Wakarusa Notes Bright Wheat and Local Happenings
Local column from The Gazette summarizes community events in Wakarusa and nearby areas. Wheat prospects look good with a timely shower advised. Capt. Kennedy battles rheumatism. Ches tine Saxton returns from Oklahoma via Cherryvale. etc. Residents repair wagons, form a vigilance group against theft, celebrate Mr Tucker's forty ninth birthday, and discuss temperance, tariffs, and road projects. School and lyceum activities, church conference travel, and local farming updates fill the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Chestine Saxton
Oklahoma
Robert Whedon
Cherryvale
Lawrence
John Dodge
Ingersoll City
Inger Oll City
Shields
Major Kennedy
Wakarusia
Dexter ‘Tucker
John S. Williams
Mr. Tucker
Local Society Notes and Community Updates
Burlington Kansas residents visit relatives and travel for business while community figures fundraise for a university organ. Highlights include Mrs Dane visiting kin, Prof Shuck replacing Prof Hover, roadmaster Mike Fitzpatrick’s Denver trip, Mrs Cornell visiting Lawrence, and Rev Lawin moving to Prairie City. A crystal wedding at Quackenbushs features many gifts. The column notes a Bismarck windmill wreck and a poor wheat outlook after recent rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. G. Day
A. K. Lowe
F. C. Cornell
Lawrence
Laura P. Linn
Larned
Wa. H. Vernon
A. R. Greene
Washington
Denver
Prof. Shuck
Hover
Lane University
Mike Fitzpatrick
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Colorado
Geo. Finley
George
Asa B. Jeff
Quincy A. Hill
University Chapel
Willow Springs Farming Roundup Takes Stock of Local Trade
Willow Springs residents report good wheat prospects and active livestock trading as R. E. Thomas and Charles Flory return from Lawrence with fine stock. Weather has been poor, hindering oat sowing, but farmers remain busy with plowing and daily chores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willow Springs
R. E. ‘Thomas
Charles Flory
Lawrence
Real estate and crime notes from North Lawrence city
A compact roundup reports petty theft two coils of barbed wire worth seventeen dollars, nearby real estate sales and transfers including A C Myton’s north of Dicker’s store and W H Campbell on Lincoln street, plus houses rebuilt by D M Melvin and improvements for Mr C who recently married. It covers local land purchases by W White and others from Ohio buyers planning relocation, Joseph Miles selling Plano self-binders, and farm rents strained by land ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locust Street
North Lawrence
W. White
A. G. Norman
Maple Grove Cemetery
Ohio
Joseph Miles
Nine- Mile
Reno
Bridge Street
Plano
Douglas
Jefferson
Lawrence
Horace Greeley
Weekend hunting and campus notes from the Herald
Profs Robinson and Dyche bagged 35 ducks on Saturday morning. The taxidermy class, delayed by bad weather, met after its usual time. University correspondents at Head Center are not on good terms. Most students attended the opera Saturday night. Early risers found hacks scarce and had to wade. Local ads promote tinware, lime, and pumps from J W Beard and Geo Innes & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Profs. Robinson
Dyche
The
Herald
Head Center
Wade
Geo. Innes & Co
Leavenworth County Trading and Movements Noted
E E Hamlin shipped three car loads of logs to Babcock Co Lawrence. George Bauer plans spring work. James Hurd and Miss Moore visited last Sunday. Logan Zeigler bought the last available farm. J J Jones sold his effects. W I Griffits auctioneer. Andrew McGeary left for Salida Colorado to join D R G road under Ridgway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Hamlin
Babcock & Co
Lawrence
George Bauer
James Hurd
Miss Moore
Jim
Gale
Logan Zeigler
J. J. Jones
W. ‘I’. Griffits
Mr. Jones
Lexus
Andrew McGeary
U. P
Salida
Colorado
R. M. Ridgway
U. P. Road
Death of Nellie Rogers at Hill Home Farm Kansas
Nellie Rogers died March 21 1883 at the Hill Home farm near Lawrence Kansas after a brief illness of pneumonia. She was 15 going on 16 born in Pennsylvania and came to Kansas with her parents in 1871. Her loss saddens her loving parents and schoolmates who paid touching funeral tributes as her family receives broad sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie Rogers
