SOURCE: HISTORY OF KANSAS STATE AND PEOPLE, WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY WILLIAM E. CONNELLEY, SECRETARY OF THE KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, TOPEKA, 1928.

FIVE VOLUMES...VOLUME V, PAGES 2229-2231...EXCERPTS.

ALBERT AUGUSTUS NEWMAN. Arkansas City, the largest municipality in Cowley County, was laid out in the spring of 1870, a few weeks after the county government was organized, and the town was incorporated in 1872.The Santa Fe Railroad reached the town in 1879, and with the development of water power and other facilities the place enjoyed a steady and consecutive growth. These facts are briefly stated at the beginning of the sketch of Albert Augustus Newman because he was, after the initial event of the layout out of the townsite, the most dominant figure in the growing destiny of the city for a period of half a century.

Mr. Newman, who was attracted to Arkansas City in 1870, was born at Weld, Maine, January 19, 1843, and died July 31, 1922, when in his eightieth year. He was of English and New England Colonial ancestry. His grandfather, Ebenezer Newman, was born at Billerica, Massachusetts, in 1791, son of a Revolutionary soldier, and spent the greater part of his life on his farm in Maine. He died in 1857. His wife, Judith Dowse, was born at Billerica, and also died at Weld. Augustus G. Newman, father of Albert Augustus, was born at Weld in 1821, was a merchant, and died in 1893. Several times he came to Kansas as a visitor. He was a Republican and held local offices in Maine, and was an active member of the Free Will Baptist Church. He married Caroline Beedy, who was born in Maine in 1821 and died in 1895. All three of their sons became prominent in Kansas: Albert A.; George W. Newman, who developed a large dry goods house at Emporia; and Fred C. Newman, who became president of the Citizens National Bank of Emporia.

Albert Augustus Newman was educated in common schools and high school in Maine, attended the Maine State Seminary at Lewiston, and at the age of nineteen enlisted, in 1862, in the Tenth Maine Infantry. He was transferred to the Twenty-ninth Maine Infantry and served in many battles of the war, including Antietam and Chancellorsville, and was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. After the war he was a dry goods merchant at Fayetteville, Tennessee, three years, and in 1868 came to Kansas, locating in the new town of Emporia, where he was a general merchant until he moved to Arkansas City, where he established a pioneer mercantile business. This business from a small beginning developed with the growth of the town to one of the largest department stores in the Southwest. For many years it has been known as the Newman Dry Goods Company, and his two sons succeeded him in its management and control.

Giving Arkansas City a store consistent with the importance of the town as a gateway to the Southwest was only one of Mr. Newman's many enterprises fraught with public interest. He helped organize the Cowley County Bank, the second bank in Arkansas City, and the first organized under state laws, and was its president from 1874 for a number of years. He was one of the founders of the Home National Bank. He and associates developed the water power of the Arkansas River by means of a canal into the Walnut River. He and associates built the first flour mill in southern Kansas on Walnut River, and the mill furnished all the flour used by the Indians in Indian Territory. Mr. Newman was engaged in freighting flour to Fort Sill and to other army posts during 1876-77. He sold his mill in 1879. Later he was director and president of the Arkansas City Milling Company. He was one of the founders of the Arkansas City Water Company and the Arkansas City Gas & Electric Light Company, and was president of both corporations for a number of years. These public utilities were sold to the Kansas Gas & Electric Light Company in 1915. Mr. Newman was president of the Newman Investment Company, president of the Land & Power Company of Arkansas City, and was president of the Three K Cattle Company, owning and operating an extensive cattle business in old Indian Territory. He was for two terms mayor of Arkansas City. The capital for the building of a great many homes and business structures in Arkansas City came from him. He was a trustee of the Presbyterian Church, and in Masonry was affiliated with Crescent Lodge No. 133, A. F. And A. M.; Bennett Chapter No. 41, Royal Arch Masons; Arkansas City Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar, Wichita Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Salina Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

He married at Weld, Maine, in 1869, Miss Mary M. Houghton, and on September 6, 1919, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. Newman at the age of eighty-one still occupies the old home at 301 North B Street, a substantial house which Mr. Newman built in 1873. She was the mother of three children.

The son, Earl Granville Newman, was born in Arkansas City, October 23, 1879, and exemplified many of the able business qualities of his father. He was educated in public schools and at the age of sixteen went into his father's store, growing up in the business, and the credit for its later expansion and development is largely due to this young business man. He became manager of the store and vice president, and after his father's death was made president of the company. The Newman Dry Goods Company in 1917 occupied its new home, one of the best equipped department store buildings in the entire state. Earl G. Newman was president of the company at the time of his death on October 31, 1926, at the age of forty-seven. He was a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of Midian Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wichita, a member of the Arkansas City Rotary Club, Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Retailers Association, and was also president of the Newman Investment Company and vice president of the Land & Power Company.

Earl G. Newman married June 16, 1908, Miss Gertrude T. Waterhouse, of Quincy, Massachusetts. She occupies a beautiful home at 303 North B Street, adjoining the old Newman homestead, and has taken a prominent part in the social life of the city, being a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Christian Science Church. Mrs. Earl G. Newman has five children: Adeline, born April 21, 1909, and Katherine, born January 25, 1911, both students in the Senior High School of Arkansas City; Earl Granville, Jr., born October 14, 1913, attending the Junior High School; Caroline, born October 6, 1915; and Alice Gertrude, born February 9, 1918.

The present executive head of the Newman Dry Goods Company and of a number of other interests created and developed by the late Albert Augustus Newman is his second son, Albert L. Newman, who was born in Arkansas City, September 9, 1881. He graduated from high school in 1900 and for two and a half years was a student in Kansas University. He then became associated with his father's dry goods business for two years, but afterwards was made manager of the Land & Power Company, the holding company which owned and operated the electric light and water power until the utilities were sold to the Kansas Gas & Electric Company in 1915, and the Land & Power Company then retained the real estate. Albert L. Newman had executive charge of the Kansas Gas & Electric Company at Arkansas City from 1915 to 1921, For two years following he was in the automobile business, and in 1923 he returned to enact his part in the management of the Newman Dry Goods Company and became its president after his brother died in October, 1926. In addition he is secretary-treasurer of the Newman Investment Company and treasurer of the Land & Power Company. Albert L. Newman is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of Midian Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Masonic Grotto, is a member of the Rotary Club, Arkansas City County Club, Chamber of Commerce, and during the World war was chairman of several committees having in charge the patriotic program. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. On February 19, 1908, he married Miss Mate McMillen, of Arkansas City, where she was born. She attended school there and graduated from high school at Logansport, Indiana, and from the State Teachers College at Pittsburg, Kansas. Mrs. Albert L. Newman is a member of the Shakespeare Club and active in the social life of her home city. They have four children: Albert W., born in Arkansas City, December 2, 1908, a graduate of the local high school, spent two years in Kansas University, and is a member of the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, of which his father is also a member; George Frederick, born May 20, 1911, attending high school; Harry E., born July 8, 1912, a student in Junior High School; and Rodney Lee, born June 28, 1923.

The daughter of the late A. A. Newman is Pearl N., now the wife of Col. William F. Hase, an officer of the United States Army, formerly chief-of-staff under General Summerall in the Hawaiian Islands and now in command of Fort Winfield Scott at San Francisco. Colonel and Mrs. Hase have two children: Mary Elizabeth and Hilda Houghton.

Albert Augustus Newman was of English and New England Colonial ancestry. His grandfather, Ebenezer Newman, was born at Billerica, Massachusetts, in 1791, son of a Revolutionary soldier, and spent the greater part of his life on his farm in Maine. He died in 1857. His wife, Judith Dowse, was born at Billerica, and also died at Weld, Maine. Augustus G. Newman, father of Albert Augustus, was born at Weld, Maine, in 1821, was a merchant, and died in 1893. Several times he came to Kansas as a visitor. He was a Republican and held local offices in Maine, and was an active member of the Free Will Baptist Church. He married Caroline Beedy, who was born in Maine in 1821 and died in 1895. All three of their sons became prominent in Kansas: Albert A.; George W. Newman, who developed a large dry goods house at Emporia; and Fred C. Newman, who became president of the Citizens National Bank of Emporia. His sisters were Mary (Newman) Haywood and Hattie (Newman) Purington.

Albert Augustus Newman was educated in common schools and high school in Maine, attended the Maine State Seminary at Lewiston, and at the age of nineteen enlisted, in 1862, in the Tenth Maine Infantry. He was transferred to the Twenty-ninth Maine Infantry and served in many battles of the war, including Antietam and Chancellorsville, and was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. Albert A. Newman married at Weld, Maine, in 1869, Miss Mary M. Houghton, and on September 6, 1919, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mrs. Newman at the age of 81 still occupied the old home at 301 North B Street, a substantial house which Mr. Newman built in 1873. They had three children: Earl Granville; Albert L.; and Pearl N. (Hase).

Ebenezer Newman, Sr. (1767/1839) married Sarah Dowse (1762/1855) m-1782

Lucretia Newman (1780/1861) married Isaac Storer

Ebenezer Newman, Jr. (1791/1857) married Judith Dowse (M-1814) 1796/1879

Sally Newman, b-2/1/1815 d-1816

Prescott Newman, b-10/11/1816

Sally Newman b 4/10/1817

Ebenezer Newman, 3rd 1829/1910 married Marinda ?,

married 2nd, Polly Dyer.

