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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1884
Page
2
The firm advertises multiple farms and plots near Lawrence and Clinton offering 80 to 235 acre tracts with timber, pasture, orchards, and homes. Prices range from 1,100 to 5,500 with easy terms and notes on improvements and water access. Numerous parcels include 120 acre and 160 acre options with cultivated land and timber, plus several smaller 4 to 8 acre plots.
Classified ad lists several frame houses in good neighborhoods with 3 to 6 rooms and fruit trees. Prices range from about 9 per month rent to 1100 purchase, with details on sheds, cellars, and shade trees. Includes properties near streets and with good improvements for immediate sale or rental.
Real estate ad listing multiple properties near Lawrence Kansas. Includes Cuba Piston Farm 60 acres fenced and cultivated with water, timber and a spring. Foreseen Acre Farm 80 acres near town with a well and old house. Cozy 35 room home with water and fruit. Profitable eight acre farm near school with fences and fruit. Sacrifice house with two lots and water on a quick sale. 100 acre farm six miles from Lawrence with 65 cultivated, wheat corn oats and timber, priced low per acre. Levi A Doane & Co. handles inquiries.
Leavenwold service update notes the BOING EAST Limited Express and the Atlantic Express with new accommodation changes at Leavenwold station.
A notice lists newly elected church officers including Trustees J. D. Bowersock S. O. Thacher J. G. Haskell and H. D. Mason Treasurer J. L. Edwards Clerk James D. Faxon Deacons Albert Newman O A Transcom and music committee members plus a brisk local ad mix of grocery and entertainment items and a marriage notice from Vineland.
Lawrence briefs report weekly temperance meetings at 3 p.m. on Fridays and a Douglas County basket meeting. A marriage license was issued for John Henderson and Parthena McMillan. Nine Cheyenne Indians arrive for Haskell Institute, total inmates 250 with 57 girls. Deputies take Reed and Stabi sentenced to the penitentiary. A fire damages Edwards' tailor shop minimally. Pension vouchers and county clerks handle pension day. Thaddeus Fish, 73, shaves after 24 years opposing a Democrat president. Plymouth Congregational Church holds annual meeting. 28 new members and 16 dismissed. Hon. D. C. Haskell dies.
Real estate ads describe 158 acre farm near Lawrence with fenced land, water, timber, and livestock. multiple farms within miles of Topeka and Lawrence priced from 11 per acre to 4000 for a central city dwelling. Agent D. L. Heapter promises viewing access and financing options through his office. John Chariton advertises a dwelling with two lots in Ohio. Train and travel tips offered by a city ticket office with price guarantees.
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