H. B. Rogers
Hill Home Farm
Lawrence
Nellie
Pennsylvania
Kansas
God
Happy Twenty Fifth Anniversary Gardner Couple
In Philadelphia twenty five years ago Mr and Mrs John Gardner wed and last Monday night marked their twenty six year of marriage with a large Lawrence celebration. Nearly a hundred friends attended for a silver gift laden reception and lively dancing into the night. Gifts included water pitchers trays goblets and cake baskets from various friends in Philadelphia St Louis New York and Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addie Miller
A. G. Lawin
Prairie City
Sarah Thomas
Ottawa
Col
J. D. Thomas
Simon and
May Cotton
Mrs. Willett
R. Harris
Flora Myers
Jennie and
Sammie Marshall
Mrs. Sanders
Amy Green
L. S
M. E. Green
Derwood Quackenbush
Mrs. Bare
Frank Shepard
Philadelphia
John Gardner
Lawrence
John W. Moore
Frank A. Pratt
L. McMeacher
St. Louis
James Gardner
L. Roos
W. C. Nolan
Dee
Willie Roberts
J. McCurdy
James Ellis
Silk dress goods stolen from Geo Innes & Co store
Early yesterday a large amount of valuable silk goods were stolen from Geo Innes & Co. The robbery used the transom over the back door to enter. Loss estimated at eight to ten thousand dollars with about forty five packages of high quality silk dress goods taken and cheaper grades discarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Innes & Co
Miss May Churchill Becomes School Organist
High School Happenings notes Miss May Churchill is now the school organist. The school reports many visitors in the last two weeks and says several pupils have withdrawn recently. Eighth grade plans rhetorical exercises next Friday. The senior class finishes American literature this week and will begin English literature review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCreath
Gus Brune
Riverside
Sue Martin
Helen Baldwin
Lake View
Petit
Sheets
Bearman
Stock Market Report From March 28 Declines Across Markets
Eastern stock markets fell on Wednesday March 28 and a similar trend followed in local trading. Cattle prices ranged from 1.50 to 5.25 for traders and shippers 5.00 to 5.59 while cows sold 3.50 to 4.25 and calves 5.00. Yearlings moved 15 to 20 per head. Hogs sold 6.50 to 6.75 for the best, 6.25 to 6.50 for medium, stockers 6.50 to 7.00. Scarce supply and in demand for hogs and sheep brought 4.25 to 4.50.
Market Prices and Produce Listing for LaWRence
The document lists corrected market prices for feed, meat and lard, dressed meats, produce, green and dried fruits, vegetables, coal and wood. Items include bran, shorts, hay per ton, butter per pound, eggs per dozen, cheese per pound, honey per pound, apples and pears dried, potatoes and turnips per bushel, cabbages and beets per bushel, cabbage and parsnips counts, and various coal and wood types with per ton or per unit pricing. Entities include LaWRence, W. H. Pendleton, and a range of product names and price figures.
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the Gazette
Wakarusa
Jack Deal
Will Hammin
Mr. Stiner
Hugh
Cameron
E. Vermilyea
Haskell
Clinton
Lyceum
M. A. Payne
Jennings
Clemens
Lecompton
8. M. Dane
Burlington, Kas
Mrs
Fred Cook
Baldwin
Bismarck
Wiggins
Dr. N. Simmons
United Brethren Chapel
University Notes
J. W. Beard’s
Palmer & Griffin’s
Leavenworth County
Fall
August Strodeich
Son
Samuel A. Riggs
Strodeich
Stock Market
Lawrence Markets
Cherokee
Fort Scott
Blossburg
Pittsburg
Scranton
Body Brussels
Ingrain
J. J. McGee
Insurance Agency
Chas. Chadwick
Fireman’s Fund
UN Nion
San Francisco
Girael
Phiomphis
State of Kansas
Douglas County
Susan C. Dailey
Donglas County
Susan A. Danley
Eliza A. Spalding
SACO
County of
State of
Mary A. Stows
Frank B. Stows
Frank B. Stowe
Burgess & Hansen
Logan
Mocking
Joseph
Huffman
New Lexington
Perry
Samuel T. Atkins
Lincoln
Illinois
Jan Hutchings
Grand View Hotel
Charles Ross
North New Hampshire Street
Pierson’s Mills
Durfee
Steinberg
Clothier
Massachusetts Street
Frank Willard
Famous Heat & Shoe Co
Justus Howell
Osborne and Mccormick
Nichols & Shepherd
Aultman & Taylor
Eclipse Wind Mills
Fairbanks’ Scales
Rain & Turnbull
Racine
Watertown
Kans
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