Premium list for Douglas County Fair to print 5000 copies
The Douglas County Fair premium book, 112 pages with hundreds of dollars in prizes, has been completed and 5000 copies turned over to the committee for mailing to farmers. Entries close September 21 for livestock and exhibits. season tickets cost a dollar, daily admission 25 cents, with numerous prizes across horses, poultry, grain, fruit, and farm products.
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Douglas County
Elmer Brown
AIP
W. RR
Anade
Badsky
Jaenk
Melville
W. FL Brankelshy
Marty Sihles
Douglas Ronnie Association
Bob Stewart
Kansas
Hanse
Ransine
Wazon
iHenn
Manwaring
Keclining
di Douglas
Bcene
Fair Association
Scotland
Cahill
John Dolist
Ar. Plank
Road Notice Forms Patchy Local Update From Douglas County
A late July 1909 Douglas County notice outlines a petition by HG Leaner and thirty nine others for a road location along Beehway centering near the West Coon Creek bridge. The board will meet with the County Surveyor to discuss the route and section lines as specified on the plan.
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Kirst
Lawrence Daly
Douglas Oniy
Kansas
HG. Leaner
Utters
Board of County Commissioners
Coon Creek
Union
Good Roads Questioner Seeks Better Township Road Work
A mining community questions county and township road spending. Residents note large expenditures but poor results and poorly worked roads despite the funds. They urge more effective use of money for road work.
The Squirrel Question and a Divorce Suit Notice
A reader reports minor tree damage from town squirrels and jokes that children should pay for losses. A divorce petition is filed by William F. Sinclair against Matilda Sinclair alleging extreme cruelty and abandonment.
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Wm. F. Sinclair
Matilda Sinclair
Obituary of Helen Zeporah Houston in North Lawrence
Helen Zeporah Oswald born October 19 1832 in Smithburg Maryland was the third of twelve children. She worked in Illinois to support her mother then married Samuel A Houston in Green Valley Illinois in 186? and moved to North Lawrence in 1877. She helped educate siblings and raised three sons Edward William and Charles and joined multiple organizations including the Lutheran church and Relief Corps. She died after a long illness on a Friday with stomach and bowel trouble listed as the immediate cause and is survived by her husband two sons three grandchildren her Maryland mother and eleven siblings.
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Smithburg
Washington County
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Illinois
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Green Valley
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Houston
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William
California
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Housten
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Avent Club
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Helen Houston
Tony
Oklahoma
Milneis
Weather and ads note women wanted in Chicago area
Indications show generally fair weather tonight and Thursday from a Kansas weather report. The page also lists ads seeking women for shirt making at Wilder Bros and promotions for books at Wolf's Book Store, plus a sale on a glass frame and various ice cream flavors.
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Ang
Kansas
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