Birthday Recall Highlights Lawrenc e Fraternal Aid Union Founding
At a Lawrence luncheon the Fraternal Aid Union recalled its thirty year origin from a split with the Knights of Aurora. Since formation the group has paid 78 789 death claims totaling 86 598 435.62 and 9 102 disability claims totaling 1 486 083.62. By September 1 mortuary payments reached 58 084 524.24.
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Fraternal Aid Union
Chamber of Commerce
Order
Lawrence
Fraternal Air Association
A. O. U. W. Hall
Olson Bros
Massachusetts Street
Knights of Aurora
Minneapolis
Minn
T. J. Sweeney
Kansas
Sweeney
Peoples State Bank
J. M. Jennings
Wamego
J.R. Dalton
Winfield
J. A. Regnell
McPherson
J .T. Tinder
Parsons
Mr. Sweeney
Atchison
Fraternal Aid Association
Scrubbed Jail Trio Becomes House Cleaners in Sweep
Four men jailed in Wichita on vagrancy charges for possessing confidence implements were fined $600 each and sentenced to six months. The jailer reported they washed and scrubbed cells claiming to do something rather than nothing. Samuel Smith of Sedgwick County testified he was swindled for $5,000 in Florida by two defendants. The men, who lived in style with two cars and $4,000, plan appeals as habeas corpus actions failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Davis
Samuel Smith
Sedgwick County
Florida
Trres
Annual price raise at University book sale drives subscriptions
The University announces a price increase for the annual book sale from 5 to 50 cents on October 15 as part of a major subscription push. Bert Cochran, business manager, notes plans to sell about two thousand books through a drive led by the Sachems senior honorary society and women's athletics letters. Also mentions local ads and mixed notices about a drug store, a Florida winter visit, and various sales.
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Cnsts
Jewhawker, University
Bert Cochran
Social Roundup of Local Travel and Visits
Mrs. E Carder spent the day with friends in Eudora. W S Baker traveled to Kansas City on business. P E Wickersham made a business trip to Kansas City. Tom Harley gave an address in McFarland Kansas. Tom Marley returned to Salina after a visit in Lawrence. Pauline Ketchum left for visits in Iola. Mr and Mrs George Thiele visiting Walter Thiele in Washington. Willard Ward and family returned to Kansas City after visiting Mrs Tom Harley. Lucile Brown went to Kansas City then Excelsior Springs with E H Luptons. Maude Landis arrives from Yale University to spend weeks with her parents in Salina.
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Walter Thiele
Willard Ward
Kansas City
Tom Harley
Lucile Brown
Excelsior Springs
E. H. Luptons
Maude Landis
Yale University
A. G. Landis
Kentucky
Families tied for first in Kansas fitness contest at state fair
Three families share top score of 64.6 out of 100 in the statewide fitter families contest at the Kansas State Fair. Ford Robinette led as Hy officer with the largest cup awarded. Families Forbes of Carbondale and Bevar of Topeka also scored 64.6. A corps of eighteen physicians and nurses examined 53 individuals total under the state health board.
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Topeka. Kai
Topeka
Florence Brown Sherbon
Chill Hilline
State Board of Health
United States
B. Allen
Ford Robinette
Thoee
D. H. Forbes
Carbondale
Paul E. Bevar
Copper
Ifty
Corps of Examiners
Taxi driver shot claim shocks Paris driver
Paris report says a passenger in a taxi yelled I am shot after a tire burst. The chauffeur stopped at a lamppost and found the passenger unharmed, while the driver reported being shot from behind by his fare amid rising fears among Paris drivers.
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Paris
M. Destrez
Argenteuil
Big Springs Community Fair Scheduled in October
The last Douglas County fair of 1920 will be held at Big Springs on October 28 and 29. G. J. Bahnmaier is president and Elmer Bahnmaier secretary of the fair association. Premiums attract keen competition for grain fruit vegetables and livestock exhibits. The committee plans amusements with possible baseball games each day. Lawrence Chamber of Commerce may visit Friday October 29, with a special Lodge communications and social visit noted in local notices.
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Douglas County
Big Springs
G. J. Babnmaier
Elmer Bahnmaier
The
Fair Association
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Travel rules loosened for Western tourists in Holland
The Hague reports easing of travel restrictions for American British French Italian and other western European visitors removing compulsory police registration. Germans Russians and others from eastern countries still face registration due to Bolshevik infection fears. The change aims to revive tourism after a quiet summer. Forty six Holsteins will be sold at J C Herriott’s sale on October 21 with Cadillac branding attached.
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Hague
Holland
Europe
J. C. Herriott
Pilgrims Commemorate Leyden Tercentenary
Pilgrims in Leyden observe the tercentenary of the departure for America. Charlies Macfarland of New York delivers a sermon from Robinson’s old pulpit at St Peters Church where the organ once played for the Fathers. A wreath bears three nation colors above Robinson’s tomb in the chapel.
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Leyden
Holland
America
Charlies Macfarland
New York
Robinson
St. Peters
Public sale announces equine cattle and farm goods auction near Lawrences
Auction announce for October 19 at Rudolph Westrom ranch nine miles northwest of Lawrence and 24 miles southwest of Clinton lists horses cattle and farm equipment. Other sale at Ponts Bria near Dicker store on October 18 includes horses cattle machinery and household goods with standard terms.
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Nies
Lawrence
Les
Lake View
Haeber Acheal
L. Irryan’. Jarra
John Deere
Cressent
Ny Mets
Narn
Labining
Panifes
Bark
Ianch
Inattrass
Rudolph Westrom
Lawrences
Lone Star
Clinton
Tayo Mere
Durham
Holstein Coy
Hellstrom Beos
Tacnas
Fla
Crosfords Finch
Pontts Bria
Dicker Store
Druchmiller
Loirem
Ay Ristiardson
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Knights of
Aurora
W .Order
Orobnston’s
Rannes Drug Store
W. F. Lasi
Myrs
E. R. Cole
J.C Herrictt
Noite
Rankin Drug Store
Topekal State Fair
Faure
Board of County Commissioners
Bowser
Clinton Township
Bloomington
C. E. Lindley
Douglas County Probate ‘Court
Robert Knight
Minnie Dickerman
Lawrence. Ee
J.C. Herriott Sale
S. G. Clarke
Jaedicke
Rumsey Bros. Funeral Directors
Lawrence Tonganoxie
Vitlaivick
Lawrence Lodge No. 6
Masons
Acacia Lodge
E. Biveh
M. W
P. Smith
Sec
Will Anderson
William Tuttle
Hanna
Crystal Electric
City Plumbing CO
Mass
Hester & Roberts
Firestone
J. L. Hanks & CO
Charlton
Barber's Drug
Cadillac
W. E. Wilson
Freddy
Skofstads
Associated Press
Journal-World
Caratanasa
Food Administration
Bobly
Ford
Chevrolet
W. Smith
Fablic Sales
Avellon
Tari
Learnt
Niles
Lecomypion
Oelock A.m
John Derr
Tintenthor
Wotepatires
Neloneer
Herk
Carter Tire and Battery Company
Wiedemann’s
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