Program to discuss Mine Creek Battlefield

Historian Arnold Schofield and the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War will discuss the role of Mine Creek during the Civil War in a special program at 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass.

The program is part of the Civil War on the Western Frontier events and is free and open to the public. For more information, call 841-4109 or visit the museum’s Web site, www.watkinsmuseum.org.

Public library acquires collection of newspapers

The Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., recently has acquired a microfilm collection of 19th- and early 20th-century Douglas County newspapers.

The collection, housed in the Helen Osma Room on the library’s lower level, is composed of 38 microfilm reels. It is a joint gift of the Friends of the Lawrence Public Library, the Douglas County Genealogical Society and the Lawrence Journal-World.

Included in the collection are the Baldwin Criterion and the Baldwin Ledger (1883-1921), the Eudora News (1887-1923), and other area newspapers.

Of particular interest to many local history buffs are the Lane University newspapers College Echoes (1888-1891) and College Oracle (1892-1901).