Woodson County KS Archives History .....Toronto A Thriving City 1899
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Woodson County Advocate Fri Sep 1, 1899
           TORONTO
A Thriving City and Important Business Center

Enterprise is Manifest in Every Avenue of Trade
and the City is Rapidly Forging to the Front

         City Officials,
   W. H. Kaltenback, mayor; J. R. Alvis, clerk;
C. W. Pollard, police judge; B. F. Adkins, marshal,
Councilment, Thos. Finley, J. C. Clark, J. T. Long,
H. T. Dickerson, W. H. Reed.
    Situated in the southwest corner of Woodson
county is the progressive little city forming
the caption of this article. It was laid out in
1869 by the Toronto Town Company of which Enoch
Reeves was president and Matthew Miller secretary.
The growth of the town was slow until the advent of
the railroad in 1882 since which time its developement
has been remarkable. At present the population is 
over 600 and the city is steadily increasing in
population and commercial prestige. A bank, large
flouring mill, and numerous stores carrying large
stock of every line of merchandise, good hotel
accommodations and enterprising citizens are the
principal reasons to which the advancement of the
city may be ascribed. Fine churches and schools
manifest the moral and intellectual inclinations
of the citizens and few cities of its size possess
a population who so universally co-operate in the
advancement of their town. A local company has
recently been formed to prospect for gas and will
begin operations in a short time. Toronto possess
ever advantage offered by larger towns and 
prospective investors or homeseekers will be extended
every courtesy by the hospitable residents and 
business men of the city. The meagre representation
of the various business interests of the city is
owing to the fact that time and want of space 
precluded a full write up of them all and as a result
mention is made of the most important commercial
houses. The professions are fully represented by men
of marked ability and the ADVOCATE regrets that they
also are omitted from individual mention.

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