Neighborhood Notes From the Surreon ing Country
Town chatter covers farming life with talk of church organizing. Wheat yields run high with thirty bushels per acre claimed. peaches ripen in places and railroads loom nationwide. Local names include Wise, Turner, Lang, Connole, Cummings, Petetiah, Taggert, Bardell, Bleakley, Glenn, Moore, and Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Turner
Lawrence
Douglas County
Topeka
J. C. Bardell
Joe Bleakley
Prairie Center News Absorbs Local Happenings
Lawrence visitor Mrs Adams and Fonk visit relatives while Walton and Barnes plan Lincoln and eastern trips. Local notes report a thriving creamery, a birthday gift surprise, medical relocations, farming yields, school elections, religious services, and small town doings from Prairie Center and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Lawrence
8. K. Fonk
John Walton
Lincoln
Neb
W. E. Barnes
C. B. Harkinson
Barnes
Dr. Davis
Ottawa
Baldwin News Highlights Local Events and Incidents
The town reports street improvements on the North Side and four church benefit festivals. A canning factory fund seeks one thousand dollars via five to fifty dollar subscriptions. Local births, deaths, marriages, and moves fill Baldwin notices. A dynamite incident at a church causes chaos, with a one hundred dollar reward offered for the perpetrators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gua Anderson
District to vote bonds for a new school building
An 8 000 dollar bond election is proposed to erect a suitable school, with site options on Baker street or north of the campus between Sixth and Eighth Streets. Local committees endorse a vote, petitions circulated, and a meeting adjourned to July 16 for further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dieker's
Ast
Sixth Ward
U.P
Denver
Wichita
Baker Street
Arsenic Poisoning Verdict Ties Death to Mrs Tennison
In Lenexa a coroner's inquest heard Prof Bailey describe arsenic found in the stomach liver and other organs of a man who died. The jury ruled death from arsenical poisoning administered feloniously by Mrs J D Tennison and others unnamed, and the widow is in custody. The report also mentions a traveling show by Mr Coup touring Kansas with horses dogs and trained acts and local sales notes from Denver and Lawrence advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. ‘Tennison
Johnson County
Prof. Bailey
Lenexa
Bailey
J. D. Tennison
Lawrence
Vermont
Denver
Col
Rocky Mountain Newa
Coup
Elliots
Moores
Lost or stolen cow with rope restraints in Kansas
Cow, dark red with star on forehead, five or six years old, horns upturning, rope tied around horns and tail. Reward offered for information leading to recovery. Contact L. C. Frxxco, Lock Box 58, Lawrence, Kansas. Also advertisement for hosiery bargains and ranch items from Durango, Colorado and dairy, hay, grain listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C
Lawrence
Kaa
Wheat yields and showy thrashing at Watts store
NGTON CREEK reports a Watts farm thrashing spree with J Burgess harvesting 130 bushels on 6 acres at 35 bu/acre and Chas Petosiah thrashing 1588 bushels from 60 acres at 24 bu/acre. Charlie produced 611 bushels in 5 12 hours. Readers urged to visit the store for dry goods bargains as houses in Kansas pledge low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Burgess
R. W. Watkin
Chas. Petosiah
R. W. Watkine
Charlie
Kansas
Innes' Dry Goods Seeks Bargains In July Weather
The notice touts a wonderful trade for July with hot weather. It claims standard merchandise at unusually cheap prices. It urges customers to bring their hard earned dollars to Innes' to get more than their equivalent in dry goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Gove
Innes
Bring Your Dollars Local Ad From Kansas Store
An advertisement promises more goods for the money in Kansas with price details for corn meal butter and other staples. The note credits A D Weaver and Whitcomb Bros with weekly corrections and lists various prices and items, though much is garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitcomb Bros
Lawasnow
Chanticleer
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Neighborhood News
Surreoning
Gamtie
Canning Company
John Wise
U. P
Belvoir
T. J. Lang
Mr. Connole
C. C. Cummings
Lake View
M. C. Connole
Kansas City
Misa Lina Petetiah
Oange County
Strawberrysown
Mud Creek
Orchard Enor
Grant Glenn
Eliza Glenn
Walter Moore
Junction
F. B. Varnum
Kungas
Louis Kellerman
W. H. Carr
John Ziegler
Teavenworth County
Routh
E. Kraus
John Kaegi
D. A. White
Colorado
Dr. Newlin
White
Emma Schlifer
John Schlifer
Lizzie Kunkle
C. Secord
Levi Ogle
Prairie Center
Thos. Reid
David Vestal
Thomas Rodgers
Oregon
Grover
District 24
Hysung
Coffeyville
Bie
J. R. Elmore
Mellen
Sullivan County
Geo. Gibbons
Lewis
Stevenson
Bock
Linwood
Mollen
Gay Hoag
Will Glenn
Free State of
Jefferson
Adriatic
John Bright
Gov. Martin
John
Jas. Beach
Town
Washington
Underwood
Baldwin
the Ledger
Chas, Rousset
T. Jeffries
Walker
High Street
Mary E
John R. Moore
Charley Ridgeway
John Topping
Enterprise
Dr. Thompson
Dr. Deeds
Tipton
Iowa
Lizzie Keifer
Los Gatos
Cala
G. G. Wharton
Mise Ida Humbert
Gardner
Joseph E. Rapp
Clover C. Cogswell
J. M. Sullivan
Claudius Rousset
Prof. Graham
George White
Mrs. Hair
Ninth Street
Mr. White
Bradford
Willow Springs
California
Fies
Ollie Buckner
Della Walke Er
Mary Ives
Laura Buckner
Mary Follin
Lalo Leonard
Stella Keown
Minnie ‘Carter
Grace Showalter
Helen Lenhart
Alma Boicourt
Bertice Simmons
Keysione
Hesper
Wisconsin
Hamilton
Elliott
Nigel
D. A. McClung
Sigel
T. B. Gray
Eva Sorter
Wyandotte
G. E. Taylor
Charles Petefish
William Tucker
Sigel Bridge
Eva Stevens
Lecompton
Wm. Dryer
Aultman, Taylor & Co
Bloomington
E. Brown
Blue Mound
Henry Dorrah
W. Waldie
Henry Corder
Fairview
Mr. Corder
Thos. Corrah
L. O. McIntire
O. J. Pains
Durango
la Plata
Ngton Creek
Watts
MeIutire
State of
A.D. Weaver
Lawrence Markets
W. C. Coup
London
Ie Sherman
Aig
Ana
Evry Essing
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