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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1890
Page
3
Neighborhood items desired from surrounding country and city readers. Readers are invited to send news by Monday afternoon to the Gazette's corps of correspondents.
Local notes from Douglas County Belleview report several residents visiting Kansas City and Topeka for health and family reasons. Farm updates mention threshing completion yields 9 to 141 bushels per acre, and corn improving after rain. A quarterly M E church meeting set for Belleview school house August 10 with Presiding Elder Gill in attendance.
The verse sounds a stern call condemning a fallen haven of youth and mercy. Thunderous lines lament loss of virtue and discipline, urging action and a vow to redeem the sacred space from desecration and betrayal.
Reports from Leavenworth County Tongano xle describe Farmers Hemphill of Stranger sowing 17 acres and Secrest of Tonga 10 acres as Alliance supporters push a new independent party ticket. Rev Craner advances Reno church building with support from locals. Strawberrytown notes a July runaway involving an older man and a young girl near Tonganoxie. Fall Leafers debate a vacant Lawrence house project built for growth. A Palm agency hawks spring wagons and buggies.
Advertises coal by C. Bruce & Son promising best cleanest coal at lowest market prices and invites orders from readers.
At the regular meeting the council discussed petitions for street lamps on Alabama and Warren and Illinois and Warren, a storm sewer on Connecticut street, and a sidewalk linking University and North College via Louisiana street and Oread avenue. They considered changing Missouri street to Washington street and reviewed sewer district plans with a $9,000 fall outlay. The meeting also covered tax levies for 1891, a gas company franchise, rock pile costs, and bids for courthouse repairs.
A letter urges Lawrence officials to enforce Kansas prohibition, arguing Supreme Court precedents uphold the state’s authority to stop intoxicants, and that interstate commerce rules do not constrain in-state bans. It concludes with a painting season notice promoting Raymond's Drug Store paints and bulk savings.
In St Paul a joint convention of the Farmers Alliance United Labor party of Minnesota nomi nates a full state ticket. Sydney M Owen named for governor and J O Barrett for lieutenant governor. Owen, 52, born near Toledo Ohio, grew up on a farm, ran a Toledo mercantile business, later moved to Minneapolis and started an agricultural paper The Farm Stock and Home. The platform calls for tariff revision free coinage of silver government control of railroads and denial of watered stock and rate pooling with various other reforms.
KILO pays for ten weeks of board tuition and room. Ria covers about 46 weeks at the Chillicothe Normal Schol and Business Institute. Private North the West offers low rates. Professors are specialists. building features include air comfort, electric heating, and furnished with apparatus. Leis Drug Co. gains agency for Sherwin Williams fixed prints. paint praised as superior to others on the market.
The article promotes a business institute with a 23-member faculty offering scientific classical commercial courses plus shorthand typing music and art. It lists Chicago as location for Conclave and Union Pacific travel deals with first class fares, plus return validity Aug. 71, and contact J. T. Shanklin in Lawrence Kansas.
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