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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1890
Page
2
Mrs. W. H. Beatley returns from Ohio and several births are noted including a daughter to Mr and Mrs Paul Luckan and a girl to Mr and Mrs Wm Floyd on Pennsylvania Street. Pension granted to J Robinson of Baldwin City. Visiting relatives announced for Annie Morvitch and Flora Kingan. Various townsfolk travel, marriages, deaths, business moves, and a large list of community updates and notices in Baldwin and nearby areas.
All summer goods must be closed out within ten days to avoid carryover. The ad invites early inspection at 919 Mass Street, Lawrence, by L. C. McIntire. Also notes Chillicothe Normal School opens September 1890 with money refunds and paid carriage for presidential representatives if misrepresented. Allen Moore pledges improvements and low cost at Chillicothe Mo Normal.
All Summer-Goods Frank Thacher leaves for Lincoln Nebraska to join State Journal. Misses Lillie McMillan and Mamie Tisdale visited Merriam Park near Kansas City for a week. Mrs M L Eldridge appointed Matron of Pine Ridge Indian school. praised for Haskell work. Railway employes plan excursion to Bonner Springs next Sunday. round trip 50 cents. Indian agent E B Reynolds closes Haskell Institute case with sealed verdict. Mrs Mary B Patterson travels to Kingston New Mexico for illness of husband. funeral today at 404 Rhode Island street.
During the balance of this month the store offers very low prices on all Ingrain Tapestry and Body Brussels Carpets Mattings Curtains and Shades. Prices on all summer goods are the lowest named in Lawrence. An invitation is extended for careful inspection.
A promotional notice states prices are set to attract buyers and promises good dividends on all purchases during the sale. The tone invites public participation and emphasizes customer value and friendly pricing.
Lawrence residents can witness two English mediums Adrian and wife performing spiritual manifestations on Friday and Saturday. In other items a local school advertises diverse courses including normal scientific and commercial programs with a link to Electric City Business College. Leavenworth County F A I A meeting at Tonganoxie reelects officers and endorses state funding for 60000 copies of the Advocate for distribution. Next gathering set for the first Saturday in August.
A colored camp meeting and emancipation celebration is planned in Bismarck Grove starting July 26. A 62-voice opening chorus under Rev. T. J. Merritt will lead in Kansas, with speakers including John J. Ingalls and D. Ward. Various days from July 7 to August 30 mark Jubilee, Old Folks, Children’s, WCTU, and Grand Army events. A small gate fee will aid St James A. M. E. church in North Lawrence. Also reported is a house fire on Kentucky street causing $1,000 to $2,000 damage to Mrs Flora Bennett’s home, with fire crews saving much of the building and its contents.
The Kansas Democratic State Central Committee issues a delegate convention notice for September 9 at 11:30 a.m. in Wichita to nominate state officers and judges. Delegates are apportioned by county votes for 1888 elector candidate Sheridan and counties listed with per-county delegate counts.
Frances Lagrange, recently arrested at Hutchinson for bigamy, pleaded guilty and drew a three year penitentiary sentence. Jever Huemphney and Ex-Governor Anthony of the Board of Railroad Commissioners traveled to Washington to plead grain rate reductions before the Interstate Commerce Commission. A Topeka livery stable fire killed ten horses, the fourteenth blaze since March 31. Joan McPuai, a lawyer and writer from Lindsborg, died in a Kansas City saloon from heat and drink. A mother near Lawrence risked a child by leaving carbolic acid accessible. the two year old died after exposure. Colored Focumen families returning from Oklahoma report widespread fires and exodus. A Providence pension petition by John Dunnell, eighty-five, seeks land or other compensation as an orphan of a revolutionary soldier. A two-year-old son of Benjamin Spirul of Arkansas City perished in a barn fire started by children with matches. A burglar shot entering S B Pattee’s Osage City residence died. his partner remains at large. Douglas County Farmers Alliance plans a large Bismarck Grove meeting August 1 with prominent speakers. Jostrn Tribble was arrested at Wathena for the 186L murder of Jerry Kincaid tied to slavery disputes. Prof. S. E. Harker, former Columbus principal, suicide by morphine. a diary and a family history of insanity noted. Atchard reports a woman, whose husband drank heavily, attacked a package house. fined one dollar, paid by spectators.
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