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Ele’s Corner, formerly Paden’s Place, is currently for sale.After about a year, economic and family obligations prompted the decision to place the established business on the market.We have mixed feelings about this news.

The most famous cattle trail in western history, the Chisholm, was established when an innovative cattle market was created at Abilene in 1867. Abilene was so successful that the stockyards couldn’t handle all the cattle that were daily arriving.

“I’m tired,” my son intoned as he sprawled across a chair on a neighbor’s front porch.We were making the neighborhood rounds in an effort to support his school. The goods we were peddling: trash bags.Yes, you heard me right. Trash bags.I’ve seen a lot of fundraisers in my life, but never trash bags.

Nathaniel Ellsworth Wyatt is believed to have been born in Indiana. His year of birth is in question, having been reported from 1863 until 1870. John T. Wyatt married Rachel J. Quick of Clay County, Ind., in 1860. Rachel was 16. When the Civil War broke out, John joined the 85th Indiana Infantry.

Being civil seems like the bare minimum of what we owe each other, yet studies show that incivility is on the rise in our country.A 2019 Pew Research survey found that 68 percent of those surveyed wanted elected officials to exhibit a tone of civility and respect in politics.

The mention of the Santa Fe Trail brings forth images of long trains of alluring Conestoga wagons wending their way across the open prairie. That prairie was Kansas, and to a lesser extent, the Cimarron Cutoff, across the present-day Oklahoma panhandle into New Mexico.

Editor’s Note: Aug. 10 was the two-year anniversary of the Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 being signed into law.ar comes at an agonizing cost.

Joseph McCoy created the first great cattle town in 1867 when he established his “cattle depot” along the Kansas Pacific Railway tracks at Abilene. The Kansas Pacific dominated the cattle trade until 1871.

As I see our students return to college, I’m spending some time reflecting on the most important lesson I learned there.Let me tell you about it.During my upperclassman years, I found myself in the classroom of Dr. L. Susan Williams.

Caldwell, Kan., was founded in 1871, directly on the Chisholm Trail just inside the Kansas border with Indian Territory.