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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1918
Page
4
There is more than one reason for attending ball games at the Cubs park in Chicago. Charley Weeghman hires ushers, including pretty girls, to guide crowds as the season opens. A Cub player notes the ushers attract attention even during key plays.
High Prairie notes report 2n attendance with a $1 offering for Sunday school. A new study series titled Lest we forget begins. Rev Burris preaches on Alexander the Coppersmith from the text. No more evening services announced for the first Sunday of the quarter. Several residents join short trips and family visits.
Over two weeks ago while ranking his ear he was injured. He has made trips to Baldwin every other day since the accident to tend to his arm. Mrs Hammond accompanied him Saturday. Dev Drew Tanmone tion at Coffegie Kansas expresses appreciation of his service as he was recently voted a $2000 salary. Congregation.
The notice recalls Castoria for Infants and Children and highlights A Ewing as a subscriber to the Journal-World for thirty three years. It notes the paper began at 782 Third Street, North Lawrence, with Mrs. Jenkins having a longer tenure at about fifty five years. The item mentions Lawrence Optical Co and Jackson Bldg., 927 Mass.
Mrs. George Fisher injures her ankle during a scuffle with neighbor Miss Jovenhine DeVoe in the yard. She tripped over her skirt, wrenching the bone and will likely remain confined to her room after a doctor is called. Several locals, including Mrs. Joseph Klamer, Mrs. Mary Houston, and Mrs. Looni, were visiting or traveling in town this weekend, with more names listed among residents and visitors in Tonganoxie and Leavenworth.
Invalid OCR summary notes a wife praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for years of weakness. It includes local names like Mrs Jas Roursine at 620 Knapp St, Pittsburgh, and mentions medical ads, local farming activity, crop details, and local residents in Overbrook with names such as Fred Mover, J H Featherston, and Otto.
German forces on the western front concentrate near St Quentin as they press toward Rheims and Amiens. The drive aims at splitting Allied lines and exploiting interior network defenses. The text notes German preparations and rapid troop movements to reinforce points along the Somme region.
Monday notes show John Lyon buying cuttie from Henry Schwartz and Wm Kingery and Dehn Me. Wm Smith hauling grain. Lawrence and Feed Meyer visit, bringing out two heavy wagons. Rev Nichol called at Alge Smith’s. Chauncey Fishburn helps. Frank Enos hauls grain. G H Moiaker and Otis assist Thomas Featherston. Henry Rippard visits Overbrook. George Frauded delivers loads to Henry Rippard. Baldwin 5 Wednesday noon Purity Self McNish distills water. Phone 198.
Community snippets report Miss Sadie Deay recovering after an appendectomy at Lawrence Hospital. Mr and Mrs John Daniels and Levi Flory are mentioned among visitors and homecomings. Several neighbors including Wells, Shotwell, and Tismimomi elders share visits, vaccinations, threshing plans, and new housekeeper arrangements as the district carries on farming and social visits through the week.
Reichstag adjourned in Berlin as debates on finance measures continued with taxation bills described as more extensive and important than any since the empire's foundation. A divorce suit was filed locally in the matter of Ellen Steffy versus Orriy Steffy, with Mrs Steffy noted in the proceedings.
Kenseth Whis, captain of the Kansas University squad, leads a cohort of Kansas City players in the upcoming series. The event includes prominent names like Heath Bofori and C. J. Lackhorn, with entries from several state and regional competitors. The doubles cup bears the name of past champions, and interest centers on which team will claim permanent possession as strong contenders from Iowa and Missouri join the field.
Financing notice from Watkins National Bank offering United States Certificates of Indebtedness Series IV AL dated June 25 1918 payable October 24 1818 at 4 12 percent interest with denominations of $500 and up. Mentions Lieut Cargil Sproat and aviation school in Champaign Illinois. Also brief local society items about Elsie Smith and Marie Gos visiting Topeka and Miss Margaret Carpenter returning to Oswego after a summer school at KU.
Grass cattle have started to roll into Wichita from Oklahoma and Kansas with early consignments of twenty carloads from Osage, averaging 1370 pounds and fetching 16.90 per hundred. Cattle receipts for two months drop 1,867 versus last year, while hogs rise 32,065 to 309,602. Mexican range cattle fade, replaced by hornless Americanized steers better suited for marketing.
Clinton Mr and Mrs Harvey Barton and children Lencer and Marion spent holiday with Mrs Barton's parents Mr and Mrs Frank Stanwix of Reno. Mr and Mrs A B Stanwix formerly of this neighborhood but now of Kanwaka accompanied them. Chas Bellas family welcomed a daughter born Saturday July six. Several from this community attended the Fordson Tractor demonstration held at Lawrence this week. Mrs Loren Star is very ill and resting easier at Lawrence Hospital. Miss My- (name cut off)
An early 1900s patent medicine ad touts Miller's Anthecetts Snake Oil as a universal remedy for rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbago, headaches, swollen joints, and more. It claims pain vanishes in minutes after a single internal dose or external application, with guarantees and money-back offers from the Drug Co. in Massachusetts and Seattle distributors.
The column recalls local volunteers in the 89th Division now at the front and urges cheerful support for the war effort. It records visitors to Lawrence households including Mrs. Halderman, Kenneth and Vera, and adds social notes on Miss Lila Reece, Rosabelle Hout, and the Hollingsworths. The Ladies Missionary society met at the Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Galitzky visited Camp Funston.
In health you are free of impurities yet a sluggish circulation shows slight signs. The ad urges taking S. S. S. as a blood purifier and strengthener, claiming it cleanses the blood and builds the body. Sold by druggists with free information from Swift Specific Co in Atlanta, Georgia.
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