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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1915
Page
5
A free concert is planned for Thursday night by the First Regiment Band. The program includes new pieces with the third and fourth avant movements, starting promptly at 4 o'clock. The lineup features baritone solos and marches among other items in a period, community-focused event.
Penjamin Young of the University of Kansas department of entomology will travel from Lawrence to the Arkansas River valley visiting Tatehinsar Larned Cimarron Lakin Dodge City and other towns. He will advise farmers on killing alfalfa worms chinch bugs and grasshoppers while surveying insect life and reporting findings to the university in several weeks.
Bert Hill has purchased John Merean's restaurants and confectionery at 1345 Massachusetts Avenue and will assume leadership after a visit to Bunker Hill. Meanwhile Clare and Robert Tal, from McLouth, along with their family, prepare to join the Universe tour and establish their residence as the media business centers in Marchusel.
The Lawrence society column details society gatherings at homes of Mrs. Ford MeChun and Mrs. Guy Spalding with guests including Mrs. Henry Hyer Jr and Mrs. Henry Ryer. A birth announces Thomas Kennedy Lester born July 4 to Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Lester of Topeka, with Miss Helen Kennedy of Lawrence as former relation. Garden parties, entertainments by Eastern Star Past Matrons, a picnic supper, and social afternoons are listed, plus Patch Work Quilts interest and a Kansas University history professor marriage in Columbus, Ohio.
Local reporters describe summer attendance at Mathers gatherings led by Mrs W J T Wenshopel and Mrs R dunes Frank Ns as well as cooks from Lawrence Schools. The piece covers a Sigma Kappa convention bound trip for Miss Lillian Martin and Ruth Litzen, a Shawnee County Political Science reception, and Topeka governor events.
Local note lists Wilimins, Watts, Weber, Copen-Raver entertaining Neighborhood Club with a picnic supper at 1002 Maine Street. Also mentions guests Mrs. W. Watson and others, plus various social updates and brief notices from town life.
A garbled OCR fragment lists names and relations including Mrs Bratt of Hevinston visiting her sitter Mrs Mande Vruvent, plus mentions of W. J. Andre and Henry twihell in Galena.
An advertisement promotes Sun Burn or Tan remedies, Bane Tox Cold Grand on Velvet Lotion for sore feet with San-Tox Foot Delight. It claims San-Tox Remedies relieve toothache sore throat kidney trouble rheumatism and liver troubles. Constipation remedy San-Tox Fig Cascares is offered. Located at 742 Massachusetts Street.
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