IN 1977

The Lawrence City Commission was poised to make a final selection for the site of a new city hall. After a series of meetings the commission agreed to vote on the final location. The Bowersock Mills spot appeared to be a shoo-in.

IN 1962

Tonganoxie Rural High School District No. 6 was due to vote on a $621,000 bond issue. If the issue passed, a new high school was to be built in a park site north of the city on U.S. 24-40. The old high school building was 60 years old and had received four additions.

The four Tonganoxie High homecoming queen candidates were Jeanne Kesinger, Mitzie Curtis, Nancy Robb and Joyce Baker.

IN 1902

On Oct. 19, 1902, the Lawrence Journal noted, “A Chicago paper undertook to find out something last Sunday in reference to church attendance in that town. It counted the attendance in 233 of the leading churches. The total attendance at these was 257,000. Of this number, 207,000 were Catholics, who attended 56 of the 233 churches. In 177 Protestant churches there was a total attendance of 50,000. There is a sermon and a lesson in this that Protestant churches, if they value their existence and welfare, may well study with profit.”