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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1955
Page
6
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Missouri University agricultural economist Stanley Spangler promotes hogging down corn as practical harvesting. Hogs reduce picking and hauling while fertilizing soil, with improved hog health and lower fertilizer needs for following crops. He cautions on field mud and fencing limits and notes efficiency targets for hog size and field pace.
The Second Christian Church buys the old Veterans of Foreign Wars hall at 13th and Conn. Sts to convert into a church and recreation center. Rev. W. S. Sims says remodeling is underway with roofing near completion and a new main entrance planned. A fundraising drive is launched led by Harold Lewis and Wesley Sims. Moving for services could slip from late October.
Mr and Mrs A P Lesher visit Greenville Alabama family, will return soon. Neighborhood Circle meets at Mrs Pear Long’s with covered dish luncheon at noon. Over 165 attend Rice Annual reunion at Melouth Methodist Church. officers reelected A H Rice president, Carroll Ridgway president, Mrs Ray Lobb secretary treasurer. Next meeting August 1956. Bud Kesinger family host to Vernon Kesinger of Tonganoxie at dinner. Sept 3 last free show of season at Metant. Valles Grove school to open Labor Day with Mrs Edith Moses as teacher. A basket dinner served at noon. Shirley and Karen Rolin in accordion recital at Lawrence. other locals attended. Leavenworth County Fair at Tonganoxie drew many from area. Wellman Chapel ladies echoed lunch at Willam Evans farm sale. Evans moving back to Lawrence. Used book exchange at Grade School Building Sept 6 7. Charley Sparks dies at 88. wife Winnie Sparks daughter Margaret DeHoff son Arthur Sparks and many grandchildren survive.
Numerous classified notices list household goods for sale in Lawrence including rugs, appliances, furniture, and baby items. Listings show contact numbers and locations such as 1948 Tann, 1647 Vermont, Miller Furn, and 741 Mass along with care details and prices like $90 for a refrig erator and $79.95 for a sofa bed.
The record lists numerous visits and hosting moments among the Markleys Postmas Hershells Hessons Hoover and related families. Highlights include Maurine Markley hosting a fried chicken and ice cream supper with Dora Markley Asa Postma and others, and several trips to Topeka and Fowler with various relatives and neighbors.
Topeka reports Norton lawyer Keith Sebelius won the Kansas American Legion department command baring Coffeyville rival John Wells 454 to 427 at the state convention. Sebelius, a World War II veteran, succeeds in a field including Cecil Goforth as vice commander and Genevieve Sappenfield as historian.
Roland Kraft of Lawrence won the Kansas horseshoe pitching championship after a 14 1 record in a round robin. He defeated Tamboer of Wichita 50 38 and Gandy of Topeka 50 26 in a playoff. Tamboer had held the title for five years. Alvin Dahlene, also of Lawrence, went 7–0 Monday to finish No 5. Harold Pontius was re elected secretary of the state association.
Numerous relatives from Bartlesville Oklahoma and Kansas City Kansas and Missouri visit the Davidson and Torneden households. Trips include Claude Hallenbeck and Dorothy touring northern states and Lake Superior. A Kansas City aunt, Mrs C A Siscoe, dies at 73 after a heart condition.
Mr and Mrs Asa Postma and Mrs Markley hosted dinner at Vinland and visited multiple Markley homes in the area. The piece notes trips to Harrodsburg Kentucky and Lawrence Kansas, with church and seminary plans for Rev Hodgden, and mentions several other local families visiting, returning, or hosting.
Mrs Ernest Wray returns home from California due to a broken leg. Mr and Mrs Bill Beatty move to Columbia Missouri for a short time. Home Demonstration Unit members enjoy a Black Jack Park picnic. Capt Earl Jamison and Barbara return to Washington DC after his father's death. George Hoskinson and family attend funeral in Western Kansas. Mrs Schellenberg Naomi and James attend M E Church service after vacationing in Colorado. Ivan King finds work in Topeka. Bernice Gottstein hosts a picnic for eleven girl students. Donnie Collins dines with A G Hammond family. Cox family from Havilland to attend brother's wedding.
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