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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
4
A collage of advertisements and notices includes hardware and harness shops, winter goods, and ice cream wares. Vendors boast quality and stock, while weather hints and local events mention a May 17 performance and a King themed play. Community notices invite patronage and service details across a Lawrence, Massachusetts page.
Early notice urges patrons to secure tickets for the senior play opening Monday morning at Woodward's drug store. Also lists local offerings from Wiedemann for ice cream and chocolates, Loomas Studio photos, and Bangton's building postcards.
A collage of local business blurbs includes HOADLEY'S pineapple ice from Wiedemann's, Automatic refrigerators, Kennedy and Ernst hardware at 626 Mass St, F.8. Bennett & Co carpet renovations, optical work by F Brock at 800 Mass, Morrison & Lemon at 744 Mass St offering loans, iron scrap buyers Lawrence Iron Works, Peter Samson shoe polish and dye, and Wind Mill Grocery run by Dick and Lewis with grocery and meat phone orders.
Santa Fe area travel offers announce Kansas City round trip tickets with May selling dates and return limits, plus Leavenworth and Sterling options. Local ads urge ticket purchases for events, shoe shines, electrical fixtures, farm loans, and senior play scenery seen as a hit.
A local notice promotes Jones Cigar and Tobacco Store at 727 Mass St with up to date fixtures and stock. It suggests change due to poor health and asks if anyone has lost anything, plus mentions Loomas Studio at 719 Mass and Sugar Bowl at 733 Mass. Street advertising ice cream drinks candies and plate molding.
County notes recounts Friday to Sunday visits across communities including Ballvie Mes James Connor Crane and James at J RB Allen's, Mrs Still returning to Des Moines, Ed James and Gus Schmad at Mr Joy's, and Mr Daugherty improving. Mentions Kansas City visits, farm chores, music teaching, road work improvements, and upcoming Lacompton Bilfers versus Lawrence Reds game.
The May 7 1906 Lawrence city council adopted a resolution for Warren street area grading curb paving from New Jersey to Delaware. Curb to be limestone or concrete. paving in two courses of vitrified brick with sand foundation and cushion. Roadway to be 30 feet wide and costs to be paid in ten annual installments. Petitions and details published in the Lawrence Daily Journal May 12 1906 and May 12 1908. Also Parole Application: Chas Smith will apply to the Prison Board on June 6 1906. comments for or against his parole will be considered.
Mr and Mrs Quakenbush entertained the Epworth League retiring cabinet and committees at their home in west Lawrence last night with about thirty guests. Items note guests and local visits, plus ads and notices scattered through the report.
Professors from the University are in demand for commencement talks across the state with dates set in May. Names listed include Abbott Independence May 17 Oliv Wetmore May 1 0 Blackmar Howard May 17 Op Lansing May 23 Moline Bay May 25 Burdick McPherson May 25 Blackmar Garden City May 25 Oliv Atchison May 28 and Sean Templin Holton May 20.
Topeka May 12 The supreme court disbarred J. A. Smyth of Kansas City Kansas for accepting a consideration to testify in a law suit. It also barred Clea D Burnett a Sumner county lawyer charged with manufacturing a spurious letter to be used as evidence in a civil case.
Hutchinson Kansas fire destroyed Mc Kee livery barn and the city transfer storage warehouse. About forty to fifty head of horses were burned in the blaze. Loss is estimated at about twenty five thousand dollars.
Obituary notes Baron Cur tie formerly British ambassador to Constantinople and ambassador at home, once private secretary to Lord Salisbury, and mentions details of his death. Also reports Davis as chairman, Geof Davis elected county Republican chairman, a marriage license to Robert B Rose and May Kitterington of Lawrence, and local notices including a Stabat Mater concert, Salvation Army meeting, a holiness rally, and MCA bowling results. The university bond case has been taken to the supreme court after filing in district court.
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