Fifty Years Since E M Hopkins Arrived at Kansas
Lawrence remembers Dr Edwin M Hopkins as the 50 year milestone since he came from Princeton to KU in 1889. He helped start football at KU and coached the first official team thru 1892 and later helped found several KU departments and English publications.
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Edwin M. Hopkins
Lawrence
Princeton
Hopkins
University of Kansas
Kansas
Princeton University
Charles S. Gleed
K. U
Baker
Kansas City Y. M. C. A
W. H. Carruth
H. W. Cowan
St. Joseph
Washburn
Universities of
Iowa
Missouri
Washington University
Kansas City Y.M.C. A
Denver
Denver Athletic Club
A. W. Shephard
Cornell
Inter-State Football Association
Nebraska
Missouri Valley Conference
K.U. Department of Speech and Dramatic Art
K. U. Department of Journalism
National Council of Teachers of English
English Journal
Kansas Association of Teachers of English
English Bulletin
American College Quill Club
Rhadamanthi Society
Kansas Society of Mayflower Descendants
Dread Bicycle Club
American Guild of Organists
Rocky Mountains
Pleasant Grove Community Snow Fun and Local News
The Pleasant Grove area enjoyed sleigh riding and a wiener roast on Wednesday evening. A Christmas program and tree were held at High Prairie church last Sunday. Notables include Hazel Moore visiting near Kansas City, the Kingerys returning from Virginia, and Flory family gatherings at Christmas. Medical updates mention Lloyd Nester’s eye surgery and Elmer Flory’s brain tumor condition. School resumed January 2 after holiday break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul
Dudley Flory
Paul Richardson
Roscoe
Keneth Daniels
Carl Russell
Roscoe Peterson
Nelson Gish
Ralph Platz
Champ Petty
Lois Flory
Rose Messer
High Prairie Church
Hazel Moore
Clyde Edwards
Kansas City
Will Kingery
Virginia
Chester Disque
Henry Flory
Flory
Daniel Beeghley
Lloyd Nester
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Elmer Flory
Bell Memorial Hospital
A. A. Williams
Topeka
Bill Porter
Billy
Perry
John Daniels
Irene Daniels
Williams
Lawrence
Christmas gatherings and family visits in the Bethel area
The report lists Christmas and holiday visits among Bethel residents. Walter Crawford, a Manhattan college student, spent Christmas with his parents and brother. Families including the Hoffmans, Hathners, Owens, and Fischers hosted relatives from Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A funeral for William Barnhart is noted, with services held at Eight Mile church and burial at Pleasant Hill cemetery.
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Walter Crawford
Manhattan
Charley Crawford
Dale
Ben Hoffman
Will Hepner
Pittsburgh
Myrtle Hoffman
Kansas City
Delbert Hoffman
Dorothy
Stanley
Floyd Hefner
Ruby Mac
Howard Hoffman
Lloyd Hoffman
Shirley
Donna Mae
Alvin Stahel
Irvin
Henry Fleer
Lois
John Hoffman
Albert Holloway
Warsaw
Inez Hampshire
Nebraska
Saul Owens
Owens
WW. J. Elliott
Mary Elizabeth
Johnnie Brecheisen
Ross Fisher
Lawrence
S. W. Owens
Clarence Coursen
Overbrook
Lydia Allen
Charles Jones
Ben Baker
Elnore
Leland Dee
Centropolis
Ralph Hoffman
Charles Hoffman
Betty Ann
Charley.Simmons
Virgil Schwartz
Pauline
Roy Dodder
Faye Maxine
Charley Rappard
Ralph Fuqua
Joe Baldwin
Local families host New Year visits amid cold spell
Pallbearers listed for an obituary include George Rohe and Louie Schellack. Week of visits shows multiple relatives and friends gathering with the Rohe family, Eva Weeks of Sibleyville hosting a New Year dinner, and various distances traveled among parential households as health updates surface.
Along the Beale Trail pamphlet surveys wasted range land
The Haskell Institute printing department released Along the Beale Trail a photographic account of desertified range land as the first in a series by the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs Education Division. Mil ton Snow photographed and H Lockett wrote about Lieut Edward Fitzgerald Beale who surveyed a wagon road in 1857, noting today’s erosion and revival efforts on Navajo lands with herd reductions and improved wool and mutton crops.
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Beale Trail
Haskell Institute
Hakell
Chilocco Agricultural School
Oklahoma
Phoenix Indian School
Arizona
G. Warren Spaulding
U. S. Office of Indian Affairs
Indian Service
Milton Snow
H. Lockett
Edward Fitzgerald Beale
Fort Defiance
Ariz
Colorado River
Beale
Two Torpedoes Miss Highland Patriot Near Rio
Passengers aboard the 14,172 ton British liner Highland Patriot recount a two hour battle with a German submarine after leaving Las Palmas. The sub fired two torpedoes racing past bow and stern as the cruiser crew manned a defensive four inch gun and an anti aircraft gun. The submarine submerged after the exchange, and one passenger died in a chaotic crash.
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Rio de Janeiro
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
PLAN OVER WATER HOPS
The all American air maneuvers over. Nearly 700 light airplanes prepared for homeward trips from Miami Florida on January 8. Nineteen planes scheduled to Nassau to dedicate the Bahama Islands airport. Tomorrow 108 planes to Havana for an air show. Homer Rankin and Russell Holderman named to lead respective Nassau and Havana flights.
