Local advertisements and notice roundup in Lawrence
A digest of commerce and notices from Douglas County Kansas. The items include stove sales and building materials from Willey Savage and S A Brown Co on Massachusetts street, rubber and oil paints by Barber Bros, silk dress promotions at Geo Innes Co, a New York style invoice at Mrs Gardner’s, and a June 4 1883 County Board of Equalization meeting at the county clerk’s office for Douglas county with avenues for appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. A. Brown & Co
Massachusetts Street
Barber Bros
Lawrence Kansas
Geo. Innes & Co
County Board of Equalization
Board of County Commissioners
Douglas County
Kansas
Lawrence
N. O. Stevens
Notable Visitors and Residents at Lawrence
Local column notes several visitors and residents in Lawrence including C J J Crippin of Salina, Geo A Bowlus of Iola, J H Roberts of Iola en route to Topeka, M Bailey of Chanute, and Sydney Dailey visiting Chanute friends. Also listed are travels of Arthur Ross, L C Graves of Niagara, N Y, and Crom Johnston returning from the East. Hon J R Hallowell and Sidney Clarke with wives visiting, plus Joe Ross heading to Colorado mines and Wm R Sheen en route to Buffalo for an order meeting. Captain C T Ewing of Thayer praised Lawrence and its prospects. M C Sullivan of Independence—now in mining interests in Idaho, Montana, Colorado—visited The Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam. Cory
Excelsior Springs
C. J.J. Crippin
Salina
Geo. A. Bowlus
Iola
J. H. Roberts
Topeka
M. Bailey
Chanute
Eldridge House
Sydney Dailey
J. A. Dailey
J. D. Carson
Union Depot
Kansas City
L. A. Brown
Austin Turner
Bradshaw
Neb
Henry
Roy
Indiana
South Carolina
Bradley
Mary
Philadelphia
Wm. Faxon
Arthur Ross
Ross
California
L. C. Graves
Niagara
N. Y
Lawrence
L. Bullene
F.C. Jocelyn
Independence
Kansas
Sidney Clarke
Sidney
Joe Ross
Colorado
Gazette
Wm. R. Sheen
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Buffalo
Grand Order
C.T. Ewing
Thayer
Ten Room House With Cistern In Fruitful Dest Neighborhoods
A concise listing describes a convenient ten room house featuring two cisterns and abundant fruit trees. The property sits in desirable neighborhoods with accessible amenities and promising cultivation potential.
Local notices and ads mark city life and trades
The column mixes legal notice about a deserted wife and debt refusal with city updates. It mentions population 12 300, nine prisoners in jail, local merchants advertising goods from tinware to carpets, and contractors moving into new premises. It notes Sheriff Asher recovering a stolen horse, a fall injuring Mrs Hughes, a birthday party, and railroad depot updates. It also reports tax rebate claims and a grand store opening forthcoming.