Eva Newman married Charles A. Toothaker

Augustus G. Newman 1821- 1893 married Caroline Beedy, 1821 - 1895.

Albert Augustus Newman (1-19-1843/7-31-1922) married Mary M.

Houghton.

Earl Granville Newman married Gertrude T. Waterhouse

Adeline Newman

Katherine Newman

Earl Granville Newman, Jr.

Caroline Newman

Alice Gertrude Newman

Albert L. Newman married Mate McMillen

Albert W. Newman

George Frederick Newman

Harry E. Newman

Rodney Lee Newman

Pearl N. Newman married William F. Hase

Mary Elizabeth Hase

Hilda Houghton Hase

May (Mary) C. Newman married Rufus C. Haywood

Frederick C. Newman

George Washington Newman

Weld, Maine is on the western border of the state, about 100 miles from Portland, Maine. It was first settled about 1782.

Ebenezer Newman, Sr., came from Andover, New Hampshire. He was a soldier of the Revolution and received a wound in his leg at the battle of Long Island, which was the cause of his death. He married Sarah Dowse of Billerica, Massachusetts, and soon settled in Dearing, New Hampshire, where they remained until 1799, when they removed to Andover, Maine, and lived there until 1805, when they came to Weld, Maine.

Benjamin Dowse, (who married Hannah Frost Mears in 1749) the father of Sarah and grandfather of Judith, was at the Lexington Alarm, turned out in Col. Ebenezer Bridge's regiment. He was a corporal at White Plains, and marched to reinforce the Northern Army at Bennington under Col. Jonathan Reed.

Benjamin Dowse m1749, Hannah Frost Mears, b1728

Sarah m 1782, Ebenezer Newman, Sr.

Ebenezer Newman, Jr., m 1814, Judith Dowse, 1796-1879.

Abigail m1782, Josiah Newman

Josiah Newman, Jr., 1783-1865, m 2nd, Nancy Holland

Arabella Rarren Newman, 1818-1887

A. A. Newman was the son of Augustus G. Newman and Caroline (Beedy) Newman of Weld, Maine. Had two younger brothers named George Washington (G. W.) and Fred (F. C.) Newman. Sisters were Mary (Newman) Haywood and Hattie (Newman) Purington. Daniel Beedy is thought to have been a close maternal relative.

Volume One of the books BETWEEN THE RIVERS, copyrighted in 1969 by Ruth Norris Berger and Bess Riley Oldroyd, pages 65 through 68, had an article about A. A. Newman contributed by Mrs. Albert L. Newman.

ALBERT AUGUSTUS NEWMAN, a Yankee of considerable vision came out of the Civil War convinced that the Middle West had great potential. As a consequence, he spent the next fifty years living in and working for Arkansas City.

In 1862 when he was nineteen years old he withdrew from Maine State Seminary at Lewiston and enlisted in the Union Army. He came under fire in some of the great battles, and even on his first day of service was ordered to go gather his equipment from one of the dead Union soldiers in a nearby filed. He marched up the Shenandoah Valley with Sherman's gallant men. He tells in his war diary while wintering in Vicksburg of scouting the district for apples and selling them to the other soldiers. He thus manifested early his merchant instinct.

After coming out of the Army, Mr. Newman and his foster brother, T. H. McLaughlin, went to Fayetteville, Tennessee, and operated a dry-goods store. But when it became known in the village that they were "Damn Yankees," they were ordered to leave. Mr. Newman, who was a Mason, was allowed to leave in an orderly manner, but his partner was not. When McLaughlin heard he was to be "tarred and feathered" and ridden out of town on a rail, he climbed out a back window of their living quarters over the store and escaped in the middle of the night.

Major Sleeth (no relation to Newman) was born in Cambridge, Ohio, and served four years in the Civil War, where he rose to the rank of major in the Seventeenth Army Corps of the 78^th Ohio Volunteers. After the war he taught school for four years, after which he spent three years in the lumber business in Fayetteville, Tennessee. It was there that he met A. A. Newman and T. H. McLaughlin, who were in business there. In the year 1869 Sleeth came to Emporia, Kansas, later locating in El Dorado. He came to Arkansas City in March 1870. He was a member of the Arkansas City Town Company and was its secretary. He made the first plat of the town.

[Note: Much of the following that was gathered about people from Maine must be taken with a "grain of salt" as it has many inaccuracies. MAW August 7, 2000.]

Volume One of BETWEEN THE RIVERS had an article written by Walter Hutchison in 1945 on page 113, that mentions people coming from Maine.

In the early 1870s there was a group of citizens in Arkansas City known as the "Franklin County Maine Colony," all of whom came from the same town, Phillips, in that state.

The pioneers of the Maine group cast their lot in southern Kansas and saw a future in Arkansas City, investing heavily in real estate and business ventures.

The "Maine Colony" threw a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Farrar. Attending this affair was a group of 25 or 30 persons, all former residents of Maine, accompanied by their children. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Worthley were the last to survive. They were the parents of Mrs. Edna Worthley Underwood.

H. P. Farrar, early day banker, came to Arkansas City in 1870. His brother, Fred, came a few years later.

Someone tried to recall group who attended the Farrar party. They came up with the following:

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Farrar.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Farrar.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Worthley.

Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Newman.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gooch.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howard.

Mr. and Mrs. George Howard.

Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Prescott.

Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Lambert.

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Haywood.

Mr. and Mrs. Brad Beal.

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. McLaughlin.

Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Houghton.

Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Houghton.

Some of the descendants:

A. A. Newman: Albert and Earl Newman.

T. K. Houghton: Mrs. Charles Sills.

Charles Howard: Mrs. Frank Vogel.

George B. Howard: Harry V. Howard.

Harry Farrar: Mrs. Lester Mitchell and Foss Farrar.

Granddaughter: Frances Farrar Guyot.

[Note: Research of Census for Creswell Township reveals that Farrar came later than 1871. Mr. Hutchison did not do his "home work" in compiling this article.]

In 1868 Mr. Newman made his way to Emporia, Kansas, to open another general store. That store still operates there under the Newman name. A brother, George W. Newman, 21 years old, took over the store in 1870 when "A. A." was attracted to the Indian lands of southern Kansas, and the Indian Territory. These were being opened up for trade and Mr. Newman secured a contract with the government to grind grain for the Indians near the infant town of Arkansas City.

Emporia News, August 21, 1868.

Two gentlemen were here this week from Maine, looking up a business location. They were much pleased with the town and country and will probably locate.

Emporia News, September 4, 1868.

As will be seen by their advertisement in today's paper, Messrs. Newman & Houghton have purchased the store formerly owned by Mr. Pyle, in Jones' new building. These gentlemen are lately from Maine, and have had a long experience in the mercantile business. They advertise what they can and will do. All they ask is a fair trial. We hope they may meet with encouragement and have a fair share of the patronage of the public. They go to work as though they understood their business, and as though they intend to do a fair legitimate trade with those who may favor them with their custom. We wish them abundant success.

Emporia News, September 4, 1868.

The undersigned having bought out the stock of W. A. Pyle at a greatly reduced price, would respectfully call the attention of the citizens of Emporia and surrounding country to the fact that they can and will sell

GROCERIES, BOOTS AND SHOES, CLOTHING, Notions & Queensware, Cheaper than they can be bought elsewhere in SOUTHERN KANSAS.

We buy our Goods at first hand in New York and Boston, and save second profits paid by merchants buying in Chicago, St. Louis, or Leavenworth.

All Goods Warranted as Represented or MONEY REFUNDED.

Emporia News, September 25, 1868.

We are glad to know the new firm of Newman & Houghton are doing a lively business. One of the firm is now absent after new goods. They intend to bring on a stock that will not be excelled in quantity or quality.

Emporia News, October 16, 1868.

The attraction for a few days has been at the new store of Newman & Houghton, in Jones' building, next door north of Fraker & Peyton's. On Monday night they commenced receiving their new goods direct from New York, and their store is now one of the best stocked in the place. Their goods must be cheap as they are shipped direct from New York, and they save the profits of western wholesale merchants. Their stock embraces everything in the line of ladies' dress goods, clothing, groceries, etc. These gentlemen are determined not to be out-done in any respect. They are newcomers, and we hope our people will call and examine their stock and prices before making their purchases, as they hope, by close application to business and fair dealing to merit their share of the public patronage.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

Emporia News, October 16, 1868.

Best Green Teas at $1.50 per pound.

Choice Black Ties at $1.25 per pound.

Emporia News, October 16, 1868.

A large stock of fancy cassimeres, satinets, jeans, tweeds, repellants, ladies' cloth, flannels and linseys, which we will sell at lower prices than the same quality of goods were ever sold in this market. Call and see

Emporia News, October 16, 1868.

Choice styles of ladies and gents shawls; also a splendid assortment of balmorals, the cheapest in the market.

ADS.]

Emporia News, November 13, 1868.

The new stock of clothing, boots, and shoes, at 180 Commercial street.

Latest styles of gents hats and caps, ladies' furs and fur trimmed hoods, breakfast shawls, sontags, nubias, and scarfs; also children's and misses hoods.

Emporia News, December 18, 1868.

Newman & Houghton have just received a large stock of new goods.

Emporia News, January 1, 1869.

