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Book Title: A Souvenir History Of Lincoln County, Kansas


p. 47

[photo] Court House, 1881

BUILDING THE COURT HOUSE.

  In 1873 the county headquarters was in the upstairs of the Webster building.
The rent on this upper room was $300 per year.

  April 1st of this year bonds to the amount of $4,000 were voted for building a
court house. There was much opposition to these bonds, and after the blanks for
the bonds had been ordered, County Clerk A. S. Potter was warned that an
injunction would be served on him to prevent his signing them. Accordingly the
blanks were taken from the express office at Salina by another man so that
County Attorney Beatty would not know they had come. They were privately handed
to Mr. Potter, who, with John S. Strange, retired after night to the lonely
habitation of Tom Malone, northwest of Lincoln, where they each signed their
names one hundred and seventy-six times to bonds and coupons. The bonds were not
sold for face value, but the balance of three hundred dollars was made up by
private subscription. The court house, which was built at that time, was burned
in 1898. The present fine building shown In the picture was then built, and
dedicated in 1900.

[photo] Court House


p. 49

THE GRASSHOPPERS.

  This brings us down co a famous period in the annals of
Kansas—1874—"grasshopper year." In the diary of E. B. Johnson is an account of
the grasshoppers in August, 1868. They came from the north, commenced at the
edge of his corn field and cleaned it as they went. But in 1874 they made their
big raid through Kansas and did not slight Lincoln County. It made times
extremely hard everywhere, especially for the new settlers who had nothing but
their crops.

  The Government sent out some blankets and army overcoats and for many years
afterward the grasshopper sufferer could be picked out of a crowd by his coat.
Relief was also sent out by private parties in the East. Many people were left
absolutely destitute and the township trustees spent the winter disributing
supplies. Not a green leaf was left. Everyhing was eaten up but castor beans.
The grasshoppers drew the line here as does the small boy.

p. 49

THE LYDEN MURDER.

  The next year a very mysterious murder occurred. A well educated and cultured
Irishman, John Lyden by name, who had been one of the armed guards placed over
Ezra Hubbard, was the victim of foul play, the full secret of which will
probably never be unearthed. The facts so far as they developed at the time are
as follows: John Lyden, a wealthy stock owner of the Elkhorn was shot as he sat
at breakfast one morning, by an unknown party, the shot being fired from under
the table. The body was hid under the bed all day and at night taken in a wagon
to the vacated home of Dr. Seiber, who had built one of the finest houses in the
county and later left it. Here the body was thrown into the well, the house was
burned down and some of he charred timbers thrown into the well. The body
remained in the well about a month before it was discovered. In the meantime a
young man by the name of Millard Eaton who was working for Lyden at the time
rounded up his cattle, drove them to Ellsworth and shipped them to John Lyden at
Kansas City. Eaton Went to Kansas City and returned by way of Salina, leaving
$1,000 in a box with a certain doctor there. He went out home and had a big
party and seemed to have plenty of money to spend. By this time people began to
wonder what had become of Lyden. Eaton then came to Lincoln Center on Sunday.

  A certain already notoriously bad character attracted suspicion to himself by
driving from Salina to Lincoln in two and a half hours, and taking Millard Eaton
away with him, after which Eaton was seen no more in Lincoln, but rumor had it
that he was seen in Kentucky by the Lincoln County sheriff who went there
ostensibly to bring him back, which he did not do. All sorts of surmises and
rumors were current but the incident was closed without any one being bright to
trial.

  After Eaton disappeared a searching party comprised of F. A. Schermerhorn,
Tone Bishop, Wells, and Grubb found the body in the well. Mr. Bishop climbed
into the well and saw blood on the side of it. The body was under water. Some of
the citizens employed a private attorney to look into the matter. Several
parties were suspected of being implicated. It was not supposed that Eaton did
the shooting himself but seems probable that he was there when it was done.

p. 50

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.

  It is a relief to turn from the above tragic facts to something more
agreeable. Lincoln County was enjoying continual growth and prosperity. In 1873
there were five hundred families or about 2,500 people. Stone buildings,
bridges, mills, and other improvements were being built. A fine new school house
the best this side of Junction City was put up in 1872.

  The next year the Rees Mill was built. It is still one of the most beautiful
spots around Lincoln Center.

[photo] Rees Mill

  It was built by Elias Rees and after his death was operated by his son, L. J.
Rees, who is the present owner. At present Mr. T. F. Brann and Mr. Howard Rees
operate it.

  In this same year a six foot vein of coal was found a mile from Lincoln
Center. There were also coal mines in the Elkhorn and Spillman, the vein being 3
1/2 feet thick. A vein 3 feet thick was discovered underlying the whole Danish
settlement. Twenty-five men were employed in the Spillman mines and more were
being put in as fast as room could be made. This coal was worth $3.50 to $3.75
per ton at the mines. Lincoln had great prospects for a mining country. For
further discussion read the article on "Geology" in another part of the book.

p. 51

PRAIRIE FIRES.

  Lincoln County has had prairie fires, cyclones, and floods which brought more
or less disaster with each visitation.

  The first big fire on record was in 1871. The fire originated on the railroad
track near Fort Marker, and came into Lincoln County from the south. It burned
up ranges and destroyed many thousand head of cattle. No lives were lost. The
most disastrous fire was in March, 1879, when the northwestern townships were
burned over. Three deaths occurred about a mile north of where Prairie Grove
Church now stands. The victims were Robt. Montgomery and his fourteen-year-old
son, Robert, and Isaac Pfaff. These men were caught out on the prairie and
overtaken by the flames. The Montgomery home was also destroyed.

p. 51

RAILROAD HISTORY.

  The population in 1880 was 8,572. The work of organizing townships which had
been in progress since 1875 was finished about this time and the county was
redistricted as follows:

  First District, Indiana, Valley, Franklin, Colorado, and Madison; Second
District, Marion, Beaver, Salt Creek, Logan, Scott, and Battle Creek; Third
District, Orange, Cedron, Grant, Pleasant, Highland, and Golden Belt.

  It was about this time that railroad agitation began. The Topeka, Salina and
Great Western organized in 1880, and secured a right of way in Lincoln County in
1881, without opposition. Then the Kansas Central put up a good talk and wanted
$60,000 for a narrow guage. Later the Kansas Central was absorbed into the Union
Pacific.

