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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1919
Page
1
Woodland Park hosts a large patriotic program today with the best looking girls decorating the event. The celebration promises the biggest crowd of the year in Lawrence, opening early as the sole affair of its kind.
Today at Woodland Park the program begins 11:45 a.m. with an invocation by Rev. G N Jackson and a medal presentation by Theodore Gardner, department commander of G A R. Lunch follows. 1:30 p.m. address by Hon. Co A Smart district judge. 4:00 p.m. address by Major General William M Wright. Sports include 10:00 a.m. baseball Clinton vs Reno 2:30 p.m. town vs country baseball, 4:30 p.m. track events and stunts, 7:30 p.m. wrestling and boxing matches.
A squad led by Miss Helen Wagstaff of Lawrence will decorate the returned heroes of Douglas County with bronze medals at Woodland Park today. Miss Wagstaff is selecting her committee of girls and promises to guide the project with care.
Soldiers will attend a noon medal presentation at the park dance pavilion with Theodore Gardner G A R department commander giving a short address. County heroes will be awarded medals pinned by local girls as downtown stores close for the event. Park grounds are prepared with booths and free picnic lunches for veterans from noon to 1 30.
Dublin July 4 Arthur Griffith vice president of Sinn Fein said he received a telegram from Edward de Valera in the United States. He quoted de Valera saying there is no danger the Irish will back the Plunkett chariot and cautioned that the latest attempt to sidetrack the Irish national demand is dead in its cradle. A manifesto by Horace Plunkett and others in the dominion league proposed settlement of the Irish question one week earlier.
The entire Journal World staff will take a holiday and be unavailable after 9pm. The paper will not publish today, with all presses, telephones, and delivery silent. Staff will be at Woodland Park greeting returning soldiers, while rumors spread about a fight incident in Toledo.
Second Week at Camp Funston shows 21 of 549 trainees from nine Midwestern states fail to meet army physical standards due to athletic hearts. The six week Infantry ROTC program combines forenoon drill with afternoon athletics, swimming and sports, using officer specialists and a supervised small group system to build leadership as students from nine states train to be second lieutenants.
County surveyor Ernest Ptacek reports a grasshopper surge across the county with nymphs to millions of insects. He warns that if unchecked they will cause major damage to crops, especially alfalfa, and urges farmers to use poisoned bran mash early and continuously to protect yields.
A terse dispatch notes Bolsheviki forces suffered defeat near Montreal on July Fourth as reported by local wires. The item cites ongoing unrest and highlights tactical setbacks affecting allied positions in the region.
A university laboratory monkey named Mike on escaped his cage during a long experiment run, tore up his record chart and smashed a thermometer, then wandered toward Potter Lake. He swam with bathers briefly before returning to the isolation hospital with the keeper, drinking milk and resuming confinement.
Captain Oscar C. Brownlee former commanding officer of Company H First Kansas Infantry now with the 80th Division is expected home today after receiving his discharge at Louisville He has returned from overseas.
Lawrence will greet seventy members of the 805th Pioneer Infantry serving in France as they are diverted to Kansas City. The regiment was to parade in Topeka but orders changed. greeting plans in Lawrence and Topeka were canceled. The 805th is slated to be the last unit demobilized at Camp Funston, with demobilization shifting elsewhere.
Legal opinions from Douglas County address whether American soldiers in occupied Germany may marry German women after the peace treaty. City Attorney Walter Thiele questions European diplomacy superiority while Prof. Raymond A. Rice notes the German girls’ actions reflect a familiar American political maxim.
Roger Stanley of Eudora township is the largest chicken owner in Douglas county with 600 chickens valued at 500 dollars. The poultry is incidental to his farming and not a charted specialty for record purposes.
Julius Marks, who served with a medical unit in France, arrived in Lawrence today in good shape. He had recently been in New York, and his assignment in the Medical Department is noted with rank details reflecting his wartime service.
The Black Hills in South Dakota honor Theodore Roosevelt by renaming Sheep Mountain as Mount Theodore Roosevelt. A bronze tablet will recount his early cattle drives and frontier life. Governor Norbeck presided. Major General Leonard Wood spoke. The Deadwood ceremony drew thousands as plans for a round tower and summit access were announced by the Society of Black Hills Pioneers.
A notice from The American on October 27 1858 to January 6 1919 includes a Society of Black Hills Pioneers tribute dated July 4 1919. It notes another tablet pays tribute to Colonel Roosevelt for services to his country and country.
Thirty one Negro students from Straight College New Orleans Prairie View Normal School Texas and Branch Normal School Pine Bluffs Ark attend the Reserve Officers Training Camp at Fort Funston to prepare as Second Lieutenants in the infantry. The colored company is under the director.
Downtown fight fans will find Willard vs Dempsey information at Woodland Park July Fourth. The city newspapers and the Douglas County soldiers welcome committee coordinate the display as part of the park program. Bulletins will not be issued by the Associated Press from the Journal-World office.
Potter Lake in Lawrence University attracts large crowds with daily use from 2 to 8 pm supervised by life guards Stemn Foster and John Bunn. Nonstudents pay $1 for swimming. a central raft exists but no boats. A weekly sports day with races and diving exhibitions is planned, and past years have seen several rescues and one drowning.
The interurban company sought two new trials over the track between Seventh Street and Kaw river bridge. Judge Smart postponed yesterday hearing by phone. delivery of the track was ordered in twenty days, July 8. The street railway paid about 4700 dollars into court. The railway said it did not seek exclusive use. original contract would allow access to Massachusetts Street station without further arrangements.
Hot weather and reduced summer room rents help students live more economically though laundry and cooling drinks may offset the savings. Single rooms in Lawrence rent 1 to 2 dollars weekly, doubles 1.50 to 3 dollars. many vacancies spur rate cuts. Board at clubs runs six dollars for three meals or five dollars twenty five cents for two meals. Restaurants see less food spending due to heat reducing appetite rather than lower prices.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions demobilization timeline and dates with incomplete phrases. It references September 30 and July 3 in connection with demobilization but lacks clear subjects or events to state a precise outcome or organization.
Commissioner A L Cox says Douglas County roads are in bad shape with many impassable sections. He notes dragging alone won t fix ruts and humps and backs a plan to buy proper road machinery while an 8000 dollar balance in the road drag fund eases financing for needed work and timing. The fund comes from automobile license shares and must be used for dragging.
Paris July 4. The French government appointment of Catholic bishops for Metz and Strasbourg sparked an animated debate in the chamber of deputies. Critics charged unofficial diplomacy with the Vatican and violation of church state separation, while Stephen Pichon defended policy as upholding concordat in Alsace Lorraine and maintaining separation elsewhere.
In New York on July 4 guards protect Fifth Avenue mansions of W A Clark Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie Henry C Frick Mrs Finley Shepard Vincent Astor and others along with city halls and municipal buildings amid threats of renewed home outrages from May 1 and June 4 Brigadier General Dyer of the New York State Guards orders rapid mobilization if radical demonstrations erupt today.
Mr and Mrs J E Turington of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania are visiting friends here for two weeks staying with local hosts as they travel.
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