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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1899
Page
4
Notice to consumers of city water and a week long sale on remaining holiday goods. The office will be open all day Friday and portions of next week. Prof. Samuels to be in Lawrence at Eldridge house on Friday December 29 for one day.
A store announces a post holiday cloak sale with radical price reductions on all garments to convert stock into cash. The owners frame it as plain business judgment cutting prices below production cost and urge customers to buy now with three months of wearing weather ahead.
A. D. Weaver notes that the comedy My Friend from India plays tonight at the opera house. The script references the order of the yellow robe, an advanced branch of theosophy tied to India, used to fuel many bright situations in the work by H. A. Du Souchet.
The Modern Woodmen plan an annual reunion for members and families this week. A large scale factory operation is planned after January 1 with pipe and smoking articles sold at cost, while the retail store will be quit and the building offered for rent or sale. No action occurred on joining an inter-city bowling league though support existed. a meeting is set in Kansas City for league arrangements. Professor S J Hunter of Kansas University will lecture in Topeka on Alfalfa Culture and Insect Life at the State Board of Agriculture session in January. Holiday postal and express work continues despite merchant rush, and Judge Kies approves placing a civil case for trial ahead of criminal cases in February crust.
Miss Birdie Watts travels to Kansas City visiting relatives including Mrs. Levan and Mrs. Kirk while guests at W. Smith's home. A Thursday evening December 25 reception will honor Rev and Mrs Bennett at the Unitarian church with songs by Myrtle Lawton and Augusta Flintam and a reading by Mrs McCullum Smith from Sonny. C F Scott of the Iola Register was in town en route to Topeka for a State Teachers meeting address. Col Wilder S McCalf returns to Lawrence after time in Ohio and a trip to Washington.
The Lawrence Kansas Board of Education met to consider bids on the Lane and Park school properties. All bids were deemed too low and rejected. The board will not re advertise for new bids at present. Captain Haskell was ordered to inspect Pinckney school for extensions and cost estimates. Also listed are uncalled letters for the week ending Dec 27 1899 at the Lawrence post office with instruction to say advertised when claiming.
Mrs. Wilson Sterling was struck near Louisiana Street between Quincy and Hancock about 9 30 PM while returning from a Christmas tree at the Congregational church with two children. A robber demanded money, beat her, and fled when she yielded her handkerchief believed to hide receipts. The blow left her conscious but she recovered, with police alerted and no clear suspect.
At the Lawrence Circle No 75 G A R regular meeting the election of officers for the ensuing year was unanimous with President Mrs Brooks Senior Vice Mrs Selig Junior Vice Mrs Gillham Chaplain Mrs Munk Treasurer Mrs Engle Conductor Mrs Teters Guard Mrs Levan Pianist Miss Laura Engle Delegates Mesdames Crutchfield House Hargis Teters Moore Alternates Mesdames Rankin Colwell May Moore Miller Gridith Also notes on dental prices and Dr Wheeler 29 Massachusetts street and a busy Kansas university faculty during holidays with several travels and civic meetings including district court and city council schedule.
The Christian and U B churches held a joint Christmas tree and the new U B church debt was fully paid. Revival meetings with Elder Thomas and K E Stone were held near Deer Creek Christian church. A maple grove expedition to Arkansas river described, with mining interests near Lawrence. The Washington Irving Dramatic club plans dramas, farms market corn, and local weddings and gatherings occur amid harsh winter weather.
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