  The Union Pacific had surveyed a Saline Valley route in 1866, when Junction
City was the terminus of the Kansas Pacific, but when the Union Pacific became a
candidate for Government subsidies its projects naturally took the route along
the Smoky Hill, which was the old "Pikes Peak" trial and along which were the
military posts of Fort Harker, Fort Hays, and tort Wallace. Not until compelled
to do so for fear of other roads did the Union Pacific build the Saline Valley
branch. In spite of five years of daily expectance of a railroad, in 1885 the
people of Lincoln County were still hauling their grains to Salina and Ellsworth
and hauling back their goods in wagons. In October of that year aid was voted by
the county and in 1886 a branch of the Union Pacific, called the Salina, Lincoln
and Western reached Lincoln Center. The road is now called Salina and Oakley.

p. 52

The Cleary Case

  In the morning of January 3, 1888, the community was thrown into great
excitement over the killing of Jesse Turner by a neighbor Pat Cleary. The two
men had quarreled over a drinking place where both wished to water stock, and as
Turner was driving his stock to water Cleary shot him. He then came to town,
gave himself up and claimed he did it in self defense. Coroner De Armond
summoned a jury and repaired with the sheriff to the scene of the shooting. The
facts as they appeared to this jury did not support Cleary's plea of self
defense. He was tried, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. After serving a few months of this term
a new trial was granted by the supreme court. Accordingly Pat was brought back
to Lincoln. A jury was impaneled and the trial begun May 16, 1889. The State
made out even a better case than it had before but from some words which were
let drop from time to time, the public was not sure that Cleary would be
convicted. The jury was sent out Wednesday, May 30. They were able to come to no
agreement and by Friday the citizens began to think that some one or two men
were persistently voting for acquittal. Saturday night the jury was sent out
until the judge should ask for their report. The people had now become convinced
that the jury was "spiked." Sunday night there were open threats of lynching,
and an extra guard was placed over the jury room. Monday morning the jury was
still unable to agree and they were discharged.

  Cleary might have gone free now for anything the State could have done for a
change of venue can not be taken in criminal cases, and another lawful jury
could not have been secured in the county.

  But as soon as the jury was-discharged the prisoner through his attorney, Ira
C. Buzick, entered a plea of manslaughter in the third degree and was sentenced
by the judge to three years imprisonment, which is the maximum punishment for
that degree of crime.

  As soon as it became known that one man had persistently voted for acquittal
the wrath of the citizens burned higher and higher. J. P. Harmon, who voted for
acquittal, was intercepted by an unorganized mob on the street, who demanded to
know why he hung the jury. He placed himself under the protection of the sheriff
and was taken to the court house for safety. All day long hundreds of men from
all over Ellsworth and Lincoln Counties, who knew Cleary and believed the ends
of justice had been defeated and the law made a travesty, poured into Lincoln.
It is believed that Cleary had attempted to kill John Lyden and that he killed
his brother-in-law, Cornelius Deits. Other stories of his vengeful and
bloodthirsty nature were afloat. The jurors and those who had testified against
him in the two trials were especially alarmed lest when he would finally be
released he would get his revenge.

  The mob filled the court house square and demanded that J. P. Harmon show
himself and be catechised. He came to the window and gave his reasons but his
answer failed to satisfy the crowd.

  There was nothing to do now but wait for night. It was said that a guard was
stationed every fifty feet in Lincoln to prevent any possible escape of the
prisoner. Toward night the excitement was so tense as to be felt in the
atmosphere. Comparatively few people were seen on the streets at dark and
shortly afterward Harmon escaped by the back of the court house. Sheriff Boyle
placed guards over the prisoner and about nine o'clock went home leaving the
door unlocked. Soon after the sheriff was gone Cleary took a hatchet from the
stove and made a desperate attempt to escape. Several shots rang out as he ran
across the court house yard. He was captured in the wire fence at the northwest
corner of the square. One shot had taken effect in his left side. In course of
the short trial given him before his execution he is said to have confessed to
killing three men and trying to kill two more but said it was in self defense.
He was taken down to the Fourth Street bridge. A new rope provided for the
occasion was tied around his neck and he was dropped off the bridge and fell
fifteen and a half feet.

  There were some three or four hundred men in the crowd and it was the verdict
of ninety-five per cent of the people that it was the only thing to do under the
circumstances. It looks like a brutal thing to drag a fatally wounded man to the
bridge and hang him, but once into the business the lynchers could not afford to
quit till the job was finished.

  The sequel to the Cleary case was a libel suit for $10,000 damages brought
against Anna C. and W. S. Wait, proprietors of the Beacon, by Jeary Moler, of
Salina, one of Cleary's attorneys. This gentleman came near being lynched with
his client, and he was warned never to come to Lincoln County again. The Beacon
had remarked concerning Moler's conduct of the Cleary case that he was an all
round villain. Mr. Wait charged him with "fixing" the jury. A short time
afterward, on complaint of Moler, Wait was secretly arrested and conveyed to
Salina at once. It was feared that if the news of his arrest became public it
would be impossible to take Mr. Wait from Lincoln as the people would demand
that he be tried in his own county.

  On learning of the arrest the people were very indignant. When the train came
in that evening Mr. Wait was met by hundreds of citizens in buggies, in wagons,
and afoot. Business was suspended for the time being. A subscription had been
already started to pay the costs of the trial. Mr. Wait was taken to the center
of the town and asked to make a speech telling the public all about the day's
experience in Salina. The trial had been set for October.

  The Republican of Sunday, October 27, 1889, contains an account of the trial
in which it is spoken of as the most noted trial ever held in Saline County. The
affair stirred up Lincoln to the depths as nothing had for years and the people
stood by Mr. Wait, regardless of party or personal affairs.

  The case was widely commented on by the press over the State and in other
States, these comments all favoring the defense. Had he been tried at home he
would have undoubtedly been acquitted in the first trial. But Saline County was
divided. The jurors were all farmers and at the end of seventeen hours they
stood equally divided. On being told that they absolutely must agree they
returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation of nominal punishment. Mr.
Moler made a speech recommending light punishment and Mr. Wait was fined $10,
and court costs amounting to $600. An appeal was taken and granted.

