University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1983
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Crowds gather for season's first big auction
Howard Ward, a member of Freeman Auction Service, displayed the next item up for bid — a set of spoons — at yesterday's auction.
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Hundreds of people, from dedicated antique collectors to curious first-timers, flocked to Lawrence's first big auction of the spring season yesterday.
Delicate porcelain china, framed yellowing photographs, hand-crafted furniture and modern kitchen appliances were bid for and bought from the driveway of the house of George Melvin, a prominent former Lawrence legislator who died last year.
By JIM BOLE
DON TABOR, Shawnee sophomore,
walked away with a set of porcelain
china in mint condition for $5.
"I came looking for something that nobody else thought was a good deal," he said, "and I found one."
Marjorie Freeman, co-owner and cashier for Freeman Auction Service, said yesterday's auction drew a larger crowd than usual because it was the first big auction this year and because it offered many antique items.
"This house has a lot of historical significance, which will draw a lot of people, especially collectors," she said.
The auction company, which is seven years old and run by the Freeman Management Group since 2001 year, including eight to 10 big auctions like yesterday's, she said.
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KU RUBY CLUB will meet at 5 p.m. at 23rd and Iowa streets.
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MORE THAN 300 people had registered as buyers yesterday — double the usual number, she said.
CALL: 843-0465
"Five, five, who'll give me 10," called Loren Freeman, the auctioneer.
Paul Cloud, a bid catcher, held alof a porcelain bedpan and kept his eye on the crowd, watching for a raised hand, a nod or something more subtle. With each higher bid, he shouted a quick "Yo!"
Bruce Livingston, a Lawrence resident, bought the bedpan and two clay whiskey jugs to add to his pottery collection. He said he built most of his collection from auctions he had attended in the past 10 years.
Buyers wearing everything from their Sunday best to jogging suits or jeans stuck numbered cards in the front pocket of their suits, in the brim of their cowboy hats or in their tightly clenched hands. The auctioneer called out a buyer's card number to identify the winning bidder.
He said he had not planned to buy anything because he liked watching the action more than he liked bidding.
"I only come when my wife insists," he said.
BUFORD WATSON, Lawrence city manager, said it was his first auction of the year.
George Melvin purchased the house,
2239 East Drive, in 1929. His widow,
Leone Melvin, said she had sold the
house and had its furnishings auctioned
because upkeep of the house became a
large chore.
"Seems like everything is going kind of high because this is the first big auction of the season, but you don't see it for less price for some of these things," he said.
"There is only so much I can do," she said.
THE HOUSE was originally a horse stable beside a racetrack that used to be along Massachusetts Street, and her husband remodeled it into living quarters.
The house is prominent because of its owner, Marjorie Freeman said. George Melvin was the Douglas County attorney and Lawrence city attorney in the 1920s, served in the Kansas House in the 1930s and in the Senate in the 1940s and 1950s. He ran for lieutenant governor in 1953, served as assistant attorney general for the state, and was a commissioner for the Kansas Supreme Court. He was 84 when he died in August.
"He was THE attorney in Lawrence for many, many years," Springer said.
Rusty Springer, who was at the auction, knew him for more than 20 years.
Kenneth Martinez, a Lawrence business man who bought the house, said he would move into it in June, after renovations and rent increases. **$20,000**
"I have always been in love with the house because of its historical value."
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Shakers reject ballpark plan
ALBANY, N.Y. — The last eight Shakers in America have asked a judge to decide which is more sacred — a graveyard where the founders of their religious sect are buried or the great American pastime of baseball.
By United Press International
In a classic clash of old world and new, two elderses and six sisters of the United Society of Believers — better known as the Shakers — are seeking a place in Washington, D.C., Albany County from raising a bullpole next to the Shaker cemetery.
THE COUNTY, eager to promote professional sports, wants to build a $1.2 million dollar stadium as home for the Albany A's, New York State's newest Eastern League baseball team and part of the Oakland A's farm
But the place officials selected for the ballpark is on land adjacent to a 180-by-220-foot burial plot containing the remains of the first Shakers.
The pastoral, self-contained society set up its first American community in Albany in the late 18th century and practiced celibacy, communism — in the strict dictionary sense — and equality of the sexes.
The society sold the land now envisioned as a baseball diamond a long time ago but the cemetery plot still belongs to the Shakers.
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