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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1914
Page
5
The Lawson area hosts a busy social week from Monday through Saturday with club entertainments, Halloween parties, line parties and weddings. Highlights include Phi Epsilon Halloween event, Delta Tau Delta line, S Sorority party, and a wedding feast for Annie Mortaugh. Local clubs and families plan dinners, games, and dancing at homes on Louisiana Street and surrounding neighborhoods.
The column lists numerous people visiting or spending weekends in Kansas City and nearby towns. Names include Annie Jowett Jennie Jeiso Nelle Foster Tania Ada Tevi Julia Helmendoch Raymond McKee Harvey Uhl Mike McKone Mike Blacker and others. Several residents from Manhattan Linwood Emporia and Hays are noted as guests or travelers, with trips to Nor ia and daily visits recorded.
The Missouri Valley forecasts higher spring and summer hog prices with more pigs on the market next year. Tankage is identified as the cheapest protein for hog rations this winter, noted as a valuable feed and conditioner. The paper notes high hog prices by June and mentions farm observations on feeding, including the habit of chickens-influenced hogs returning to tankage-based rations.
The Department of Agriculture concludes there is nothing to recommend the Turkestan variety for general use. It is not hardy for the upper Mississippi valley and unsuited to the humid east. An editor notes western seed is likely purer with less weed seed than Turkestan.
On Frank Gregg’s Merrick county Nebraska farm a field, previously unmanured, doubled its wheat yield after applying manure in August 1913. Part of the field received 15 tons per acre while another part remained untreated. Unmanured plots produced 18 bushels per acre. manured plots yielded substantially higher.
Fragmentary text references a shed and farm implements. Mentions binder left behind corn crib or under willows, predicting a five to seven year period and a possible shed dividend. Wording is garbled with partial phrases about building a shed and returns.
In the October issue of Farmers Cows pay wells through offspring and sell when calf prospects end. Metsker argues that small farms must lead cattle production to keep the country well supplied with beef and suggests government involvement may be needed to boost supply.
A surgeon narrates spending seven years perfecting a delicate operation for a rare fatal disease. Costs included 7,000 in ether and 260 in surgical tools, plus lodging, laundry, clothes, and daily expenses totaling over 11,000. After success, a parade encounter reveals the recovered patient among a Rosicrucian procession, ending in a brutal arrest and the surgeon being struck by a vehicle, left battered.
David Strange hides a letter from John intended for Judd at the post office and struggles with Carlos Judd who presses for money and auto spokes Lucy Judd urges David to keep the letter safe and reveals the money will come from John Lucy urges that the act was kind not sinful and that writing to John will set things right The scene centers on a moral choice amid poverty and a fragile marriage with the post office as a backdrop.
An inferior butter shipped June to Vera Cruz for U S troops, though guaranteed best quality by the New York Merchants Exchange, surfaced in testimony at Attorney General Parsons inquiry into possible monopolistic abuses. The Young People’s Society of United Presbyterian held a business meeting and social evening at John Starrett’s home on Ohio Street with all attendees reporting a good time.
Ottawa group launches a $200 campaign to support the National Red Cross Fund. Mrs. Rathbun, regent of Ottawa chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, urges all chapters to participate in the fundraising effort.
The Harvest Homstival will start Sunday at Vinland Methodist Church in Vinland. Programs include sermons for all ages, lectures by W. M. Eaton and HE. Walte, entertainment by Baker girls and home talent. All events are free with a silver offering for traveling expenses. community members urged to attend and support.
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