Goods have arrived, and he is now ready for professional business. His office is over Newman & Houghton's store. The Doctor prepares a specific remedy for the cure of Fever and Ague, which is never known to fail; also Anti-Bilious Pills, a sure preventative of the Ague by correcting the stomach and liver. Mixture and Pills $2.00.

Emporia News, January 8, 1869.

AD. Latest Styles in Caps. Fur, fur-bound and all grades cloth caps for Men and Boys, at NEWMAN & HOUGHTON'S.

Emporia News, February 5, 1869.

Emporia News, February 5, 1869.

The new crop of tea is now on the market, and some of the choicest brands have just been received by NEWMAN & HOUGHTON.

Emporia News, February 5, 1869.

A fine lot of prints and muslins just received by NEWMAN & HOUGHTON.

Emporia News, February 5, 1869.

Shawls, nubias, scarfs, sontags, balmoral skirts, and hosiery are now selling at a great sacrifice at 181 Commercial street. They must be sold in thirty days.

Emporia News, March 19, 1869.

Mr. Newman started to Boston and New York on Monday morning to lay in a spring and summer stock for the store of Newman & Houghton.

Emporia News, March 19, 1869.

We are informed that the brother of our townsman, Mr. Newman, of the firm of Newman & Houghton, who arrived here from Maine on Wednesday morning, reports that there was seven feet of snow, on the level, in that State when he left. So badly were the railroads blockaded that he was three days in making fifty miles. Think of that, ye grumblers at the cold weather of Kansas.

Houghton begins to start own business...

Emporia News, April 16, 1869.

Mr. Houghton, of the firm of Newman & Houghton, has let the contract for putting up a business house, 25 x 60 feet, on Commercial street, near B. T. Wright's hardware store. Messrs. Newman & Houghton have been in business here about a year, and have succeeded in building up a large trade. They are both young men of excellent business qualifications, and possess the energy and perseverance that will succeed anywhere.

Emporia News, April 23, 1869.

Newman & Houghton are receiving their extensive stock of goods this week, and those desiring first choice should call early. Their prices are very low. They bought in New York and Boston and shipped direct; therefore, you will not have to pay the profits of the St.. Louis and Leavenworth merchants. Their hats are of the latest styles, in endless variety, and cheap, too. Their Boots and Shoes have to be seen to be appreciated. They can beat the world on ladies' dress goods. It is useless for us to attempt to enumerate what they have for sale, but will advise all go and see their large stock. All goods guaranteed or money refunded. No trouble to show goods.

Emporia News, April 23, 1869.

We have just received direct from New York and Boston a large and choice stock of Domestic & Fancy Dry Goods, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING, NOTIONS, AND CARPETINGS.

We wish it distinctly understood that we buy at first hand of the Manufacturers and Importers, and will sell at prices to defy competition.

Best Prints--Merrimac, Cocheco, Spragues, Pacifics, Arnolds, Amoskeng, and Denonels at 12 ½ cents per yard.

Ladies' Hoop Skirts, 75 cents.

Ladies' Cotton Hose at $1.50 per dozen.

Boys' Wool Hats, 50 cents each.

Mens' Wool Hats, 75 cents each.

Best Imperial Tea, $1.50 per pound.

Best Hyson Tea, $1.50 per pound.

Best Japan Tea, $1.50 per pound.

Best Oolong Tea, $1.25 per pound.

Emporia News, April 30, 1869.

Newman & Houghton have a set of croquet.

Houghton's store almost completed...

Emporia News, May 14, 1869.

Mr. Houghton's new business house, next door south of Wright's hardware store, is nearly completed, and will soon be occupied by McMillan & Fox. It will be one of the largest business rooms in the place.

Emporia News, May 14, 1869.

Emporia News, June 4, 1869.

Messrs. Newman & Houghton have secured a lot on the corner of Mechanics street and Sixth avenue, just east of Gilmore & Hirth's furniture rooms, and will put up immediately a business house, 26 x 70 feet, two stories high, to be built of brick with iron and glass front, and to be in all respects a first class business house. Business has heretofore been confined almost exclusively to Commercial street, but lots are held at such high figures that men are forced to branch off on the avenues where property is cheaper. We learn that another firm contemplates putting up a business house in the vicinity of this contemplated building.

Emporia News, June 11, 1869.

Newman & Houghton have received direct from New York a choice assortment of fine brown and bleached muslins--[?can't read first word?], lawns, nansooks, and jaconets. Also, a large assortment of ladies' hose, gloves, corsets, hoop-skirts, damask piano and table covers, marsailes and star quilts, lace curtains, oil carpetings, etc., which they are selling at extremely low prices.

Emporia News, August 6, 1869.

Mr. Newman, of the firm of Newman & Houghton, has gone East after a large stock of goods.

Emporia News, August 13, 1869.

Newman & Houghton are now selling off their present stock of goods very cheap, to make room for a large and complete stock which their Mr. Newman is now purchasing in New York and Boston.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

Various rumors of bank failures, suspension of work on the railroad, and other exciting stories have been afloat in our community for some days past; but the most startling intelligence has just reached us. It has just been ascertained, for a certainty, that Newman & Houghton's new goods, direct from New York, have reached Topeka, and next week there will be offered at the old stand of Newman & Houghton the largest and finest stock of dry goods, carpets, hats and caps, boots and shoes, etc., ever seen or heard of in Southern Kansas, which will be sold so low as to astonish all the world and the rest of mankind. Come and see for yourselves.

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

In this age of improvement and progress, almost every day brings something new. Among other new things Newman & Houghton have just received from New York a splendid stock of carpetings, mattings, oil cloths, table covers, etc., which the ladies of Emporia and vicinity are particularly invited to call and examine. A full line of domestics, dress, and fancy goods will be opened in a few days. Also a large and carefully selected stock of hats, caps, boots, shoes, and clothing. Please call and see our goods and prices.

Houghton starts his own store...

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

O. P. Houghton has bought out the interest of I. D. Fox in the late store of McMillan & Fox. The new firm may be found in the old room near the courthouse, with a heavy stock, and always ready for business.

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

O. P. HOUGHTON, of the firm of Newman & Houghton, would respectfully inform his old customers and friends, and the public generally, that he has purchased the interest of I. D. Fox in the establishment of McMillan & Fox, No. 128 Commercial street. I shall take equally as much pleasure in selling groceries and woolen goods at my new place of business as I did in measuring calico at my former place.

I have decided, after deliberate consideration, that a city life in Emporia, surrounded by so many congenial spirits, is preferable to herding Texas cattle on the frontier.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

AD. WOOL! WOOL! WOOL!

New Store, below Wright's, near the Court House, EMPORIA, KANSAS.

The motto of this firm shall be "Small profits and quick returns." We are paying the highest market price for WOOL, either in cash or goods.

Our stock of woolen goods is complete. It Cannot be Equaled West of the JACKSONVILLE (ILL.) FACTORIES. To our stock of Woolen Goods we have added a LARGE & COMPLETE STOCK -OF- GROCERIES.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. McMillan & Houghton. Newman & Houghton.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

[Under Local Notices.]

Just Received. Large stock of Groceries at McMillan & Houghton's.

Now is the time, and Newman & Houghton's is the place to select new dresses.

If you want a Blanket that will stand the rub, go to McMillan & Houghton's.

A splendid stock of Flannels, plain and fancy, just received at Newman & Houghton's.

Cheap Balmorals and Coverlets, at McMillan & Houghton's.

For Ladies' and Gent's underwear, go to Newman & Houghton's.

Woolen Blankets. A large stock just received at Newman & Houghton's.

If you wish to see something new and tasty for table covers, call at Newman & Houghton's.

First word on the notorious Danford, who became a banker...

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

NEW AGENCY. Hanna & Danford have opened an office in Jones' building, over Newman & Houghton's store, in the room lately occupied as a Presbyterian church, where they will do a general agency business. They will buy and sell lands, furnish abstracts of titles, pay taxes, do conveyancing, insurance, etc. . . .

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

The Presbyterian Church has leased the upper story of the new building of Truworthy & Tandy, on Commercial street, and will occupy it for a place of worship till they can build. It is a very commodious room, much larger, better ventilated, and in every way more suitable for a growing congregation than the one they have been occupying. It will be ready for use by Sabbath week. Services next Sabbath at the hall over Newman & Houghton's store, morning and evening. Sabbath school at 9 o'clock a.m.

Both Houghton and Newman are married: Houghton gets married in Emporia. Newman goes back to Maine to get married.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

MARRIED. At the residence of W. R. Bradford, Esq., corner of State street and Fifth avenue, September 18th, by Rev. M. L. S. Noyes, Mr. ORRIN P. HOUGHTON, of this city, to Miss MARIA BISBEE, of Sumner, Maine.

MARRIED. At the residence of the bride's father, in Weld, Maine, September 6th, 1869, by Rev. A. Maxwell, A. A. NEWMAN, of Emporia, and MARY M. HOUGHTON, of Weld.

Newman gets tied up with brother. Houghton joins with McMillan.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

McMillan & Houghton are receiving the largest and best stock of Cassimeres and Jeans ever brought to Emporia.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

As will be seen in a new advertisement, G. W. Newman supersedes O. P. Houghton in the dry-goods business. Young Mr. Newman has been in the store some months as a clerk, and has already made many friends by his urbane and gentlemanly deportment. We wish the new firm a rush of customers and drawers full of greenbacks.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

RETURNED. Our fellow townsman, A. A. Newman, has returned from Maine, where he had been spending several weeks, a few days ago. As will be seen in the proper place, he brought with him a wife. The lady of O. P. Houghton also accompanied Mr. Newman here. We welcome these gentlemen among the Benedicts of the town, and wish them and their brides a long, happy, and prosperous residence with us.

