From the Lawrence Daily World for July 29, 1906: “The state board of equalization in session in Topeka yesterday raised the assessed valuation of property in Douglas County to $474,085. Valuations in the entire state were raised about $4 million. The latest valuation will result in only a fraction of a mill of tax increase. : W.R. Stiner who lives three miles northeast of town threshed 47 acres and produced a wheat yield of more than 36 bushels per acre. It is by far the best yield reported in the Kaw Valley. : Last week besides supplying their Kansas trade, Bell Brothers of Lawrence shipped pianos to Bartlesville, Salt Lake City and Pullman, Wash. Bell Brothers’s fine pianos make friends wherever they go and they can now be found in every county and city in Kansas, along with presence in a majority of western states. . . . It would be a great improvement if merchants of Lawrence would pay more attention to the condition of their alleys behind the stores. Many show terrible signs of neglect.”