  The supreme court reversed the decision of the lower court and Mr. Wait was
acquitted. The General Statutes of Kansas for 1897 contained the following
decision concerning this case:

  "A part of an alleged libelous article was that the person alleged to be
libeled who was an attorney-at-law assisting in the defense in a criminal
prosecution for murder, had at the time no possible hope of being able to clear
his client with a fair jury but his only hope lay in a packed jury and that his
manner of conducting the trial showed that he relied upon hanging the jury by a
'fixed man,' or in other word by a bribed juror and after evidence has been
introduced tending to prove these matters the defendant has the right to show
that one of the jurors was 'fixed' or bribed; that he did in fact hang the jury;
and the defendant has a right to show the conduct of said juror in the jury
room, while the jury was deliberating on their verdict, and what said juror then
and there did, and what he omitted to say and do, how he voted and how the other
members of the jury voted." (State vs. Wait, 44 K. 310.)

  In beginning this work it was not the intention to lay stress on the crminal
history of Lincoln County, but since three murders have already been extensively
written up it seems best since one man's life is as important as another's to at
least mention the other murders.

  In 1882 a farmer by the name of Wheeler was shot from the back of his wagon as
he was driving home from town one night. A stranger was arrested for the murder
but later broke jail and escaped.

  Wesley Faulk, a single man, was killed at night by unknown parties. No arrests
were made.

  Mike Haley, brother to the Haley killed by Ezra Hubbard, killed his nephew, a
young man by the name of Barrett. He was tried and acquitted on the grounds of
self-defense. The killing was done in Haley's house.

  "Jack" Peate says that if you are going to point out the places in Lincoln
County where people have been killed that it will be a long job, as violent
deaths have occurred on nearly every acre of it.

  So I think we will stop here and discuss something else.



p. 56

On the Roll of Honor

  The following men represented Lincoln County in the State Legislature in the
years indicated:

  1872, F. A. Schemerhorn; 1873, Geo. Green; 1874, Vollany Ball; 1875, Jas. B.
Goff; 1876, E. S. Pierce; 1877, Reuben Williams; 1879, W. S. Wait; 1883 to 1886,
R. F. Bryant; 1887, also 1889, J. D. Miller; 1891 and 1893, A. N. Whittington;
1895 and 1897, J. J. Lambert; 1899, Arthur J. Stanley; 1901, F. G. Dunham; 1903,
J. D. Miller on resignation of D. E. Books; 1905 to present time, E. T. Skinner.

  Ira C. Buzick was the first Representative, also State Senator in 1881. Geo.
W. Anderson was also a representative from Lincoln County. In 1895 A. P. Gilpin
was Journal Clerk at the State House. He held this office two terms. William
Baker, of Lincon, was a Congressman and repreesnted the Sixth District in
Washington. D. C.

p. 56

[photo] HON. E. T. SKINNER,
Representative from Lincoln  County,
Who secured an appropriation for the Beecher's Island monument. He belongs to
one of the oldest and best families in the county, his people having moved here
in 1866. His mother was the first school teacher in Lincoln County and his
uncle, D. C. Skinner, was one of the Forsyth scouts.

p. 57

[photo] A. J. STANLEY,
County Superintendent of Schools,

  The man who made Lincoln County famous. Born and raised here. Went to the
Legislature and helped make laws while still in knee pants.

  As County Superintendent of Schools he introduced the study of agriculture.
Helped revise the school laws. The fact that he once lived at Colbert could not
keep a good man down.


[photo] ARTHUR ARTMAN, 
Probate Judge.

  His title should be "The Marrying Judge," or "The Lightning Knot-Tier." He was
born and raised in New York State at Hunter. Came to Kansas in 1879. Taught
school for a number of years. Elected to his present office in 1902. He has
married a great many people and everybody that he married voted for him, so he
will probably be there as long as he wants to stay.

p. 58


[photo] J. W. MEEK,
Clerk of the District Court.

  Here is a man with some real history. Born in Meigs County, Ohio, November 2,
1841. Enlisted in Company E, 75th Ohio Volunteers in 1862. Taken prisoner at the
Battle of Gainesville, Florida, August 17, 1864, and was in Andersonville and
Florence prisons until February 26, 1865. Came to Lincoln County, Kansas, in
1879, and took a homestead. Elected County Clerk in 1889, and served four years.


[photo] GEO. E. HUTCHISON, 
Register of Deeds.

  He was born in Missouri, but please don't hold that against him, for he has
been in Lincoln County long enough to be an old settler, and has lived it down.
Came to Kansas at the age of eight and his home was at Beloit till he came here.
Mr. Hutchison is one of the jolly men of the court house crowd, and has plenty
of friends.

p. 59


[photo] S. H. BRUNT, 
County Surveyor.

  Born and raised in Iowa. Took a special course in surveying at Grand Island,
Neb. Became a government surveyor and surveyed through Wyoming, Colorado, and
New Mexico. Came to Lincoln County and served a number of terms as deputy County
Surveyor, and was appointed to fill a vacancy. Has been elected four times
since. As there is not much surveying to do Mr. Brunt makes abstracting his main
business.


[photo] W. H. TAYLOR,
County Commissioner.

  One of the Barons of the Spillman. He lives in one of the finest homes of the
county. He is giving eminent, satisfaction in his office as the people of the
west side consider he has done more for them than any other man they have had.
He is the good looker among the county officers. This picture does not do him
justice.


p. 60


[photo] S.  H. LONG, 
County Commissioner.

  He is a Democrat, but the Democrats are a majority on the Board of
Commissioners, so it is all right. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1850, and came
to Lincoln County, Kansas, in 1878, and engaged in farming. His home is on his
fine farm not far from Lincoln. He was elected to office four years ago.


[photo] C. H. BERRY, 
County Commissioner.

  Born in England in 1859. Came to Lincoln County, Kansas, in 1872. His business
and official career is as follows: Farmer thirteen years, merchant ten years,
auctioneer a number of years, city councilman, deputy sheriff and county
commissioner. He is smaller than the other two commissioners, but he can hold is
own and ably represents the Frist Distrct.

  Here is where the other county officers disappeared when they saw us coming
after their pictures for this book. They'll never come back any more; they're
dead ones.


p. 61

Some Old Settlers

[photo] MR. N. B. REES.

  Mr. Rees is one of our old settlers, having come to Lincoln County in 1872,
and lived here ever since, except for a short time when he was in Oklahoma. He
has the honor of having made the first picture made in the county, and was in
the photograph and jewelry business for ten years. He is now in the laundry
business.

  Mr. Rees is a civil war veteran, and his native home was Bloomington, Ill.

p. 62

ADOLPH ROENIGK.

  This is one of the old timers who was born in "Der Vaterland" in 1847. His
birthplace was Prussia, and he is the son of Gotlob and Marie Roenigk, who were
honest thrifty farmers in good circumstances. He received a common school
education, attending school until the age of thirteen, when he came to America,
leaving his parents in the old country.

