Woodson County KS Archives Photo Place.....Hotel Peterson - Toronto's Leading Hotel 1899
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Source:             Woodson County Advocate Fri Sep 1, 1899
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Woodson County Advocate Fri Sep 1, 1899
          TORONTO'S LEADING HOTEL
Hotel Peterson--a Model Hostelry, Recently Renovated
and Refurnished Throughout. W. H. Peterson, Proprietor.

Large, Well Lighted, Sample and Guest Rooms, Cuisine
the Best and Polite Attention Makes the Hotel
Peterson Popular With the Transient Public.
   Few towns in Kansas can boast of a better hotel
than the Peterson at Toronto, the management of which
from observation, travel and experience, is thoroughly
conversant with the requirements of hotel guests, and
has met them in every particular. The building is a 
two story and mansard with twenty two rooms, all
fitted up with new and modern furniture, carpets,
linen, etc. The table is supplied with edibles 
prepared and served in the most tempting manner, and
this, together with sleeping rooms and parlors which
are ideals of comfort and neatness combine to make
the hotel a delightful stopping place. At the side
is a miniature park, with shade trees, hammocks, etc.,
which adds to the attractiveness of the surroundings.
   W. H. Peterson, the proprietor was born in Indiana
but reared in southeastern Iowa. He is a veteran of
the civil war, having served two years in the 3rd 
Iowa Cavalry. After the war he moved to Pawnee City,
Nebraska, where he lived until 1880. In that year
he went to South Dakota and until 1894 was engaged
in the mercantile business in that state. For four
years following he was in the real estate business 
in southeastern Missouri. He came to Toronto in 
December, 1898, and opened the Hotel Peterson on
March 15th of this year. He remodeled the building
and refurnished it from basement to garret, sparing
no expense in the undertaking. He is ably assisted
by his estimiable wife and two daughters under
whose supervision the house and table are always
homelike and models of neatness.

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