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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1925
Page
4
A fragmented July 25 1925 Lawrence Kansas newspaper page discusses city bonds and local improvements funded by property owners, state highway policy shifts via gasoline tax, maintenance versus hard surfacing plans, potential districts, and tax trends. The text references federal tax reductions, rising local taxes, and general editorial commentary on highway and fiscal policy.
A matter of bootleg liquor prompts vigilant caution toward the substance and the men who handle it as authorities tighten controls and warn of risks. The record underscores the dangers and calls for scrutiny in illicit liquor trade amid ongoing enforcement.
Dr James Brown Scott has been named commander of the Netherlands order of Orange Nassau and serves as president of the American Institute of International Law and secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A Harvard Berlin and Heidelbergh educated authority, he has long studied international law, practiced law, and organized legal education while guiding Carnegie’s global correspondence and literature.
Gen Henry Ox born 175 years ago and first Secretary of War under the Constitution. Episcopal bishop A F Schinner marks twentieth anniversary in Spokane. Northwestern Sportsmen show opens in Seattle for a week. Polish Foreign Minister Count Alexander Skrzynski greeted in Chicago. Mexico hosts a general chamber conference in City of Mexico. Miss Muriel Vanderbilt to wed Frederick Cameron Church in Rhode Island. Knights Templar gather in Seattle for the 36th triennial Grand Encampment conclave.
Rev. R. Carl Ziegler of Trenton pleaded guilty before Justice E C Wainwright to embezzling funds from the Ku Klux Klan of New Jersey. Margeret Roberts, also of Trenton, was not held after arrest in El Paso. Ziegler faced bail of 10,000. Roberts accompanied Chamberlain to Eileawood Park Klan HQ for reconciliation claim. Clearing House report shows reserve excess of 61,845,180 for week, up from prior period.
A reader notes weights to determine what qualifies as a big catch. Trout in teens, brown and rainbow around 30 pounds, lake grey trout 85 to 49, smallmouth near nine, largemouth over 16, muskellunge above 50, walleye 15 plus, ouananiche about 30, salmon over 40.
The meetings end Sunday at the gospel tent on Tenth and Connecticut streets after a week led by Dave Hill the lumberjack evangelist. A crowd from Douglas County attended nightly, with a long mourners bench repeated as Hill urged friends to join Friday through Sunday activities culminating in a final all day gathering with sermons testimonies and offerings to support the gospel work.
GAR RIDGE residents and neighbors shared Sunday visits among families in Lawrence and Welcomer with Mr and Mrs Henry Seels hosting. Rain paused threshing but benefited corn and pasture, while Edwin Saudefur and Miss Flense Bailey visited Kansas City. Esther Bereiter of Voge Studios spent the weekend with home folks as others traveled between Lawrence and nearby towns.
Réavenworth residents enjoyed a picnic dinner with May and Minnie Courtney. Numerous visits and house calls are noted among Blaylock, Hall, Fihitinig, Pine, Silver, Hartman, and Mildred Smith. A countywide thresher effort, farm bureau picnic plans at Oltaca, and local visits to Lawrence, Kan., Topeka, and Overbrook are listed with many names and hometowns.
Town residents hosted guests from Ottawa Overbrook and Parsons while threshing and cooking filled busy days. neighbors like Mary Grounds and the Weininger family visited relatives in Butler Marion and Lawrence as community events, school gatherings, and lodge meetings punctuated a period of fine roads and good corn yields.
Mrs S Stull and Ray and Velma visited Clarence Slusser. Rake family spent Sunday in Topeka at Teed Rake home. Mr and Charlie Houk welcomed a 10 pound daughter Evelyn Mae born July 14. Kraft family and Katherine Roller visited N D Messer home at Pleasant Grove. Stults spent Thursday at Albert Hook home helping threshers. Raab family and others visited Will Murphy home. Esther Unger visited Wm Bahnmaier home. Harry Ibe of Oklahoma stayed with Len Ice home. Agnes James of Lecompton staying with Chas Houk family. L. Lawson and Ruby Slusser at Kanwaka store Sunday. Lasure and Mary Belle at Excelsior Springs. George Anderson Sr and family visited by California niece. Most farmers finished threshing. Ernest Transmaier returned from Western Kansas harvest. now with Tarpy machine shop in Lawrence. L. Lawson, Mrs E A Transmaier and Leroy at C A Bidinger home Thursday. Add Scheer and Roy Brown moved machinery for Mr Goff from Frank Wulfkuhle farm to rear Tonganoxie.
The narrative details a brutal clash as monstrous creatures slaughter fugitives. We fire uselessly with modern bullets while natives pepper the beasts with poisoned arrows. The hunt ends with two slain monsters and the Indians’ victory dance, then plans for escape fade amid mistrust and broken cooperation.
Elmer Weibel, Charles Hunsme er, Max Groves and Frank Madison drive to Oskaloosa Sunday. Midland Grange plans July 30 picnic at Edgerton Kansas. Various locals visit relatives in Williamstown Savannah Perry Ov erbrook Topeka Lawrence and Lawrence. chicken theft at Yornlie. neighbors host dinners and social calls. Everett Lane Nottingham ill. community news includes visits, trips, and livestock losses.
Fifteen cars carried seventy five people to Rock Creek camp where girls performed a vaudeville act titled Choicest Chiggers at Tent No 3 known as Chigger Inn. Judges included W C McNown Frank Brown and Miss Bernice Peacock. Girls plan a return today and a second camp if enough signers appear.
A full line of Princess Pat Toilet Articles is available including rouge in three shades English Tint Vivid and Medium. Also new Twinette package face creams. Store location Reese's Drug Store 929 Mass St Ady Moll's Butter Crust Bread asks you grocer.
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