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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1887
Page
3
Neighborhood news covers Lapeer oats sowing, a St Patrick's dance, local improvements, mineral springs, new factories and a planned hotel. Eudora eyes bank and dentist, fresh springs and a new creamery, with residents busy plowing and sowing amid dry weather and emerging railroad buzz. Oskaloosa awakens with a mining and business boom, new depot plans, thriving creamery, and hopeful growth across roads, courts, and parsonage projects.
Local says turning old Novelty Milla into a sugar factory for surplus corn may be possible, with Teavenworth cited as a model. A wind yesterday afternoon destroyed the large sidewalk sign, leaving it in seventy five scraps.
The report notes a growing Baldwin City with new cottages on Chapel street and planned depots as surveying parties reach the area. Population is expected to rise before Christmas amid a building boom and several local business shifts, with farms, orchards, and river bottom lands mentioned along with various local residents and ventures.
Frank Hoad died at his Lecompton home on March 20 from heart disease. He was 76, a longtime resident, and left a wife and three children. The death was sudden and the family has wide sympathy. Morris Welsh, longtime Taz Gazette friend, visited Tuesday. Welsh sold his 100 acre Sibley farm to John Carson of Blue Mound and plans to travel east before buying another farm. he also offers farm machinery for sale in another column.
More than 191000 tons of rock were quarried from phosphate beds near Charleston South Carolina last year with only about 11000 tons shipped to domestic points and the rest sent abroad. The state collects a royalty of 1 dollar per ton removed. A separate brief notes a Chinese custom of wearing two watches to cover potential misfortune. An unrelated ad-like fragment promotes Golden Specific liquor habit cure and a condolence address in Cincinnati Ohio.
George Innes advertises daily arrivals of new fabrics including ginghams crinkies and satins with an emphasis on elegant stock and frequent restocks, inviting customers to visit and shop the latest offerings.
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