Guardsmen To Be At Fort Riley Soon
Topeka July 15 national guardsmen totaling about 1 600 will move to Camp Whitside Fort Riley for two week intensive training in two groups July 26 to August 9 and August 16 to 30. Units include 60th field artillery brigade 130th 161st and 142nd batteries with headquarters at Topeka and staff from Kansas cities. Participation rises to 3 400 with infantry cavalry and staff. 220 trucks 250 horses and field communications set for wartime tempo. First camp heads toward artillery batteries. second camp focuses on infantry cavalry and staff with ample rations and ironclad routine. The regular Kansas signal corps unit is ordered to Camp Ashland Neb.
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Topeka
Kansas
Whitside
Fort Riley
60Th Field Artillery
130Th Field Artillery
161St Field Artillery
142Nd Field Artillery
Arkansas
Kansas Signal Corps
Camp Ashland
Neb
Nebraska National Guard
Signal Corps
Creighton Seeks Lehman Clemency to Save Life
Mrs Frances Creighton once prostrate for weeks in Sing Sing prison feet but declared sane in a special examination looked to Gov Herbert H Lehman as her only hope to escape death today in Ossining New York on July 16 officials report she faces execution by electric chair and appeals for mercy cite her stable condition and pending clemency review
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Ada Appellate
Everett C. Appelgate
Creighton
Ossining
N. Y
Frances Creighton
Sing Sing
Herbert H. Lehman
Ives Chapel Missionary Society Meets with Play Peak
The Phoebe Emery Missionary society gathered at Mrs. Oliver Price home Monday for a performance of Maggies Gift by Emma Emery Cleada Davison Bomyc Kowski and Mrs. Price. Twenty two attendees enjoyed pineapple sherbet and cake. Ives Chapel Ladies Aid plans an ice cream social and program on the Chapel lawn Friday July 17. Mr. and Mrs. R L Barkley Topeka announce a baby daughter Beverly Ann born July 8 weighing six pounds eleven ounces. Mrs Barkley was Vera Cook before marriage and Mr Barkley is Rosa Barkley’s son, Louis George of Whittier Calif spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Phillip Fleshman. Mr and Mrs G A Dunn have
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Phoebe Emery
Beverly Ann
Community Notes from Kansas and Nearby Towns
Abilene resident Mr Dunn goes there for work while Joseph Wahl camp and auxiliary members meet in Lawrence. Ottawa visitors join Lawrence friends at a family gathering. Several locals swim at Forest Park in Ottawa and attend services at Vinland Church of Christ. A baby born February 18, 1919 in the area. Rev. C E Andrews conducts the burial service in Vinland cemetery. Family sickness and travel updates follow with multiple visits and dinners across Baldwin Worden Eudora and Willow Springs communities.
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Abilene
Texas
Dunn
Sym. Taylor
Joseph A. Wahl
Lawrence
F. A. Lee
Ottawa
Opal Boyke
Lee
Jess Markley
Russell Leach
Floyd and
Martyn Rutherford
John Dean, Jr
Junior McKinney
Church of Christ
Vinland
Carl
C. E. Andrews
Paul Erdman
South Dakota
Louche Georgie
Ed Pardee
Baldwin
G. Morton
Dave Wray
Finest
Arthur Flory
Willow Springs
Isac Montgomery
Worden
Louie Georgie
Morris Star
Eudora
Car Death on Highway 50 Kills Carl McMillen
Carl and Chester McMillen were testing a car on Highway 50 west of Baldwin when a crash occurred on July 4. Carl McMillen was killed instantly. Chester McMillen suffered bruises but was not seriously hurt. funeral held on Monday.
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Carl
Chester McMillen
Highway 50
Baldwin
Chester
West Fairview Funeral Visits and Local Drowning Tragedy
Edith Hilbert Earl Claude and Bruce Gress traveled to Glenwood Iowa for the funeral of their niece Ellyn Dunbar killed in an auto accident. Dunbar had visited the neighborhood and was a university student in Iowa. Jacky Stewart of Richland drowned in a pond on the Sheets place while wading with friends. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Joe Reed. Mrs Nancy Cummings attended a birthday dinner for her sister Mrs Cade of Quemonoe.
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Edith Hilbert
Earl
Claude
Bruce Gress
Glenwood
Ellyn Dunbar
Miss Dunbar
Sally Gress
Tending University
Iowa
Jacky Stewart
Richland
Joe Reed
Nancy Cummings
Cade
Quemonoe
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FT. Riley
Lehman
Massachusetts ST. Chas
Steins
Massacausetrs
Massachusetts
Chas. Sucker
Mein
Stein's
Tulsa
Union Bus Depot
SU Taman
Greyhound Lines
Patee
Satuday
King of Cowboys
John Wayne
Edmund Lowe
Virginia Bruce
Chapte
Astaire-Rogers
Old Mill Topeka
Don Murphy
Mermadi
Tubby Randell
Brewster’s
Nancy Carroll
George Murphy
Harry Carry
Arn
Dickinson
Randolph Scott Frances Drake
Eleanore Whitney
Robert Cummings
Stony Point
Goodrich
Silvertown Jam Stores
Wes” Harpe, Mgr
West Fairview
Granada
Jeanette MacDonald Clark
Gable Spencer Tracy
San Francisco
Fess
Tom Tyler
Henry B. Walthall
Margaret Callahan
Louis Pasteeur
Kay Francis
the Immortal
Florence. Nightingale
the White Angel
Riverside
Riversides
Montgomery Ward
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