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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1922
Page
5
A group led by Dr BM Vegto Eilen leaves Friday from Harbor Washington for a multi week biological survey trip. Thirty two travelers depart from here with others meeting in Kansas City and St Paul. They will visit Canadian Rockies and return to California. Mrs Allen and daughter may join later in Los Angeles.
Henry McCurdy leaves yesterday for New York City to take a position with MacMillan Publishing after work on KR U Memorial drive. Prof Hopkins and family head to Laramie Wyoming for teaching stint. rest of summer in Colorado. Dorothy Winslet visits relatives in Abilene. Ida Steele returns from Vitiland. Mrs Anderson of Eudora visits, Mrs Frank Vaughn and Lucille spend day in Kansas City. L. F. Dunmire and Ruth depart Monday for the east, visiting New Castle, Altoona, and Philadelphia. Ralph Wolfse returns to Topeka for a week with relatives. Mr and Mrs H leave tomorrow for Northeast Kansas Chiropractic Association meeting in Topeka. J. C. Coffman travels to Carthage, Mo. Orin Bales returns from Kansas City after two days attending the National inventors convention. Tacoma, Washington trip for sister Mrs. Orin Mr. Alexander.
The Harding administration will witness its first cabinet wedding as Miss Catherine Hughes daughter of Secretary of State Hughes marries Chauncey Lockhart Waddell of New York. The ceremony occurs at Bethlehem chapel Episcopal cathedral St Peter and Paul with a reception at the Pan American building. The President Mrs Harding cabinet members and the diplomatic corps will attend.
Miss Jeanette Swain and Miss Stella Bailey left today for Prairie Center Kansas to spend a few days. Ralph Howard spent the day in Kansas City on business. Mrs Fr G Archibald left yesterday for Oregon where she will spend the summer visiting relatives.
Parsons June 10 J J Pierson a 76 year old longtime Parsons pioneer merchant and banker retired in 1915 after a 45 year business career died at his home in poor health. He came to Parsons in 1869 helped develop southeast Kansas and served as vice president and director of the Parsons Commercial Bank and was a member of local Masonic bodies.
Sunday dinners and calls bound residents in attendance at several homes including Mrs. William Martin and Mrs. Elizabeth Orr Davis. Glynn Kirby’s birthday prompted a Lawrence visit from Miss Doris Reeves and Anna Kirby amid family gatherings. Carl Eriksen, once injured by dynamite, is back out with his father and brother. Colorado-bound Miss Hattie Perry departs Monday. Plus the United States will resume relations with Austria June 15 with a warning to use postal money orders for money sent by mail.
A. G. Alrich reported a lightning strike hit a yard tree on Thursday, tearing bark and a two foot trunk hole. He inserted a wire into the cavity reaching about thirty inches. Rev. C A Richards and family arrived from Goff Kansas for the First Christian Church post, and a farewell was held in Goff. The Richards will reside at 910 Ohio Street. A city library yard mulberry was found ripe by a Sherlock. R C Manley reports his son M G Manley improving after arrival in Pomona from Los Angeles. the father notes the health progress in a letter to Lawrence friends.
Mrs W W Cockins funeral services will be held at the Cockins home on South Massachusetts Street Sunday afternoon at 4 o clock Friends are invited Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery
Marriage licenses were issued today to Carl J. Lenn of Kansas City Kansas and Winifred H. Koepke of Kansas City Missouri, Hugh S. Jennings of Kansas City Missouri and Naomi Jones of Lawrence, and Fred E. Johnson and Cora McMillean Turner, both of Lawrence. A former student R A Linger, ex secretary of the Interior under Taft, who died in Seattle, was noted as a former University student. Ballinger attended school in 1877 and 1878.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and floral offerings after the death of our father and brother Claude Minor and brother of Mrs. Alice Lowry Mrs. Fred Logan and family express gratitude for support shown during their loss
Chicago scholars report a dramatic Syria dig as British lines withdraw. Prof J H Breasted led an Oriental Institute party to Salihiyah fortress on the Euphrates, discovering wall paintings in a chapel that trace the ancestry of Byzantine art, amid limited time and hostile conditions.
The article notes that revived European interest in Byzantine art traces to the third century when east and west met in Syria. It mentions a face once deemed the best painted by British officers was later scratched and defaced by a desert iconoclast, possibly a prowling Arab, by the time scholars arrived.
Notice warns water shut-offs for connections to mains in sections south of Lith Street and west of Mass Street over the next several days. Draw water ahead to avoid inconvenience during improvements. department aims for brief outages, but plan for up to ten days. Also mentions a church service at First Baptist with Vera Neely solo and sermon on tempting Jesus. Ends with a zoological note on plant species distribution.
Mrs Emma B Alvich mother of A G Alrich a Lawrence figure and Kansas pioneer spoke at Cawker Day in Cawker City on May 12. She presented A Few Words of History tracing progress in Gawker City from 1872 to 1922 and held a WRC leadership post. The crowd heard a note on population and land distribution.
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