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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1890
Page
3
From the surrounding country the Gazette reports items of interest. Readers are invited to send news from their neighborhood and communications should reach by Monday afternoon for consideration in this department.
A large drift of local updates from Vinland Kelleview and Bismarck recount shipments of cattle and hogs, visits to relatives in Denver and Chicago, birthday gatherings, and a spring rains turning to opportunity for farmers. town-wide notices include a Sabbath school reorganization, a peculiar train signal anecdote, and community anecdotes on schooling, harvest, and alliances.
In Jefferson County at Jefferson Heights a family settled on eighty acres but lost the land for nonpayment. Alexander, oldest son, mined in Colorado for four years, earned $35000, and returned to Lawrence to invest but failed financially and mentally, dying in a ravaged state. Next week a neighbor’s tale of a thousand dollars invested in mining ends in loss. The piece frames wealth and misfortune amid the Heights’ rush.
Leavenworth county notes report the Central Hotel will open April 10. Jacob Becker returns from Soldiers Home on a 20 day furlough. J B Varney and family migrate to Cowley county. Hadley and Carver start a brick company. Some runaways reported near Tonganoxie with no serious damage. Charles Needham and Mrs Lockwood wed at Congregational church. Potatoes and wheat crops noted, local travel and trades update. Leis Drug Co gains Sherwin Williams paints agency.
Osage County notes Quenemo on the Marais des Cygnes river with rail facilities on the Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific lines, potential ochre beds, coal south of town, possible marble, and a growing business scene that could support a three to four thousand population. Local bankers from Topeka consider ochre fields a new venture.
Weaver's and adjoining counties advertise the best assorted stock of dry goods and carpets in Lawrence and promise reliable makes with guaranteed quality. The notice emphasizes a wide trade area and assurance of dependable merchandise.
Local business promotes low prices as its key aim and emphasizes customer satisfaction as its core objective in daily operations.
Our protection to customers promises satisfaction guaranteed with returns for exchange or money refund. We emphasize this is our pioneering method of doing business and invite you to call and visit us for details.
Clarkson explains the Iowa temperance history from anti prohibition roots to the 1883 law and seven years of enforcement failures in large cities. He argues for modifying the law to apply prohibition in rural counties while allowing local option for cities, urging legislative change over another constitutional amendment.
Wanted. Potatoes, Chickens, Turkeys, Pigeons and Eggs for which I will pay the highest market price. W. H. Penpleton. We can fill orders promptly on all coal at the lowest market prices. 688 Massachusetts street. Telephone 113. C. Bruce & Son. Dr. Wheeler, Dentist, 82 Massachusetts street, Lawrence, Kansas. The first to depart from high prices in favor of the masses. Best artificial teeth upper or lower eight dollars. Amalgam fillings fifty cents. Finest gold fillings half the price. A fair set of teeth thirty five dollars. Extracting teeth twenty five cents. Office over Hume's shoe store, 820 Massachusetts street. Open from seven a.m. to six p.m.
The Kansas City Star and The Gazette offer new subscribers a one year for one dollar deal through May 1, 1800. The Star highlights its weekly edition as strong general news while The Gazette provides local county coverage. Present subscribers can pay arrears to get both for $1.20.
The Santa Fe Route launches weekly escorted trips from Kansas City to the Pacific coast each Friday evening. salaried agents ensure comfort for invalids, ladies, and unescorted children. The lowest California bound fares apply, with a $3 Pullman Tourist Sleeper option. Contact Geo T Nicholson Topeka for passes.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners refused to order Rock Island to build a side track between Gladys and Peck in Sedgwick County. Kansas Sugar Association formed a permanent organization at Hutchinson with J. G Hart elected president and W. P. Clement secretary. Numerous notes on Sovereign Grand Lodge gathering funds, Kansas Odd Fellows, and a list of Kansas veterans granted Prexstons. Also reported are a fatal farm fight near Coffeyville, Alma coal vein discovery, Topeka sugar mill rebuild, railroad commissioner decisions, arrests in a depot robbery, sword presentation to the State Historical Society, and various local incidents and patents.
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