[ADS: McMILLAN & HOUGHTON.]

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

McMillan & Houghton still have some of that choice corn meal so much praised.

A large stock of home-knit socks, at 60 cents per pair, at McMillan & Houghton's.

If the ladies want any kind of HEAVY SHOES, all they will have to pay for them will be $1.25 to $2.00, at McMillan & Houghton's.

Coverlets, Balmorals, and Blankets; any price, color, or quality at McMillan & Houghton's.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

Ad. T. MORRIS, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, EMPORIA, KANSAS. . . .

Office over Newman & Houghton's store.

[ADS. NEWMAN & BRO.]

Emporia News, October 2, 1869.

Newman & Bro. are out with a fine display of business locals. They have the goods, and are bound to sell.

Fine Bleached and brown Table Linens, at remarkably low prices, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Carpetings. Best Hartford three ply, Ingrain two ply, Venetian Stair carpet Coir, Matting, Hemp, Oil and Rag Carpetings, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Call and see our new plaid dress flannels, shirtings, and Huseys. NEWMAN & BRO.

Woolen and Cotton Yarns, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Nice Lot of Zephyrs, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

New Styles in Ladies' Shawls. A full line of high colored plaids, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Best Goods at lowest prices, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

A full assortment, best buck and gauntlet Gloves, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Kid Gloves, black, white, and fancy colors, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Complete Stock of ladies', gents', and children's hosiery, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Cotton Bolts and Wadding, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Cloakings and ladies' cloth, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Dress Goods and Trimmings, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Ladies' Silk Vests, at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

Best Green Teas @ $1.50 per pound.

Best Black Teas @ $1.25 per pound. at NEWMAN & BRO'S.

McLaughlin arrives on the scene in Emporia...

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

Messrs. Newman & McLaughlin have commenced the construction of a new business house, 26 x 70, 35 feet high, on the corner of Mechanics Street and Sixth Avenue. The building is to be of stone, with brick front supported by cut stone columns. It is to be finished and ready for occupancy by next May.

Emporia News, October 22, 1869.

AD. LATEST STYLES IN LADIES' FURS. Russian Fitch, Astracan, River Mink, Siberian Squirrel, French Sable, and Cony Furs, in new styles at prices as low as they can be bought at St. Louis, or any eastern city. Call and examine for yourselves. NEWMAN & BRO.

LADIES TRAVELING BASKETS and Morocco Bags. NEWMAN & BRO.

A FINE ASSORTMENT Ladies Silk and Morocco Vests. NEWMAN & BRO.

LADIES AND GENTS' Rubber Overshoes at NEWMAN & BRO.'S.

[There were more that I skipped.]

Emporia News, October 22, 1869.

McMillan & Houghton ran their usual ads plus a few new ones. I skipped.

Emporia News, November 12, 1869.

Work on the new business house of Newman & McLaughlin is progressing rapidly. The basement is completed, and the cut stone front for the first story is being put in. This will be, when finished, one of the best buildings in town.

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

E. T. Sprague has the contract for the wood work on Newman & McLaughlin's new business house on Sixth Avenue. Mr. Sprague has been here all summer, and has the reputation of being a good workman.

Emporia News, December 3, 1869.

Committee member Temperance program given at Methodist Church: G. W. Newman.

Newman becomes a Stockholder in insurance firm...

Note: Jacob Stotler was the editor of the Emporia newspaper. He later became a member of the town company that settled Arkansas City.

Emporia News, December 10, 1869.

Requisite stock of $10,00 taken on December 7, 1869. Stockholders met in the Real Estate and Insurance office of Dawson & Havenhill, and organized the Emporia branch.

Manager, E. B. Peyton; Local Directors, Jacob Stotler, J. C. Fraker.

Emporia News, December 17, 1869.

Newman & Bro. have received the largest stock of Dry Goods now in Emporia, all bought since the decline in gold. They can and will sell them at prices so low as to astonish everyone. Call and examine.

Emporia News, December 17, 1869.

Cash paid for Eggs, Butter, Lard, and Potatoes at McMILLAN & HOUGHTON's.

[AD.]

Emporia News, December 24, 1869.

Our large stock of Ladies' Furs will be closed out this month regardless of cost. What more appropriate Christmas present than a nice set of Furs. Look at the prices.

Astrakhan Furs: $15.00

Siberian Fitch: $23.00

French Sable: $8.00

French Coney: $5.00

NEWMAN & BRO.

Emporia News, January 7, 1870.

The principal houses are Bancroft and McCarter, Newman and Bro., T. G. Wibley, Hall and Bro., J. C. Fraker, and P. G. Hallburg. The first named firm commenced business in October, and has sold at the rate of from eight to ten thousand dollars per month.

Newman Brothers (late Newman and Houghton) have sold during the year in the neighborhood of fifty thousand dollars worth of goods.

Most of the stores above (dry goods) keep groceries, but we have some large establishments exclusively in the grocery and provision business. Bailey and Painter, Gillett and Hadley, McMillan and Houghton, and Wicks and Mayse are the principal firms in this line of trade. They are all doing a splendid business. The houses of McMillan and Houghton and Bailey and Painter have been established during the past year. Wicks and Mayse bought out G. W. Frederick. Bay and Hall, an old house in this trade, went out of business. Besides these houses, J. L. Dalton, Ferguson and Harvey, and John W. Morris do a very considerable grocery trade. Estimate for grocery trade of the town during 1869: $200,000.

P. J. Lehnhard, Topliff and French, and William Clapp are the firms in this trade. Messrs. Lehnhard and Clapp have manufactories in connection with their trade, and manufacture extensively. Many of the dry goods establishments keep these articles. No estimate given for sales during 1869.

Skipped Clothing, Hardware Stores, etc. None of the names seemed familiar.

Emporia News, January 7, 1870.

The stone work, after some delay, is resumed on Newman & McLaughlin's new building, on Sixth Avenue. The walls of the second story are rapidly going up under the hammers of numerous masons.

Emporia News, January 7, 1870.

A LARGE STORE. Newman Bro.'s have one of the largest stocks of dry goods, groceries, and other goods, in town, and are doing an extensive business. We are gratified to note their prosperity. They have a large country trade, and are generally able to furnish their city customers with fresh butter and eggs.

Emporia News, March 4, 1870.

Newman Bros., the young, enterprising and genial men who keep the general store three doors north of this office, have received a lot of muslins and other domestics this week, and a supply of ready-made clothing also, which they will sell low. This is only a shadow of the stock they will receive in a week or two. They are doing a lively business and merit much more.

Emporia News, March 11, 1870.

Groceries at reduced rates at McMILLAN & HOUGHTON'S.

Best Hartford three ply carpets at NEWMAN & BRO.'s.

Walnut Valley Times, Friday, March 11, 1870.

A. A. NEWMAN, FATHER AND BROTHER, together with a number of others, passed down the Valley on a prospecting tour this week. They admired Eldorado, of course.

[Newman's father, Augustus Newman, returned to his home in Weld, Maine after this trip. Daniel Beedy was probably a part of the group. The Arkansas City Republican of April 18, 1885, reports that I. L. Newman was part of that party. We do not know what his relationship to "A. A." was. RKW]

Walnut Valley Times, March 18, 1870.

We understand that the Newman outfit took a claim near Creswell whereon to build a mill. Milling is a big thing in the Walnut valley.

Emporia News, April 1, 1870.

A. A. Newman, of the firm of Newman Bros., has gone east after goods, which, upon their arrival, will be received in their new storeroom, on the corner of Sixth avenue and Market street. This is a magnificent room, and will be filled with a magnificent stock of goods. The front room above will be occupied as a millinery store, and the basement as a restaurant. Newman Bros. will themselves occupy a portion of the upper story.

Emporia News, April 8, 1870.

NEW GOODS. Newman Brothers will receive in a few days, their large and well-selected stock of spring goods, which the senior member of the firm is now ordering in New York. They are purchasing more heavily than ever before, to satisfy the demands of their extensive and rapidly increasing trade. They expect to be ready to open them on or about the 15th, in their new building on Sixth avenue.

In connection with the above, Mr. Newman will bring on a heavy stock of millinery goods, the largest and finest ever brought to Emporia, which will be opened about the same time, in the spacious and elegant front room above. An excellent milliner from Boston, a lady of ten years' experience in the East, will return with Mr. Newman. We advise the ladies to delay their purchase of millinery until they have examined their stock.

Emporia News, April 15, 1870.

A. C. Armstrong is fitting up a restaurant in Newman Bros.' new building. He will have it ready for business next week. Mr. Armstrong has had experience in this line, and will conduct a first-class restaurant in every respect. Boarders will be accommodated by both day and week board.

Emporia News, April 15, 1870.

The plastering of the new storeroom of Newman and McLaughlin, on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Mechanics Street, is probably the best job of the kind in town. We do not know the artists who smeared the mud.

Emporia News, April 15, 1870.

The Social Club will give a social hop in Newman's new building, corner of Sixth Avenue and Mechanics Street this evening.

