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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1925
Page
8
Lawrence Camp Fire Guardians plan May meeting at Miss Laura Adair’s home on Ohio Street to hear reports from the Chicago convention and discuss a May 12 13 grant event. Posters for the Flower show contest feature girls and boys with a May deadline and prizes.
The Lawrence high school vocational agriculture judging team of James Metcalf Jonathan Nottingham and Lawrence Leonhard won first place in the poultry division at the state high school judging contest at Kansas State Agricultural College. The four divisions were grain stock poultry and dairy. Lawrence placed sixth in grain eighth in dairy and did not place in stock. Jonathan Nottingham took second in the individual daily judging, Metcalf sixth in grain, and Nottingham named among the ten best all around judges. Fifty schools entered, with W B Essick leading the Liberty Memorial high school group to Manhattan.
Lawrence high school students entered in the state high school scholastic contest at Emporia on Saturday and won several honors. Harold Allen, sophomore, son of E. B. Allen, captured first place in Caesar earning a gold medal and a prize.
The report lists students placing in various contests including Paul Oakey third in French and Dorothy Horton third in the library test plus Frank Strong fourth in general scholarship. Janet Coulson earned second in piano and Carl Eriksen third in trombone. A collision west of town was reported when Martin Karnes of Topeka notified police at 2:30 AM that another car struck his vehicle on the fort to fort highway near Big Springs and then fled. Police pursued as the other car headed toward Lawrence but turned off on a side road.
The Kansas City alumni of the University of Kansas will hold their annual meeting and banquet at the Kansas City Athletic Association building on May 1. R. R. Brewster will be a main speaker on the program.
Professor Alter of the astronomy department at the University will lecture tomorrow night in Fraser Hall chapel at 7:30 o'clock on the Eclipse Exposition to Mexico. The lecture will use lantern slides and a moving picture and is open to the public. Moll's Butter Crust Bread. Ask our grocer.
Boy Scouts collected and sold papers and magazines Saturday to fund scout expenses through year end. They hope to reach a $100 quota, aided by local businessmen lending trucks for collection.
In a one paragraph report the supreme court ruled that state business within the commonwealth was invalid today. The piece notes historical references to Rene W, FE and Perchard along with Emma Briggs and Henry IV of England and mentions initiation rites of the Knights of the Bath. Paris news reports the French cabinet bans street processions for Joan of Arc day amid planned demonstrations and counter demonstrations feared to trigger rioting.
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