Social roundups in Kaw Valley mill town reach Lawrence and Topeka
Olive Carr calls on Mr Strachen and Mrs Chalmers. Hazel Charles visits Lawrence. Valley residents attend a social at Fred Love home with several Hughes Gilmore and Powell families. Families travel to DeSoto and Topeka while others head to Camp Funston. News from Mrs Bartee in Moberly and letters from France reach St Louis and Camp Funston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Carr
Strachen
Chalmers
Hazel Charles
Lawrence
Valley
Fred Love
N. G. Hughes
Ellen
Allen
Josephine Gilmore
F. G. Hughes
Garnette
William Hughes
Charles
Hazel
J. Myers
Jook Fees
Lena
Alma Tornadon
Fred
Albert Tornadon
Conrad
Conrad Alteenbrend
Arthur
C. C. Bartee
Moberly
Will Mason
Bartee
Elyin
France
Stantey - Mason
St.Louis
Chris Schwartz
Worden
Conrad Altenbrend
Garnet
Ian Hughes
C. Gilmore
John Bowen
PeSeta
Osear Powell
John Kilworth
Soller
Camp Funston
Leslie Long
Overbrook
Robert McFarland
Ola Powell
Oscar Powell
S. C. Gilmor
N. G. Hugh‘es
Mary Allen
Annie i
Ellen Hughes
Topeka
Local social notices and farming notes from the valley
Residents host visits and dinners as Mr and Mrs Frank Hosford and family visit Lawrence friends. Roy Cox leaves for New Mexico to enter a mechanical school. C G Perkins suffers lightning loss to horse and colt. Fire in Chris Schaa ke wheat field checked with one shock lost. Mrs Frank Kennedy hosts dinner for Mrs Hall. Mrs C G Perkins hosts dinner for James Saunders before Camp Cody New Mexico. Miss Olive Carrof Eudora acts as Noria wheat threshing agent. James Saunders dines with L M Walters family. Kettles threshes for Robert Mc Farland. first wheat in the valley averaging 25 bushels per acre. Fourth of July ice cream from Wiedemanns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hosford
Tayo
Lawrence
Robert McFarland
Roy Cox
New Mexico
C. G. Perkins
Chris Schaakes
Frank Kennedy
Hall
James Saunders
Camp Cody N. M
Charles, Saunders
Marie Alt
Myrtle Walters
Olive
Carrof Eudora
Noria
L. M. Walters
Kettles
Walter Zoehner
Kansas City
Navy
Great Lakes
Peter Seely
T. N. Webb
John W. Evans
Elsie Needham
William Shepard
Fred Gress
Big Stranger
Charles’ Laming
Fkctis
Reno
Tonganoxie State Bank
Excelsior Springs
Frank Percival
Piper
Donald ‘Kirby
Baschor
Sepdes
William Olsen
Sam. Haas Sr
McLouth
Frances Young
Louis F. Young
Albert N. Eaton
Mr. Eaton
J. McNaughton
Omaha
Evelyn Dudley
Leavenworth
Dudley
Chicago
Norman Wiley
Stanwood
Bert Harmon
Little Son
Gordo Bert
Honey Valley
Charles Quinley
Weston
Quinley
Kansas Natural Gas Company
John Mathas
Camp Cody
N. M
N.G. Walters
Bonner Springs
Lida Haley
Little Daughter
James Dwyer
Fonganoxie
George L. Phenicie
Mabel
McNaughton
Kabaas
Charlotte
Kath
Carnie Foy
Taylor
MacKey-Bismarr family updates and local harvest notes
The community reports threshing underway in the neighborhood with several farms active. Ernest Harris visits from Fairview, Dr. McClelland tends a badly kicked horse, and a rainstorm aids the crops. Red Cross to host an ice cream supper at Mackey schoolhouse later in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy -Moon
Paul
Flaharty
Eugene
C. J. Moon
Clifford DeHoff
Alfred Hecks
Ernest Harris
Fair /View
C. Gd
Allen
Lawrence
Purcell
Kansas City
Dr. McClelland
Guy Moon
Mr. Strong
Mr. Amick
Hultz Place
Lawson
Richard Key
Red Cross
Mackey School
Mre Walters
Lawrence College Sends Record Number to Government Posts
The Lawrence Business College ranks high in placing students into government offices. No other school of business sends more graduates to public sector roles, marking strong career outcomes for its students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Business. College
Tonganoxie Social Notes and Local News
A list of visits and social events from Tonganoxie and nearby towns includes Alice Hammig’s birthday gathering in Lawrence, church union meetings in Royal Theatre, and numerous visits among families in Lawrence, Leavenworth, and Kansas City. Attendees frequent farms, farms, dances, and weddings. several residents travel to Kansas City for work, exams, or visits, with plans for picnics and community events noted.
4500 Wins and Death Notices in Brief
The 4500 Wins contest holder to claim an electric vibrating machine at the store. Mrs Marie Anderson dies in Whittier California while visiting her son in law Hugh Steele. Burial follows in Whittier. Mrs Anderson formerly lived in Lawrence for about sixteen years arriving in 1898 and moving to California four years ago to care for her daughter. Steele was a local mail carrier. For pure ice cream call Wiedemann's No 182.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Marie Anderson
Hugh Steele
Whittier
Cal
Lawrence
California
Steele
South Dakota Institutes Mandatory Labor Registration Plan
South Dakota moves to compulsory registration of all able bodied men not in productive employ to harvest the 1918 grain crop. The State Council of Defense orders registration through county councils, with calls to draft-age men in essential industries and to enlist volunteer help to boost harvest and curb waste. Farmers build housing for workers as twenty thresher outfits mobilize across the state to avert equipment shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
S. D
State Council of Defense
Awe Ae
Eldridge Resigns From Kansas Fire Prevention Post
Charles E. Eldridge resigns after twenty years as head of the Inspections and Fire Prevention bureau in Topeka Kansas. P W Perry of St Louis succeeds him as chief rater for Harold Hess of the Missouri Inspection Bureau. Eldridge helped organize a uniform system across Kansas citing 1200 cities and towns. His staff presented a gold watch as a farewell gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eacee
Topeka
Kan
Charles E. Eldridge
Kansas
Varioy
P. W. Perry
St. Louis
Harold Hess
Missouri Inspection Bureau
Fidridge
Ar. Eldridge
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