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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
3
Mr. P Mitchell returns home to Topeka after a stay with his sister Mrs. Charles Mitchell. Miss Louise Stutt of Kansas City planned to visit this evening as a guest of Miss Lois Greenlees.
Mr. Howard Hilton of Cottonwood Falls traveled through Lawrence this morning en route to Chicago to enter the Great Lakes Training School. He attended Kansas University last year and belongs to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
The Ice Cream Social and program planned in Wor den has been postponed to Friday June 28. Proceeds will fund a sewing machine for the Red Cross. Week end guests include Mr. and Mrs Henry Albach and a list of relatives from Chanute Mena and Kansas City.
First time in Lawrence unit history all quotas were met. Captain A C Bialeschki notes funds cover Army hall rent, enabling full focus on charity and religious work. The past year saw Christmas baskets for families, warm clothing for children, and housing for men at Place House Hotel with meals provided via Deans Cafe.
Domestic science expert Laura Buffum from the National War Garden Commission explains drying as an easy, economical way to save surplus produce. She notes nearly all fruits and vegetables can be dried with simple home methods using oven doors, stove backs, or sun drying, and suggests community drying as a cost effective option.
The article details local Salvation Army relief efforts including clothing distribution, free medical services with Dr. Rudolph, and transport home for families. It notes Lawrence raised about two hundred dollars toward the Kansas Salvation Army war fund, with a six hundred dollar city quota and a larger statewide target, plus missions contributions of around two hundred fifty dollars in ten months. It mentions a Sabbath School auto, Red Cross ties, and extensive wartime service by Salvation Army workers in France. Miss Janet Waters of Bonner Springs visited the Kappa house.
Rev. Laura Harnois, guest of Mrs. Fred Williams and Mrs. eGo Crum, went to St. Joe this morning.
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