University of Kansas Band to Present Eighteenth Spring Concert
The University of Kansas band under J C McCanles stages the eighteenth annual spring concert in Fraser Hall at 8 10 Wednesday night. Two bands now perform for 81 members, with 75 engagements this year outside rehearsals. Program includes Elgar Overture to Ernani Verdi selections Tschaikowsky and Bizet works plus Wagner and Verdi opera excerpts and a radio encore Loyalty First.
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University of Kangas
Fraser Hall
J.C. McCanles
Edward Elgar
Ernani
G. Verdi
Cornet
Pacific
H. Clark
Arthur Winter
Eugene Oneguine
Tschaikowsky
G. Bizet
Whouser
R. Wagner
Board of Education approves new teacher illness pay rule
Superintendent Del Manzo urged a rule change allowing full pay for five illness days and half pay for two extra weeks for teachers absent due to illness. The board adopted the resolution after noting past half-day pay during illness. The plan covers absences not necessarily consecutive and up to three weeks total.
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Board of Education
M.C. del Manzo
del Manzo
Lawrence
Bank merger controversy spurs Post Dispatch call for probe
The St Louis Post Dispatch reports a contested merger where Commerce Trust of Kansas City absorbed Midwest Reserve Trust. Critics allege business banditry while supporters say liquidation was needed as Midwest stockholders received nothing despite prior high market value. The paper urges an official investigation.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Commerce Trust Company of
Kansas City
Midwest Reserve Trust. Company
Post- Dispatch
Ory
Midwest
Cordley Petition Seeks Fifth and Sixth Grades
A petition asking that the fifth and sixth grades be added at Cordley School was received by the city schools board. Superintendent M. C. Del Manzo presented the petition to the board last night, which indicated policy discussion on the proposal.
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Cordley
Board of Education
M. C. del. Manzo
Bane
Pleads Guilty In Kansas City Drunk Driving Case
Earl Colburn of Kansas City Missouri pleaded guilty to two charges of drunken driving and was fined 12 50 on each count. He paid the fines and returned to Kansas City. County business includes routine matters and salary bills. Miss Mildred Smith to organize a new farm bureau club west of Baldwin. Barteldes Seed Co offers porch and lawn trellises at low prices. Crossword contest at Barbers Drug Store.
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Colburn
Earl Colburn
Kansas City
Northé Fort To Fort
Justice Lovejoy
Mildred ‘Smith
Avill
Women’s Farm Bureau Club
Baldwin
Tee
Barteldes Seed Co
Beris
School Board to Review Demand for Fifth Grade Enrollments
The board will check actual enrollment before any action on adding a fifth grade. If demand warrants, plans may cover grades five across city buildings. investigations will determine if the need is great enough to justify provision.
Headquarter move set for A O U W in Newton Kansas
The A O U W Kansas grand lodge board voted to consolidate the offices of grand master workman and grand recorder and establish headquarters in Newton. Dr J W Graybill said a long term lease was secured for offices in the railroad building and loan company’s new building. E H Stewart of Independence will move his office and staff to Newton July 1.
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Newton
Kan
A. O.U. W. of Kansas Grand Lodge
Emporia
Grand Recorder
J. W. Graybill
Railroad Building and Loan Company
New
E. H. Stewart
Independence
Semporia
State Goes Shopping for Institutional Supplies
Kansas government opens bids for hard ware stationery drugs and surgical supplies and electrical appliances for twenty five state institutions with $325000 allocated for the first half of the fiscal year beginning July 1. Bids to be opened May 5 7 and 8. T J O Neil says total cost about $40000. The Day in Wall Street notes stock market gains on May 5.
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Topeka
Wall Street
New York
Camp enlistment drives and factory job notices in Lawrence
Col Sam G Clarke announces enrollment for Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Leavenworth from August 1 to 30 for seventeen year olds. Lawrence recruits encouraged. contact 1033 Massachusetts St. Also, factory job interest rises with Lawrence’s overall plant location plans as Chamber logs applications. Baby clinic moved to Friday 2 to 4 at city hall due to medical convention. Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Potter returns to county clerk’s office for two weeks. Mother's Day packages available at Rankin's Drug Store 1101 Mass.
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Sam G. Clarke
Lawrence
Citizens
Sumer
Fort Leavenworth
Colonel Clarke
Massachusetts Street
Kansas
Clarke
F. RB. Potter
Internal Revenue
Court House
Potter
I Lecture on Sanitation by State Specialist
More than sixty county farm bureau women attended a sanitation lecture in the home at the Chamber of Commerce building given by Miss W. Pearl Martin health specialist from the extension division of the Kansas State Agricultural College. A conference of district leaders in women’s farm bureau work was held by Miss Martin and an all day school of instruction covered bandaging and home medicine cabinets with plans to pass the instruction to local clubs today.
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Farm Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
W. Pearl Martin
Kansas State Agricultural College
Miss Martin
Smashed Show Case Demonstrates Car Crash Near Theater
Miss Rebecca Smith University student drove a car over the curb at 11 last night, smashing a glass display case in front of Abé Wolfgan's store at 637 Massachusetts Street. The vehicle, parked nearby after attending a Bowersock theater show, was in low gear rather than reverse. the car sustained no damage.
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Abé Wolfgan
Massachusetts Street
Rebecca Smith
Miss Smith
Bowersock Theater
Wolfson
L Scott's Car Found Stuck Near Kanwaka
L Scott's touring car stolen from in front of the Bowersock theatre was found stuck in mud on a side road near Kanwaka. No further details given.
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Kanwaka
Bowersock Theatre
Yes
Sleepers at City Jail and a missing car returned
A car abandoned after getting bogged down half a mile west of Kanwaka store was found by a passerby who notified Sheriff Cummings. The vehicle, left in the mud, was traced to Lawrence and returned yesterday afternoon. The report mentions six sleepers at the City Jail.
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Kanwaka
Cummings
Lawrence
City Uses Rock Pile To Punish Transients
City authorities last night relocated transients to the rock pile, where they are put to work, or escorted out of town, reflecting a harsh response to vagrancy and public disturbance.
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City
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