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Miami
Fla
Bahamas
Cuba
Nassau
Bahama Islands
Havana
Homer Rankin
Wichita
Kan
Bernarr MacFadden
Russell Holderman
Rochester
N. Y
Shrine organizer A. P. King dies in Brownsville
A. P. King, former Leavenworth resident and Milwaukee coal operator, died in Brownsville on January 8 from a paralytic stroke. He led the Home Riverside mines manager team near Leavenworth from 1902 to 1912 and organized the first Abdallah Shrine temple patrol in Leavenworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Tex
A. P. King
Leavenworth, Kan
Milwaukee, Wis
King
Mrs Schoenhofer and son spend Christmas in Kansas City
Mrs Schoenhofer and her son Vincent spent the Christmas holiday with relatives in Kansas City, sharing time with family as the season was observed.
Dinner at Clinton Home Of Mr And Mrs Grneden
A dinner Sunday was hosted at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Grneden and family in Clinton. A community meeting Friday drew a small crowd due to cold weather with readings music songs and the play The Wedding Present enjoyed by attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Grneden
Clinton
Ruth ‘Pettengill
Pleasant Valley
William Torneden
Godfrey Reetz
Lloyd Douglas
Quilting Gathering in Prospect Includes Guests and Dinner
A Saturday evening in Prospect featured several social visits among residents including Mr. and Mrs. Roy Breithaupt and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Selzer. A later obituary notes Ed Olmstead, age 70, died at his Prospect home. funeral held in Baldwin and burial in Clearfield. He is survived by his wife Louise, two sons Wilbur and Leroy, and two grandchildren.
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Roy Breithaupt
Dan Selzer
Charles Waugh
Cyril Rohe
Albert Edler
Mabel
Clarence Hauseman
Peggy
Henry Rohe
Mary
Minnie Hauseman
Udah Felker
St. Louis
Harry Werts
Nancy Felker
Roy Vandeventer
Werts
Ed Olmstead
Prospect
Baldwin
Clearfield Cemetery
Mr. Olmstead
Louise Olmstead
Wilbur
Leroy
Former Kaiser Wilhelm Taken Ill With Cold
Former Kaiser Wilhelm, 80, is ill with a cold and remains in his room at his residence in The Netherlands. His household reports no alarm, though he is described as vigorous for his age and set to turn 81 on January 27. He had been braving winter weather for garden strolls and woodchopping before the illness.
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Door
The
Netherlands
Kaiser Wilhelm
Kaiser
Quake and Flood Toll in Turkey Rises
Official death toll from Turkey's quakes reaches 30,000 and floods claim 1,500, with unofficial counts suggesting as many as 50,000 fatalities. Tremors have persisted daily since December 27 in Erzincan and broader Anatolia.
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Turkey
Istanbul
Erzincan
Anatolia
Local Social Notes and Community Visits
Mrs Bernice Hughey Mrs Roberta Douglas and Miss Ber tha Milleret Mr and Mrs Orville Hughey Mr and Mrs J T Hughey Mrs Louie Milleret and Charles Davidson attended Eastern Star Lin wood meeting Thursday. Miss McCarthy resumed school duties Tuesday after Christmas vacation. Rucker the new telephone man age was a visitor Wednesday. Miss Wilma Hartman of Oklahoma spent Christmas with local folks. Mr and Mrs Charles Hallenbeck and Mr and Mrs George Hallenbeck attended a party at Freeman Stultz home Midland. Elbert Wax attended a sale in To nganoxie Thursday. Mrs Arnold Torneden has been on sick list for several days.
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Bernice Hughey
Roberta Douglas
Bertha Milleret
Orville Hughey
J. T. Hughey
Louie Milleret
Charles Davidson
Eastern Star Meeting
Linwood
McCarthy
R- Rucker
Wilma Hartman
Oklahoma
Charles Hallenbeck
George Hallenbeck
Freeman Stultz
Midland
Elbert Wax
Tonganoxie
Arnold Torneden
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E. M
Florida Society
Sonia Phipps
Ogden Mills
Henry C. Phipps
New York
Florida
Dle. Henderson
Household Finance Corporation
Bryant
11Th
Grand
E. F. Thompson
Victor
Tanci
City
Kansan
McFadden Trophy
Acme
Homer. C. Rankin
Miami, Fla
Walter Beech
Rankin
U. S
Shell
Viborg
Mannerheim Line
Russia
Karelian
Finland
Pleasant Grove
Bethel
George Rohe
Louie Schellack
Clarence Soward
Orta Kretsinger
John Bell
Ee Albert Jacobson
Overland Ark
Martin Rohe
Edith Jo
Eva Weeks
Sibleyville
Arthur Weeks
Wanda
Roy Rule
Albert Jacobson
Sevier Tadlock
Arthur Gabriel
DeSoto
Delores Deckwa
Mildred Parsons
Arthur Smith
Clearfield
Lorenz
Bertha
Lester Brubaker
Ed Ferguson
Merle
Ingle
Melba
Marie Seele
Fred Reetz
Gretta
Floyd Parsons
Hoffer
Havens
Albert Torneden
Frank Pettengill
W. E. Pettengill
Ruth
Melvin
Charles
Albert Steinbring
Wesley
William E
Lela Kindred
Gilbert Titus
F. Schoenhofer
Vincent
Fred Harmon
Marcus
Lewis Torneden
Carl Torneden
Haskell
Leavenworth
Texas
Villa Eden
Crier
Alexander
Rome
Woollcott Reader
HOCH
K.U
Jimmy Fidler
Paramount Presents
ATES
Gene Autry
Vic
Reg. U
Pop
Journal-World
America
Ann Sheridan
Dick Powell
Chan
Charlie Chan
Robert Taylor
Myrna Loy
Ickinsom
Gulliver
Bluebirds
Oddity
Fox News
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