  He settled first in Wisconsin and later went to St. Louis, where he learned
the trade of saddler and harness making, attending night school.

  In 1866 he made a tour of Kansas, visiting Lawrence, Topeka, and Manhattan,
returning by way of Leavenworth.

  In 1868 he came to Kansas to make his home, working for the Government during
the Indian troubles of the year. These pioneer days were the most enjoyable of
his life, although he saw the usual hardships and sometimes came near loosing
his life, being shot through the lungs once. But judging from his writings he
appreciated the freedom of the plains.

  He and some of his companions were in a fight with the Indians in 1868. Two of
them were killed. Mr. Roenigk came back the next year and put up headstones of
limestone and cut their names and the inscription "Killed by the Indians May 28,
1868."

  He was one of the first white men in what is now Russell County, having come
there at the time the first railroad was built from Kansas City to Denver. He
settled in Clay County in 1870, and the next year his parents from Germany
joined him. He engaged in the saddle and harness business in Clifton, Washington
County, and was worth $20,000 at this time.

  He came to Lincoln County and engaged quite extensively in manufacturing, and
has always done a prosperous business. He built several business blocks, but was
burned out in 1897 without insurance, and met with other losses. He is still
engaged in the harness business, as much for pleasure as profit. He received the
white ribbon on manufactured leather goods at the Kansas State Fair in 1890.

  Mr. Roenigk once went to California for his health, and is now on a tour
around the world. He is a bachelor, an Odd Fellow, and a Royal Arch Mason, also
a valuable member of the Kansas State Historical Society, for which he has
written many articles, of his own and others experiences.

p. 63

[photo] GEORGE SNAPP.

  George Snapp is one of the younger old settlers. He was born in West Virginia
in 1859. Came to Kansas with his parents in 1873, being nearly 14 years old. His
parents located in Salt Creek Township, and George's first work in Kansas was
herding cattle. The Snapp family came just in time to be "at home" when the
grasshoppers came on the fourth of July, 1874.

  George put in most of his time farming, and what time he could spare from the
farm he devoted to carpentering and plastering.

  He was married in 1885 to a Mitchell County girl then living near Coursen's
Grove, named Winnifred Wines. To this union have been born six children, five of
them still living, Their first child, a girl, died fourteen years ago.

  About the year 1885 Mr. Snapp bought the farm he now lives on four miles and a
half northeast of Barnard. There are 240 acres in the place, and it is choice
land. One hundred acres is under cultivation, the balance being used for
pasture. The place is well improved, there being a fine double-gabled six-room
house and many other conveniences. He turns off a carload of cattle every year.

  For the past twenty years Mr. Snapp has found time to do a great deal of
carpentering and plastering. In later years the demand for his work in these
lines has been greater than he could accommodate. He has built five houses since
the middle of last October, and has several contracts waiting for him. It is a
pretty good record, considering that he only devotes to his trade what time he
can spare from the farm.

  That he is a past-master in his line of work is evident from the fact that he
can't take all the work that is offered him.

  [The above is copied from the Barnard Bee. Since it was written Mr. Snapp has
become owner of a section of land in Ellis County, south of Natoma.]

T. J. M'CURRY.

  T. J. McCurry was born in North Carolina in 1841. Was married to Miss Mary
Bowen in Georgia in 1866, and three years later he brought his family to Kansas,
locating on what is now the Adams place. He farmed this place about fifteen
years and then bought of David Swank the place he is now on near Milo, which
consist, of 880 acres in all, about 350 of it under cultivation.

  Mr. McCurry commenced buying grain at Milo in 1889, and in 1891 he built the
elevator now being operated by his son Thomas. After conducting the grain
business with profit for several years he this spring turned the business over
to his son, who we feel confident possesses the elements necessary to make a
success of the undertaking.

  Mr. McCurry's success furnishes another example of what Kansas will do for a
hard worker. When he landed in this country he had a team and wagon, but no
money. That was in 1869. He gained a little on adversity during the next three
or four years, but along came the grasshoppers in 1874 and set him back—'way
back. They cleaned up everything and left him as bad off or worse than he was
when he came. But he stayed with the proposition, and to-day he is one of our
solid men. He is a stockholder in the Barnard mill, lumber yard, investment
company, a director of the Bank of Barnard, and president of the Barnard
Telephone Company.

  Mr. McCurry tells us that the chief industry in Kansas in the early days was
cattle raising, which greatly held back the farming industry. But the herd law
of 1874 came to the relief of the farmers, although it was at first feared that
it would he a detriment lo them on account of having a tendency to drive the
cattle cut of the State, but such was not the case. Cattlemen were compelled to
herd their cattle, and the farming industry look on a boom, and it has been
booming ever since.

  Another red letter day for Kansas was when the agricultural department
introduced Russian hard wheat, it is a good thing and a money maker for the
farmers, and has stayed with them ever since.

[photo] RESIDENCE OF T. J. M'CURRY, NEAR MILO.

  Mr. and Mrs. McCurry have raised a family of five daughters and one son. Three
of the daughters are married: Mrs. Ella Borgan, Mrs. Ida Richardson, and Mrs.
Esther Lenhart. The first two live not far from Barnard, the last one at
Plymouth, Kans.

p. 66

Lincoln

  This is a city, beautiful for situation. One can see it for miles nestled down
between the hills and among its beautiful trees, with the town pot the only
natural curio in the vicinity, towering like a big black watch-tower that guards
from harm. The streets of this city are not paved with gold owing to the fact
that there is but one man in town who can fit crutches to lame eyes, but they
are lined up and down with delightful shade trees.

  Lincoln has city waterworks, electric lights, excellent public schools, a
college, fine residences, two blocks of flourishing business houses, a
sanitarium, and a lot of automobiles? It is in the center of a large and
prosperous farming territory, without a rival for many miles on either side, and
the largest town on this branch of the Union Pacific between Salina and the
State line. Nearly all the business houses in Lincoln .are built of native rock,
and except for the few frame structures brought over from Abram, they have
always been.

  We get the early beginnings of Lincoln in the county seat .fight, so it is not
necessary to dwell on it here. The town was plotted May 9, 1871, and included
the northwest quarter section 6, town 12, range 7. The town company were W. L.
Gillmore, D. W. Henderson, J. S. Strange, Washington Smith, Thomas Boyle, S. M.
Babellette, and Jaines Askey.

