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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1921
Page
8
A jumble of 1920s context comments touches on college administration, civil liberties, military disarmament, a Chicago fraud case, fiscal restraint, and labor shortages. It mentions a New York magistrate on public decorum at games, debates over non inflammable air power, and rising unemployment anxieties amid hay and fuel concerns.
The piece notes European states reducing unemployment benefits while officials hesitate to act. It compares Russia’s hardship to an experiment in living with minimal work. It adds that the Kansas City Northwestern railroad, idle for months, may receive federal funds to resume service, aiding communities north of Lawrence.
Reprinted from the Republican Daily Journal dated September 1. Hackmen with badges worked across the river bridge as Captain Cutter directed twenty teams and fifty men. The big fill across the branch to the main land nears completion, at thirty feet depth, with pay at 3.50 dollars per day. A Wednesday evening wedding at Burrie Farm united Ella F Lawrence and H W Cole with Bishop Vail presiding and Rev Dunn assisting.
Twenty five years ago in Lawrence the Douglas county delegations to the populist and democratic conventions of the fourth judicial district traveled to Garnett. S. A. Riggs faced no opposition for the nomination in the proceedings reported by the Lawrence Daily Journal and Lawrence Daily World.
The Festival of St Giles coincides with Toronto's municipal takeover of local street railways. Memorial exercises mark the 1894 forest fire death toll in Hinkley, Minnesota. Colorado's former senator Charlie S Thomas is slated as principal speaker at the American Bar Association meeting in Cincinnati. The International First Aid and Mine Rescue Meet opens in St. Louis under U S agencies and labor coal groups.
Kansas brief notes that former treasury secretary and railroads chief McAdoo will speak at Harvey county semi centennial and home coming on September 7 in the afternoon. Neodesha schools begin student physical examinations this week, with doctors aiding the school nurse to detect treatable defects. Fredonia hosts second annual Wilson county Grange picnic with Breedham of Lane as chief speaker and P S Sanders of Oswego address, plus athletic events and a noon dinner. Concordia hosts Swedish Baptist young people conference September 1-4 with Rev Gourley Dr Smith and Dr Oster as speakers. Hutchinson protest over railroad rate disparities submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Ride a bicycle for health.
Miss Marjorie Keohane spent Tuesday in Ottawa transacting business and visiting friends. Mrs. Addie Bell and Miss Beulah Stewart motored to Lawrence Tuesday afternoon and shopped. Mr. B. S. Bennett went to Topeka Wednesday to transact business. Florence Dixon came from Kansas City to visit her ailing father. Helen Deel and relatives spent Monday in Lawrence shopping. Grace S. Black transacted business in Lawrence. William Bray visited Agnes Jackson in Kansas City. Walter Maltby promotes a Revolving Hammock soon to be manufactured in Baldwin. A stock company of Baldwin's prominent citizens formed. Dr. Homer K. Ebright and daughter Betty returned from Hopkins. Mary Smith leaves for Kansas City to enter Bethany Hospital. The Beeks and Wilsons visited Independence. Kings Herald to hold September meeting with Miss Mary Nell LeMaster hosting. Frances Wilson to speak in native Chinese dress. Mrs. B. S. Bennett, ill but improving slowly. Kansas Methodist conference undergraduates hold school in Baldwin with a six-man faculty. Entertainment at college dormitory by Professor and Mrs. Frank Wolfe. Wolfe family returned from a West outing via Yellowstone Park. Trip included stops in Western Kansas, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Denver, Rocky Ford with cantaloupes. Mrs. Florence Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Sage plan Garnett move. Eustacia Ennet visiting brothers near Richter. Deel family to Kansas City for a Swope Park picnic. Coal notice: Missouri Lump Coal, $9.50 a ton, Griffin Coal Co., phone 88.
Kansas will send thirteen delegates and thirteen alternates to the first national convention of the Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion to be held in Kansas City and Topeka this fall. Delegates include Mrs Harvey Kinzie and Mrs Bonham from districts plus eight more, with at large members Mrs Ray Hile Calihan and Miss Dorothy Somers among others. The convention aims to form a national organization, adopt a constitution, elect officers, select national headquarters, and consider a new name. About 750 delegates are expected from state departments and unorganized states, with auxiliary units from Alaska Cuba the Philippines Hawaii and France represented.
Kiel August 27 German Americans visiting Berlin hotels hear that the war is over there. Kiel and other naval bases show silence in shipyards once bustling with German navy work. Dismantled equipment, idle docks, and reduced naval personnel reflect the cost of war on the city and its people.
Boston August 28 reports Maurice Ricker of the United States Public Health Service warning that the progeny of one thousand graduates from Harvard Yale Princeton Vassar and Smith may not exceed fifty in a century while foreign literates could multiply a hundredfold. Some college presidents doubt the figures or lack data to discuss the topic. The public health official cites long term investigations to support his claim at a National Education Association convention in Des Moines Iowa.
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