Kanwaka Neighborhood News Highlights Local Happenings
Colman lost a horse. Mrs. Bigsby visited Kansas City. Easter concert planned by Congregational Sabbath school. Albert Haskell went to Excelsior Springs. Rev Wimmer held services. School closings and social events noted. Farmers planting potatoes sowing oats. Various visits, meetings, and community activities reported including a phonograph show, church gatherings, and school performances. The Colyer School closes next Friday. Deer Creek coal mine expansion cited with local employment. Membership drives and entertainments at Fairview and Woodman hall also described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational
Albert Haskell
Excelsior Springs
Wimmer
Nelly Celman
Armstrong
Iowa
Congregational Church
Effie Craigmile
Joliet, Ill
Kanwaka
Local News Bits From Lawrence and Nearby Towns
Items note Mr Wendel Saile returning from a week with relatives in Lawrence. A. S. Medsker finished a new house for Sam Talley. A small boy visits Will Bearns. Augusta Booferington returns from Lawrence and stays with Mrs Blocker. H N Oliver feeds three carloads of cattle. Wa Simon travels to Chicago. Centennial school closes with an exhibition. Frank Wahora of Overbrook works for M T Harding. Ada Preston sick with lung fever tended by Dr Lyd Mannen. Scott Martins school at Enterprise will Friday. Clinton preacher visited Globe Saturday to see Mrs Bt John who is very ill. Carpenter builds a model house plastering in Overbrook.
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Augusta Booferington
Lawrence
Smith
Blocker
H. N.oliver
Simon
Chicago
Enterprise
Long Rural Ledger Recaps Farm Work and Socials
Sunday at home and work plans fill the week as farmers tend to fields, plant potatoes, and prepare for seeding. Weddings, dances, school events, and a funeral punctuate the community, with church services and local visits weaving through daily life in the area.
Iowa visitors join relatives at M. & church Sabbath
Mrs Wilets and two daughters from Iowa visit relatives Mr and Mrs Rodgers and attend the M. and church on the sabbath. Nye, oldest daughter of Mr and Mrs San Nye, steadily improves after a fall at the schoolhouse. doctor forbids riding or walking. Dr Evans builds a new corrugated iron roofed barn with carpenter David Burshburger. Mr and Mrs Welter Clark welcome a week old daughter. Carmean and Starr shipped a carload of hogs from the point. Aury Sturdy goes to Lawrence to visit a friend Mand Lin dsley. Mrs Chas Smith has the smngles but slowly improves. Both Lawrence residents visited their parents here last week. Aid society met at Mrs James Slit's last Wednesday. next at Mrs Sysmond Furks with officer election on April 21. Mrs Alkine rents farm to Ada King who took possession last week. Methodist lodges Foreign Missionary society meet with Mrs A F Alien Thursday April 1 with officer election. Ladies literary club meet with Mrs Funk on Tuesday March 30.
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W. L. Stark
Dickinson County
Kohlbrener
Pople
Ted Haas
I. Harbor
Iwich
Lydia Warner
Frank Conrad
German Evangelical Church
Louis
C. Pips City
Hopes Nye
San Nye
Dr. Evans
David Burshburger
Aid Society
James Slit
Sysmond Furks
Local notes on farming, schools, and residents
Hog cholera in the area and milk hauling to Lawrence creamery. Moves and arrivals include Breckenridge and Silvers families, Darby’s hargeset team sale, Turley moving near Williamstown, Hunt buying a horse, Frank Toyne moving to Kansas City, and a map occupying the McFarland farm. Several school closures, lectures by Townsend and Snow, religious services, Measles affect Lake View families, Nora Cardwell and Arthur Rose wed near Lecompton, and Mystic Cure testimonial from ex postmaster Anthony.
Electric Bitters Advertisement From Barber Bros Drug Store
Lectric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season and used as a tonic and alterative. It claims to counteract malarial poison and relieve headache indigestion constipation and dizziness. Sold at Barber Bros Drug Store for 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle.