  Judge Prescott ordered a city election which resulted as follows: Mayor, Geo.
M. Lutes; police judge, Mortimer Gragg; clerk, Lon A. Minx; councilmen, D. E.
Coolbaugh, Geo. Green, Luther Stewart, H. Holcomb, Jos. E. Cheney.

  September 23, 1879, Lincoln became a city of the third class. So much of the
history of Lncoln Center has been given under special articles that there is not
much left to say here. Being the county seat it was the scene of many remarkable
and exciting incidents during the days when it was customary to make strenuous
remarks and punctuate them -with bullets. Some of these incidents might prove
interesting if told.

  But there is another side to the picture and another spirit which stood in
sharp contrast to lawlessness. Lincoln from the very first was a hot-bed of
progress and reform. Never was liquor legally sold in 'the town except in the
year 1879. The State-wide suffrage campaign which had lain dormant after the
defeat of 1876 was renewed by Lincoln women. Some of the most earnest and
successful exponents of new reformatory measures, in politics, religion, and
social life, have been Lincoln people.

  It is evident from the outcome, most people were of the right, sort, so it is
hardly worth while to elaborate on the sneak-thief, cowardly acts of a few
adventurers when there was real work being done.

  There is a list of the business people in Lincoln in 1879 which we wish to
mention in passing: H. Holcomb and E. B. Bishop, hardware; .C. W. Perkins,
grocer; Mr. Z. Burton, drugs; Frank Cogswell, M. D.; J. P. Cunnings and G. M.
Lutes, partners in banking business; E. S. Pierce, furniture and undertaking;
Hayden & Greer, tin and hardware; Joseph Cheney, harness .and saddles; M. M.
George, harness and saddles; Otto Olson, shoemaker; Luther Stewart, merchandise;
Mrs. L. Stewart, millinery; R. H. Thompson, restaurant; Legett Bros., grocers.
The early postmasters were, in their order, John S. Strange, Dr. Ballard, D. W.
Henderson, J. M. Wellman, editor of the Register, and J. Z. Springer. There was
a joint stock company formed in Lincoln in 1881 to tunnel the Saline River south
of town. At another time bonds amounting to $3,000 were carried by a vote of
sixty-one to six, to be used in prospecting for valuable minerals under the
auspices of the Lincoln Mining and Prospecting Company.

  The town had a slow growth until the College was built and the railroad came
through. Then new buildings sprung up like mushrooms in a single night. From
March to May one hundred twenty-five buildings were erected. During the year
(1886) Lincoln doubled in population and trebled in wealth on account of these
two new institutions.

  Some time in the eighties a library was founded by the Lincoln women. They
went on from year to year building it up aided only by the dog-tax generously
donated by the city dads. Until the year 1897 it was owned by stockholders but
at that time the books together with all property belonging to the association
was given to the city. In 1899 it was made a public city library. January 1,
1908, there were 1,407 volumes in the library. The recently added books bring
the total up to 1,526 volumes.

p. 68

[photo] THE PENNSYLVANIA STORE.

  The Pennsylvania store was established in Lincoln by Jas. R. Logan and John C.
Patton, of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and named by them in honor of their native
State. The store was first opened for business on the 29th day of March, 1886,
in the Swinburn block, the room now occupied by the Lincoln Fire Deparment. This
room soon becoming too small, the stock was moved in January, 1887, to the room
now occpied by the Skandia Furniture Company. Mr. Logan acquired Mr. Pattou's
interest in July, 1888, after which he added several departments, including
men's clothing.

  Several men, now in business for themselves in Lincoln County, have been
connected with the store in capacity of salesmen at different itmes, among them
Dan B. Day, H. D. Hall, and Harry U. Porter, the latter having been with Mr.
Logan for nearly fifteen years, and is still connected with the store as part
owner and manager.

  A great many amusing things have happened in this store, a great many of which
Dan Day was mixed up in. One of these being a supper given in the store on the
evening of July 4, 1891. There was an extraordinary large crowd in town and a
hard rainstorm coming up about the time people were ready to start home, had
swolen the waterways to the extent that they were impassable. Dan conceived he
idea and soon had two long counters the full length of the store filled with
bread and butter, cheese, crackers, pickles, hot coffiee, etc. As soon as the
crowd had surrounded the tables Dan went to the gun store, and, taking out a
couple of Colt's six shooters, and mounting a stool with one in each hand, he
informed the crowd that he did not care to hear any slighting remarks concerning
any part of the spread or he would be obliged to call the offender to account.
It is needless to say that every remark was very complementary.

  Mr. Logan was a Bryan elector in 1896 and always took an active interest in
anything that was "For Lincoln." Ho moved the store to its present location in
July, 1901, and after selling the stock to Porter & Sons in June, 1904, he
removed to Kansas City, Mo., where he still lives, being engaged in the
wholesale notion business.

  The picture here shown is of the store in its present location, having
afrontage of twenty-five feet on Lincoln Avenue and sixty feet on Fourth street.
The furniture and fixtures are all finished in very light oak, including the
show-windows, which are all enclosed and electric lighted, making them the
finest windows in the city.

  The departments, or lines of goods carried, embrace general dry goods, ladies'
ready-to-wear, ladies' furnishings, hats, gents' furnishings, and groceries. The
motto of the store, "The Best of Everything," aptly represents the character of
merchandise handled, and it has been said that this store has more "satisfied
customers" than any store in Lincoln County. This is probably largely due to the
fact that it is the only store in the county that has always insisted that
"Every man's dollar is the same size," in other words, to have only one
price—-that in plain figures, and RIGHT. It has taken considerable nerve at
times to maintain this idea in the face of pressure for a concession—not of
price alone, but principle, but the management, has never weakened and have a
good business and tie confidence of the community as their reward.

  The twenty-two years since its establishment has seen other stores spring into
existence, flourish for a time and pass into history, others have changed hands,
sold out and left, some to come back and leave again, but in the face of all
this, the Pennsylvania store has been making a steady gain and a substantial
growth.

  The firm consists of John E. Porter and his two sons, Harry U., Fred L., and
Oscar V. Stewart, a son-in-law. The senior Mr. Porter settled on a farm on upper
Spillman Greek in Lincoln County in February, 1874, Harry being a boy of 7
years. Fred was born on the same farm about three years later.

p. 70

[photo] Boating on the Saline River.


[photo and advertisement] THE WINDSOR HOTEL
ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS
RATES, $2.00 PER DAY.        ELECTRIC LIGHTS
MRS. H. ALLEN, Proprietor.

p. 71


[photo and advertisement] THE MASTERWORKMAN MOUNTED.
N. FRYE,
FEED, GRAINS, OILS.
  Agent for the Masterworkman. Easiest Gas' Engine Mounted for Farm Uses.


