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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1918
Page
6
Fragmentary lines show Elk Bowling scores with Bryant high and players Pierson Stevenson Edmondson Hunter to play Sevenback tonight. Additional items promote Wiedemann’s ice cream for Fourth of July, and a Lawrence Business College catalogue with a July 5 class start.
Lawrence Board of Education maintains the same school tax for the coming year at just over eight mills. General fund gets seven and a half, with fractions for purchase and repair, industrial training, and sinking fund. Chimmneys at Cordley and McAlister schools to be lengthened for better draft and coal savings.
Chief James H. Monroe reports the county jail has been disinfected repainted and cleaned after two years of neglect. Dogs previously housed there were moved to the pound and old bedding replaced with new mattresses and supplies. Pipes froze and burst but repair work and hot water systems are fixed. A Western Electric iron aids ironing day heatless. Kennedy Plumbing Co. joins shorthand class at Lawrence Business College July 5.
Elmer Schwahn aged thirteen died in a Kansas City hospital after an accident while unhitching horses at noon near Worden. He was helping when one horse became unmanageable and kicked or trampled him, causing fatal injuries.
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