Emporia News, April 22, 1870.

Newman & Bro. will move into their new storeroom on the corner of Sixth avenue and Mechanics street the latter part of next week. They are receiving and will continue to receive many new goods. If the ladies wish to see something fine in the way of dress goods, they should go to this store. We will not enter into details until after they move. They speak for themselves in another column.

Emporia News, April 22, 1870.

NEWMAN & BRO. are receiving their mammoth stock of spring goods. They have a fine and complete assortment of Dress Goods, White Goods, Hosiery, Dress Trimmings, Clothing, Carpeting, Hats, Boots and Shoes. They bought in New York and Boston, at lower prices than goods have reached since 1881, and will sell at great bargains. They will move into their new store on Sixth avenue next week. All who wish good goods at low prices, will do well to give them a call.

Emporia News, April 29, 1870.

Newman & Bro.'s double-column advertisement will appear next week. It was expected that they would move into their new building the latter part of this week, but the carpenters have disappointed them, and it will not be ready for occupation until week after next. In the meantime, they are prepared to accommodate everybody with everything in the mercantile line. They are doing an immense trade. We called several times without finding them at leisure.

Emporia News, April 29, 1870.

AD. NEW RESTAURANT. A. C. Armstrong

Would announce that he has fitted up in first-class style a RESTAURANT, Which he proposes to conduct in a first-class manner, in the basement of the new STONE BUILDING OF NEWMAN & BRO., Corner Mechanics Street & Sixth Avenue. He would respectfully invite the patronage of the public.

Emporia News, May 6, 1870.

AD. NEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!!

The LARGEST STOCK and LOWEST PRICES at

TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS' WORTH OF DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, CARPETS, CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, AND SHOES. Bought in NEW YORK and BOSTON since the great decline in gold, and will be sold at RUINOUSLY LOW PRICES.

We have a large stock and attractive styles of Dress Goods, Black Silks, Japanese Silks, Irish and French Poplins, white and figured Piquet, white, figured, and buff Brilliants, checked and striped Nainsooks, Organdy, Swiss, Book and Mull Muslin, white and colored Tarletons, checked and plain Challiss, French, Scotch, and American Ginghams, Chambrays, etc.

The celebrated brand of PRIZE MEDAL BLACK ALPACAS.

Shawls, Arab Mantles, Paisley, Ristori, and several other beautiful and popular styles.

Ladies' Skirts, White and Colored, Embroidered and Plain; together with the latest novelties in Hoop Skirts.

Ladies' Baskets, Morocco Bags and Satchels, and a great variety of the best Gloves and Hosiery.

BAJOU KID GLOVES. Best in the market. Every Pair WARRANTED.

CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, Satinets, Jeans, Cottonades, Linen Drills, CLOAKINGS AND SACKINGS.

We especially request inspection of our assortment of Bleached, Brown, Dice-checked, and Turkey Red TABLE LINENS AND NAPKINS.

The largest and most attractive stock ever brought to Emporia. Ladies are respectfully requested to call and examine it. Mrs. C. Kidder, an experienced Milliner, late of Boston, will have charge of this department.

Country Merchants will do well to examine our stock and prices before going East, as we will sell at Leavenworth, Kansas City, or St. Louis Prices.

Emporia News, May 6, 1870.

Newman & Bro. are going to move into their new store next week. They will have the neatest storeroom in town. They have an immense stock of beautiful and cheap goods to move into it. The millinery department, in charge of Mrs. C. Kidder, just from Boston, was opened yesterday, upstairs in the new building. We visited this department yesterday, and we assure the ladies that they will find many bonnets there that they will at sight call sweet, etc.

Emporia News, June 3, 1870.

Newman & Bro. are selling more goods per week since they moved into their new store than they ever did before, a fact that we were very much gratified to learn, and which we are pleased to tell to our readers. Let all who are glad to hear it give them a call, and we are sure their sales will still be enlarged.

Emporia News, June 10, 1870.

The above is the name of a new town located on the site lately occupied by the Creswell town company.

It is located near the junction of the Arkansas and Walnut Rivers, and is surrounded by extensive and rich valleys of land, and plenty of timber. It is at the point where a railroad down the Walnut Valley will form a junction with one up the Arkansas Valley, both of which will be built at no distant day.

It possesses a splendid water power, which Messrs. Beedy & Newman are under contract to improve by the erection of a water flouring and saw mill at an early day.

It now has a splendid steam mill in successful operation, owned by Major Sleeth, late of El Dorado. A shingle manufactory will be in running order in a very few days.

Twelve buildings are up and in process of construction, among which is Woolsey's hotel, which has a front of fifty feet on the street, and is thirty-two feet deep. There are in the town at present four stores, one hardware, one grocery store, and two that keep a general stock.

Twenty-six buildings are under contract to be put up just as soon as the lumber can be obtained. Among these we may mention buildings for lumber yard and carpenter shop, bakery, restaurant, boot and shoe store, drug store, clothing store, dry goods and clothing store, meat market, stage and express office, book store, cabinet shop, residences, etc.

The Southern Kansas Stage Company will commence running a tri-weekly line of hacks to Arkansas City in about ten days, carrying mail twice a week from El Dorado. They have become interested in the town, and will immediately put up large stables, and make this their headquarters for the stage and express business in Southwestern Kansas.

Many of the new business houses to be put up are large two-story buildings. Among these is a town hall, 25 x 40 feet. A schoolhouse will be erected during the summer.

A ferry will be put in running order across the Arkansas at this point, at an early day, and it is thought much of the Texas cattle business will be done at Arkansas City this summer.

Native lumber is furnished cheaper than at any point in Southern Kansas. Stone is plenty.

A newspaper will be established here during the season. For this object the company offer liberal inducements.

The town company offer great inducements to settlers. No lots are sold, but they are given away to those who will build business houses and residences.

There are plenty of good claims within two to five miles of the town.

The people are enterprising, wide awake, and will do all in their power to assist newcomers.

One or more churches will probably be built this season.

The Arkansas and Walnut Valleys are unsurpassed in the West for fertility of soil, and plentiful supply of timber.

Water has been obtained in Arkansas City at a depth of sixteen feet.

Now is the time to settle in that portion of the country if newcomers want first choice.

Emporia News, July 29, 1870.

Mr. A. A. Newman is having a two-story house built on Sixth Avenue, near Market Street, for Mr. A. N. Harlin, of Boston, Massachusetts. It will be for rent when completed. The first floor will make a good business room, for which it is designed.

Emporia News, August 5, 1870.

A. A. Newman has gone East after new goods.

Emporia News, August 19, 1870.

A. A. Newman is in New York buying goods. The first installment, consisting of a mammoth stock of blankets, flannels, hosiery, coverlets, crash and table linens, etc., has arrived, and they are looking for the arrival of a general assortment of other goods in a few days. [Yes, they used the word "crash"...???]

Item put in by RKW...

The Arkansas City Traveler of August 24, 1870, made this announcement.

"We in the Walnut Valley have heretofore suffered great inconvenience for lack of a flouring mill. There is no gristmill south of Cottonwood. The price of flour has been high in consequence. But our farmers generally preferred to pay it, rather than haul grain fifty or a hundred miles to a mill.

"Now however a change is at hand. A wealthy and enterprising firm has fully contracted to begin work on a sawmill and gristmill at this point. The water power on the Walnut River is one of the very best in Kansas--sufficient to run four stones the year round. The contract provides that the mill be completed October 1871."

Emporia News, August 26, 1870.

Newman Bros. are still receiving goods, notwithstanding their shelves are full, their counters loaded, and every corner heaped with everything imaginable.

Emporia News, September 9, 1870.

A. A. Newman returned last week from New York. Their large storeroom will hardly contain the goods he bought, and which are being received daily.

Emporia News, September 16, 1870.

Millinery! Millinery!! at Wholesale and Retail. They have a large and beautiful stock at Newman & Bro's, 109 Sixth Avenue, just received from New York, consisting of the latest style of Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Feathers, Flowers, Velvets, Laces, and everything in the line of Millinery, together with a splendid assortment of fancy articles for ladies' wear. Elegant Roman Sashes, the first ever brought to Emporia. Also plain and fancy ribbons for sashes; collars of thread and print lace, Valenciennes, Cluny, etc., of the newest styles; Guipure and thread lace for trimming; Swiss, Cambric, and Hamburg edgings in great variety.

Emporia News, September 23, 1870.

For Sale. One five acre lot in Goodrich's addition to the town of Emporia. Lot fenced and broke, and one hundred apple trees set out last spring. A splendid chance for Market Gardening. Will be sold cheap, partly on time if desired. Inquire of T. H. McLaughlin, at Newman & Bros. store.

Emporia News, September 23, 1870.

It was our pleasure to spend a few minutes in the handsome millinery establishment of Mrs. Newman the other day, examining the wonderful works of art in that line. The perfection to which the manufacturer of artificial flowers has been brought is one of the wonders of the age. The delicate tints, brilliancy, and harmonious blending of colors, the imitation of nature in all the minutiae that attached to the natural growth and even accident in the lives of the tender ornaments of the natural world, are so skillfully and tastefully portrayed as to surpass in beauty and form even the flowers they were made to represent. Only the fragrance and microscopic peculiarities of the natural are wanting in the artificial to render them equal in value and attractiveness. The skill of human hands, as demonstrated by the exhibitions of Mrs. Newman and Mrs. Kidder, is not confined to their flowers. We were shown a "perfect love of a bonnet," which our knowledge of terms peculiar to the world of women and fashion is too limited to attempt to describe. Suffice it to say that it cost sixty dollars, and is the prettiest object of the kind we ever beheld. The point lace collars, gorgeous sashes, etc., with which the fair sex adorn their persons, shown to us on this occasion, excited alike our wonder and admiration. The more substantial necessities of domestic economy are to be found in profusion in the store below. A visit to this establishment, reader, will recompense you for coming miles to see.