C. F. Shimeall
The Clothiers
LINCOLN, KANSAS

p. 72


A Matter of Interest to Those who Wish to Sell Lands or to Buy Lands,
  Mr. N..J. Davidson, of Lincoln, Kansas, has secured a membership, with the
Cental Real Estate Dealers' Association, which has headquarters at Topeka,
Kansas. By this membership Mr. Davidson has 1,000 Real Estate firms representing
him in different parts of the United States, and he is likewise representive for
the same number. Farmes desiring to sell or buy lands should call on Mr. Davidson.


THE HALL DRUG CO.,
Drugs, Books, Stationery, Paints and Oils,
LARGE LINE OF TOILET ARTICLES.
Agents for the Celebrated Nyals Remedies. Every bottle Guaranteed to give
absolute satisfaction or money refunded.
LINCOLN, KANSAS.


Don't neglect your most Important Sense
For neglect often causes diseases of the eye which cannot be cured. Symptoms of
eye trouble are of such diversity that a thorough discussion of the effects of
eye strain would necessitate a volume.
Eye Sight a Specialty.    Full line of Electric Instruments for Defective hearing.
B. F. SPENCER, Optician.
Lincoln, Kans.


Sewing Machine Perfection
  Is recognized the world over in THE SINGER SEWING MACHINE. For Sale by
SCANDIA FURNITURE CO.
Lincoln, Kansas
Also the Wheeler & Wilson and the White.


p. 73

Do You Want
To get the best of everything in the Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries. There is
no better place where you can get
Good Things to Eat
than at our store; cleanliness and good quality is paramount with us. Remember
the place
The Star Grocery & Meat Market,
"GOOD THINGS TO EAT"
Two Phones Cos. 45
Quick Service
LINCOLN, KANSAS.


LISTEN TO THE BIG RACKET—
Combes and brushes, pocket books; pictures, wash-tubs, buttonhooks; jewelry, cut
class, silverware; sunbonnets, beads and puffs of hair; work baskets made of
Ratan; hand-painted china from Japan; collars, cuffs, ties, dolls and toys —
school supplies for girls and boys; fancy yarn of every hue; hats and thread and
lanterns too. Christmas goods for all our callers; ten cents up to fifty dollars.
THE RACKET, Lincoln, Kan.


The Chicago Lumber Co.,
Highest grade of building Material, American Field Fence of all Sizes, Iowa
Patent Gate, Building Hardware.
J. D. BROCKETT, Agent
Lincoln, Kansas

p. 74


"Buy It Ready to Wear"
  We have added to our stock a department of LADIES' READY-MADE GARMENTS. Why
fuss around getting sewing done when you can buy your
CLOTHES READY TO PUT ON.

The Only One Priced Store in Lincoln County.
The Pennsylvania Store,
"The Best of Everything."        LINCOLN, KANS.

[photo] White Grain Elevator

  The above is a picture of the White elevator of Lincoln owned and operated by
Mr. F. W. Herman who has been in the grain business since 1886. Mr. Herman built
an elevator in Sylvan •Grove which he operated for several years and later sold.
The elevator in the picture was built by Mr. Herman ten years ago.

TELEPHONE

  Mr. Herman is also the Lincoln telephone man. A number of years ago he bought
the telephone system from the Rees Telephone Co., who had just put in the
equipment. The business started with less than sixty subscribers but now it has
over six hundred and is growing so fast it can't be stopped. The system has
country lines all over the county and connects with all other lines.

The Saline Valley Bank

   Was chartered July 1881. Commenced business August 1881, and has been open
for business every day since, except Sundays and Legal Holidays—receiving
deposits, loaning money, buying notes, School Dist., Township and County
warrants—buying and selling both Foreign and Domestic Exchange. Trying to serve
its patrons courteously and with fidelity; and advance the interests of Lincoln
County.


p. 76


WATERMAN & SMITH
Windmills, Putnpsr Tanks and Supplies
Phone 27
LINCOLN, KANSAS


C. M. HEATON
Dealer in-
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND FARM IMPLEMENTS

Lincoln, Kansas


Hardware Stoves and Ranges,
PAINTS, WINDOW GLASS AND KODAKS
—at—
Licoln, Kansas
Smith & Browning's


ARCHIE HAZEN,
The Leading  Tinner and Plumber.
LINCOLN, KANSAS.


p. 77


PIANOS:
Chickering Bros.
Baldwin
Howard
Story & Clark
Ellington
Packard
Smith & Barnes
Shuman
Williard
Hamilton
Strohber

All Pianos sold on Easy Payments, get our Catalogue and Price List.
A. R. HALL,
Lincoln, Kansas.
Bell Night Phones 470, 1065
Both Phones 486


p. 78 
Farmers National Bank
LINCOLN, KANSAS.
E. T. SKINNER, President
W. B. McBRIDE, Vice President 
D. C. STELSON, Cashier
BERNICE McCURDY, Asst. Cashier.
We do a strictly Banking Business and ask for a share of your patronage.


p. 79


Sylvan Grove

  One of the things which this little city has to be proud of, is her annual
carnival and fair. Live stock and farm produce are shown and a three-days' good
time is enjoyed by the people of the surrounding country. There is always a
large showing of thoroughbred stock of all kinds which would do credit to any
county fair in Kansas. The following is a brief history of Sylvan.

  The first settlers to come into this neighborhood were Louis Farley and son
Hutchison about 1867. The Farley homestead was called Twin Groves. It is now
owned by Charles Whittey.

  The Buzicks, who came in 1870, were the next family to move in. They have
always been prominent in the county. Ira Buzick was the first representative to
be elected from Lincoln County. W. C. Buzick has been county clerk and editor of
a Lincoln paper. A. R. Buzick, who is at present a resident of Sylvan Grove, is
one of the wealthiest men in the county. C. M. Heaton and the Meyers boys came
in 1871.

[photo] The Sylvan Grove Mill.

A postoffice was established at an early date which was called Sylvan Grove. The
name was suggested by William Buzick. C. M. Heaton was postmaster, and the
office was at his home two miles south of the present Sylvan Grove until about
the year 1877, when it was moved to the home of H. S. Merriman near where the
town now stands. About this time E. B. Cross and W. F. Morgan built a small
store. The next year Merriman put up a stone building into which the goods were
moved. When the railroad come through the business was sold to Berger Bros. &
Wilson. Later an interest was bought by Schemerhorn & Co. This was the only
store before the coming of the railroads, and people came thirty miles to do
their shopping and to get their grain ground at the mill, which had been built
by Merriman & Mesterson in 1875. The mill went down in the flood of 1886. The
old stone store is still standing.

