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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
4
Chicago dispatch notes April 9: Partly cloudy with showers tonight and in the east Friday. Warmer tonight and Friday.
A fragmentary trade snippet proclaims Olson Bros. plumbing as reliable and affable with a boast of quality work. It pairs the claim with a playful reminder you cannot beat their ice cream elsewhere and cites Soxman & Co as a price reference, suggesting local business competition.
Officer Caroll arrested L C Wilson for bootlegging in North Lawrence and seized whiskey bottles cork screws and other paraphernalia. Wilson faces trial Saturday and has operated the nuisance for some time. Window display highlights sporting goods and souvenir spoons from local shops on Mass Street.
A local ad brief invites readers to Sunday dinner with P. F. Remington at 1030 Mass St and notes rooms for rent at 1930 Mass St. It also promotes Olson Bros plumbing work and Newby footwear for spring shoes, urging readers to come early for their size.
A series of weddings and anniversaries across Lawrence and nearby towns. Grace Colman wed William Elkin at Nine Pines Kanwaka. Agnes Gardner and Frank Foster wed in Gilen Elder area. Maude Winter and James Burnett tied in Lecompton with seventy guests. Leda Oehrle and Frank Scott married at the bride’s home with a small gathering. The Hortons celebrated a golden anniversary. Charles Macdonald, Pawhuska city attorney, linked with Anna Hubner in Pawhuska. Mrs Horton and Judge Horton noted as respected locals.
A traveler on the Union Pacific reported a missing pocketbook at Lawrence. L. C. Eby was fined 25 dollars for petty larceny. the pocketbook with 42 dollars was recovered and returned. The suspect, a fireman on the Southern Pacific, and a woman Pearl Watt were arrested after the victim, who lost his name, followed the pair. The recovered pocketbook was found with the missing three dollars later. Also advertised big shoe sale at Hutchings Shoe Co. and church chicken pie dinner with bazaar at the Baptist church on April 11.
Report from Ottawa states two inmates, R. C. Jones and Feinpold, escaped by boring through a brick wall while kept in the corridor. Schneck remained jailed in a locked cell. In Lawrence, a woman described tiring card parties and revived old parlor games as youths laughed at her reminiscences.
W. T. Wellman arrived from Concordia reporting that plans for a new Carnegie library have been accepted. The building will be erected at once as the county commissioners approved the project and allocated the necessary funds.
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