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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1929
Page
4
A dramatic report from Chicago describes a fresh gangland war as one outfit raided another’s HQ and killed all inside, with masquerading as police officers touched off a citywide police response. The piece notes public outrage, calls for restoring law and order, and links to political influence and reform debates.
Miss Margaret Armstrong hosts a Valentine party at 322 Iodiane street with guests including Dorothy Higgins Dorothy Clark Dorothy Blackmar Wilma Miller and many others. Engagement announced for Mrs Sadie Bates to Rev Evan R Stroud of Pleasantville Iowa with wedding next month.
Fifty years ago on Friday February 15 a new furnace was under construction at the University for class use in its dying. Cyrus Wolcott of this city married in Kansas City to Miss Sue Forter sister of Mrs. M A Bell. Valentine Day drew a crowd to the post office with evident delight or disgust on envelopes contents. Douglas County real estate cash sales in the last two weeks surpassed prior years with W A Harris selling 160 acres to Wade of Michigan for 2400 cash and 107 acres to Verdin an eastern man for 1000 cash. The land lies in the Delaware reservation noted for rich farms. Madame Du Pree began her hundred mile walks in Liberty Hall at eight o'clock last evening.
Five early miles were covered in 11:05, 11:29, 11:85, 11:80, and 1:50. Minnie imitates Kreat walkers, praised for rapid, firm steps. Miss Sarah Brown attends a county superintendents convention in Topeka. Gower returned from a western county trip. A runaway wagon attached to Mr Hoadley’s team near the lumber yard bolted downhill, struck a curb, overturned, and the wagon wrecked while horses were slowed and secured.
Twenty five years ago Dr. Hayne married Henry W Hayne and Miss Alan Olds at the bride’s home across the river. The couple, well known in the city, were noted in a social column alongside a recap of a G A R Ladies circle meeting, a Valentine party at Miss Maude Sternberg’s, and plans for entertainments at the Elk Hall. Wheat recognition report from Topeka discusses Kansas as a major wheat state with southern wheat shortages and cost comparisons for growers.
The Cheyenne Indians who raided in fall 1878 are moved from Fort Leavenworth to Dodge City for trial. An 1694 land patent to George Snyder signed by President Cleveland was recently filed for record in Salina, per the Salina register of deeds office.
At the annual Federal Inspection of the Ist Infantry in the National Guard armory at 710 Vermont Street a commissioned officer resigned from service. Another officer will be away for three months attending an officers training school at Fort Benning Georgia. First Lieutenant Chester K Shure recently in the newspaper business in Augusta Kansas announced last night it was his last night as an officer. Second Lieutenant Raymond J Wismer will leave Monday for Fort Benning to enroll in the officers course in machine gun and howitzer. He plans to return to Lawrence May 25 and enter the University of Kansas next fall as a senior in mining engineering.
New York reports Laporte Ind as the geographical center of musical America by concert attendance. The survey shows 9 percent of Laporte’s 18 158 residents attend concerts regularly, the nation’s highest rate while the U S average is under 4 percent. Metropolitan cities like New York and Chicago pull the national average down, says concert manager George Engels.
A Cornell University finding shows brilliant metallic colors in certain insects arise from ultra thin films similar to soap bubble colors. Dr Clyde W Mason confirmed that multiple tightly bonded film layers vary in thickness, and swelling or pressure alters the color.
Mes D Kennedy and Johnnie visited Mrs Nancy Cummings Friday afternoon. Neighbors and relatives hosted, visited, and shopped in Topeka. A neighborhood wolf hunt yielded one wolf caught. others escaped. Mrs Henry Lutz hosted a shower for Mrs Rosen Lutz. families visited and children were present.
In Pine Plains, Hilton Hanby, a prosperous New York broker, purchases the Gray house and learns from staff and associates of a rumored curse. His secretary Dina and friend Bill Pelham, plus Aunt Selina and a mysterious chauffeur tale, frame a tense, eerie business drama with possible vengeance schemes.
The Crowder or Lake View Farm Bureau Club met at Mrs. Thurmann Rothwell's home on February 6 with dress form making led by Mrs. Ralph Colman. A bountiful noon dinner followed and members and guests attended, including Mrs. W. I. Collins, Mrs. Clarence Hudson, and others from Lake View, Barker, Kanwaka, and Linwood. A February 20 meeting was planned with Mrs. Sam Sweezer as host.
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