  The town was platted in 1887 by the Sylvan Grove Town Company. The land
belonged to Wm. Bender and H. S. Merriman. A new store was built by John-
Hoover. Sylvan has had a steady growth ever since, and has been especially
prosperous during the last three years.

[photo] Old Stone Store at Sylvan.

  There is an excellent telephone system owned by resident stockholders, three
elevators, two large lumbers yards, and about forty other flourishing business
houses in Sylvan Grove.

p. 81


The Sylvan State Bank,
SYLVAN GROVE, KANSAS.
Capital and Surplus,      -      $30,000

A Bank that during the sixteen years of its existence has always been in postion
to care for all legitimate needs of its customers, extending every accommodation
consistent with conservative, safe banking.

  We solicit the accounts of farmers, treasurers, merchants, business men or any
one wishing to become connected with a good, strong bank.

   Total resources $225,000; Individual responsibility of Stockholders over half
million dollars.

A. R. BUZICK,                     H. S. BUZICK, Jr.,
  President.                              Cashier.


p. 82

Calene & Berger
-DEALERS IN-
Dry Goods, Ladies' Furnishing Goods, Notions, Clothing, Hats and Caps, Shoes,
Queenswares, Groceries.
SYLVAN GROVE, - KANSAS.


p. 83

Barnard

  The Barnard territory, namely Salt Creek and Scott Townships, was settled by
cattlemen about 1868. In 1880 the lands were opened by the government to
settlers. Houston & Son, of Concordia, acted as agents. These were the days of
sod shanties, dugouts and lonesome bachelors, poor and homesick.

  The Barnard Bee gives a history of the town and we quote verbatim from that
paper as it is hard to change history, and our write-ups would have to be the
same at all events:

  "In the spring of 1887, when what is now called the Barnard branch of the
Santa Fe was being graded, it was first thought that a town would be started
near the center of Salt Creek Township, as that township voted bonds and this
one did not No one thought for a minute that the road would plant a depot just
across the line in Scott, a bondless township. So those interested located the
probable site for the new town on the land where the late Dan Saunders farm is
located, in Salt Creek Township, about three and one-half miles east and one
south of the present site of Barnard.

  "The Baker Bros, came over from Asherville and started a lumber yard just
across the road from the Saunders residence. W. D. Snapp and G. A. King were
engaged to build an office for the company. A man named Ross Wilcox was the
lumber company's manager.

  "But the railroad people had other views, and it became evident that their
depot would be located in Scott Township. Immediately two townsites were
plotted, one on the west edge of Salt Creek Township, the other just across the
township line in Scott Township.

  "The town plat in Salt Creek Township was on land belonging to Mrs. Kate
Nealeigh; the one in Scott Township on land belonging to A. A. Ballard.

  "An interesting rivalry sprung up between the promoters of the two townsites,
and the township line dividing them was soon dubbed the neutral strip. The
Nealeigh site was facetiously styled "Slabtown." In this article we will
distinguish between the two places by using the terms now in general use— East
Barnard referring to the Nealeigh site, and Barnard, meaning the Ballard site.

  "The first business enterprise secured by either of the two rival sites was
the Baker Bros, lumber yard, which wax; moved from the Saunders place to Barnard
on its present site.

  "The first general store was opened in East Barnard by W. D. Snapp and his
son-in-law, Marion Loy. Lew and Lee Morse had been running a store in Old Milo,
two and one-half miles northeast of Barnard. Marion Loy and Geo. Snapp bought
out the Morse boys at Old Milo when they found there would be no town started on
the Saunders place. Five months later (summer of 1887) W. D. Snapp bought out
his son George in the store at Old Milo and he and Marion Loy moved the stock of
goods to East Barnard where Geo. Saine's house now stands. In a short time W. D.
Snapp sold out to Lee Morse, and eventually Mr. Loy retired, which once more
left the Morse boys in possession of the business. They failed in business soon
after.

  "The first residence built in East Barnard was the one now occupied by S. A.
Duree, and was built by W. D. Snapp.

  "The first building built in Barnard was the one now occupied by Geo. Hiserote
and family. It was built by Mr. Snapp as a residence for Ross Wilcox, manager of
the lumber company.

  "In the summer and fall of 1887 East Barnard seemed to hold the edge over its
neighbor across the way. Buildings were moved in from Old Milo and some new ones
were put up. A man by the name of Gleason opened a general store; a livery
stable was also started, operated by John Clark and his father.

  "David Metzgar ran first store in Barnard; kept a small stock of flour and
feed in building now occupied by J. J. Preo's barber shop. The building then
stood about where E. V. Wine's residence is located. Doc Ballard opened up a
small stock of groceries in the building now occupied by W. F. Burns and family.
Barnard's first postoffice was established in the Ballard store, a man with the
unusual name of Smith being the first postmaster.

  "Wm, Gill, father of Mell Gill, built the corner store now occupied by C.
Coffman. For a while he ran a restaurant and boarded the men who were building
the railroad. He later put in a large stock of groceries and general
merchandise. This was the first stock of goods of any importance that was put on
sale in the new town. Wm. Gill is now located in Holly, Colo., and is still
engaged in the same line of business.

  "J. T. Crowl built one of the first residences and still lives in the same
building. Mr. Growl's house and the hotel were built at about the same time, and
by the same crew of men.

  "All this time the railroad graders were hurrying toward Barnard as fast as
they could, and on or about the fourth day of December, 1887, the track was
completed. On January 15, 1888, the road was turned over to the operating
department, and it is presumed that regular train service went into effect that
day.

[photo] The Barnard School.

  "But the Barnard of to-day is a busy, bustling reality, and once again we
invite you to come and visit our little city, look over the beautiful, prolific
Salt Creek Valley, and if you know a good thing when you see it you'll camp
right here indefinitely."


p. 86

FARMERS STATE BANK
CAPITAL,   -   $15,000
      OFFICERS 
JAMES WILD, Pres.
FRANK COLE, Vice Pres.
J. A. LOUNSBURY, Cashier
W. S. SWANK, Asst. Cashier

DIRECTORS
H. L. HINCKLEY
JOHN VENARD
JOHN JOHNSON
WILLIAM WEST

ORGANIZED, 1904
   The Business  of Merchants and  Farmers Solicited.
THE FARMERS STATE BANK,
BARNARD, KANSAS.


