Interest Grows Ahead of Thursday Football Game
The Thursday football game draws rising interest as the contest nears with significant Lawrence money backing the Kansas team.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1899
Page
4
The Thursday football game draws rising interest as the contest nears with significant Lawrence money backing the Kansas team.
Miss Kate Riggs enrolled to pursue advanced work at the university with Whitlen and McDonald named officials for Thursday's pane. E J Leland of Ellinwood visits before Kansas City game. Economic seminary met. talks on securities as international payment and monetary articles. A mass meeting at chapel tomorrow noon. Enrollment totals corrected to 1055. Chancellor Snow and state board visit Lane university. Mining Journal and Biological club sessions reported. Honorary degrees conferred: McCook, Marvin, Peck, Martin, Robinson, Williamts, Cordley, Kellogg, Allen. Football box parties planned for Thanksgiving, music recital at North college. Geology shipments to Smithsonia and Europe. Haworth reports zinc ore finds in Osage county.
City officials quarantine five houses on the outskirts of north Lawrence amid cases of Cuban chicken pox, a form of smallpox feared to spread. The isolates are in place with careful monitoring and no fatalities thus far. The note urges cleansing and mentions unrelated ads for syrup, stoves, music, and coal deliveries.
Brisk demand for seats signals strong turnout for Hoyt's comedy A Black Sheep to be staged at the city opera house next Wednesday under Fred E. Wright personal direction Wright longtime business manager of Hayt and recent producer of A Contented Woman
The next New Eldridge ball series dates are set for December and December 29. Mrs. Cora McCullum Smith hosts a reclock dinner for Miss Margaret Sawyer of Topeka and Miss Adelia A Humphrey of Junction City, followed by a reception. Miss Louise Baker of Leavenworth becomes engaged to Dr. Lowndes of Maryland. Various social visits, parties, and travel plans unfold among Lawrence residents and guests, with weddings, dinners, and theatre and music events noted alongside campus and local happenings.
In Douglas County, a district court decision settled a feud between two Lake View bays. The report mentions local residents, nearby towns, and ongoing community events including a Sunday School association meeting in Lecompton with attendees from Lawrence and Baldwin City.
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