Neighborhood News From Belleview and Surrounding Country
Local notes report Mrs Willey and Mrs Reece visiting relatives in Kansas City. Elmer Allen hosted about thirty friends. visitors from Vinland Keystone Roscoe gathered for games and songs. School closed May 20 with 40 visitors, Miss Ida Reece presented children with cards. Mentions rain in Big Spring area, poultry diseases, new stores, and local farming news. A governmental tower was built on a mound at P A Simmons residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleview
Willey
R. Reece
Kansas City
Elmer
Ed. Allen
Vinland
Keystone
Roscoe
Ida Reece
Trial of property rights and corn yield debates in village
The text notes a trial of property rights set for mid June and discusses corn yields, mentioning a farmer who claims 125 bushels per acre may fall to 100 with pest pressure. It cites C. J. St. Jol, a U.S. pensions agent, in town last week taking depositions about John Adams who was injured on the North Platte in 1864.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buga
C. J. St. Jol
U.S. Pensions
John Adams
North Platte
Wyoming
Lawrence and Lecompton Notes and Local Happenings
A Kansas roundup from Jefferson Heights to Lecompton covers flax fields, wheat prospects, and farm crops with dozens of local names. Bailey to exhibit horses at Bismarck fair, Riley Brown returns from Iowa trip, and wolf hunting renewed. J C Burnett now in Topeka State Treasury, Ed Morgan visits kin, Vermilya plans southern tour, Young exits fruit business. Building on Massachusetts Street admired, comments on bluff view and University. Rev J Lewis Compton baptizes twelve. WCTU hosts a Saturday supper fundraiser. Local socialites Florence Davidson and Miss Anna Edmonds visit. Smith family illness improves. Snake hunting yields eight to eleven reptiles after a lengthy chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson Heights
C. Gillam
A. E. Owen
Bailey
Bismarck
Riley Brown
Iowa
North Lawrence
J.C. Burnett
Lovett
Topeka
Ed Morgan
Blaffa
XK. W. Vermilya
Ed Young
J.B. Watkins
Massachusetts Street
University
W. C
T. U
Lester Barton
Hannibal
Lecompton
Florence Davidson
Lawrence
A. K. Lowe
Anna
Senator Edmonds
McLouth
Maud
Lane University
Thomas Harrup
Frank Kerns
Arkansas
Kansas
Smith
G. W. Smith
Joseph Harper
Nestrophian Society
Frank Bonebrake
George Manning
Central National
Bank of ‘Topeka
Bonebreake
Eldorado, O
Coon Creek
Mshington Valley School Ends Year in Hoover’s Grove Dinner
The community notes a school term ending last Friday followed by a home dinner in Hoover's Grove on Saturday. Local updates mention Halderman’s satisfaction with school conduct, R. W. Watkins returning from California, and plans to move if a farm sale succeeds. Crop conditions show promising corn, wheat, and orchard prospects despite prior dry conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mshington Valley
Hoover's Grove
Halderman
R. W. Watkins
California
Bain
Birthday celebration at the Shank home in Tonganooxie
The Douglas county town reports a pleasant seventy fifth birthday gathering at William Shank’s home on South Tennessee Street. Attendees include neighbors and family. Shank, born in Bavaria, emigrated to the U S in 1833 and has lived in several states before settling in the area in 1860. The notice highlights community ties and future reunions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Shank
Tennessee ‘Street
Christian Shank
Shank
Howell
Crowns
Morgan Jones
Holloway
Hitchcock
Gideon Elles
Cane
Mr. Shank
Bavaria
Germany
United States
Pennsylvania
Onbio
Illinois
Kansas
Douglas County
Wishisg
Palmyra Notes on Crops Railroads and Local Figures
The Palmrya column notes clear corn and early potatoes with a hopeful outlook while lamenting a bug pest nicknamed grand petty larceny. It comments on a Kansas City to South America railroad bond vote, predicts the Paola and Lawrence line, and reports speeches by Col. Mason and a longtime Kansas visitor. Local residents Amy Green and U.S. Green are mentioned with rain, crops, lumber plans, and Kansas development efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmyra
Kansas City
South America
Baldwin
Paola & Lawrence
Col. Mason
Ottawa
Kansas
Wichita
Mies
Amy Green
Wellawille
U.S. Green
Louisiana
North
Wheat fears and creamery progress in Wexland district
The community discusses drought and chinch bugs predicting wheat yields at about half. A new creamery is up and ready to start business. Milas Iva Breeze recovers sight after a near eye loss. Flora Donn visits from Kansas City and returns home. A group of girls organized a farm wagon picnic, dispersing by evening with many young men observing in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Coffman
Coffman
Sam Blocker
Oversbrook
Chas. Butterfield
Wexland
Milas Iva Breeze
Kansas City
Flora Donn
Babbath School
Eudora Springs Attracting Investors And Visitors
A field report describes restoration work at Eudora mineral springs led by O. G. Richards with many men clearing undergrowth and building brick-bordered springs. Plans include a two story hotel and a flag atop one spring, plus a grand park-like setting with vistas toward the Wakarusa and Kansas River valleys, aiming to rival Saratoga as a regional watering place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezadora
O. G. Richards
Endor
Wakaraga
Kanes
Saratoga
Eudora
West
Endora
Morals From a Fatal Well Incident In Hesper
An accident near Hesper left Eliiott severely injured with brain and spinal damage after exposure to foul air in a well. Dre, Bischoff, and Taylor were summoned to assist and found his condition grave. He was taken home, semi conscious, with complete paralysis of the lower nerves and no recovery hope expressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dre