Emporia News, October 7, 1870.

Newman Bros. are disposing of their immense stock in a lively manner. We stepped into the store the other day, just as they were sending out an order of over $1,200 worth of goods, and as they did not seem to think it a big thing, of course we had to conclude it was nothing unusual.

Walnut Valley Times, December 9, 1870.

From the Arkansas City Traveler of November the 30 we take the following.

Mr. Beedy is here, and has commenced work upon his water-power. We shall soon have running at this point the best saw-mill and grist-mill in Kansas. Mr. Beedy is a mill-wright of extensive means, and of many years experience. He has built mills on many rivers, from Maine to Oregon. Our people need not entertain the slightest doubt about the matter. Beedy & Newman mean business.

RKW also inserted the following information:

"Mrs. Albert (Mate) Newman said that the mill was built with the grain-receiving bin higher up on the bank of the river. The grain slid by gravity down chutes to the grinder. The mill therefore was built on the east side of the Walnut River where Kansas Avenue intersects the river. The dam extended to the west."

Emporia News, December 9, 1870.

This new town, located at the junction of Walnut and Arkansas Rivers, is building up rapidly. We glean a few items in relation to the town from the report of the President--Prof. H. B. Norton--and Executive Committee of the town company, made at a meeting of said Company held in this place last Monday.

The first building was completed in April last, and by a liberal policy in donating lots to those who would build thereon, fifty-six buildings are now up and occupied; twenty more are in process of construction, and will be completed within the next twenty days; twenty-five others are under contract to be built as soon as the materials can be had. It is believed that over 100 buildings will be completed by the 15th of January. This is now the largest town in the Walnut Valley, leaving out El Dorado.

The buildings now occupied include some of good dimensions, such as the City Hotel, just erected by the Town Company, which has a basement and two stories, and the main part being 25 x 30 feet. Many of the business houses are 25 x 40 and two stories high. The Woolsey house, which is in running order, is 22 x 34, with a two-story wing nearly as large.

Among the branches of business now being carried on is the following: Carpenters, dry goods, harness shop, boarding houses, millinery and dress making, land office, bakery, grocery, restaurant, paint shop, blacksmithing, livery stable, wagon making, billiard hall, hotels, hardware and stoves, tin ship, drug store, printing office, clothing store, candle factory, meat market, jewelry store, shoe shop, feed store, soap factory, etc.

Trade is good in the town, and as the Walnut and Arkansas valleys are rich and arable for miles, the country will be thickly settled, and business will steadily grow better. It is so situated, also, as to command the trade of several tribes of Indians, in their new homes in the Indian Territory.

Parties are erecting a large building for the sale and manufacture of agricultural implements; also, for a town hall 25 x 60 feet. Another hotel is underway to be 30 x 50 feet in size, two stories high.

The Southern Kansas Italian Immigration Society has made Arkansas City its headquarters, and has already erected a building for an office. Two hundred families will be located in the vicinity, by the agent, who is already making arrangements for them, early in the Spring. They will engage in silk and grape culture.

The total number of lots donated, so far, for the benefit of the town, by the Company, 253. A large number more are yet to be donated.

A ferry is now running over the Walnut River at the town, and one will soon be running over the Arkansas, and arrangements are being made to cross Texas cattle at this place next season. A road has been laid out south to intersect the well known Chisholm trail, and traders pronounce the route via Arkansas City superior in every respect to the Western trail.

Two of the best saw mills in Southern Kansas are running day and night at Arkansas City, and they cannot supply the demand for lumber. Two shingle machines are also in operation, and to one of the mills is being added a lath mill and gig-saw.

Beedy & Newman who entered into contract last season to improve the water-power near the place, are already at work on a large water mill, which will be running next summer.

The flow of immigration to the town and country is steadily increasing, and the demand for town lots on the liberal terms offered by the company, was never so great as now.

The company will obtain title for their site at an early day, and the town will have a growth next season which will be rapid and permanent. Few towns in Southern Kansas have a better location.

Emporia News, December 30, 1870.

The officers of Emporia Chapter No. 12 and Emporia Lodge No. 12, A. F. and A. M., were installed on Friday evening last. The officers of the chapter are:

[AD.]

Emporia News, January 20, 1871.

GREAT SLAUGHTER OF DRY GOODS, FURS, DRESS GOODS, FLANNELS, SHAWLS, QUILTS, AND ALL WINTER GOODS! WILL BE SOLD FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS AT AN IMMENSE SACRIFICE!! To Give Room for Our Spring Stock.

Emporia News, January 20, 1871.

There is not a handsomer or better kept stock of dry goods in anybody's town than can be seen in Newman Bros.' establishment, this city.

Emporia News, February 17, 1871.

Thirteen singers met Wednesday night at the residence of Mr. A. A. Newman, to rehearse the cantata of "The Haymakers," with a view of giving a concert some evening.

Emporia News, March 10, 1871.

Newman's Bro.'s sidewalk was piled high with boxes, the other day, from which people said they had received new goods. They keep the neatest store in Kansas, and if they do not have the best of goods, good taste goes for naught in purchasing, and everybody!--well, everybody says they do keep good goods.

Emporia News, April 14, 1871.

Read the splendid large advertisement of Messrs. Newman & Bro. They have just received as fine a stock of dry goods as has ever been brought to this market. Silks and poplins, prints and ginghams, broadcloths and cassimeres, doeskins and tweeds, boots and shoes, hats and caps, and carpets of all kinds and qualities fill their fine storeroom on Sixth avenue as it has never been filled before. Their stock of millinery is also unsurpassed. It would take all the fine words in the dictionary to appropriately describe the beautiful things Mrs. Newman can show you if you will drop in to see them. Their prices are most reasonable.

[AD.]

Emporia News, April 21, 1871.

Wholesale and Retail.

Have just received from the Importers and Manufacturers the largest line of Spring and Summer DRESS GOODS Ever brought to Emporia, and will sell at LOWER PRICES than ever.

Black Silks, All Qualities.

Japanese Silks and Poplins, Striped and Checked.

Plain and Fancy SILKS.

Silk Warp Pongees,

Silk Warp Diagonals,

Silk Warp SERGES,

Silk Warp Epinglines,

French Figured Grenadines,

BLACK HERNANI,

Swiss Mulls,

JACONETS,

STRIPES,

NANSOOKS,

French Welts, White and Buff.

French and English Prints, French Lawns, Buff Linen Lawns, Buff Linen for suits.

Percales, Marsailes, Piques, French, Scotch, and Chambray Ginghams.

MARL POPLINS, MOHAIR MISTINES, MILLINERY, At Wholesale and Retail,

BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, Broadcloths, Cassimeres, Diagonals, Doeskins, Tweeds, Cottonades, Denims, Etc.

Prints and Muslin by the case, bolt or yard.

Emporia News, April 28, 1871.

Read the card of Mrs. Newman and Mrs. Kidder in another column, and then go and examine their stock of millinery.

Emporia News, May 5, 1871.

A. A. Newman

T. H. McLaughlin.

O. P. Houghton.

[STATE NEWS.]

Emporia News, May 12, 1871.

Without any noise or ostentation, a great work is going on in our midst. Mr. Beedy, with a strong force, is steadily pushing ahead. The dam is almost completed; the machinery for the sawmill has been ordered; the whole establishment will be in running order by October 1st.

A careful estimate gives, at the lowest stage of water, an available force of 270 horse power. Three powerful turbines will at once be put in position; a grist mill, having three run of stones, a sawmill, a lath and shingle mill, will all be speedily running at this point.

The sawmill is about ready to raise. It is thirty-five by fifty-five feet. The flouring mill is 35 x 40 feet, four stories high.

The water power is amply sufficient to run the above mentioned machinery, leaving a large power available for other purposes; of which, more anon.

We cannot too strongly thank, or highly compliment, the business energy which has thus dared to push out into the wilderness, and rear such costly buildings in advance of all productive industry. It will bring its own reward. The people of Cowley County will certainly owe much to Messrs. Beedy and Newman for the good work in which they are engaged. Arkansas City Traveler.

Emporia News, July 7, 1871.

Col. J. M. Steele declining to serve as an appraiser of the lots fronting on Commercial street between 3rd and 7th avenue for the purpose of assessing against them the curbing, guttering, and macadamizing of the street, Mr. A. A. Newman was appointed instead.

Emporia News, July 21, 1871.

Eliza J. Bell vs. J. B. Bell; judgment against A. A. Newman, garnishee for $21.39, and accruing costs.

Emporia News, July 28, 1871.

A. A. Newman and wife left for the east Monday, where they will spend several weeks.

Emporia News, August 18, 1871.

Newman & Bro. opened a huge pile of boxes yesterday, and "new goods" is their battle cry. They are selling at prices low enough to draw money out of anybody's pocket, even in these tight times.

