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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1905
Page
4
Fragmented OCR lists multiple ads and notices. It mentions Cleland's Clean Coal with pricing, a room address at KK L Charlton, and a sale with items like waists, jewelry, and notes about Dr Owen osteopath and optician at 977 Main Street. Names include Mrs J B Shearer and Gustafson the jeweler.
The university registration office will canvass town to verify rooming and boarding offerings for students. Inspectors will assess sanitary conditions and exclude places with wet cellars poor drainage impure water or recent disease. The effort aims to place students in safe clean housing and to catalog available student employment.
Flower Pots notes a pleasant soap fragrance for summer as Woodward & Co offer three cakes for a quarter. The piece hints at light humor and mentions Sam Moore in a playful context.
Sale notice describes a rich residence adjoining the city at the corner of Pennsylvania and Morris. Eight rooms with large halls, apple store, closet rooms, cellar under whole house, first class furnace, porcelain bath, two wells, detached building for helpers, outbuildings, nearly six acres of highly improved land. Price $7,000 cash $2,500 balance payable inspection invited. Also lists wallpaper, pies, cigars, meat, and various services from local Lawrence merchants.
City council adjourned session passes curb and gutter ordinance, rejects Elliott street bids, and orders new advertisements. Aladdieston bid for west end but not east. Wheeler warns against higher combined bid. Huddleston offered to do entire job at same price. Clerk instructed to advertise for sidewalk construction bids for next year.
New parasol covers and repairs are now available at Rutter's shop. The shop showcases a range of parasol styles and performs mending and restoration work on damaged canopies to restore their weather resistance.
George A. Flory has been appointed bond clerk in the state treasurer's office in Topeka, taking the place Walter Payne held. He earns 1200 dollars annually and was recommended by Senator A. Henley. Lawrence friends express pleasure at his appointment. Prof. E Maworth to address the state good roads meeting in Topeka next week. A heavy fog occurred around sunrise this morning. Smith's News Depot offers good cigars.
The August issue presents a broad survey of the Great Northwest including history and resources with vivid illustrations. The publication notes no advance price change for this issue and highlights its value as a home essential.
The virill team of Athenta council Florida will travel to Joplin Missouri for a district convention and picnic at Lake Skle Park on August 1 2 and 11? It notes handsome new suits for the occasion and that general and local officers will be present with members from Missouri Kansas Indiana Territory and Arkansas expected to attend.
Mr and Mia Lindell of Lone Star announce the birth of a daughter on July 21. The couple lists household goods for sale at 72 Now St Hampshire Street as they share the happy event.
A chaotic ledger of Lawrence residents and guests reveals many locals and visitors traveling to Denver, Topeka, Wichita, or Lincoln while others attend events in Kansas City and Excelsior Springs. Notable names include Mrs. Campbell, Miss Scott, Mr. Weiser, Prof. Preyer, and Mr. Collins. several departures to Denver, Lincoln Park, and Anniston are noted along with burglaries and studio vacation gaps.
A ragged OCR page lists paint for mail carriers, railroad engineers, and funeral notices. It notes postal decisions on pay for painting boxes, a North Kansas line crew heading to Onaga, and obits for Margaret Nesbitt, with ads for furnaces, upholstery, cigars, blacksmiths, optician services, and bicycle repairs.
County Superintendent C O Bow man lists districts hiring teachers with names, term lengths, and salaries. Numerous educators across districts 1 through 86 are named with seven to eight month terms and payments ranging from modest stipends to several hundred dollars.
Fred Below was tried before Justice of the Peace Phillips in Grant Township for violating the prohibitory law. The trial was moved to avoid prejudice. He Low was convicted on two counts after a jury trial and the case will proceed to the district court. E T Rilley of the county court represented Below.
Sealed bids will be received by the City Clerk of Lawrence Kansas until 5 p m August 1 for grading curbing and macadamizing Elliott street from Indiana to Michigan and for grading and macadamizing Mott street from Michigan to city limits. Eligible bidders must submit certified checks of 300 with bids for full or partial work including curbing only on Elliott street. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
Lawrence Kansas invites sealed proposals by the City Clerk for storm sewer on Adams Street and for brick sidewalk construction on a year ending July 31. Proposals due August 4 and August 7, 1905. City Council may reject bids. Ordinance details curb and gutter specs and cement mixes. Mayor J. A. Keeler attests.
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