Old Jefferson Town

From the Prairie City Freeman’s Champion, August 13, 1857 (Prairie City was an early town about a mile west of present-day Baldwin City, Kansas.) The rush to Osawkee for the past week or so, has exceeded anything of the kind that ever occurred in the country — almost excelling California. The scene at Osawkee beggars description — resembling another Saturnalia or Pandemonium. Drinking, gambling and spreeing are the order of the day and night. Still we have heard of no serious

Loses Wife from Car, Drives on From the McLouth Times, June 27, 1929 Dr. Cain is the recipient of many ha, ha's from his neighbors and townsmen these days, who were let in on a rich joke on him — fortunately not a serious joke. He and Mrs. Cain were en route to Lawrence in a two seated car, the wife in the rear. To make a turn at a corner and avoid an obstruction the doctor swerved the car rather sharply. Mrs. Cain, being drowsy, lurched sideways and tumbled out the door, whi