Federal aid used on four city paving projects
City officials point to four WPA funded improvements completed at about half the contract price. Eleventh street widening and paving, an alley paving, Park street paving, and Twelfth street turn around. Labor and 800 barrels of cement supplied by the government. City engineering handled contracting and supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleventh Street
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New “Hampshire
Park Street
Twelfth Street
Oread
Mississippi
Boston Bees Half Stride of Pennant Aspirants
The Boston Bees influence pennant odds by beating the New York Giants in three straight games. Tammy Thompson hit a two homer pinch hit in a 3-2 win after a 2-0 deficit. Babe Herman homered in the opener for a 5-3 victory and Peach Davis pitched a nine hitter in an 8-4 nightcap.
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Associated Press
Boston Bees
Cardinals
Giants
Bill Terry
Terriers
Frank Merriwell
Tammy Thompson
Gabbo Gabler
Cincinnati Reds
New Yorkers
Babe Herman
Peaches Davis
Net Stars Survive Play in National Tournament
Forest Hills, Sept. 7. Lifted down to the round of 16 the national tennis singles championships enter a win-or-go-home phase. In the men’s draw eleven of thirteen seeds remain. in the women’s, eight of ten survive as top to bottom pairings set the second round with Bryan Grant facing Pierre Pelizza and Bobby Riggs meeting John Van Ryn, while Sidney Wood encounters Henry Culley and Fred Perry meets Gene Mako.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Hills
Bryan Grant
Atlanta
Pierre Pelizza
France
Bobby Riggs
Los Angeles
John van Ryn
Philadelphia
Sidney Wood
New York
Henry M. Culley
Santa Barbara
Calif
Fred Perry
England
Gene Mako
Hill and extended family travel notes and moves
Hesper Chalkley Hill and family members Charles and Eunice return from Guilford North Carolina. Charles, a mathematics professor in Chicago, plans a year of travel ending in Europe after sailing September 28 for Hawaii and Asia. Eunice resumes teaching history in Wichita. Mr Hill to California for the winter. Relatives from Grand View Park Presbyterian move back to Kansas City. Several ministers visit and relocate within Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chalkley Hill
Charles
Chicago
Eunice
Wichita
Guilford
N. C
Mr. Hill
Cumberland Hills
Kansas
Hill
Carlsbad Cave
California
Wd. C. Hill
Carl Schurz High
Hawaii
Japan
China
India
Egypt
Europe
David H. Johnson
Grand View Park Presbyterian Church
Kansas City
Emil Schmidt
George Lothholz
Irvin Harris
Harris
Oscar
Grace Thompson
Andrew Stuart
O. Dunlap
Rev. Thompson
North Carolina
Thompsons
Montrose
Kan
Q. B. Dunlop
Portugal's Peasant Born Strong Man Sits on European Fuse
A long feature portrays Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, a 46 year old peasant born economist who became Portugal's dictator and the backbone of its policy amid the Spain crisis. It notes his austere, long hours, faith, isolation, and influence shaping neutrality on the Spanish frontier while Britain’s Baldwin is cited as a parallel figure.
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Portugal
New York
Spain
Europe
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Mass
Oliveira Salazar
Stanley Baldwin
Britain
Baldwin
Lisbon
Antonio
Thornburgs Visit Indiana Texas Amid Prairie Center Services
Community notes record visitors and calls across Lawrence and neighboring towns. Rev Leroy Thornburg's absence from the Prairie Center pit interrupts services as his family visits relatives in Indiana and Texas. Other items mention home visits, quilting, recoveries, and local farm bureau plans.
Community Notes From North Lawrenece Area
North Lawrence residents share visitors and church news. Geraldine and Virginia Adams from Lincoln Nebraska visited with grandparents Mr and Mrs Adams and with aunt and uncle Roy Adams on Elm Street. Rev Dorothy B Wright announced she will not accept Elm Street church call for another year. Rev Huffman of United church to speak at Centenary M E on Sunday evening. Mrs Harris returned home after six weeks at Overbrook. Charley Parel of Mt Ida visited Mrs Schooley and Mrs Husted. Miss Lowe Renie Dalton and Harry McCarty, wed last Thursday, reside with Mrs Schooley. Mary Elizabeth Pine and Margret and Patsy White of Reno visited Velma.
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Little Geraldine
Virginia Adams
Lincoln
Neb
Adams
North Fifth Street
Roy Adams
Elm Street
Dorothy B. Wright
Elm Street Christian Church
Huffman
United Eee Church
Centenary M. E
Harris
Overbrook
Charley Parel
Mt. Ida
Schooley
Husted
Lowe Renie Dalton
Harry McCarty
Court House
Community News From Mound City And Centenary Church
Mrs Mable Biges returns home to Mound City Missouri last week. Epworth League at Centenary M E church at Rev C J Knox home entertained Tuesday evening September 1. Gift presented to Roy Adams for their wedding anniversary. Mrs Herman Pogemeyer Ida Suberkrup and Mollie Thompson visit R C Haney Sunday. John Marlowe, injured on railroad, now able to sit on his porch on Locust Street. Elm Street Christian church to elect officers soon. Rev Knox to lead winter Bible study on Revelations at Centenary church Thursdays at 7 30. Women Foreign Missionary society plans a mission playlet next week with no admission.
