Telegraph news aid to wedding across 1800 miles
Private Homer T. Orrick of DeSoto North Carolina was married by telegraph to Miss Goldie L. Carden of Lenape Kansas with clergymen at each end. The ceremony sent by wire and repeated to the principals. The bride’s sister in Kansas placed a ring and on Long Island the best man spoke for the couple. The couple finally joined hands by placing them on duplex telegraph keys across the distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer T. Orrick
DeSoto
Nan
Camp Bill
N.Y
Goldie L. Carden
Lenape
K.n
Kansas
Long Island
Kansas Mothers Congress Forms New Departments at State Confab
At Emporia state conference the Kansas Branch of the National Mothers Congress and Parent-Teacher Association established Patriotism and Finance departments to be staffed by slated appointments. A yearbook will publish a directory of all PTA presidents and reports from ongoing work statewide. A committee led by Mrs. Smalt collects yearbook data as Mrs. Goodman of Mulberry notes 53 local children aided to attend school. bond sales for the Third Liberty Loan yielded $89,000 in subscriptions. The group aims to expand PTA organizations to every county before next spring’s Kansas City biennial convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
National Mothers’ Congress and
Parent-Teacher Association
Emporia
Patriotism
J. Kk. Codding
Lansing
A. B. Smalt
Newton
Robert M. Goodman
Mulberry
Kansas City
Summer Session Concert and Local News from Lawrence
University of Kansas hosts a summer concert with organ and violin performances at Iro ser hall, including Bach and Mendelssohn pieces. Capt. Dawson and Mrs. Dawson visit Lawrence from Ottawa, Canada, with details on their war service and nursing history. Birthday party for Mrs Eva Russell noted, with attendees listed. Wedding guests from Topeka and Bonner Springs attend Simons Maloney wedding. Red Cross work room hours in Merchants Bank building and Portia club picnic planned at Golf Links Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Charles S. Skilton
Frank E. Kendrie
Iroser Hall
Bach
Widor
Skilton
Mendelssohn
Kendrie
Foote
Kinder
Stoughton
Wieniawski
Schubert
Dawson
Lawrence
Royal Army Medical Corps
Anna Adams
Eva Russell
Edith’ Moore
M. D. ‘Adams
Mark
Topeka
F. P. Adams
Joe
Roy ‘Ord
E. G. Foster
Mat Weightman, Jr
Fred McEwen
Ijola
Emery McIntire
Xenophone Smith
Kansas, City
Jane Waters
Bonner Springs
Simons-Maloney
Red Cross
Merchants Bank
Portia Club
Knyvett’s Widow Finds War Work For Wounded
Mrs. Hugh Knyvett, widow of the Australian officer who died from wounds after a lecture tour in America, believes war widows should serve by aiding the wounded. She travels to New York to work daily at the national headquarters of the American Fund for French Wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Knyvett
America
American Fund For
New York
Year Round Club Plans Ice Cream Social For Hospital Fund
The Year Round club met at Mrs. EB Huddleston's Missouri street home to knit and bandage for the Red Cross. They planned an old fashioned outdoors ice cream social on Wednesday night June 26 at Mrs. Fred Love's home at Missouri and Sixth streets to raise funds for furnishing a room in Falley Memorial hospital. Rev. Frank Jennings plans a Chicago trip with his wife and daughter Margaret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EB. A. Huddleston
Missouri Street
Red Cross
Fred Love
Missouri
Sixth Streets
Falley Memorial Hospital
Frank Jennings
Chicago
W. Keene
Community canning and rhubarb guidance from the War Garden
National War Garden Commission urges five million war gardens as a national effort. Families should form community canneries to share heat, water and equipment, using steam pressure canners for efficiency. Rhubarb can be canned without boiling, with specific jar, water, and processing steps. rhubarb sauce offers an economical alternative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Buffum
National ‘War ‘Garden Commission
Washington, D.C
United
National War Garden Commission
Announcement of weekly pupil reception for dramatic art
I wish to announce that I will receive pupils in expression of dramatic art Tuesday and Friday of each week. Phone 1307 1139 Tenn. St. Helen Gallagher Mrs Sam Clark Miss Dorothy Clark and Miss Leona Porter left yesterday for Hamilton Mo for a short visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenn
Helen Gallagher
Sam Clark
Dorothy Clark
Leona Porter
Hamilton, Mo
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Trin
J-Daks
Tut
Ohio
Jny
Pem
Loan Mills
Longisland
Homer
Orrick
Ratak
Fannie Ward
A.H. Woods
Clara Kimball Young
the Marionettes
Belle Bennett
Harold Lockwood
Fischer
Foster
National School OF Orthopraxy
Otto, Fischer
Hester & Roberts
Mass
K.U
Law
Phi Delta Phi
Woodland Park
Albert E. Fincham
Pratt
Donald LeSuet
Font Smith
Andrew and
Chester
G. B. Oder
Charles Oder
Catherine Oder
Rock Creek
Hole-in the-Rock
Baldwin
Vera
Nancy McClelland
Mary
Nellie Beal
Susie
Martha Lowman
Frances Lewis
Louis Duff
Sigma-Chi
Jessie Wyatt
Dorothea Engle
Genevieve Searle
Madalyn Ewing
Nevada
Eleanor Clarke
Hazelton Clark
Edith Musson
Mary Samson
Agatha Kinney
Eleanor Atkinson
Barlina Allen
Margaret Fitch
Alice Gunther
Irama Yates
Talbot Clingman
Butch Stoddard
Harold Hoover
Sam Atkinson
Howard Blum
Pete Jones
Jimmie Knowles
John Duval
Enos Hook
Byron Husband
Merley Cliff
Swede Hershey
Dan Campbell
Burt Cochran
Kenneth Uhls
Will Herron
Des Moines, Town
A. A. Green
Aen
Massachusetts
Express Today
Anu Wiris
Bena Putlind, Harkman
Pass Talonr
BARBER & SON Drugs+Paints
Olls
Knyvett
U.S
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Brad Regulator Co
Express
City Drug
Otter
Fecogn
Mrs. M. Patton
Leavenworth
Cherokee
Matthews
Dorothy Logan
Leavengworth
A. A. Greet
Mase
P. Barber & Son
Natoonal Guard
United States
Carroll's
Newmark’s
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