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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1921
Page
4
A damaged OCR passage from a 1921 Kansas notice mentions A ROK Keator of Hartford and a building representative. It warns recipients who do not receive their sourcings by 7 PM to call the office. daycopy will be sent between 7 and 7:30. The text cites Wrende, Kansas, and a June 9 1921 date.
Hundreds of alumni and friends fill the stadium during commencement style exercises marking a new spirit within the university. Chancellor Lindley urges continued service to the state as Tulsa groups organize to support the institution and prevent future disturbances.
The text discusses decency and loyalty as assumed qualities among citizens, noting public bias in media exposure. Ed Howe’s remarks highlight how these traits are evidenced in society, with those lacking them unlikely to receive publicity.
A quoted local dairy plan proposes nine cents a quart with central distribution to cut costs, prompting questions about delivery methods and consumer preference. Citizens weigh whether to keep the traditional doorstep milk service or adopt the new centralized system as prices and supply implications play out in Emporia.
Franklin E. Brooke, president of the Union Pacific highway association, says the graves at Old Fort Wallace hold scores of soldiers who served in the Indian campaigns in western Kansas. The graves are unmarked and unknown, though these men played an important part in winning the West.
Fifty years ago in Lawrence items note cauliflower currants cabbage and new potatoes at the market in brisk quantities. Friends statewide plan adding an acre for a riverfront market. Mr Hadley negotiates with Mr Schweitzer to buy corner ground for 1000. Haskeilis grove hosts visitors at the shady retreat. Catholics attend a pleasant gathering despite heat. Wheat harvest begins and work on the new Catholic church is advancing vigorously.
A wind drove people to their cellars during a Saturday night storm. Prof. F. H. Hodder to give the Thi Beta Kappa address at University Hall at 8 p.m. Walter Johnson, now with the Emporia Gazette, visits Lawrence. The wire mill resumes operations after a period of idleness. Principal Olney settled the last note due on the high school piano.
Topeka June 9 merchandising stocks are exceptionally low and Kansas dealers are trading in spots and avoiding buying in advance according to results from a statewide survey by Copper Farm Press Topeka Approximately three fourths of the dealers in the survey reduced their stocks to less than normal The survey included interviews with 228 dealers across many lines of business and general merchandise aiming to gauge business conditions.
The survey finds 67 percent of interviewed business ties with farmers and 73 percent of merchants reporting light stocks. Town trade runs about 70.6 percent of normal, rural trade 59.2 percent. Every merchant acts as a buying spot, and 42.8 percent of current stocks are marked as necessities.
A Texas grower writes to defend direct sale of 18 to 20 pound tomato crates at about 2.50 per crate, noting growers’ profits and express costs. He criticizes retailers for handling tomatoes to inspect stock, claiming it damages ripe fruit and could mislead customers about retail pricing.
John Golden, general president of the United Textile Workers of America, died this morning in Brooklyn. Burial will be in River City, where he had lived for many years.
A family of El Dorado reports a crowd at the fourth annual baby show with over two hundred entrants. Ottawa University alumni create an O club of former students, nine example meetings held with thirty nine former athletes in attendance. Other Kansas towns report auctions at Camp Funston, a Woodmen event in Butler County, Chanute scouts funding a swimmer camp, Coffeyville voting on a $5000 community house, Kansas City moonlight theater ordinance, Salina long tractor trip and a Carlyle swimming meet.
Kansas State Normal summer school students organize a county club with fifteen members. Spearville Gattlemen Carnival is staged this week as Emporia Barber county students attend the summer session.
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