Barnard Lumber Co.
DEALERS IN
Lumber, Coal, Lime, Cement,
Windows, Doors, Building Paper, Mixed
Paints, White Lead, Linseed Oil, Alabastine,
Wood Water Tanks and Smithing Coal
Come in and have us figure your bills.
Our motto is THE GOLDEN RULE.
A. M. GRIFFETH, Manager.

  The above concern is made up strictly of home people—business men and fanners
of Barnard. They wish to thank their many friends for the good business they
have enjoyed since buying out the Barker Bros. Lumber Co., in 1892.


p. 87


JOHNSON BROS.,
BARNARD, KANSAS
Dealers in
General Merchandise.
Our Motto: Honest Goods, Honest Dealings.
  Messrs. Stephen J. and John W. Johnson of this firm were born in Hawkins
County, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Cumberland mountains. They moved with
their parents to Appanoose county, Iowa, in the year 1868, and in the spring of
1874 removed from there to Mitchell county, Kansas, and located with their
parents on a homestead about twelve miles west of Barnard. They started in the
mercantile business in Barnard about seven years ago, and have enjoyed a
splendid business and made many warm friends in and around town. They are well
known throughout Lincoln and Mitchell counties through their long residence in
both.


THE MODEL DRUG STORE,
GEO. W. HOLLAND, Proprietor.
Pure Drugs and Medicines
Toilet Articles, Wall Paper and Paint.
Barnard, - - Kansas.


FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BARNARD, KANSAS
Capital, $25,000 
Surplus, $12,500.
M. S. ATWOOD, Pres.
J. W. BRIDENSTINE, Vice Pres. 
F. F. BRACKEN, Cashier,
M. I. STAUFFEN, Asst. Cashier.


p. 88

Beverly

  Beverly is the successor and sole heir of the promising burg (in embryo) of
Colorado, which gracefully gave up the ghost in 1886. The postoffice was moved
in this year, and the town plotted. The land belonged to Volany Ball. The
railroad came through about this time, and stores began to be built.

  D. R. Kernohan, who built the first general merchandise establishment, was
succeeded by his son and daughter, who are still in business. A hotel was built
and run by Mr. Tussel. The hardware store was owned by Welsh Bros.

  C. M. Adamson, who was a doctor and was postmaster at Colorado, kept a drug
store in Beverly in the same building with the postoffice.

  The first people to settle on or near the site of Beverly was the Colorado
boys, in the bend of the river. They have already been mentioned in the county
write-up. Anyway, they baffle description, so we will pass on. The next settlers
were Smiths and Greens. Mrs. Skinner taught the first school which has been
mentioned in the "School History." The next school near this place was taught in
a dugout by Mattie Seger.

  In 1905 the town was organized as a city of the third class. It is protected
by a council of five wise men, and a big chief, whose name is T. F. Webb, Sr.
Things have always run so smoothly in Beverly that there has never been a dog
light, much less a town row, or a killin'. So it is up to the big chief to
furnish enough excitement to keep the people from getting too fat. Accordingly
he went out one day and shot a rabbit. The council had the day before passed an
ordinance against shooting and the chief was fined $1.00. A little later he went
out on the streets and hit a man. This cost him $5.00. His salary is $12.00 per
year, but he was public spirited enough to return one-half of it to the treasury
in fines.

  Some of the early settlers are still here. Dick Clark, alias R. B. Clark, the
only one of the Colorado boys still living, Chalzmerz Smith and J. J. Peate, two
of Forsythe's scouts; and Waldo Hancock, a protege of the Colorado boys.

  We know a little story about Jack Peate, and take this opportunity to tell it.
He came to Kansas at the tender age of sixteen. He was with a companion. When
they got to the end of the railroad they bought a horse apiece, and started out
to ride across the country. In the vicinity of Cawker City, they were surprised
and captured by a band of Indians, dog soldiers probably, because Roman Nose was
the leader. They were not killed on the spot, as the band was taking a
circuitous route to their camp up the Solomon. The captives looked forward with
pleasure to the honor of being tortured to death at the camp of this famous
Roman Nose. But when they came near the bluff of Wacoanda they ran into a party
of buffalo-hunters. The captives escaped and went on their way rejoiciny. They
came down to Saline Valley and met some of the Colorado boys chasing some
government mules and a beautiful little pony. Now this being Jack Peate's first
experience on horseback he did not know how to capture a pony, though his
intentions were good enough. So when his horse made a quick, vigorous turn, Mr.
Peate went skyward. He landed near the town site of Beverly and has made it his
headquarters ever since.

[photo] One of the Rude Dwellings of Our Forefathers.


  Then there is the Skinner family who were early settlers, and are still one of
the most prominent families in the community, and own a large amount of property
in and about Beverly. E. T. Skinner is our present legislator. He has shown
great interest in preserving historical landmarks.

p. 90

[photo and advertisement] 
The Beverly State Bank,
BEVERLY, - KANSAS.

J. J. PEATE, Pres.
A. E. SKINNER, Vice Pres. 
E. T. SKINNER, Cashier
A. E. SKINNER, Asst. Cashier.

A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
We take Good Care of Money Deposited with Us
WE CARRY BURGLAR INSURANCE.


p. 91

Waldo Hancock
has a large list of
Real Property
For Sale
Near Beverly, Ks.
  Ask him for prices before buying, for he will try and save you money, and will
guarantee a perfect title.
  Four of the Best Fire Tornado and Hail Insurance Companies carried, with rates
the lowest.

A Matter of Interest to Those Who Wish to Sell or Buy Lands,
  Mr. Waldo Hancock, of Beverly, Kansas, has secured a membership with the
Central Real Estate Dealers Association which has headquartere at Topeka,
Kansas. By this membership Mr. Hancock has 1,000 Real Estate Firms representing
him in different parts of the United States, and he is likewise representative
for the same number. Farmers desiring to sell or buy lands should call on Mr.
Hancock.



J. E. Gall Commission Co.
Receivers and Shippers of Grain, Seeds and Feeds Buyers and Sellers of R. R.
Stocks and Grains on margin.

If you've, got it, we want it 
If you want it, we've got it

110 West Sixth St.
Topeka, Kansas



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	A Souvenir History of Lincoln County, Kansas
	Elizabeth N. Barr
	Topeka, Kan.: Farmer Job Office (1908)


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