Big Springs News Brisk Trade and Road Woes
Merchants report unusually brisk business for the season. Will Geelan plans a steamer visit for home work. Road conditions worsen. Kanwaka and Clinton townships boast the state's worst roads. Threshing underway. wheat yields vary, with sixteen bushels per acre noted. Local social notes include a Spencer dance and teachers in training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Geelan
Spencer’s
Free
Shawnee
Sam Wice
Will
Guy Hoag
Lambert & Copeland
Belvoir
Kanwaka
Clinton
John Walton
Ingersoll City
W. A. Walker
Jonah
John Walruff
Madson
Jack Watts
Sterling
Texas preacher fills local church pulpit in Winterbourne absence
A Texas preacher occupied Rev. G. Winterbourne's pulpit last Sunday as Winterbourne attended a camping session at Salina. The alt meeting drew attendees and provided a sermon focusing on faith and community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
G. Winterbourne
Winterbourne
Salina
Tonganoxie Notes And Fair Preparations
News from Leavenworth County reports local illnesses and visits from relatives, plus a sample of social life. The Tonganoxie baseball club seeks worthy opponents, while building fever grows in town. A concert review praises Prof Henderson and Henley. The Bismarck Western National Fair offers a large county display premium and space allocations, with entries due soon and free transport for agricultural displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rule
Teachers’ Institute
Friends’ College
Fairmount
Johnson
Vinland Nursery
Lawrence
Pomona
Franklin County
Tonga
North Lawrence
Charlie Colwell
Leavenworth
Kansas
Prof. Henley
Profs. Henderson
Henley
U. P
Ottawa County
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Free Committee Ag
Ciags
Horticultural Soeiety
Union Pacific
Petons
Col. H. L. Moore
Old Wheat and Produce Price List from Lawrence
A corrected Lawrence market listing shows prices for grain like old wheat, new wheat, rye, corn, and feed, with values for butter, eggs, cheese, honey, and various fruits. It also lists vegetables including potatoes, turnips, cabbage, beets, and parsnips, plus poultry, meats, lard, beans, nuts, hides, furs, coal and wood, covering multiple towns and stations in the region.
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Big Springs
Frank Berry
Harvey Cosley
Sigel
Eskridge
Wabaunsee County
George Laws
Fanny Moore
Amanda Lysinger
Mollie Richardson
Winnie Hale
Normal Institute
Topeka & Ottawa Railroad
Twin Mound
Lawrence & Carbondale
Richland
Wakarusa
Richland Bridge
Topeka
Ottawa
Vinland
Cora Kimball
Campbell
Breeze Brothers
Cherryvale
Leavenworth County
Tonganosie
Bismarck Western National Fair
F. W. Wieman’s
Hunt
Stock Market
Lawrence Markets
Fort Scott
Osage
Blossburg
Oy Rich
Hill
Fitteb
Scranton
Wood Ford
Carbondale
Hides Eweee
D. F. Bigelow
Massachusetts Street
Dr. Neumann
Ande
Pes
Massachusetts St
C. W. Grant
J.W. Piatt
Grant & Piatt
Mull & Zook
Steinberg
The
King Clothier
Lawrence, Kans
W. H. Pendleton
H. Kesting
Hale & Pendleton
Ceater
SG & SS
George B. Edgar General Insurance
Notary Public
U. S
Bowersock Opera Block
Lucien Pettengill
W. C. Nolan
Fritz
Vermont St
Court Hotse
Justus Howell
Osborne
Mecormrox
Nichols & Shepherd
Aultman & Taylor
Eclipse Wind Mills
Fairbanks’ Scales
Rain & Turnbull
Racine
Watertown
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