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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1927
Page
5
The Topeka meeting will discuss relationships among Missouri Valley and Kansas conference teams and possible realignments. Promoters seek a more efficient grouping for regional competition, aiming to improve championship formats and reduce oversize conferences.
Southern senators warn against riders on flood legislation as Mississippi flood prevention moves to Congress. The piece notes Curtis declining presidential involvement, Babe Ruth’s 60th homer, and zoning rulings in St. Paul, with reflections on economy and urban planning amid sports and fairground anecdotes.
The Leavenworth Times notes alleged neglect of General Funston's grave at the Presidio California and reports Charles F. Scott inquiry on moving the body to Kansas for interment in a national cemetery. It argues Funston earned honors for Kansas and the state should consider honoring him there.
The Foundry casts iron fronts for Poehler and Brinkman new block while masses swarm Massachusetts Street. A Quadrille Club dance at Bartholow's Hall draws about twenty couples. Theodore Pochler announces candidacy for county treasurer. J T Warne travels to Springfield and Chicago to stock hardware. A stone stable rises on the levee at Massachusetts and Pinckney with track work underway. Alabama arrivals of colored families seek work. S N Simpson helps place them. Wm Sharman returns from England. H P Elden arrives from Maine with daughter. Past items recall 25 years ago social gatherings in Topeka with Miss Stanley, Miss Searles, and Miss Edith Rateliff birthdays and gatherings.
Ten years ago German reports warned of Italian front successes as Italians prepare for renewed large scale fighting. German offensives press on the Aisne front while Mrs. Arthur Nevin and her two sons from the University of Fine Arts depart for France to join the war effort and are expected to return.
The United States Army signal corps will run a five hour wireless training course at the University of Kansas due to men shortages. No prior training or fees required and the program is open to non university persons. W H Beltz will oversee the mechanical work with Mrs A C Mitchell visiting Fort Douglas to see her son. The Dinsmores have leased their home to the Bowersocks for winter with the Wig gins moving into the Theatre building rooms.
Editor appeals for help locating Raymond Perkins 19 of Charleston Coles County Illinois who disappeared after an operation. His car and lunch were found near Charleston High School and he may have headed to St Louis or Kansas City. He carries gold coins and weighs 118 pounds. Information to Charleston Daily Convict or his parents James and Jamie Perkins.
Dr Annie Besant marks his eightieth birthday anniversary while Viscount Willingdon completes a year as Governor General of Canada. The steamship California to be launched at Newport News. Western Baptist Theological Seminary to open in Portland. Largest display of street railway cars to open at the American Electrical Railway Association exhibition in Thieve land. Coat theft reported at university law school. Two sleepers confined at city jail.
Reservations for a Chamber of Commerce gathering Tuesday noon to hear Ralph Shannon discuss his firm’s city trade survey are coming in, secretary Claud L. Scott says. Attendance is expected to be large and all attendees, including members, must reserve in advance per Mr. Seatt.
Major General Douglas MacArthur is appointed president of the American Olympic Committee. A West Point graduate in 1903 he led the engineer corps in the Philippines and gained distinction as an observer in the Russo Japanese War. He later served as War Department censor during World War I and is noted as a military historian and tactician.
Three unmasked men robbed Macomb State Bank in Shawnee Oklahoma as officers received word they fled south in a small roadster with an undetermined amount of stones.
Several petty crimes and thefts noted in Tonganoxie with burglaries at Hunter Lumber and a cash loss from a purse. Citizens and visitors, including Mildred Houston and Miss Burnau, are mentioned among local movements. The report also notes social visits, a circus trip, and a forthcoming marriage announcement for Agnes Devine and Jo McBaulty.
Community news includes PTA opening at the high school and a reading by Jeanette Eisenberry, plus reports on J U G club activities, high school officers, and visits among local families. Several residents travel to Lawrence and Kansas City for hospital, visitation, or funerals as autumn events unfold.
Sunday visits to campus spots noted for Mr and Mrs Warren Leach and others. Lawrence business trip by K Jamee Rovatts. Unimproved condition of confined W S Nease. Lenape school dismisses for Bernice Whitmill funeral in Kansas City. Esther Adams and T H Vieux obtain marriage license in Vinland Law rence. Homer Hughes visits from Kansas City with Baxter Hughes family and foreman Joe Maroney. Lone Star school enrolls ten pupils taught by Marie Fanning. High school sophomores host freshmen in eve party.
A lively humorous war novel about Irish American private Terrance X. O’Leary in the English army with sergeants Elkins and MacQuarrie. The book, praised for wit and adventure, follows escapades from poker to observation balloons and trench captures, amid a string of comic misadventures.
Welcome Ray Edmonds and family visited Baldwin last Friday. Elmer Myers with John Daley went to Ottawa Thursday. Rain halted pear picking Friday and drizzle continued Saturday until about 2 p.m. A group west of the Bert Rood house worked Saturday to straighten a dangerous curve near the bridge. Clarence Rood Clayton Randle Avier Schick and K Schick helped Jim Jones pick pears Saturday but rain ended the last picker about 2 p.m. Mrs Grace Hulee visited Solon Tucker and wife earlier in the week. Saturday evening John Riley of Kansas City brought his sister-in-law Mrs Ralph Schick to Adam Schick's for an overnight and returned Sunday.
Day trips and family gatherings fill weekend as Walter Bemis and kin visit from Kansas City. Mrs E Schick hosts relatives, Elmer Myers and siblings travel by auto, while Chas Lewis and Clayton Randle drop by. Mrs Lee of Lawrence stays with Edmonds parents as Walter Hall and family from Topeka spend Wednesday night in Vinland with Geo Edmonds.
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