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Lawrence Journal World

Location

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1923

Page

3

Baldwin News Highlights Local Holiday Activities

Mrs Ernest Phillips and children arrive for Christmas with the Ruchty family in Baldwin. Delta Tau Delta pledge party features dinner, music by an orchestra, and readings. Alpha Chi Omega hosts alumnae dinner and Christmas tree with gifts. Various visits, birthdays, marriages, and council claims against sidewalks and electric wires are noted amid community events and the upcoming Handel Messiah performance.

Ernest Phillips John William Pauline Phillips John Ruchty Ruchty Baldwin Delta Tau Delta Margaret States Clara Staadt Evelyn Brown Porter Bell Ruby Lierle Bell W.C. Fuchs Eudora Charles W. Skinner Edgerton Martha Lierle John Bell Clara Beach Alpha Chi Omega Bernice Gorsuch Mary Payne Coral Dewis Floella Farley Lois Benham Annabelle Taylor Virginia Belle Huber Ruth Gordon Sugar City Colo T. C. Graham Alpha Chis Nellie Beal Lawrence Edward. Huey Homer ‘C. Prentice Kansas City Prentice Variety Store Frederick Thudhum Neiland Cash Lockwood Peral Bayles Clay Carter Margaret Rhodes Neodesha L. L. Hughes Independence Dam

Barker School Christmas Program Promises Holiday Event

Miss Olive King will lead a program and Christmas tree at the Barker school house on Wednesday evening December 19 inviting the public. Winter Community club members met at Mrs. Shipman Carter’s home for an all day session with Miss Anna Mitchell and several others.

Olive King Barker School Anna Mitchell Paul Winter Ambrose Bigsby Prescott Underwood Arnold Ransdell Winter Community Club Shipman Carter Jennie Taylor Eskridge Kansas R. W. Gorrill Ernest Bigsby Ambrose Bias Helen Harshberger Thib Siler Charles Baxter Kansas City J. M. Harrison

Columbia Items Highlight Local Visits and Farm Updates

Community notes record visits by Mr and Mrs Join Brohammer and Lloyd Hout to Mrs Murray Price s sale, tractor mishap on a field bridge, and multiple attendees at the Price sale. Comments mention Will Churchbaugh Edward Sanders Ira Rothrock and others at various gatherings as well as corn grinding at Will Postma and Susan Markley helping with shucky corn. Upcoming events include the bi monthly d eht n-habfone on December 20 21 and planned programs at Old Belvoir Willow Springs with a supper.

Dave Studebaker Join Brohammer Lloyd Hout Murray Price Oscar Markley George Markley Makley Will Churchbaugh Edward Sanders Ira Rothrock Will Boehle Pukett Lloyd “Hout John Brahamm Onur Abe Flory Lawrence

Thief Resorts to Trickery to Rob House in Which He Lived

Berlin dispatch details a con artist known as Mister Campote who promised jobs through German labor bureaus to win lodging and later staged a theatrical theft. He lured hosts to the theatre, vanished during the show, then robbed the house. The suspect, an unemployed Saxon railway man, was arrested. Austria's Beet Crop Good reports strong beet yields and adequate sugar production for domestic use. Razors, Strops and Shaving Strops offered by Barber's Drug Store.

Berlin Associated Press Compote

Contested Hawaii Alien School Measure Heads to Supreme Court

The territorial attorney general indicates that all issues in Hawaii's fight to regulate alien language schools may reach the U S Supreme Court. Questions include the right to close foreign language schools, tax per pupil, and English language tests for teachers. Suits on all three questions are pending.

Honolulu Associated Press Hawaii United States Supreme Court John A. Mathewman

Drying device aids Swedish wheat production

Stockholm reports a new grain drying apparatus to counter damp weather effects on Swedish grain. The device promises lower flour costs and reduces the need to blend American wheat, allowing only about 30 percent American wheat in the blend. The machine uses four rotating cylinders with air-heated tubes to circulate the grain.

Stockholm Associated Press Sweden America

In Memoriam LN Wemoriam and Family Ties

LN Wemoriam died December 4 1928 after long illness described as a nervous-system condition. Born April 13 1859 in Witgartzwesen Germany she moved to Douglas County in 1888 with husband Peter Dreher and raised seven children including Jacob (deceased) Rose Dreher and Otto. Survived by husband six children two sisters two brothers and many friends. Parker Duofold Fountain Pen advertised by Rankin's Drug Store at 1101 Mass.

Mary Elizabeth Dreher Witgartzwesen Bavaria Germany Peter Dreher Douglas County Jacob Dreher Lewis Lawson Rose Dreher Otis Lindell A. F. Wieding Chas. Rieh Long Beach Cal Otto Dreher

Washington grain exports reach 2.49 million bushels last week

Washington reported last week grain exports at 2,491,000 bushels, valued at 2,050,000 dollars, following the prior week’s total. The data reflects ongoing trade activity and market movement in U.S. grain shipments.

Washington United States

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