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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1890
Page
3
A rural roundup notes nationwide items gathered by The Gazette's corps of correspondents. Readers are urged to submit local items from surrounding neighborhoods, with communications due by Monday afternoon.
Willow Springs moves to Lawrence as E W Flory sells cider at ten cents a gallon. Reports cover weddings, travels to Arizona, school openings, wheat sowing, and local trades. In Bismarck and Keystone, encampments rise, building activity continues, and community life expands with farms, fairs, and a parade.
Heights hosted Rolla Buck with Mr and Mrs A H Buck as guests on Sept 16. Fourteen young ladies and thirteen gentlemen attended the celebration, giving gifts and playing games until 11 pm. Refreshments followed. attendees included Bertha Herschel and many others, with several gentlemen present.
In Leavenworth county Six Corners a handsome depot is under construction at Collins station. A Reno convention on September 20 nominated town ship officers with F. H. Pettengill as chair and Geo. Bauer as secretary. Nominations included trustee Andrew Greg, treasurer Gavin Allen, clerk Charles Bauer, and several justice of the peace, constable, and road overseer posts. Strawberrtown reports A S Wood buying a 20 acre farm. Hereford and Angus cattle moved from the Sweet farm. Arthur Smock in Cheyenne starting a business. James Gallagher visiting after years away. Wheat sowing begins despite soldier presence at Bismarck grove. Reno notes rains delay sowing. D. Bailley thrashes 300 bushels rye, a local rye- crop leader. H. Overholt and wife from Bear Creek visit Thos. W. Ford. Thos. Roberts, 21, dies near Reno from a fall injury while working on the U.P. railroad.
Handsome new line of wraps for ladies and misses praised as superior in the east. Prices listed include 350, 5.00, 7.00, 8.00 and 10.00 dollars. Also promoting blankets, comforts, hosiery, underwear with low prices. Leis Drue Co offers a large stock of painter supplies.
The text outlines the inaugural matinee schedule for Lawrence Driving Park Association with details for five stake races on October 15 and 16, entry fees, purses, and rules under American Association standards. It notes entries close October 11 with secretary Henry Tisdale and president O. E Leamant, plus conditions on exhibition and race timing. It also mentions other unrelated items including Hessian fly notes, sewer work, and local meetings.
A retailer warns that tariffs rising on dress goods, silks, cotton and woolen textiles will raise prices across many items including wool dress goods 71 to 96 percent silk and wool 53 to 72 percent linen goods 35 to 50 percent cotton hosiery 40 to 55 to 75 percent and plushes and velvets 50 to 145 percent. The vendor urges buying now while stock lasts and no price advance has yet been paid.
An excerpt from Frank Leslie's Newspaper challenges claims that farmers lack rights to progress. It contrasts past hardships with present comforts, noting higher farm incomes yet rising costs. It cites James Herrick and discusses land value, education, and changing household goods from hoecake to beef and chickens, highlighting the evolving farm economy.
The University vacancy in the painting department created by Miss Simpson’s resignation was filled by merging drawing with painting and appointing Miss Cora Parker of this city as chair at a board of regents meeting last week.
The Star Shoe Store offers 20c to ladies who walk from their home to the store to purchase rubbers. They pay 50c elsewhere, but the store sells at 30c. Short walk gets 50c to buy shoes, 10c to buy blacking. They aim to hire and reduce stock fast to sell out.
A brisk promotional notice urges readers to buy linens now while prices remain at the old notch, warning they will miss the deal if they delay. The brief suggests securing a supply before any price increase.
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