Remodeling and travel notes fill North Lawrence column
Mildred Lamb, assistant in the county treasurer's office, will leave for Colorado Springs with Mrs W H McKone for two weeks. remodeling at Charles Thudium butcher shop 806 Massachusetts street to finish later this week. store gains a new front and interior upgrades. County registrar of deeds Isa Wellman ill for several days. County jail reports twelve prisoners, most arrested recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Lamb
Fomerton
Mra
W.H. McKone
Colorado
Springs, Corp
Massachusetts Street
Isa Wellman
County Regis‘ter of Deeds
Summer lectures at Westinghouse for engineering teachers
Neumann of the University of Kansas among eighteen engineering teachers attending a month long summer conference at Westinghouse Electric in East Pittsburgh. The program included tours through East Pittsburgh works and nearby plants to expose professors to current industrial practice and meet former pupils now in industry. Lectures covered power, railway equipment, control and radio engineering among others, aiming to transfer practical plant knowledge to students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wor. Neumann
University of Kansas
Teabery
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric ‘and Manufacturing” Company
Westinghouse Company
East Pittsburgh
Books in curing sick principal hospitals read by patients
Chicago July 31 A P reports that books are now used in principal hospitals to aid patients alongside medicine. Louise Singley manager of the American Library Association says reading supports recovery though Crusoe cannot cure tuberculosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ace Cord
Miss ‘Louise *Singley
Amer Library Association
Binson” Crusoe
Librarians as Doctors of Books Assist Hospital Patients
A hospital librarian studies each patient like a physician guiding reading. Some books depress others excite and some genres should be avoided in hospitals. The aim is to tailor reading to individual convalescence and temperament, steering toward beneficial material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
Deaths and Funerals Jette Ferguson
Jette Ferguson died at his Kansas City home yesterday. His remains will be brought to Lawrence today, with funeral arrangements to be announced later. He was raised in North Lawrence and moved after the flood. He was a porter for the Union Pacific at the time of his death and was regarded as a good citizen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jette Ferguson
Jesse Ferguson
Kansas City
Lawrence
North Lawrence
Union ‘Pacific Service
Elk Bowling Scores and County Fair Posters Planned
The county fair board secretary O J Lane received the display matter for Woodland Park fair this fall. Posters and banners for cars will be distributed over the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. J. Lane
County Fair Board
Woodland Park
Athe County
Marriage License Granted to Menehan and Pensney
C. E. Lindley acting as private judge pro tem issued a marriage license today to Frank L. Menehan of Beattie Kansas and Alide R. Pensney of Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Lindley
Frank L. Menehan
Beattie, Kans
Alide’ R. Pensney
Lawrence
Redecorating Plans at Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse
Pleasant Valley plans for redecorating the schoolhouse with Tryon brothers awarded the contract. Community notes report visits, weddings, picnics, and social events including Mrs. Fitz and Mrs. Blocker guests in Pleasant Valley, and local sports where Holcom Grove beat Kanwaka 13 to ? after an 18 to 4 win over Lake View.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Valley
Tryon Brothers
G. H. Fitz
Tobler
B. R. ‘Fogerty
Twin Mound
N. ‘Blocker
Garden City
T. C. Richardson
Richardson S
Hugh Axe
J. J.o'keefe Toth
St. Louis
Eunice Griffith
Lawrence
Holcom's Grove
Haskell
Ed “Rieing
Friend
A. K. Hayden
Albert
A. W. Hayden
Kansas City
Holcom Grove
Kanwaka
Lapear team hosts Oehlert and kin gathering
Next Sunday the Lapear team members and Mr and Mrs John Oehlert and families of Stanley Kan visited Charles Oehlert home. Jacob Oehlert of Pleasant Grove also joined. Various neighbors including John Maloney and Mildred Maloney joined for an afternoon visit. Farmers Union meets Thursday Aug 2 after last meeting postponed due to a faulty lighting system. Mildred Maloney left Monday for Bonner Springs to visit aunt Mrs P W Rieger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove Tex
Lapear
John Oehlert
Willl*oehlert
Pardue
Herb Fritz
LaVerne Ice
Arthur Holcom Andi
Crissie Richardson
Hugh Axe
John] Tobler
Tonion
Mildred Maloney
Bonner Springs
P. W. Rieger
Community Notes on Farm Harvest and Local Visits
Farmers welcomed Thursday night’s Bracket with relief as it slows threshing but boosts early corn prospects. Mrs. Ly Bigsby hosted Pleasant Hour club guests in Kanwaka district with twenty members and a program including songs, a piano solo, papers on women as citizens, and a musical trio. Other items mention visits by Mrs. Yeoman, Keifer and Wiley Keifer family dinners, Al Smith driving a new Cadillac, two threshing crews, and minor injuries to WD. Martin and Eugene Keifer during threshing operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherbin
Ly Bigsby
George
Julia Keine
James Wolcott
Topeka
Guy Bigsby
Kanwaka
L. Bigsby
Kelsey
Manwaring
Lindsey
Tom Stuart
Stuart
Hamacher
Brune Brothers
Lake View
Charley
Martin
Take Row to Court Case Against Mrs Jakeway Continued
In police court a case against Mrs Mary Jakeway for disturbing the peace was continued to August 2 due to a sick witness and a request for more subpoenas. Testimony described a July 20 neighborhood incident on New Jersey Street where Jakeway, a young colored woman, faced Anna Roberts over alleged infidelity with her husband. Witnesses said Jakeway appeared with a razor, shouted, and seized a chair, pitchfork, and butcher knife. Jakeway’s account blamed Anna Roberts and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jakeway
New Jersey
Jakeway
Anna Roberts
Anna
S. S. club hosts evening with chicken dinner and games
Five companions and several couples gathered for a social at the Warfields as Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warfield led the S. S. club in a chicken dinner and games. The next meeting is planned at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frieda Hamilton. A misprint in the Skofstad advertisement was corrected in this issue. O. McClain paid a $32.60 fine in justice court for speeding and a trio of McClain guns were taken into custody yesterday following an incident on the Fort Highway west of Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Warfield
Lestie Wallace
Ed Howard
Ed Davis
Eee Frieda Hamilton
Arthur Frye
Ed'Hawkins
Frenk Mosely
Frieda” Hamilton
Skofstad
Journal-World
Palm Beach
McClain
Justice Court
John Clark
Moon
Lawrence Ift
Willys-Knight
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W. R. Neumann
Westinghouse
The
Erberpale
Grover Sturgess
We St
Oita Ue Iy
ELKS
Hetzel
Phillip
Henry
Edmondson Knight
Atlas Organization
the Atlas
Portland
Ement ‘Company
Kansas
Independence, Kansas
Fordson
Ford
SkofSta YS Tem Ds
Atlas Portland Cement
T & Company
Swift & Company
Swift
U.S A
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