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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1921
Page
3
A flood of local gatherings fills the week with patriotic lessons at Berry home and village picnics hosted by Mona Duplicate Bridge Club and Kezekone Camp Fire. University fruitfully mingles sport and farewell dinners while Rebekah and Crescent clubs stage parties and dances.
Lawrence briefs report city commission schedules and reschedulings. Tomorrow a Trinity Episcopal service at 4:40 pm, plus vesper closings at Plymouth and a sacred concert at First Baptist tonight. notices cover Chamber meetings, amateur concerts, and Memorial day plans with church gatherings and school commencements. Weather and hail affect travel. utilities report outages and phone lines down after storms.
The note outlines travel to Topeka this evening with plans to spend Sunday and Monday there. It mentions no specific dates, events, or organizers.
A sacred concert is scheduled tomorrow evening at First Baptist Church with church quartet and organist plus Miss Helen Pendleton and Mrs. R. A. Schweigler. The program features organ works, quartet pieces, duets, and solos, conducted by Rankin and including several titled works and tunes. The service opens with organ pieces and ends with a benediction and a Toccata Brillante.
Personal notes list numerous residents and visitors in Kansas City Topeka and Ottawa including J B Wilson C B McClelland Anna Sweeney Louise Richards and other locals. Mentions travel to Topeka Lake View Club and Lake View Club house for weekend stays. Several attended graduating or high school events in Ottawa and Lecompton with relatives and hosts cited.
Haskell Indians beat Baker University 7 to 4 at Haskell Field to close their regular season. Killbuck limited Baker to four hits while Emarthla Mafe hit a pair of doubles and a run, Foster connected on a single and a three base hit, and MecDaniels of Baker made key catches robbing potential homers. The game featured ten Haskell hits and several circus plays, with Clelland pitching for Baker.
St. Louis May 28 The State University of Missouri posted a strong prelim showing in the competition. Top performers from the university led early rounds, with standout efforts by key athletes and scholars shaping the meet’s opening phase.
The fourteenth annual Missouri Valley Conference track and field meet concludes this afternoon at Washington University stadium. Preliminaries showed Missouri leading in field events with Nebraska State six teen, Kansas twelve, and Washington University eight. fifteen schools including six non conference entrants participate. Harry Huffman of Florence Kansas arrived in Lawrence for a weekend visit, while Joe Daniels, student at Columbia University this winter, is visiting friends in Lawrence.
Summoned by accident to sister, Mrs Stella Batterson and daughter Alice, have gone to Jackson, Missouri, after receiving word that Mrs Mary Broderick had been severely scalded and was not expected to live. Mrs Fred Hopper and two sons left for Jacksonville, Illinois, after visiting Mrs Hopper's mother, Mrs 3 F Patterson.
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