Local Business and Personal News from Lawrence
Business briefs note Palmer and Griffin’s lime stock and Willey and Savage offering new cook stoves. Personal items list many visitors and residents: Noble, Hutchings, Innes, Gill, Little, Webster, Johnston, Baker, DeLong, and others visiting or returning from cities like Leavenworth, Chicago, Kansas City, Davenport, and Osage Mission. Teachers appointed for the school term and social mentions mix with arrivals, travels, and local commerce updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Noble
Leavenworth
T. C. Darling
Eudora
Geo. Noble
C. B. Mason
Ottawa
el- Gridge House
Dan Innes
Chicago
E. B. Gill
Kansas City
City
E. Little
Abile
Iowa
James C. Hutchings
Osage Mission
John Hutchings
Lizzie Johnston
Pennsylvania
Lawrence
Hattie Baker
George March
Alice, Noble
Lusk
Alice
Osare Mission
T. D. Thacher
Library Society
Ottawa University
Lou Mitchell
J. R
S. W. Spangler
W. C. Spangler
Milt Reynolds
C. .K. Adams
Michigan University
Board of Regents
Our State University
G. C. Rogers
Eureka
Greenwood County
Gazette
Alice van Buren
Laporte
Ind
Gen. Swaim
Washington City
Emma
Lyle Hynes
Grace Wilson
Mamie Butterworth
K. C
S.K.R.R
Kansas
James A. Reeder
Lecompton
Ida B. Reeder
Idaho Springs
Miss Reeder
Colorado
Lawrence City Ads and Weather Notes Highlight Local Life
Suburban notices show real estate transfers totaling 31350 for the week ending June 5. Advertisers from J W Beard to Willey Savage promote roofing, paints, carpets, and tobacco while Mr Moore plans a large grinder addition and improvements in North and South Lawrence. May 1883 weather reports record heavy rain, low temperatures, and a strong wind season with notable precipitation and a bustling Commencement season at Kansas State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. Moore
Lancaster
Moore
Dr. Yarnold
Missachusetts Street
George Gould & Co
Andy Snider
North
Lawrence
U.P
Regents appoint new chemistry and language professors
The board of regents named Prof. Bailey of Lehigh University to chemistry and Arthur Canfield to modern language, succeeding Prof. Patrick and Miss Campbell who resigned. The chancellor role was offered to Prof. C K Adams of Ann Arbor at 3500 dollars annually, but he may decline. Prof. Russell of Cornell is likely to be chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Regents
Bailey
Lehigh University
Arthur Canfield
Patrick
Death of Wm H Harman in North Lawrence Shocks Community
Wm H Harman, born 1855 in Virginia, died near Leavenworth after an accidental fall beneath moving railroad cars. A painter by trade, for five years a Union Pacific brakeman, he was respected for gentleness and duty. He leaves his parents, wife, and two children. Masonic rites were accorded at Oak Hill Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. H. Harman
North Lawrence
Leavenworth
Mr. Harman
Rockingham County
Iowa
Metasonic Order
Union Pacific Railroad
Oak Hill Cemetery
City Council Considers Halving Police Posts Next Week
Eleven council members attended last Monday's session where routine business was cleared and a proposal to dispense with two police posts, one on the North and one on the South side, was introduced. The council will reconvene next Tuesday to review the street railway ordinance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Council
Sde
For Sale Two Farms Near Lawrence With Houses and Fences
An 80 acre farm seven miles west of Lawrence offers 12 acres pasture 25 meadow and 35 cultivated with hedge stone and wire fencing. A one story frame house four rooms and cellar includes a stone table three wells and a cistern and several fruit trees. Price 2500 dollars. A 160 acre farm near a railroad station has 70 acres cultivated remaining meadow and pasture with hedge post and wire. A year round water stream, a two story eight room frame house and fruit and shade trees. In a good neighborhood, convenient to select and church. Price 4000 dollars half cash balance on time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Tileaway
Lig Springs
Greenwood County
Eureka
Perry
U.P. KR
Jani
Church
Dimites
Burtura
Clearch
Ton
Ganoxie
U.P. Ray
Kansas
Callar
Wakarusa Bottom
Phi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Palmer & Griffin
S. Beat. Cook
J. W. Beird’s
Willey & Savage
Massachusetts
Willey & Savage's
Massachusetts Street
Mattee
E. Taura
M. F. Simpson
W. W. Tones
L. E. Davin
Eva Schultz
J. W- Comper
A. 8. Olin
P. Oliver
T. N. Rickey
A. J
A B H. Lyons
Nellie Sands
Maria Wood
E. G. Oxborne
Afiss
M. A. Cone
Francis Deane
Misa Kate Williams
Killa Engle
A. E. Wood
Apitz
F. W. Wieman's
J. W. Beard’s
L. Bullene & Co
Methodist Church
J. W. Beard
May Lee
Virginia Smoking Tobacco
F. W. Wieman’s
Brussels
Geo. Innes
Costa
S. A. Brown & Co
Bowersock Bros
Lawrence, Kansas
Kansas Zephyr
Dr. Page
Presbyterian Church
Young Men’s Christian Association
Congregational Church
I. N. van Hoesen
Charles Knobhsdorff
Barber Bros
Biue Mound
Tuttie
Cowles
New York
Chas. Strong
Col. Walker
Douglas County
University Hall
Dread Society
Kansas State University
E. F. Caldwell
Weidemann
F. H. Snow
State University
N.W
N.E
S.W
Orophilian Literary Society
Normal
Oread Literary Society
Apltz
Ssu
GEO. Innes & CO
Canccis Street
Andrew Tosh
Bruce. E. L, Bruce. C. Bruce & CO
Mamachusette
Hans
PH. Weitzenkorn
Col
Warren Sts
W. H. Pendleton, ‘H. Kesting’s
Scoersion
Hale & Pendleton
George B. Edgar
General Insurance
Notary Public
U. S
Bowersock Opera Block
A. Reinsch, Florist
and Commercial Gardner
Lawrence, Cor, Warren & Mississippi
W. C. Nolan
Drauss
Fritz
Venost St
Lours
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