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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
6
An English letter from France describes Lt. Brown, a surgeon, expressing thanks from grateful French people. He details a cake made with a month's sugar for a 15 year old patient and a hearing improvement after wax removal, noting many strawberries and cakes as token gifts.
Jack Walters returned home to Chicago yesterday. For pure ice cream call 182 at Wie demand’s. Hess Drug Store offers a good position for a young man.
Valley Grove notes cover Seth Slauson visiting relatives in McLouth and Kansas City before settling with his daughter in Carthage. Community socials at the schoolhouse include about 35 attendees with outdoor games and conversation. Lawrence visitors and local shopping trips appear, plus residents preparing for military service and farm work such as threshing twelve hundred bushels of wheat and wheat stacking.
Colonel Marlborough Churchill becomes the new army censor heading the censor ship under the military intelligence section of the general staff. General Frank W. McIntyre, previously acting censor, resumes duties as chief of the bureau of insular affairs.
Large crowd witnesses the Lawrence color guard leading 41 drafted men to a special Union Pacific train bound for Camp Funsten. The event blends pride and sorrow as families cheer and some tears are shed. Local officials and citizens join the procession with a celebratory, patriotic tone during this wartime sendoff.
Mr. Farmer is informed that Wilson & Clawson of 744 Mass St Lawrence Kansas have cash buyers for farms. Three buyers want 320 acre farms five want 160 acre farms and two want 80 acre farms. They ask sellers to contact at once by phone 612.
A Red Cross salvage store opens Monday in the Stubbs building opposite the courthouse, with Mrs. H. B. Asher and Mrs. Belle Wilmot in charge. The store acts as a perpetual clearing house for clothing and furniture needing repair, plus a receiving station for junk to be shipped to the general salvage center. Donors can call headquar ters 653 or Mrs. Asher to arrange pickup. The room is donated by Mrs. W. R. Stubbs, with another site offered by Herman Brocker but the Stubbs building is preferred for convenience.
At sixty five ten men out of a hundred are self supporting. Why bet ten to one against yourself when the Northwestern is willing to guarantee an income for you.
The Grocers and Butchers' Bureau of Lawrence invites all city grocers and butchers to a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce rooms on Wednesday evening July 24 at 8 o'clock. The aim is to discuss reducing deliveries to one or two per day and to secure a large turnout for full discussion. S. R. Holloway vice-president and Frank Strong secretary urge participation.
J Underwood and Son lists COBS at 1.25 per load. The terse entry notes price and supplier without further details.
Frank Bockfelt was tried in police court this morning and found guilty of drunkenness and disturbing the peace. He received a $10 fine for drunkenness, $15 for disturbing the peace, and $5.50 in costs, totaling $30.50. Unable to pay, he was sent to the city jail to work off the amount at seventy five cents a day plus board, likely about forty days.
An assortment of 1920s era ads and notices promote City Drug Store offerings including eggs for winter water glasses and daily papers. Welkes Drug Store offers films and kodak supplies while 819 Mass sold Sunday papers. Miss Cora Ault hosted by Miss Klyne. rental notice lists a seven room modern house for rent with hardwood floors and relocation. Northwesterns guarantee plan for retirement at sixty suggested.
The advertisement promotes a practical business training aimed at improving earning power through knowledge and applying it to real tasks. It highlights a complete machine course using Burroughs bookkeeping machines, adders, calculators, and touch typewriting. Tuition is 25 dollars for six weeks.
For sale two horses a year old and a four year old mare. Contact C. H. Linnsinger by phone. Also wanted Boy for Rest K. C. Star route in city for sale with over 350 subscribers and good collecting. Call 957.
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