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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1920
Page
5
Sodogy Presbyterian church hosted a Christmas program last Wednesday evening featuring a primary department performance, a Christmas play titled King Christmas by fifteen children, an old fashioned Christmas tree, gift distribution, and a church parlor reception after the event.
Bride Augusta Glass of Roanoke weds Robert M Aller relations of Carter Glass and Wilson Lyons listed. Christmas dinner hosted by Mrs Albert Knop with multiple families noted. Sylvia McConnell and Frederick Wood of Chicago wed at the bride’s home. Local high school boys host a year end dance at the Kappa Sigma house with Harry Brook family dining today.
Personal notes show Clara Nanaga of Lawrence visiting Mr and Mrs Clinton Kanaga in Kansas City for Christmas. Others from Oklahoma City to Topeka Concordia and Kansas City share holidays with relatives including the Searles Gifford Hackman Torrey and Castles families plus Magee Young Sproul crews.
Mrs. John Allen, mother of Governor H. Allen of Kansas, may miss the January 10 in Topeka inauguration due to illness. She expresses hope to be there, though Gov. Allen has faced health issues and is improving. She previously attended the oath ceremony without his knowledge, prompting an emotional moment when he kissed her.
Topeka reports the Kansas livestock bureau, created in 1920 to regulate marketing and curb abuses, faces a federal court challenge in Kansas City Kansas. A temporary restraining order blocks its authority as packers oppose the law as overreach and discriminatory. The outcome could affect state regulation of Kansas City stockyards and related markets.
A Virginia colored man asked Chief Fisher to a pew beside the Good Samaritan as a reward for kindness. At Free Methodist Church a Christmas program featured a dimmed lights start with a prayer by the pastor and a star above a radiant fireplace. Alice Gill sang a Christmas Carol and Laura Lee Reusen offered a Christmas prayer as a quartet performed. An offering benefited European orphaned children while children received tokens from Superintendent C H Watson.
Major Charles F. Browne led the organization of new battalions for Hiawatha Sabetha and Troy with over fifty men enrolled in each town. Adjutant General Charles J. Martin reported the figures. Plus an unrelated clothing ad and a note about Miss Dorothea Engel’s upcoming trip.
A long church notices page lists Free Methodist First Presbyterian St Luke A M E Plymouth Congregational Evangelical First Church of the Nazarene and others. It details Sunday schools morning worship sermons on Christmas themes, midweek meetings, youth programs and special services including Christmas music and gifts, with pastors and leaders named and locations at Conn Vermont Kentucky and nearby streets.
An illustrated lecture of merit appropriate for the season invites all to services at Ninth Street Baptist Church corner 9th and Ohio. G N Jackson pastor preaches, Sunday school led by Mrs Ida Wallace, with a 4:50 p.m. poet and a 12:30 service as part of year end observances.
Women take leading roles in State Grange activities as home economics chairmen present annual findings in Abilene Kansas. The report highlights scientific feeding for families, balanced rations for livestock, and teaching children economics, citizenship, and religious and educational values at home. Five juvenile Granges exist in Kansas with four new since last year. Red Cross work health inspections and school nursing noted. Graven service slate lists 1,762 names with honor roll archived in State Memorial Building Topeka.
Salina reports a total school attendance of about 4,500, with public schools hosting roughly 3,250 students and private institutions accounting for the rest. Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina Business College, and other colleges contribute 485 pupils, while population growth from 9,688 in 1910 to 15,085 in 1920 mirrors rising enrollments. The article notes compulsory education help and extended student ages as reasons for growth, plus plans for a kindergarten expansion and a new $1,000,000 endowment drive for Kansas Wesleyan University.
Henry Reyer travels to Salina to spend the holiday season with his wife and their family. He arrives to celebrate Christmas in the new year with loved ones.
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