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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1917
Page
3
The telegram urges men to submit applications by July 15 for the second Officers Camp at Ft. Riley. Kansas reports 600 applicants, with 494 for examination and 288 expected to be admitted. Lawrence residents can obtain blanks from Guy Waldo or mail requests to Ft. Riley.
W E A Nottorf elected director and secretary as Kansas Telephone Company directors meet. He helped guide the Bell and Home plant consolidation after arriving in Lawrence. Also included are local notes on cooking lectures, real estate sales, North College debate, office move, apricot ice cream, and a YWCA camp cleanliness congress in Hollister Missouri with four hundred delegates.
Amsterdam reports Dutch workers laid off at Krupp Island works after French air raid damaged Essen plant. Up to a quarter of the Essen facility destroyed with millions in damage. Officials say 100 workers killed and hundreds wounded. A French raid reportedly dropped bombs. German report cites two bomb holes. Dr Reding offers eye and ENT care.
The funeral of Thomas Farrell, who died in Lawrence Monday evening, was held in Tonganoxie today. He had long suffered blood poisoning. an operation was hoped but not possible. Farrell, sixty, a single man, lived on a Williamstown area farm and was a stockholder in the Williamstown State Bank.
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