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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1924
Page
4
A Lawrence Kansas issue page notes meeting remarks and a Bible verse about guarding speech. It references a Democrat meeting at Parsons where the Governor ends the Davis for President effort, described as stamping out a prairie fire single-handedly.
Sheriff Johns has uncovered facts that may lead to a serious crackdown on crime. If confirmed, a sizable gang will be diminished and property will feel safer. The piece warns youths against easy money through theft, noting such lives are spent in fear and eventual ruin.
On an icy day the king of Belgium rides to the palace aboard a street car. The democratic Belgian people do not object to their monarch traveling with ordinary passengers, and the scene proceeds without incident.
Readers weigh Bok peace plan and referendum as a mood of caution surrounds foreign policy shifts. A Kansas probe into coal prices raises political questions about Governor Davis and his industrial court appointment.
The piece notes political sparring over graft and rights while Lawrence plumbers back a licensing ordinance for all city plumbers. It critiques the city building ordinance for requiring costly minor improvements, condemning unnecessary rules and questioning whose interests the rules serve.
Editorial urges parents to curb lax home discipline to avoid public embarrassment from their children's misconduct. It argues moral lapses bring shame to individuals and relatives and stresses preemptive responsibility before trouble occurs.
Elihu Thomson, famed inventor and former MIT president, is the first American awarded the Lord Kelvin medal by British engineering societies. A pioneer in electricity, he has also earned the French Government honor, the Royal Society medal, the Rumson and Edison medals. Born in England, Thomson moved to the United States as a youth, educated in Philadelphia, taught chemistry and mechanics, and rose to become consulting engineer for the world’s largest electrical company.
Today in Denver the annual National Western Stock Show opens as thousands visit the event, part of a slate including Montreal winter sports carnival openings and a World Court debate among Dartmouth Amherst and Columbia. A Franklin County Farm Bureau announcement notes Nina Hurlbert will be home demonstration agent starting February 1, with Joe Robbins rehired for an eighth year as county farm agent.
F R Shanks announces county by county quotas for Kansas wheat pool totaling about 44 million bushels. Quotas equal half the county wheat acreage with 13.6 bushels per acre expected yield. Sumner leads with 172 908 acres, followed by Reno, Ford, Barton and Pawan ee counties. County committees to organize across eleven districts are planned.
Miss Mable Flory missed school Thursday and Friday due to illness. Mrs. Elwood Deay stays several days to help care for her ill brother Frank Stanwix in Willow Springs. Elmer Campbell took his son Frank to Lawrence to catch a train to Kansas City. Mr and Mrs Wingert Mabie Mr and Mrs Postma and Mr and Mrs Ark are mentioned in the rural notice.
Campbell and Flory families share hospitality while neighbors visit and work together. School disruption at Widow Springs due to Miss Edith Schualm illness. multiple households butcher meat and attend lodge meetings at Grove. Rural social scene includes visiting Lawrence and Ottawa with various Campbell family members and neighbors. Royalty yachts sold in Holland to French and American buyers.
In Oels, Silesia on January 14, the return of Crown Prince William Hohenzollern Jr. spurs the reopening of the Goldener Adler, a hotel that had been idle. Frau Adler runs the inn solo, handling every role from receptionist to cashier, while charging Berlin-level prices and keeping guests returning with sharp service and strong wines. The proprietor, unnamed, remains covert due to guest criticisms of his high rates.
The United States Forest Service reports California had more forest fires in national forests in the past year than since 1917. About 50 percent were from lightning, 50 percent from man caused. tobacco smokers started 358 fires and campers 117. Railroads and other causes accounted for the rest. Foresters say 86 percent were stopped before 10 acres burned, 120 violators prosecuted, and warn against possible restrictions if education fails to curb fires.
Weaver households report radio installation and temporary stays as Seth Kindred lodges with his brother while baling in the bottoms. Mr and Mrs Oscar Lothholz visited relatives in Fall Leaf and Prairie Center while Ruth Ness was ill last week. Will Reynolds and Gien Wilson missed school for illness, and Mrs Wm Lothholz suffers rheumatism. Earnest Reynolds hauled mules for mule buyer Mr Jennings, as Mrs Gideon Neis aided her ailing mother in Lawrence.
Local residents report visits and family news from Eudora and surrounding areas. Mrs. Caroline Schlegel and son visit from Montana. Mrs. Fred Bartz leaves hospital to stay with relatives in Lawrence. numerous social events include Belleview Grange oyster supper with Schmidt Brothers orchestra. church Sunday school programs. members attend dairy and farmers meetings in Kansas City and Emporia.
Obituary notes the death of a North Carolina born man who died January 10 1924 in Kansas City Kansas aged 77. He married Rhuhanna Stanley 57 years earlier and had six children five surviving including Mrs Riley Smith of Gooding Idaho and three Harris children in Montana and Kansas. He worked in real estate and belonged to the Friends church. Funeral services held January 18 1924 at Hesper Friends church. Emil Schmidt and George Scherner hauled cattle to Kansas City on Tuesday.
Orin Isaacs former deputy district clerk now practicing law in Emporia visits Lawrence friends. He aligns with Owen Samuel a prominent state lawyer and expresses firm belief in Emporia’s bright future calling the city the best in Kansas. W S Clark praises county bonus boards as chief supervisor.
Mr Clark writes to the county board praising its cooperation in handling state bonus claims and highlighting the support given by state and county boards, as published in Foreign Service magazine for Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The note lists church activities at Church of the Brethren on 14th and New Hampshire with Pastor Burgin and Sunday school at 10 a m, services at 11 a m and 7 45 p m, Young People's meeting at 7, and prayer Wednesday at 7 30. Centenary M E Church announces Sunday school 10, morning worship 11, Epworth League 6 30, preaching 7 20 with Pastor Shuler.
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