100 years ago: Ice cream wagon bells disruptive for Sunday church-goers

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 28, 1914:

  • “The Federated Brotherhoods of Lawrence have started a movement to have the bells taken off the ice cream wagons on Sunday. They claim that they are very annoying to those who are attending services and often disturb the worship. A petition was presented to the city commission this morning asking if they could not assist in having the bells taken off on the first day of the week. E. S. Weatherby who presented the petition on behalf of the federated brotherhoods said that they first went to the managers of the Palace of Sweets and the Kaw Valley Creamery company and requested that the bells be taken off on Sunday. The manager of the Kaw Valley Company complied with their request, but the manager of the Palace of Sweets refused and now the manager of the Kaw Valley company says that his men complain that they cannot meet competition of the wagons with bells and that he will have to put the bells back unless the Palace of Sweets will agree also to take them off.”
  • “The Lutheran boys broke camp at Ocean Grove Lake last Saturday and returned to Lawrence. Twenty-three of them spent ten days at the camp under the direction of the pastor, Rev. E. E. Stauffer, and they had the time of their lives. Ninety-seven loaves of bread besides numerous bakings of biscuits and pancakes were disposed of.”
  • “Martial law was proclaimed in both the city and district of Sarayevo, in consequence of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohenberg…. The Servian minister at Vienna warned the archduke of the peril of his visit to Sarayevo and implored that if he insisted on going there himself at least to leave the duchess at home. When the duchess was informed she said her place was at her husband’s side…. Every dispatch from Sarayevo and Vienna brought additional evidence that the assassination of the Archduke and duchess was the most carefully planned crime ever carried out against royal personages. The sympathy of the rulers and people of Europe is expressed to the aged Emperor, Frances Joseph, whose much needed rest at his summer residence at Ischel is broken by the crime…. The crime seems likely to have a contrary effect to that desired by the author. Even before the bodies of the murdered couple were interred, Austrian authorities were contemplating very severe measures against the Serbs…. These measures will likely further embitter relations between these countries as well as between Austria and Russia, the protector of the Serbs…. The tragedy of Sarayevo is bound to have a momentous political effect on the dual monarchy. The death of Francis Ferdinand throws the burdens of government upon the aged emperor and now it is impossible to predict what political result will follow.”