Spring Stock-Boots and shoes. Prices Low. Mason's. We Call Your Attention TO OUR SPECIAL SALE OF BUSINESS SUITS For Youth and Men. We shall sell our $10 suits for $8.00 “ “ 12 “ 10.00 “ “ 15 “ 12.00 “ “ 18 “ 15.00 “ “ 20 “ 16.50 For the Next 60 Days. Our suits, in fact all garments in stock, are marked in plain figures and sold at the marked price and we claim to show the best medium-priced suits in Kansas City from $8.00 to $25.00. Come and see them. Geo. W.Woodburn & Co. One Price Clothiers, Purnishers and Hatters. 547 MAIN ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. ORATORY C. H. PUFFER, Topeka, Ks. The summer session of the Topeka State School of Oratory will open June 20. Length of term, six weeks. Dramatic Elocution, Oratory, English Literature, Rhetoric, Logic. Full course, 90 lessons; $20.; partial course, $15. Five free lectures on elocation. Board, with room, $4. to $6. per week. Address. Mr. and Mrs. Atwood, of Manhattan, visited their daughter Birdie this week. Eight weeks Normal Institute of the Lawrence Business College and Academy, beginning June 12. Thorough instruction in Arithmetic, Algebra, Physical Geography, Physiology, English Grammar, Penmanship, Elements of Book-keeping, Pedagogics, French, Latin. Special advantages in commercial branches and short-hand. Tuition for the Normal Term, §8. Miss Anna Barker visited the University Tuesday. Helen Webber and Anna Barker were in the halls Tuesday. Summer flannel shirts of all styles at Abe Levy's. Frank Olney is with us again for a short time. He has almost entirely recovered from his late illness. Buy your summer underwear at Levy's. F. G. Crowell left for his home in Atchison Wednesday to be gone about a week. Abe Levy has the largest stock of straw hats in the city. R. C. Manley was among the visitors Monday. Summer coats and vests at Crains & Urbansky's. Miss Cora Henshaw was renewing old acquaintances on the hill Monday morning. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Mr. Ellis B. Noyes, of 74, is Assistant Engineer of locks and canals of New York state, with headquarters at Syracuse. From this time on until commencement and all commencement week those of you who want to have a good time should take your friends to J. M. Allen's ice cream parlors. Fine assortment of fresh home made candies always on hand. Summer coats and vests, the finest and noblest line in the city. You ought to see them before you go on your summer vacation. Just the thing for hot weather. At Crain & Urbansky's, the Boston Square Dealing Clothiers. Nell Griffith is spending a few days in Topeka with the Misses Hynes. How well you are looking Brown. How well you are looking Brown Yes, it's what they all say. I've been drinking Stoddart's Buffalo Mead for the past two weeks at Raymond & Co's., and its effect is marvelous, as you see. Just try it. Misses Mary Gilmore and Mary Miller who have been teaching in Abilene will attend commencement exercises. Misses Tisdale, Buzzell, Hadley, McMillan and Benedict were among the young ladies who were interested enough in base ball to attend the game Tuesday between the K. S. U. U. and Baker University nines. Vanity Fair cigarettes, ten cents per package, with fine metal case, at Smith's. See those nobly summer coats at Crains & Urbansky's. Miss Emma White was among the visitors Tuesday. Big hat sale at Levy's. Roy Hair went up to Leavenworth last week. Remember that Abe Levy sells straw hats cheaper than the rest— Call and see for yourself. Miss Alice Penfield is visiting friends. Boys' buy your new straw hat of Abe Levy. Lizzie Pettee, a former student is visiting Anna Barker. Scribner, Century, and the Forum, for May, at J. D. Smith's. Levy's is the place to buy your straw hat. Mrs. C. P. Grosvenor and Miss Wemple were visiting at the University Monday. Geo. Kumler was at the University the first of the week. Miss Emma Derring and Mrs. A. J. May visited the University Monday. Coughs, Colds, Consumption.