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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1883
Page
5
Business briefs list promotions discounts and new goods at Hunt's Palmer Griffin Wieman Bullene Rowe and Willey Savage with notices of lumber paint and hardware. The column records visits and departures of local figures including Col. Noble Judge Talcott and Mr. Nichols plus a skeleton found on a river island and a hotel change at Eldridge house. Community events include ice cream at Wiedemann and Amity college president news.
Philip Lehr will occupy his new Locust street business house for a butcher shop. D. M. Melvin & Co. buy WJ Dawson shop to use as a feed store. A Lawrence Canning Co will employ six teams and twenty men next week on sweet corn south of the fair grounds. Freight wagons, seven in a train with two yoke of oxen each, head to Southern Kansas last Sunday. Chas Oliver seeks road extension from Maple street to provide an outlet for several families.
The advertisement promotes ribbons at 5Sc each or 25c value, from Gro. Lyngs & Co Farmers. It invites readers to Sands’ saddlery to view horse collars and the latest market styles, with J. G. Sands endorsing the sale.
The Gazette highlights the Lawrence Business College founded in 1869 with growing community support. It touts spacious facilities on the city’s main street, a professional teaching staff, and a thorough practical business education, claiming it is first among regional business colleges. It notes the college’s strong reputation across the West.
Members of the Lutheran church gathered at Mrs. Shearer’s residence on Massachusetts Street last Friday for a reception honoring Rev. J. E. Maurer. Albach gave a welcome address, Maurer thanked them, and urged cooperation. he recently graduated from Pennsylvania College’s theological department and hopes to uphold the Christian cause in Lawrence. Also promoting grain drills from G. R. Gould & Co and urging timely action for fall seeding. Dr. Dickinson reports Wyandotte county bidding for a $2,000 Union Pacific prize at the Western National Fair. Douglas County urged to stage an outstanding horticultural and agricultural display.
A test at William Russell’s Willow Springs farm six miles south of Lawrence compared Hunt’s A lawn discount and a Fairbanks Standard Draft set up with a John Deere 16 inch walking plow. Measured furrow width and depth show sulky draft advantages and the team includes Russell, Stub, Gleason, Bartox, Firen, Gleason, and committee members. Col M. S. Beach of Chicago arrived in Silverton and seeks San Juan mining opportunities. Mel Beach, former county treasurer, gains praise for wealth in Colorado mines and county friends recall his generosity.
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