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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1887
Page
2
Various notices from Baldwin, Leavenworth, and Atchison counties report births, deaths, marriages, land sales, and civic events. Updates include W.B. Cary welcoming a daughter, Judge Norton presiding over a marriage, Ella Talley’s death, a jail bond election in Johnson county, and the Soldiers' Orphan's Home opening in Atchison.
Readable notices recount arrivals from California and Kansas visits, church lawn social plans, a typhoid death, police court fines, travels of Capt. Gregg, injuries at a canning factory, and multiple social events including a Jeffersonian Club meeting, a Miss Kelley visit, and a De Soto area gala hosted by J A Pool.
Town notices describe refined minstrel performances at the opera house tonight and dances planned for Friday at Sim Purinton’s and the Eudora mineral springs grove. Farm and road work bids are approved for cemetery access, with payments set and bonds posted.
A West Lawrence wedding last Wednesday united J Gordon Gibb of this city and Miss Maud Riverdale at Riverdale home. The affair featured lantern-lit grounds, pale blue satin dress, silver brocade, and a canopy ceremony by Rev. Dr. Osmond. The couple, long residents of Lawrence, will honeymoon in Canada before settling at Riverdale for winter, with a large guest list and many gifts including a diamond bracelet and a silver tea service.
A conference at the Real Estate Exchange chaired by Dr. Cochrane with Lawrence Winchester and Jefferson county officials backs the Lawrence & Atchison railroad. Judges Emery and Edwin Brown of Lawrence and Norton of Winchester say the road will be built. Bond elections will be ordered with strong local support. Terminal facilities at Lawrence and a river bridge are secured. A large meeting of business men will be held to discuss details. Also, Justice Wilder of Eudora lists attachment cases for August 8 against P O Realey including Pilla Seybold Bros Albright Well Trefz Brender Davis Faust Copp.
The advertiser offers several fine Jersey cows and heifers in exchange for a team of horses or mules and will pay a good price for the team. Readers with a single horse or mule or team are urged to contact. Gasoline stoves on sale at the largest assortment in Lawrence.
The death of Henry Ross Friday morning ends a life of service and friendship. A former money order clerk in the Lawrence post office for seventeen years, he endured illness after a trip to Colorado and California. The Knights of Pythias led services and escorted his remains to Oak Hill Cemetery where he was laid to rest.
A February illness of the daughter of Mr. Rolfe in Reno township produced nightly fits with rigid muscles and bizarre vocal sounds imitating bells cows roosters owls whip-poor-wills and hens. The girl then leaped striking her head in several rapid moves. After a tonsil operation she improved greatly and is now healthy with no further episodes.
A piconic and dance will be held at Rose's grove by Lake View on Friday August 5. Water will be provided for people and animals. The event invites G A R and CC F members to bring families for an enjoyable time.
A theatrical agent, W A McConnell, travels by Ohio River steamboat from Owensboro to Evansville. After a night’s sleep he awakens at 8 am, mistaking their location and asking if they have reached Memphis or New Orleans. The captain and crew bewilder the agent as to where the boat actually is.
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