—Dr. Himoe's Pulmonic Elixir never fails to give relief. Every bottle is warranted. Price 50c. Sold by all druggists. Ball goods, dumb bells, and Indian clubs at Smith's News Depot. Cigars and cigarettes, all brands at Smith's. Prof. Wilcox delivered a lecture at Atchison last week. MAY 11th, 1888. FIELD & HARGIS WEST NEW BRIGHTON, STATEN ISLAND, DEAR SIR: I have your note of inquiry of the 6th. I do not remember that I received an invitation to serve as judge of the Inter-State Oratorical Contest at Greencastle, Ind., May 3d, and I certainly did not decline. Leslie's Popular Monthly, the North American Review and the Form at J. D. Smith's. Are prepared to give estimates and show samples for the Finest Kind of engraved invitations for the Graduating Class, and for Society and Class Parties and Receptions. Also can supply MENU CARDS for Banquets and Suppers. NOTHING shows more clearly that there was a deliberate interest on the part of the President of the Inter-State Oratorical Association, and the other members of the executive committee, to choose judges that were bitter partisans, and who would mark the production of the Kansas orator low, than the fact that Mr. Campbell was written to by our orator, some months before the Contest was held to know if the judges had yet been selected, and if so, who they were? To which he replied that they were having some trouble about selecting the judges, and that he was not at liberty to state all the facts in the premises. Now, it has been since ascertained that one of the judges, at least, on thought and composition who was a bitter partisan had been selected when Mr. Campbell wrote that he was not at liberty to state. Why was he not at liberty to state? The constitution of the Association provides that he shall state, "why did he not do so? Because he knew that this judge who had been selected at that time would be challenged by our orator. The constitution provides that each State shall have two challenges. Again, when our orator reached Greencastle, and learned who had been selected judges on"Thought and Composition," the President of the Association was asked if these were the only men that could be procured for judges; he answered :— "that they were." He said hundreds of men had been written to, and none but these would accept; he proceeded to name over some who had been written and who had declined, among them he named Geo. William Curtis. These men have all been written to since to know if they ever received such invitations, but only one answer has as yet been received. We append a copy of this. Please call as soon as possible, so as to give time for good work. Agents for Childs, of Chicago, and carrying samples from the greatest engraving firms in the United States. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. Miss Rose Nelson enjoyed a short visit from her father the first of the week. The Century amd Scribner for May at J. D. Smith's News Depot. Buy a summer coat and vest of Crains & Urbansky's before going home, you may not have this splendid chance again. FIELD & HARGIS CARMEAN & HARBAUGH Have the Popular Livery Stable of Lawrence EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS. The Finest Hacks and Call Carriages in the City. Special attention Paid to Students. Telephone No. 139. 818 and 820, Vermont Street, Opposite Lawrence House. N. H. GOSLINE, Fancy and Staple Groceries, 903 Mass. St., LAWRENCE, KANSAS. NEW BILLIARD PARLOR. Finest Billiard and Pool Tables in the City. Choicest Brands of Imported and Domestic Cigars. A Fir class resort in every respect. HENRY MARTIN, 744 Massachusetts Street. WILDER BROS., Shirtmakers and Gents Furnishers, Lawrence, Kansas. We have on hand shirts and underwear that have been made to order for parties and not taken, these garments are made from first-class goods and we are selling them for about $ \frac{1}{4} $ the regular price, if in need of any you will do well to call and see if we do not have something to fit you. Our Steam Laundry.—We have a steam Laundry in connection with our Factory. Send us your Laundry work—we know you will be pleased. Work called for and delivered. Telephone 67. PUBI Abou mencen An a last Th the hig The been c commer Some among wind la Our comme of pape The grassing grassho On a game c and K. Abou Busine picnicici urday. The will pla the hor or next The to the where mence For Boots and Shoes go to Menger's. A la ed the opera and e laugh. A v i v Miss A last F was as Miss C Mr. W the exe ber by The K. S. its appl distrib has be guana S.U. ' rance Every one "volu Las Club in Sn o'cloc terest adjou W. hands per a Wood and i The Fran er, st ron Kaisi