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Barber Bros Drug Store
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Neighborhood News
Gazette
O. A. Colman
A. Bigsby
Kansas City
F. B. Pontius
Mesdames Baldwin
Eaton
Seetin
Bigsby
Buyler
Duffee
Colman
H. C. Richardson
C. Richardson
A. C. Pontius
Baldwin
Richardson
Lone Star
Clarence Halstead
Xn.y
Nellis Clark
Dan Ulric
Colyer School
Steve Halstead
Misa Nora Metsker
King’s
Fairview Church
W. W. Marckle
Overbrook
Sam Tuttle
Sam Metsker
Adam Tuttle
Indiana
S. W. Metsker
Wm. Ulric
C. J. R. Smith
Will Markle
Sibley
Julia Smith
Peake
Andrew Flory
Smith House
C. O. Bowman
Dr. Bunn
William Marshall A
F. W. Berviss
Mr. Smith
J. W. Whiddell
The
Fairview Missionary Society
Anna Reed
Davis
Miss Deborah
Kentucky
Bin
W. A. Marshall
Blue Mound
Jess Ruly
F. Buchheim
Mr. Christy
George Christy
Freeman Farm
Brielveir
Merrits
Kansas
Gee. Petetish
James Downs
Mr. Powell
Linwood
Thacher Farms
Elmer Barden
Ela Tucker
Lillie Downs
Lucy Christy
Watson
Mattie Brown
Lecompton
Dora
Annie Brown
Minnie Klesath
Big Springs
Norrie Bars
Isaves
Wm. Glenn
Woodman Hall
Woodmen
Snx
Yarnold
Scheer
Mr. Ferris
Nicholas
Charles Scheer
W. C. Porter
Deer Creek
Sons of Veterans
G. A. R. Hall
Lapeer
Wendel Saile
Carpenter A. S. Medsker
Sam Talley
Will Bearns
Charles Heim
Boss Bidgood
Peter Saile
Jacob Hardterfer
Ivan Mosher
D. Fisher
G. Oebrle
William Warner
Horn
Cyris Nusbaum
Edward Heim
Lewis Gehret
Rose Heimer
Joseph
Anna
Lydia Stahl
Bethel Church
Fall Lear
Wendorf
Leavenworth City
Squire Leesch
Bob.snapp
James Hicks
Jim Wilson
Mr. Koffil
John Canary Jr
John
A. Lukan
J. L Jacobs
W. B. Myers
Wm Koffel
Ohio
South Dakota
Mr. Keanean
J. Snapp
W. Pipes
Fall Leaf
J. Adair
Lambora
Mr. Watson
Mr. Davenport
Bam Bishop
Leesch Court
Paul Luckan
B. Snapp
Harry Conrad
Bride
Bowersock Farm
Timothy
B. Thomas
Hesper
H. Corder
Barker
Brad Laptad
Joseph Laptad
Miss Garvin
S.M. Green
Ice Company
H. Gorder
Mr.Garrin
John Tobler
Gideon
R. Young
Mr. Garvin
Mr. Roberts
Orry Owen
Jerry Glathare
Lottie Vermilya
Stephen Dias
Annie Keplinger
Jefferson County
Oskaloosa
Samuel Beasley
Beasley
J. S. Beasley
Willis
North Lawrence
Maple Grove Cemetery
William Rinehart
Rose Robert
Will
Vinjana
Mrs. Welter Clark
Carmean
Starr
Aury Sturdy
Miss Mandlinsley
Chas. Smith
Bo Ih
Will Darby
Lawrence Creamery
Mr. Breckenridge
Sam Jack Farm
Mr. Silvers
Lawrence, Colored
Renfro Farm
L. F. Darby
Hargeset
Will McKish
Mr. Turley
Williamstown
Barrow Farm
Mr. Hunt
John Standing
Charley Wilson
Frank Toyne
McFarland
Duncan
Illinois
William Palmateer
Crum Johnston Farm
John White
Cora Elliott
Emporia
Eva Elliott
H. Davis
Elwood Deay
Ed Woodard
Althea Wyland
Desoto
John Woodard
Clarence Coggshall
Toronto
al Epperson
B.thomas
Townsend
Snow Ot K
Europe
Lydia Chase
David Tatum
Denver
Academy
Schoel
Anna Davis
Geo. FL Rogers
W. ML OF. Societs
Leeinda Connor
Lake View
T. N. Cardwell
Crowder
Henry Collins
Martin
Lake View Literary
Laura Wright
Mrs. Rose
O. Watson
Rev
Ronebrake
T. F. Anthony
Promise Cuy
Barber Bros
Lawrenes
Aletree Ditters
Racy Learnard
Rence
Innes
New York
Geo.innes
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