From the files of The Kanopolis Journal
From the files of the March 10, 1877 edition of The Kanopolis Journal.
ADVERTISEMENT
If you would prosper in business — locate in the growing town of Kanopolis. The future city in Kansas and next important city of the West.
Kanopolis is a railroad town on the K.P. Div. of the Union Pacific R.R., 218 miles from Kansas City, in the center of Ellsworth county, the central county of Kansas.
Several more railroads are building towards Kanopolis. Two roads recently arrived within 12 miles, others are coming so that in a short time it is destined to be a great railroad, manufacturing and commercial center.
Kanopolis is a New Town, only a few months old, but growing more rapidly than any Western Town of its age.
Factories are starting. Banks, stores, newspaper and steam printing office are in operation. A fine 3-story brick hotel and many stores and dwelling houses are being built. Flour and woolen mills, grain elevators, pottery and earthenware establishments are being erected; and negotiations pending for a stove foundry, a broom factory, a meat packing establishment and numerous other industries which are expected to locate here soon. A handsome new depot, large stock yards, and two new bridges, aggregating 600 feet in length, have been built and many improvements too numerous to mention, have been made in the few months since the city was started. In short, Kanopolis is sure to continue to grow rapidly because it is in the right place to become the Great Central City of Kansas, and the great collection and distributing point for the $200,000,000.00 worth of produce annually raised in this Great State, and a wealthy corporation has taken hold of the town to make a “Great City” of it, hence very liberal aid in various ways is given to all kinds of shops, mills, factories, etc., that will locate at Kanopolis.
Parties who bought town lots 3 to 4 months ago are selling them at 50 to 300 per cent profit.
Kanopolis needs more merchants, and mechanics of all kinds.
Kanopolis is in the center of a county that has over 12,000 inhabitants and raises over two million dollars worth of produce annually.
Kanopolis is the best place in Kansas to establish a large agricultural implement store.
More building is going on now and Kanopolis is more prosperous that at any time since the town began, although it is January 1887, mid-winter, when everybody expected a suspension of building operations.
One of the surest, safest and best investments that can be made is town lots in Kanopolis. Come see for yourself.
KANOPOLIS LAND CO.
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CARNEIRO HAPPENINGS
Pleasant weather.
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The new side track is completed.
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Farmers have begun their spring plowing.
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Mr. W. Z. Potts has begun the stone work on his furniture store.
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Simple Simon attended church at Carneiro on Saturday last, correspondent of the Ellsworth Democrat at Paradise Ridge.
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Mrs. John Boyle, of Boyle, Kan., arrived in Carneiro to attend the funeral of Mrs. Ida. Boyle, wife of her son H. W. Boyle.
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Died, in her twentieth year, Mrs. Ida Boyle, wife of H. W. Boyle. Mrs. Boyle was one of our most esteemed ladies, and during her short stay among us she made many friends, who mourn the loss dearly.
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ELLSWORTH HAPPENINGS
The new paper is to be started at Holyrood this month.
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The annual conference of the M.K. church meets March 28th.
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The District Court convenes at Ellsworth the first Monday in April.
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The Ladies Guild Masonic and Methodist ladies have each been giving entertainments lately.
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Wheat in Ellsworth county looks very sorry in many townships owing to the last fall’s drought.
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The late fire damage on the engine house hose carriages and city council room had not been repaired yet.
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Mr. and Mrs. Santry are well settled in their new office at the Grand Central Hotel, as host and hostess.
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There has been a talk of buying the John L. Bell residence for a City Hotel. The price asked is $10,000.
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It is estimated 2,000 cords of stone has been delivered on Ellsworth streets the past winter at an average of $4 a cord.
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Sen. Lloyd, Rep. Bard and Theo. Sternberg, who have been engaged in Topeka all winter, reached home Sunday.
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Mr. A. Syd. Chase, the organ seller, has just sold his 160 acre homestead, five miles north of Ellsworth, for over $4,000.
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Rev. M. Hunt, the young and talented pastor of Ellsworth Baptist Church, has secured a house, and will locate at his charge at once.
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Ex-Mayor C.D. Day, the dentist, has been suffering with ulceration lately. Physician, pull thine own teeth, or words to that effect.
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We learn that the fine Bohemian settlement in the west end of the county, will soon have a preacher of their own language and religion.
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Maj. Henry Inman, quartermaster at Fort Harker, in the palmy days of the Kanopolis town site, has been visiting his family in Ellsworth this week. ...
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Mr. Thomas Foote, section boss at Black Wolf, eight miles west of Ellsworth, is laying out a town at that place and has succeeded in getting postmastership.
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The Odd Fellows closed in with Mr. A. Larkin last week in the purchase of the two lots west of the Central Bank, at $2,400. It is hoped the society will at once improve.
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A greatly increased filing of deeds and mortgages in Ellsworth county, real and chattel, necessitates the employment of an additional deputy by Register Card, every week or two.
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Among the many “needs of Ellsworth,” as often voiced in the city papers, the worst of all it ignored, — that of another good, lively newspaper. How would that strike those editors?
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High carnival was held on Ellsworth streets a few days ago, when two Russians and a trained bear exhibited all the forenoon. Small favors thankfully received, in the way of amusements.
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Mr. Jack Pitman, Ellsworth sporting man, sold his house last week. The creditors took care of the furniture and the charitable authorities cared for the old folks.
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A meeting was hastily called at the courthouse for last Saturday night, as a whitewash on the railroad committee of Ellsworth. Some persons faintly kicked at the action of the committee, just enough to allow the accused to plead not guilty and stiffen up on the issues. All efforts to reform, modify, or add to, was in vain and the old Board was continued. One complaint was that the committee without stating any facts to the public, has bought 160 acres joining the city and proclaimed the “Midland Addition,” so that when the depot was located there the committee should profit exclusively by the sale of the lots.
The historic items on this page appear as they did in the original publication.