Old home town – 100 years ago today

From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 10, 1906: “Mrs. Abe Flory who was terribly burned recently by a fire in the fruit drier at her home near Willow Springs has died of her injuries. She was 27 and married six years ago. Hers was the sixth death in the family of Levi Flory within the past year. : Fraternities are suing a local photographer saying he charged double what he had promised in taking their photos for a yearbook. : A man employed here as a piano tuner has been arrested in Tulsa for defaulting on work on a piano he contracted to tune and stealing tools of another tuner in Lawrence before going south. : While driving the road to Lakeview the past week, Mrs. M.F. Smith who lives at 926 Maine saw and killed a rattlesnake which measured more than four feet in length. The snake had run across the road in front of her buggy. She got out and killed it with a club.”