Emporia News, August 25, 1871.

We [Stotler] spent a few days in this beautiful and thriving young town, which sets upon an elevation at the junction of the Arkansas and Walnut Rivers. We were perfectly delighted with the town and surrounding country. If we were going to change our location in this State, we would go to Arkansas City as quick as we could get there. Its location is good for at least two railroads, one down the Walnut and one through the Arkansas valley. The Arkansas valley is much broader and more fertile than we had expected to find it. We firmly believe the Arkansas Valley soil will excel every section in the State in corn and vegetable crops.

In Cowley and Sumner Counties nearly every quarter section has upon it a bona fide settler. Fortunately the speculators were not allowed to get their clutches on an acre of it. On account of this heavy settlement, Arkansas City is bound to have a good trade. She will also receive a share of the Texas trade.

This town has over 100 buildings. Among the rest, and about the largest and best, is the city hotel, kept by our friend, H. O. Meigs. It is the best kept hotel in the Walnut Valley. The table is supplied with good, substantial food, and what is not the case with all tables, it is clean and well cooked; altogether, this is the cleanest, best ventilated, and most homelike public house we have found in our travels lately.

We found here a large number of old Emporia men in business, among whom we may mention O. P. Houghton, Judge McIntire and sons, the Mortons, Charley Sipes, Mr. Page, Mr. Beck, and others. They are all doing well, and have unlimited faith in their town and county.

Beedy & Newman are building a large water mill near the town. They have already expended $8,000 in the enterprise, and will soon be ready for sawing.

Close to the town we found Max Fawcett upon a beautiful piece of land amid grape vines, trees, shrubs, and flowers. He is testing the capabilities of the soil for all kinds of fruits, and has so far the best encouragement. Wherever he is, Max. will be a public benefactor.

We shall go to Arkansas City again in two or three years on the cars. We shall ride up to Meigs' hotel in a comfortable bus from the depot, and see a town of two thousand inhabitants. You see if we don't. Cowley is the prettiest, healthiest, and most fertile county we have seen in the State.

Emporia News, September 22, 1871.

We neglected last week to note the return of our popular and wide awake merchant, A. A. Newman, who had been in the east for several weeks, where he bought an immense stock of goods, part of which has already arrived, and the balance will be opened this week. Mrs. Newman accompanied Mr. Newman and purchased heavily for the millinery establishment connected with the store. These goods were expected last evening. This will undoubtedly be good news for the ladies of Emporia.

Emporia News, September 22, 1871.

We learn that the farmers hereabouts are making preparations to sow winter wheat largely this fall. It is the right thing to do. No one should neglect it.

Beedy and Newman will be ready to grind it as soon as harvested. By next fall there will be a heavy demand for flour coming up from the new settlers in the Indian country.

Arkansas City Traveler.

Winfield Messenger, November 1, 1872.

AD: GRINDING. The Arkansas City Water Mill, on the Walnut, is now in successful operation. Custom grinding at all hours. Shelling and bolting without extra charge. BEEDY & NEWMAN, Proprietors.

[BOARD OF COWLEY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.]

Winfield Courier, Saturday, January 11, 1873.

The following bills were presented and rejected.

Newman & Houghton, laid over endorsing the County Attorney's decision.

L. M. McLaughlin, laid over with same action as Newman & Houghton.

Bills allowed:

Newman & Houghton, goods for pauper: $7.45

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 13, 1873.

Action on bills against the county as follows:

L. M. McLaughlin, for coffin furnished pauper in Pleasant Valley Township: Claimed: $12.00. Allowed: $10.00

Bills laid over and rejected as follows:

Bill of Newman, H & Sherburne, not itemized.

Winfield Courier, September 25, 1874.

Since the raise of the Arkansas, large shoals of cat and buffalo fish can be seen on the rocks near, and under, Newman's mill. We never saw so many before. The boys amuse themselves by trying to drop large stones on them as they swim by.

[DISTRICT COURT DOCKET: MARCH TERM.]

Winfield Courier, March 18, 1875.

[ITEMS FROM ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER.]

Winfield Courier, July 1, 1875.

New Flour. J. P. Woodyard purchased 300 bushels of wheat of A. A. Newman last week, at ninety cents per bushel, and will grind it this week.

[EXCERPTS FROM LEAVENWORTH TIMES.]

Winfield Courier, September 2, 1875.

Cowley County, away down here on the Indian border, is running over with peace and plenty. Her crops were so abundant, the days so delightful, the nights so delicious, her people happy and contented, that indeed:

"If there's peace to be found in the world,

A heart that was humble, might hope for it here!"

Arkansas City has the most enterprise, the wealthier merchants, and one newspaper well supported by her businessmen. Her merchants advertise extensively, and are drawing a large trade which naturally belongs to Winfield. One of her firms, A. A. Newman & Co., have the government contract to furnish Pawnee Agency with 750,000 pounds of flour, delivered at the Agency. This, besides aiding our wheat market, will furnish employment for a large number of teams. The distance is ninety miles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, January 6, 1876.

is located upon a beautiful rise of ground commanding an enchanting view of the Arkansas and Walnut valleys. It is about four miles North of the South and six miles East of the West line of the county. The Arkansas passes about one-half mile West, and the Walnut about one-half mile East of the town site and form a junction about two miles and a half to the southeast.

In 1870 the following enterprises were established and were the first of the kind in the city: C. R. Sipes' hardware store; Sleeth & Bro. saw mill; Richard Woolsey, hotel; Newman & Houghton clothing house (first in the county); Paul Beck, blacksmith shop; E. D. Bowen grocery store; Keith & Eddy drug store; J. I. Mitchell Harness shop; T. A. Wilkinson, restaurant and boarding house; Wm. Speers, first ferry across Arkansas River.

About one year after the organization of Adelphi, a dispensation was granted to the craft at Arkansas City, and in due time they received a charter under the name of Crescent Lodge, No. 133, with O. S. Smith, W. M.; E. B. Kager, S. W. Dexter Lodge is spoken of elsewhere.

On the 15th of March, 1875, a dispensation was granted M. L. Read, H. P.; M. C. Baker, K.; John D. Pryor, Scribe; W. C. Robinson, C. H.; A. Howland, P. S.; W. G. Graham, R. A. C.; J. W. Johnston, M. 3rd V.; P. Hill, M. 1st V.; A. A. Newman, member. October 19th, a charter was issued to them under the name Winfield Chapter, R. A. M., No. 31; and on the 26th of the same month the Chapter was instituted by J. C. Bennett, of Emporia. A list of the officers for this year was published last week. This branch of Masonry here is in good working order and in a healthy condition financially.

Haywood a relative of Newman...

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876.

More goods given away for less money than at any store in Cowley Co. Groceries, Stoneware, and Woodenware, Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Grainite Water. Agricultural implements of every kind! A carload of Studebaker Wagons just received. 150 Gang and Sulky Plows, and Common Breaking and Stirring Plows, will be in by January 1st, 1876.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876.

Our Fall Purchase of Dry Goods, Clothing, etc., has arrived, and we now offer, at challenging prices, the best line of Dry Goods, Clothing, Carpets, Silks, Hats, Caps, Boots, and Shoes ever put on the market in Southern Kansas.

Our trade is not confined to Arkansas City alone: we are willing to compete with or duplicate the prices of Wichita, Leavenworth, or Kansas City. If you don't believe it, come and see. Our stock of Dry Goods embraces all the latest patterns in prints, and the very best Dress Goods. We have a fine assortment of Farmers, Boys, and Girls Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers. Also, Ladies' and Gents' Sewed Boots and Slippers. In Hats and Caps we have every variety, from the Cheapest to the Finest and Most Fashionable Styles. Buck Gloves, Mittens, Muffs, and Comforts.

White and Colored Shirts and Underwear.

Flannels, Muslins, Sheetings, Jeans, etc.

Prints Seven Cents per Yard!

Every variety of Gents' and Boys' Clothing, with prices to suit any. WE CAN GIVE YOU A FULL SUIT FROM $5 TO $50.

Sherburne also was a relative of Newman.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876.

Don't Fail to be Benefitted By it! $10,000.000 worth of Dry Goods at Cost!

We have on hand a large stock of fall and winter goods purchased in New York and Boston. This Fall, when Goods were Lower than they have been for fifteen years, and we Are Bound to Sell Them To Make Room For Our Spring Stock! Consequently, we will, as stated above, sell at cost for the time mentioned--namely, 30 days. Come and See for Yourselves! We will sell you more goods for less money than you ever bought before. Respectfully,

Newman and some of his relatives were involved in the "Cowley County Bank."

Note by RKW: This was the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Summit Street. The location is now a portion of the Home National Bank in Arkansas City.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876.

Does a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed on Time Deposits. Domestic and Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold. School Bonds a Specialty.

Collections promptly attended to.

DIRECTORS: A. A. NEWMAN, WM. M. SLEETH, T. H. McLAUGHLIN, H. O. MEIGS, R. C HAYWOOD.

In this issue "Observer" was C. M. Scott...

[A LETTER FROM "OBSERVER" TO LAWRENCE STANDARD.]

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876. Front Page.

