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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1887
Page
3
The column surveys local activity in Lawrence with railroad and telegraph updates, street improvements, water mains, and social events. It mentions boat club trips, a church festival, a courthouse decision, and various ads for stoves, wagons, and gas fittings, painting a bustling midwest town scene.
A couple of horse thieves were captured near Engers on Thursday with four stolen horses. Ex-Marshals Prentice and Clarke from Eudora led the arrest after a tip from Officer Erans. The report also notes community notices and local ads including a lawn social and dry goods promotions.
An advertisement claims bed rock bottom prices at Weaver's dry goods store and invites shoppers to see for themselves. A court attachment case Mugler vs Laing was sustained with judgment for plaintiffs. Reports note early gas drilling in Greely Anderson County where 67 feet yielded small gas flow. Also mentions a remedy line praising Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for skin eruptions and Pellets as gentle laxatives.
Articles of incorporation filed to build a standard gauge railroad with a telegraph line across Wyandotte Johnson Leavenworth Douglas Jefferson Jackson Potts wottable Hiley Marshall Clay Washington Republic and Jewell to the Nebraska line. Estimated 250 miles, capital 4 million dollars, principal office Lawrence, 99 year term. Directors include Hugh P. Jewett W H Chick W P Rice Howard M Holden J F Richards James S Heartwell M S Best I N VanHoosen Geo J Barker A Henley Osbun Shannon F W Sartelldes and John W Webster. Work to begin within ten days, line to Hastings Nebraska. Also Young Men's Christian Association district conference in Atchison continues through Sunday. Opening reception for delegates last night at the M C A rooms. First session today at 9 o'clock with topics on association work. Prominent workers to participate.
Reading railroad bans drinking as new Kansas ventures loom with the Kansas City Lawrence and Nebraska line filing for charter with $4 million capital. Pacific Railroad Investigating Committee probes Union Pacific Kansas, while Canada Pacific plans Detroit service via Michigan Central and Wabash and Baltimore & Ohio. Kansas City Wyandotte & Northwestern aims to reach Leavenworth via Union Pacific tracks, skipping the Union depot. Rome dealer cites post interstate commerce rate hikes for furniture and seeks inquiry. R M Whitman leads surveying corps at Chanute, tracing a line from Charryysie to Neosho to Baxter Springs with early construction planned.
A scrambled sample merges health ads and public notices from 1887. It urges Brandreth’s Pills for vertigo and other ailments, promotes Green’s August Flower, and cites a Kansas fishing law with penalties. Included are rental and employment notices, bids for city work, and city officials signatures.
A local notice announces a cleaning out sale on hats and gentlemen furnishings to make room for fall and winter stock. Abe Levy The Hatter invites customers to view reduced prices with no indication of stock sellout. The piece also reports on a large moonlit concert gathering at South Stark with a polished band and steady crowd, predicting larger attendance next week. It notes social dancing, out-of-town visitors, and prominent local figures among the Lawrence crowd.
Special sale notice lists Manillz hats worth 2.50 now 1.75 and gents Mackinaw coats reduced to 1.50. Boys hats cut from 75c and 1.00 to 50c. Promotion urges shoppers to visit Abe Levy for bargains while noting gubernatorial notification about cattle disease near Greenleaf and April 2 Arkansas cattle influx.
Today scarce Combination Suits offered at half the original price for summer or fall wear. Warning issued to water consumers to avoid waste and to stop overnight water runs. Mental healer and teacher advertises treatment for diseases with home and correspondence options, consultations free, hours 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 at No 1187 New York Street.
A long list of residents and visitors with travels and health notes. Miss Fiers Fincher is ill. several people traveled to Topeka, Kansas City, Eudora, Winfield, Paris and Denver. Others moved homes, visited relatives, or left for summer trips. Notable mentions include Micael Mary and Lydia Griffith arriving in Queenstown, Ireland, and Supt. J. H. Hill traveling to Boston for a telegraph convention.
The Union Pacific depot ships about one carload of potatoes daily to Denver and Wichita with larger potatoes than in prior years. A farmer north of town received thousands of cut worms from Washington for experimentation. The fair track is being repaired and will soon be the finest in the west with horses training on it. A dynamite attack on St Zion chapel caused a stampede and a $100 reward was offered for the perpetrator. Locals discuss a canon factory on the north side of the river funded by subscriptions and a five to fifty dollar gum shove payment upon startup near the upper ice houses.
The ad urges shoppers to visit Innes' for deep cuts on summer remnants and lawn, white goods, and Swiss embroideries. It promises low prices on Swiss embroideries and muslin underwear, with widths and garments at 15 to 30 cents and other items, highlighting Saturday attractions in a cool, electricity lit store run by Geo Fennes.
A Washington boy of about ten opened a savings account, then executed a complex scheme to deposit and withdraw thirty dollars in multiple small bills over several days, tormenting the teller. The tale includes Swiss caution about haste and a rail against rapid clerical automation, with anecdotes about Governor Trumbull and Henry Ward Beecher.
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