Coffeyville to take duties as assistant manager. he is a veteran telegrapher. Improvements to the Western Union office are planned and expected to be completed by year end. Dr Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed dies in Chicago at 85. he was former secretary of the university board of trustees and long time educator. The new term begins at the business college with enrollment urged. Never forget Santa’s big free item sale furniture event advertisement.
United States Public Health Service reports a yearly average of 1050 illnesses per 1000 residents in a representative American city. Forty percent required bed confinement. Death rate 9.3 per 1000. Cold and bronchitis highest with 418.6 cases per 1000. influenza 143.2. Other illnesses listed include digestive disorders 96 and tonsillitis 63.7, plus various conditions and diseases.
England awoke to news that Lord Cambridge, Queen Mary's nephew, is actively involved in the wine trade. The young noble, living at Shrewsbury and frequenting London society, has shares in a London firm once linked to a dressmaker. The late Lord Cambridge previously served as aide de camp to King George and governor of Windsor Castle, marking a royal foray into business interests.
Italian composer Pietra Mascagni calls modern music dangerous and warns youth have lost classical hearing due to jazz. He says he opposes atonality, favors tune over noise, and condemns mixing Cavalleria Rusticana with Pagliacci in single performances. He also notes his radio duties hinder composing.
A Weseda University basketball team from Japan will visit Berkeley this month to play a series of games with the University of California. The Waseda squad, praised as top national hoopsters, will stay through mid February.
Forest service reports less than a million feet of merchantable timber destroyed by fire in Montana and northern Idaho during 1927. Advancements in fire fighting gear and lightning storms cited for the small loss. Burned acreage and estimated value are among record lows, with a drastic drop from earlier peaks.
London night life will hear jazz on a new Cafe Royal organ in Piccadilly. Captain D H Pigache, managing director, sails to New York to hire an organist. There will be no orchestra as guests are expected to fox trot to instrumental jazz.
Paris reports a long running protest against a piano tax as teachers and the public recall a phrase hide your piano that became a song. The tax faced years of submission and reflection as the cultural memory of the piano tax era persists.
A physician's Thoxine prescription is advertised as relieving sore throat within 15 minutes without gargles or pills. It claims to go to the cause, contains no iron chloroform or dope, tastes pleasant and is safe for the whole family. Sold with a quick relief guarantee at 60 cents and 1.00.
The men’s class of the First Baptist church invites all visitors to attend the Sunday service at 9 45 o clock led by Dr J F Watts The class meets in the church addition built last year delivering an instructive lesson The AP reports only one student ordered to report for Chaplains school at Fort Leavenworth next February versus six last year in Kansas City Prof Harry Helson heads the psychology department at St Joseph University.
Musicians organize against a tax arguing the piano is a tool of trade with rights similar to other workman tools. They cite customs and agreement norms recognizing this exception to taxation.
Members at the University were elected to Sigma Xi, the honorary society, at a meeting yesterday afternoon in the chemistry building. Elected were Harry Helson, assistant professor of psychology. C. McNown, professor of civil engineering. and F. A. Russell, professor of civil engineering.
The text notes a wedding performed by the Reverend Campbell who had retired from active pastoral work in 1922 after 58 years of service. It also mentions the Lawrence Business College offering a pre enrollment discount on tuition before Christmas.
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