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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1936
Page
2
Report on sorority rush week at Mt. Oread details a quiet day of silence rules, date cards due, and a $5 rush fee. It outlines the two day timetable with teas and dates, quota limits, and the 45 member cap per house with Lawrence city considerations.
Kansas University rush week teases with sorority chatter and misadventures. Dan Hamilton, son of the Republican national chairman, heads to KU as Theta house plans loom. Photog misfires yield sleepy coeds, and a Gamma Phi house visit ends with a magazine salesman mix up.
Miss Ida L Wik a stenographer at Standard Life Association received 500 dollars as second prize in the Sealtest Laboratory of New York fourth monthly ice cream limerick contest. She chose cash over a new car. Dealer H W Stowits received 100 dollars. P Brown president of Franklin Ice Cream handed the checks. George R Brown supported the dealer award. The contest asked a last line to a limerick and fifty words on Sealtest ice cream.
Lawrence observed a calm Labor Day with one drunkenness arrest. No reports of automobile accidents or fires were filed by county or city officers. A Sunday bus schedule confusion was noted by Rapid Transit management. Philco radio dealers meet at Wiedemann’s at 6 30 tonight with about 15 expected. Otto Barteldes for Alf London won the Political Golf Match at the Lawrence Country Club with 179 electoral votes amid 16 entrants.
Mrs. Arthur Marks and Miss Alexia Marks have returned from summering in Berlin and Europe. Mrs. George Kirchhoff and Misses Margaret and Barbara Kirchhoff returned to Lawrence after Green Mountain Falls Colorado. Ada Katherine Kirchhoff, guest at Fish Creek Wisconsin, returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Haas family returned from Baxter Springs Kansas and Bartlesville Oklahoma. Miss Jane Sheets returned after weekend and Labor Day with Mrs. J. W. Dyche Oklahoma City. Mrs. Jennie Jenkins and Mrs. Lillian Schafstall were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. K. Funk. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Oettinger and son Lewis returned to Topeka after vacation with Mrs. Oettinger’s mother Mrs. A. A. Burns. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Holke moved to Topeka.
Civil war days are honored as citizens welcome all to an all day celebration at the Methodist church. Descendants and long-time residents 50 years or more may join, dues are 25 cents, a chicken dinner is served, and a program with reports and reminiscences follows a morning business meeting. Miles W. Vaughn, former Journal-World staffer and United Press editor, visits Lawrence. Local hospital and surgery notes plus Unity Study class meeting details.
Market news from Chicago reports wheat prices rising on Winnipeg demand and cotton market buoyancy. Sudden western European storms slowed harvest progress, with yields significantly below the norm.
Wheat futures bought 15.282 million bushels, corn 9.634 million. Open interest in wheat 91.129 million and corn 49.736 million. Kansas City cash wheat prices shown with basis ranges and closes for Sept and Dec. Hay, cattle, hogs, and potato market figures for Kansas City and Chicago included with various grade prices and regional notes.
Wisconsin grain prices mixed as U S No 1 and No 2 quotes appear in a Chicago round up. Wall Street ends firmer with brisk fall demand pushing stock volume to multi-year highs and cotton futures surging after government crop projections. Multiple major names including U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler and Du Pont drive the rally amid holiday trading.
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