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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1918
Page
2
The Kansan edition outlines a standard year ahead with journalism students taking on routine duties. Community notices cover social visits, travel to Colorado, weddings, funerals, Red Cross meetings, and farm bureau events. Local families, schools, clubs, and volunteers are noted with short updates and upcoming gatherings.
Kanwaka residents and families attend the state fair in Topeka with listed participants including W.F. Bikins and Donald, Merie Colman, Ulrichs, Colmans, and Von Wolf family. Local visits note Mrs. Mary Jehle, Charles Albright, and others. Private George Tucker visits from Camp Fund. new daughter for Andersons. multiple homestead and dining gatherings feature Kanwaka, Lawrence, and Topeka connections.
An advertisement touts an oil remedy promising immediate relief from rheumatism and various aches. It asserts internal and external action, instructs dosing with drops on bread or jelly, and guarantees refund if not satisfactory. Sold exclusively at Townd Comer Drug Co in Lawrence Kansas.
Superintendent RB A Kent reports 1,170 students in seven grade schools, 363 in the intermediate high, and 1,565 in the high school. The board clerk's office moves to the American Cement and Plaster building to free space for a new normal training course. Junior high uses high school rooms for domestic science and art, with four domestic art and science sections organized. day ends at 4:20.
A new pupil, Helen Holke, enters the school bringing enrollment to thirty. Walter Howard's home was struck by lightning during the storm. no serious injuries. A. R. Kagi was bound over to the fall term of district court on theft charges involving a Holstein calf. Herbert O Tudor and Lila E Reece received a marriage license. Rev. Ross Sanderson performed the ceremony. John M. Watts leaves for Camp Funston to replace a rejected recruit. Mrs. Horace Rowley and Mr. Jesiste Hostetter visit husbands at the National Army Training School.
The university reports growing emphasis on war subjects as nearly all freshmen in technical fields take core or elective war courses. Only eight students enroll in nonwar tracks, with two pursuing journals, money and statistics, and one in comparative anatomy. Upperclassmen outside engineering may take three hours of elective work, signaling a broad shift toward military preparation. Freshmen in medicine and pharmacy face a trial quarter. only those proving proficiency may stay, others transfer to service branches. No women registered. registrar notes few changes in student reins and paths.
Mr and Mrs Conted Ga rock and Gast rock families, Elmer, Ida and Ernest Gast, Henry Hoenieless kinship, and others visited Lawrence Tuesday. Carl and Edith helped haul wheat to Mr Bo H Powell in Overbrook. Mrs C W Flory of Lawrence stayed with daughter D F Smith. The Childs and Smith families attended the state fair in Topeka. Otto Hack traveled to Topeka with a group.
A large crowd bid farewell Thursday night to a county draftee who joined the eighty men from the area headed to Camp Funston for training. The Friday night departure followed a weekend farewell gathering.
Mrs Alt visited Hornberger's home Sunday afternoon with Alfred Jehle and others. The event drew several local boys to the Hornberger residence for an informal gathering.
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