In my last letter I informed you that Newman & Co. were building a fine brick store room 25 by 100 feet. The fine weather or some other cause has struck S. P. Channell & Co. with the same fever, so that they are now at work digging out the basement, to erect a new brick store room alongside of Newman's, 25 by 100 feet, same style and finish; and from the way that Houghton & McLaughlin look across the street and see those two splendid brick stores going up, I shouldn't be astonished if they caught the fever also, and by spring another new brick store will go up on the opposite corner. "Example is a wonderful teacher."

Pitch in gentlemen, the investment is a safe one, in the opinion of a casual

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876.

The Beethoven Singing Society met at the frame church last Friday evening, and elected the following officers.

President, E. D. Bowen.

Vice President, C. R. Sipes.

Treasurer, Miss Eva Swarts.

Secretary, Mrs. A. A. Newman.

Organist, Mrs. R. C. Haywood.

Director, Prof. E. W. Hulse.

A concert will be given within three weeks.

The following gives an indication that Newman relatives, Houghton and McLaughlin were now living in Arkansas City. O. P. Houghton was mayor at this time.

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876.

Have the largest stock of Dry Goods, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Clothing! And Notions, in the Walnut Valley, which they will sell for the next Sixty Days! Cheaper than any House in the Valley for Ready Pay. We will trade for Cash, Wheat, Oats, Corn, Furs, and Hides, Cattle, Horses, or Mules. We are going to sell!

Our stock of groceries, as usual, is complete, fresh, and cheap!

[PUBLICATION NOTICE OF SUIT BY ALBERT A. NEWMAN.]

Arkansas City Traveler, January 26, 1876.

RECAP: Albert A. Newman, plaintiff, vs. Edwin L. Chesney and Lewis H. Gardner, defendants. Sum: $1,096.35. Order for the sale of lots one and two and the south half of the northeast quarter of section two in township thirty-four south of range three east, in Cowley County, to satisfy said judgment, attorney's fees, taxes, and costs, according to the three promissory notes and the mortgage given by Edwin L. Chesney to Lewis H. Gardner.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 2, 1876.

Mr. Newman and J. L. Stubbs returned from the Pawnee Agency, last Monday, well pleased with their visit.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 2, 1876.

SOLD OUT. R. A. Houghton has sold his half-interest in the dry goods store to A. A. Newman. Rube says it don't pay to sell goods on close figures, and then have a man run off every now and then owing him a hundred dollars.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 2, 1876.

A Union Social will be given by Mrs. Newman and Mrs. C. R. Mitchell at Pearson's Hall, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 9. A cordial invitation is extended to all, and a good time will doubtless be had.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "J. L. S." RE PAWNEE INDIANS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, February 9, 1876. Front Page.

Editor Traveler:

In company with A. A. Newman, we recently paid a visit to the Pawnee Agency, and at your request, will give you a few items.

We left Arkansas City on Thursday. Owing to the rains of late, and the heavy freights that have passed over the road, it was very much cut up; but it is a natural route, and with a few days' work, would make the best road in this section. Would it not be a wise move for the citizens of this place to take measures to have some improvements made on it?

We arrived at the Agency Friday afternoon; found Agent Burgess and family comfortably located in their new quarters, and to whom we are under obligations for their hospitality, and for much information relative to the progress of the Indians, their management, etc.

The tribe numbers about 2,400 persons. Their Reservation as contemplated embraces near 600,000 acres of land. While there is sufficient good land for all farming purposes, the proportion of good land is not so great as that between here and there; but it is adapted to stock growing, being well watered and timbered.

A portion of the tribe moved on their Reservation in June last, since which time they have broken 400 acres of prairie, 90 of which is in fall wheat, and looks fine. Thirty buildings have been erected, principally for the use of employees. This includes a large frame barn, with stabling capacity for fifty horses, granaries, etc. A saw mill has also been erected, at a cost of about $5,000, with which they have cut near 200,000 feet of lumber. An office of cut stone is under process of construction, and when completed, will be a very handsome structure. A very superior quality of building stone is found within easy reach of the Agency--mostly sandstone, but there is a sufficiency of limestone for all purposes.

Indian labor is employed as far as practicable, and they manifest considerable of skill in the use of tools, etc. Quite a number of full blood Indians are serving apprenticeships at the different trades, and we were informed by those over them that they take quite an interest in their work, and seem anxious to learn.

A day school is in progress, conducted by Miss Burgess and Mrs. Longshore, with an average attendance of 90 scholars, an equal number of boys and girls--something unusual for Indians, as they are almost universally opposed to the education of their girls, and their prejudices can only be overcome by time and an unlimited amount of patience. It being Saturday, we did not have an opportunity of visiting the school, but were informed that they are easily governed, and learn quite readily, several of them being able to read quite intelligently, having only been in school a little over a year.

A portion of their tribe are on their annual hunt, but meeting with poor success. They draw an annuity of $30,000, $15,000 of which they receive in annuity goods. The balance is paid them in cash, semi-annually.

We were shown Indians, who, two years ago, were the wildest of their tribe, but who are now wearing citizens' clothes, and are evidently anxious to settle down to farming pursuits and follow the "white man's road."

The health of the tribe is not so good as on their old Reservation, owing probably to the change of climate. Their sanitary interests are cared for by Dr. Lamb, a very pleasant gentleman and a thorough practitioner.

Agent Burgess has had charge of the tribe for three years, and under his efficient management it is evident the Indians are making rapid strides toward civilization, which is nothing more than a just recompense for his efforts, as he is heartily engaged in his work, and certainly has a very rational method of dealing with his "children," and if permitted to continue his administration a few years, we may expect to see them become self-sustaining.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 9, 1876.

At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cowley County Bank yesterday W. M. Sleeth, T. H. McLaughlin, R. C. Haywood, H. O. Meigs, and A. A. Newman were elected Directors for the year: A. A. Newman, President; W. M. Sleeth, Vice President; H. P. Farrar, Cashier and Secretary.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 16, 1876.

NEW HOUSE. James Allen has the frame erected for a neat residence on First East street, near Mr. Newman's. The site is one of the most desirable in town, and was given him by the City, under promise he would build.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 23, 1876.

MR. NEWMAN has a $225 pony team--the prettiest to be found in this vicinity.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 1, 1876.

The rut between this place and Newman's mill has a culvert built over it.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 1, 1876.

Work continues on Newman's and Haywood's block; it will cost near $7,000 when completed.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "OBSERVER"--COWLEY COUNTY.]

Arkansas City Traveler, March 15, 1876. Front Page.

As another evidence of our growth and prosperity as a five-year-old county, I will state what I believe to be true, from the best information I can get--that for the past five months there have been shipped from Cowley County, on an average, twenty wagon loads of wheat per day, averaging thirty-five bushels to the load--making in all over 107,000 bushels of wheat. I have counted as many as sixty loads per day between this place and Wichita. Some 2,000 bushels of wheat were shipped from our town in one day by Houghton & McLaughlin.

As another evidence of the prosperity of our farmers along the line, one firm in this city--Channell & Haywood (and they are not Grange agents, either)--sold during the past summer and fall 25 wagons, 85 plows, 42 reapers and mowers, 45 cultivators, 3 threshing machines, 10 wheat drills, 6 seeders, 15 sulky rakes, 2 sorghum mills, 10 fanning mills, besides a large number of small farming implements. It is no uncommon sight to see forty or fifty farm wagons in our town in a day.

And every once in awhile, our merchants send large amounts of flour into the Indian Nation to feed the noble red man and his interesting family. In one week, Channell & Haywood, the firm above alluded to, sent over 20,000 pounds of flour to the Sac & Foxes. Newman & Co., the same week sent 25,000 pounds on an 800,000 pound contract with the Osages.

But, notwithstanding these large exports of wheat and flour, our people are not happy. They want a railroad, and at the least mention of the words "railroad meeting," the people flock together to see and hear what is going on.

A few weeks ago we had one of the most enthusiastic railroad meetings at Winfield I have ever attended. There must have been 1,500 people on the ground. This city sent a delegation of about 100 of her best citizens, accompanied by our famous silver cornet band.

The usual events of dying, marrying, and being born are still going on, and our city has its quota of each. As the two latter are gaining on the former, it necessitates the building of more houses, both public and private.

I notice preparations for quite a number of new dwellings to be put up this spring. O. P. Houghton, one of our leading merchants, has commenced hauling the brick and putting in the sills of his new residence. The Rev. S. B. Fleming is having a neat brick parsonage built that will be ready for occupation in a couple of months. Our grocery merchants, Page & Godehard, each contemplate building this spring. We hear of others who will need a house soon. Our Methodist brethren have contracted for a new church to be completed by the first of June.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 22, 1876.

A. A. NEWMAN purchased the entire stock of Sherburne & Stubbs last week, and moved all but the groceries to his store room. We learn that R. A. Houghton purchased the groceries of Mr. Newman and intends keeping a grocery store. He has engaged Mr. S. J. Mantor to take charge of the groceries.

[CENTENNIAL CONCERT.]

Arkansas City Traveler, March 22, 1876.

The Centennial Concert, rendered at the First Church last Saturday evening, by the church choir, was attended by more than one hundred persons. The introduction was made by Rev. Fleming in a manner that did credit to himself and gave spirit to the audience. The musical efforts were of high standing, and attended with success. The characters were interesting and somewhat comical. It struck us as a little funny to see Ethan Allen with his hair parted in the middle, and wearing white pants. George Washington, of the little hatchet fame, was introduced as the father of his country, and af