Bischoff
Taylor
Eliiott
Hesper
Rock Creek school closes tomorrow amid local farming notes
A shuffled local page reports H F Tossey’s school at Rock Creek closes tomorrow while Frank Deskines plows wheat and plants corn. Mr. Fitzpatrick of Topeka visits his children, and E M Snyder gathers signatures for a Ma rion township herd law petition gaining support. Mineral springs at Carbon dale attract many, with water shipments and claimed health benefits. water remains free to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Tossey
Rock Creek
Frank Deskines
Mr. Fitzpatrick
Topeka
E M. Snyder
Marion Township
Carbondale
Orchard Knob Circles of Lecompton News Report
A village chronicle from Orchard Knob notes Mrs Hill ill and Mrs Booth gravely sick. A Lecompton sawmill fire destroyed about two thousand feet of lumber. Social events include Miss Jennie McCall’s party and a Lake View fishing party. Local incidents cover hail damage, web worm crop losses north of town, wolves near S C Gillham’s house, and a lightning strike killing a steer in Herriot pasture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orchard Knob
Fred Hill
Booth
Lecompton
Robert Sulzen
Eliza Glenn
Alex McCull
Arkansas
Kansas
Jennie McCall
Huffer
Guy Horg
Julia Glenn
Will Glenn
Sallie Shirley
Emmet Hoag
Grant Glenn
Belle Booth
Lake View
A. Glenn
Biemarck Groves See Dry Weather and Gatherings
The two weeks of dry weather have left the grove with an autumnal mantel. A soldiers reunion in Bismarck is postponed to St Louis due to the national gathering there. The Fair Association aims for a grand fair, buffaloes roam the grounds two days weekly, and a street railway improves from Dicker's store onward. The apple crop will be small, and Union Pacific customers will see little change. A tall man near Mud Creek stands about eighty six inches tall, at twenty one years old. A Jones family reunion and birthday at Mud Creek, with a 1 p.m. dinner, drew friends and relatives. Mrs. J Jones celebrated her forty sixth birthday. The Jones lineage, many in the Kaw bottom near Lawrence, traces roots to Indiana twenty years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biemarck
Bismarck
St.Louis
Fair Association
Dicker
Union Pacific Company
North Lawrence
Mud Creek
John Jones
Snez
Afty
J. Jones
Jones
Union
State
Indiana
Kaw Bottom
Lawrence
Sand house at U P depot burns in North Lawrence
The sand drying house at the U P depot in North Lawrence burned last Monday morning. A nearby car with two or three cattle en route to Kansas City was damaged, one cattle badly burned and others scorched. The building had heated the winter season day and night near the track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. P
Kansas City
Beleg
Starrett Place in Fifth Ward Reverts to Commons
The Starrett property in the Fifth ward has been turned over to the commons for cattle and horse grazing. The large stone house, built by A. Starrett, cost about six thousand dollars but left him in debt and eventual loss. An earlier attachment on northwest lots failed to sell, disappointing the claimant. The building could rent for about fifty dollars monthly, yet taxes remain unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starrett Place
A. Starrett
Lawns Closeout at Seayard Followed by Payment Notice
About 500 yards of lawns remain to close out at Seayard. After these are sold, you will have to pay G 1-4c. Come soon. L. D. McIntire's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seayard
L. D. McIntire
Carpet and apparel sale at low prices by Ge o Innes
We offer in grains from 25 to 75 cents per yard and tapestry Brussels from 50 to 90 cents. Curtains by the pair from 2 to 3 dollars, muslin underwear, corset cords from 25 cents, bustles, hoop skirts, corsets, hosiery, parasols, lawns, batistes, samite, and related items all at low figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
GEO. Innes
Special Bargains This Week From Weavers
Special Bargains for this week offer linen hemstitched handkerchiefs at 10 1 20, five button scallop top kid gloves at 50c, lawns at 8c, orinelets at 5c, with many White Goods and India Linens touted as better values than Lawrence or elsewhere. No lower prices or better goods, from Weaver's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Lawrence
McINTIRE Dry Goods Sale Boosts Bar Gains Claims
A terse store notice promotes McINTIRE offering a large assortment of goods at low prices in Dry Goods and Care, inviting customers to visit for bargains and highlights in pets and related items.
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McIntire
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Wr. Hillman
William Hill
Pennington
Charles Pifer
Indian Territory
Nie Nickell
Grover
William Smith
McNaughton
Jack Tabor
Andrew. Gregg
Lizzie Mulcher
Smith's Hall
Dave Bennett
Boston
Mathew Simons
Mary Pingree
Lyndon
Aries Institute
Peter Salle
Mika Martha Powell
Will
de Mercer
Ecompton
J. Lewis
The
United Brethers
Tonganoxie
Lewis Davis
George Hallenback
Fort
Wolfe
Holton
Frank Newby
Familly
Tom Slaughter
Olathe
Slaughter
Hadley
Rae
Tonga Coal Company
Overbrook
Aurams
Huston
Grange
Radclff
Edgerton
Janie James A. Cable
Keystore
Prof
Stanley
David Davis
Hexper
Davis
Henry Bassel
Bassell
Thomas Elliott
Reno
John Anderson
S. C. Gillham
Nine Mile Creek
Wm. Miller
Jas. Hodges
Frank Car
Herriot
Harvesters
D. M. Osborne
W.H. Duncan
Lawhs
Weaver’s
Newmare's
Featous
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