Lawrence plans extend street railway lines to university area
The Gazette reports ambitious city plans to build streetcar lines along Massachusetts and Tennessee streets to the University and Bismarck Grove, aiming for completion by fair time. Preparations for Fourth of July fireworks and Chinese crackers are underway, with Weidemann selling confections and ice cream. The paper notes rapid growth and solicits readers in painting classes led by Mrs. Brown starting June 4 at Indiana and Winthrop streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Nessee
University
Bismarck Grove
Bismarck
Weidemann
Welcoming Returning English Visitors to Lawrence
The GazETTE extends a cordial welcome to Mr Branscomb and his English companions returning from Europe. Branscomb, a pioneer emigration leader, may lecture on early Kansas in Lawrence. His associate Mr Brumwell represents English capitalists exploring wool manufacture investment in Kansas. The piece highlights wool growing progress and Kansas coal and water power supporting a potential woolen factory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Europe
Lawrence
Kansas
The
State Historical Society
Branscomb
Mr. Branscomb
Brumwell
Mr. B
America
North Lawrence notes and local commerce brief
W DeHoff and Co bought a steam engine and thresher shipped from Battle Creek Michigan with a potential stacking device if wheat harvests demand it. J G Burke and Mr Lawling return from a southern Kansas trip and may buy a Douglas farm. Kelso buys over 25 000 bushels of wheat near Lawrence, shipped to Leavenworth. Kimberlin exhibited a 111 pound catfish and smaller ones worth 11 dollars. two suspicious horse thieves were spotted near Gov Robinsons farm planning to steal horses but fled toward Leavenworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. DeHoff
Reno
Lawrence
U. P
Leavenworth
D. A. Kimberlin
Gov. Robinson
Surprise Party for Mr. and Mrs. Woodward
Friends in a large Kansas City farewell tendered a surprise party to Mr. B. W. Woodward and family as they plan a future in Kansas City. Hosts provided abundant refreshments and a memorable evening while expressing best wishes for success and a hopeful return to Lawrence within a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Woodward
Kansas City
Woodward
Lawrence
New organ for Sunnyside school house at Sarcoxie
Residents of the Sarcoxie district fund a new organ for the Sunnyside school and Sabbath school. Miss Nellie Wood and Sarah Ray are praised for organizing the funds, with support from Campbell, Martin Adama, Mark Hill, Ed Canavan, W. F. Harmon, and others. The instrument, purchased from Carl Hoffman of the Kansas Organ company, is described as fine and will boost neighborhood enjoyment and sociability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunnyside School House
Nellie Wood
Sarah Ray
Messrs. Campbell
Martin Adama
Mark Hill
Ed Canavan
W. F. Harmon
Carl Hoffman
Kansas Organ Company
Farm for sale near Lawrence with varied land and house
An 80 acre farm seven miles west of Lawrence offers 12 acres pasture 25 acres meadow 35 acres cultivation. Fenced with hedge stone and wire a one story new frame house four rooms and cellar stone stable three wells and cistern fruit trees Apple peach cherry plum. Price two thousand five hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Big Springs
Greenwood County
Eureka
Perry
U. P. Ry
Eudora
Price
Tonganoxie
U. P. Ray
Kansas
Wakarusa Bottom
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Palmer & Griffin's
Coe Stoves
J. W
F. W.wieman
Willey & Savage
Willey & Savage's
Massachusettstreet
Catharine Beck
Henry Beck
J. Beard
L. Bullene & Co
Palmer Griffin
Methodist Church
J. W. Beard
May Lee
Virginia Smoking Tobacco
F. W. Wieman’s
Mayor Bowersock
Messrs. Bailey & Smith
Brussels
Nottingham
LL. Bullene & Co
D. C. Haskell
K. C
Santa Fe
Force
Bowersock Bros
Lawrence, Kansas
Kansas Zephyr
Western Union Telegraph Company
van Bennett
Campbell
Mrs. Gardner & Co
Asher
R. C. McCrimmon
Palmyra Township
Peoria
Franklin County
William Hughes
Dr. Miller
Daisy Herrington
Jake Herrington
E. Q. Cox
John Egner
Gable
M. J. Burlingame
Miller
Steinberg
U.S
Keifer
Atchison
Innes’s
Haskell
Ion
Chas. H. Branscomb
North Lawrence
Sarcoxie, Jefferson County
Andrew Tosh
C. Bruce
E. L. Bruce
C. Bruce & CO
Massachusetts St
Kan
Oni
PH. Weitzenkorn
Col
Warren Sts
W. H. Pendleton
H. Kesting
Hale & Pendleton
Ceuter Ix
SG & SS
George B. Edgar
General Insurance
Notary Public
U. S
Bowersock Opera Block
A. Reinsch
Florist
and Commercial Gardner
Col. Warren & Mississippi Sts
W. C. Nolan
Deucez
Our Frits
Venwonrt Jr
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