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Kansas City
Chubb
Westport
Woman’s Home Missionary Society
Harold W. Guest
Ladies Aid
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Wenona W. Jett
Yung Chun
China
Nelson P. Horn
Baker
Baldwin
Town City
Dream Haven
W. A. Quayle
John Ruchty
Christiansen
Cooperative Creamery
Estella Cowgill Hays
Spokane
Wash
Margaret Cowgill Dickinson
Russell Hays
Black Jack
Alfred Kuraner
Old Mexico
Baldiinin
Alfred, Jr
Ann
F. M. Hartley
McGlumpley
Cameron
Nelson I. Horn
Jimmy Harvey
Howard Harvey
Memorial Hospital
Lawrence
Lytle
Ballwin
Beulah Helen Stewart
A. L. Quigley
Chicago
Aurora
Detroit
Cleveland
Ohio
Garland Williams
Mable Biges
Mound City
Epworth League
Centenary
M. E. Church
C. J. Knox
Mollie Thompson
R. C. Haney
Thompson
Elm Street Christian Church
Centenary M. E. Church
Women's Foreign Missionary ‘Society
Centenary Church
Baldwin News Social Roundup Dropping In and Moving On
Community notes from Baldwin describe Dr. Harold Case visiting with his ill mother Mrs. Rose K. Case, families relocating to Mt. Vernon Missouri and Wichita, Kans., and a string of visits and birthdays. The Nautilus club hosted a farewell for the Ruchtys in Pharr Texas, while locals travel to Iola and Colorado for visits and vacations.
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Harold Case
First Methodist Church
Topeka
Baldwin
Rose K. Case
W. H. Cooper
Mt. Vernon
David
Cooper
Grace
Marguerite
Mary Kathleen Huey
Kansas City
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Southern College
Hesper
Great Britain
Allance
Coimbra
Carmona
Mamie Porter
Letha Porter
Williams
William Johnson
Earl Kirker
William Hey
Lester
A. P. Miller
E. G. Henrich
Baldwin High School
Thompson Cottage
Ninth and Grove
Lloyd Storum
Florence Waring
Amelia Betts
Harveyville
Katherine Kelley
Harry Hobson
Doris
Claire Greene
Oakland
Cal
San Diego
Baker University
R. T. Greene
Frank Lane
Charles Alan and
Franklyn
Iola
William M. Clark
Billy Clark
John Caskey
Gladys McGinnis
Etta McKee
Miriam McKee
Excelsior Springs
W.M. Clark
Tola
Fred Lane
Panes City
C. Ane
Harold Flickinger
Patricia and
Harold, Jr
Waverly
Flickinger
Irving Greer
Florida
Theo Haas
Weslaco
Texas
Maurice Frye
Wells Hiveley
Wells, Jr
Lois Dean
Wendall Dean
Mr. Hiveley
Alvin F. Baker
Philip Fleshman
Puffy
Charles Johnson
Monnday
L. L. Thompson
G. M. Gander
Madge Reynolds
Byron Donmyer
William Potts
E. M. Copeland
Ethel Watkins
Ethel Murray
Carnie Steele
Florence Strong
Prebe Gates
Lucy Gordon
Jessie Fenton
Loretta Brown
Anna Lewis
Paul Selzer
JARDA
Adolio
Segovia
Eseville
Eguadalajara
Madrid
Etoledo
Sburgos
Cartager
Astian
Szaragoza
Prairie Center
Leroy Thornburg
Thornburg
Indiana
Mildred Kasberger
Clarence Kelly
Robert
Richard
Alvin Gabriel
Louie Bartz
Jean
Ruth
Walter Brecheisen
N. P. Henley
Rush
John Kasberger
Fern -Silvis
Jean Bartz
Chas. Terrell
M. C. Fill
C. E. Wotan
C. C. Gerstenberger
Anna Hiatt Hill
Rev. C. Dunlap
North Lawrence
Baldwin News
J. R. Miner
Dorothy Jean Miner
Huey
A. R. Snodgrass
Ada Snodgrass
W. H. Webster
Dr. Webster
Harry Webster
Dorothy Jean
Ottawa
Edward Huey
James Massey
Pittsburg
Emma Gilham
J. M. Montgomery
Merle
Jeanne
Nathan Horrell
Raymond Horrell
Delbert Kine
Ben Hammond
Gilbert Gander
Charles Kalb
Emma Caroline
J. H. Gander
Gilbert Kapelle
Nautilus Club
Ruchtys
Pharr
Gilbert M. Gander
Colorado
Donald Leach
Rockies
Robert G. Anderson
Anderson
G. J. Hunt
Noyla Hunt
Toneks
Dean Grace Irwin
Wallace B. Fleming
Winona W. Jett
Mary McKinney
Gayle Chubb
Alpha Chi-Omega
Westinghouse
Corey Glass
Surance Building
Charlton Insurance Agency
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