Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archiveArchive Home
Daily Advocate from Armourdale, Kansas • 1

Daily Advocate from Armourdale, Kansas • 1

Publication:
Daily Advocatei
Location:
Armourdale, Kansas
Issue Date:
Page:
1
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

tt rr Arm AJD'iJUJLl. No, J. Vol. I. ABMOURDALE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1838.

W. LITTLE, U.JENMMGS, Cashier, OmZENS BANS, BUSINESS CARDS. N.McALPlNE, Vice President. ARMOURDALE ADVOCATE. to the Young People Don't forgot to drop in and give us President.

T. Moore, who sttb-lat much of the work, but who gaveovery detail his personnl supervision' what news you may have, and anything JOHN B. PRENT1S, Kutored at the P. O. at Armourdale, Kansas, as second class uiattur.

Mr. Graham did in fl plastering, and that will be of interest to the readers of the Advocate. We shall at all times THE ARMOURDALE BANK an excellent job it U. JOHN E. RASTALL, ED.

AND PROP. be ploased to see you. Fresli Drugs. Saturday, Do. 15, 1888.

KANSAS AVI, aiTWKN TTH AND STH. John Riley, of Kansas City, had the iiinting. Campbell Cutler did the glazing, The Advocate extonds greetings Ooy Ss Blmma. We call special attention to the splen Bank open from 0 a. m.

to 4 p. m. Armourdal. Kansas. Cor.

Till and Kansas avemw to the bank in its new, commodious 1 i i Fe loan Money, Buy and sell Exchange, Discount Commercial did advertisement of tho entorprising firm of Coy de Stratus. There is an earnestness about their Utterances which commands attention and respect. Bead and elegant quarters, and hopes its E.M.WEYGANDT, Paper, and do a officos ot usefulness and accommodation to our business community may Piano what thoy say carefully. Tuning. be amply reciprocated, and result in profit and ploasure to the officers and GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.

Important Industries. In strolling around the other day, came to the large and now brick Completion of the Finest Single Struoture In the City-Sketch of the Organization and Names of the Offloers. The completion of the Citizens' Bunk Buildlng.and occupancy of it by the Bank, on. Saturday evening last, was the occasion of general good feeling, not alone by thoso directly Interested, but by the public generally. For months the progress of the beau tif ill structure lias attracted general attention, and each step in its upward growth has been watched with interest and satisfaction by those who have faith in the future of the city.

It is an eloquent monument to the enterprise of many of our business men, and a substantial evidonce of whnt may be accomplished by pluck and thrift. THE BANK. The Citizens' Bank was incorporated In July last, and immediately commenced badness, with a capital stock of 100,000. The following names, constituting the directory, stockholders. Calls answered promptly, and work guarauteed.

1010 Kansas ave Armourdale, Kas. house of the Kansas City Gluo Fer THE DAILY ADVOCATE. It is our purposo, Iq a very short time, Deposits Received Subject to Check, and Interest taia on lime tilizing in the southeast part of Armourdale, and found a building 51x100 to start a daily newspaper. Our life has largely been spent in tlio daily news- foot, three stories and a basement, with engine and boiler house 35x40 feet. aper busiuess, and wo are familiar ENR1GHT, Grading Stone Work Done on short notice.

Argentine, JOE BROWN, Deposits. Sell Foreign Exchangeand Make Collections Correspondence and Accounts Solicited. E. B. JENNINGS, Cashier.

Also, stable and other out buildings. Tlio machinery is just being put in shape for operation, The company thinks of starting January 1. We wish with its every detail, and shall commence the publication of one just as soon as it is practicablo and safe to do so. We do not want a "flash in the tho company success. pan." The interests Involved are too We also visited the Kansas City grave to be trilled with.

Our business men may rest assured that we are both -DEALER IN- Packing Co. 8' packing house. Xhey employ about 160 men. All seemed busy, and thanks to Mr. O.

W. Butt, we C.E. MOSS, President. will show the substantial character S. S.

KIRBY, Sec'y C. S. SQUIER, Cashier. willing and capable of enlarging the newspaper business to its utmost logl-mate capacity. The day is not far KELLY BRENT, Vice Tres.

of the institution: were able to go around at liberty and see the inside. C. E. Moss, general manager istant when the individuality of the ity of Armourdale will be asserted. The Advocate is not a large pa ITIZENS Mil, pernot bo large as is the ambition of Milton Welsh, capitalist.

M. G. McLean, of McLean Mc- SOCIAL LOYALTY. A circumstance occurred a few days COAL, Wood, Feed, Hay, Anany, grocers, GREETING. The Advocate 1 Armourdale's first newspaper the first printed and published within its boundaries.

It will advocate the interests of Armourdale, and hopes to be made a means of reudy communication her citizens. In this, Its initial issus, It sends greeting To the Teople-To them will its life be devoted, as to them it will look for its support "When it ceases to be true to them, it will deserve and receive their condemnation. To the Politicians Its colnmns will ever be open to every Bhade of political thought. Its columns can not be made more useful, or serve a more general purpose, than by allowing a parliament of thought and discussion in all that tends to the betterment and longevity Af the republic To the Business Men The Advocate will go into every intelligent home in Armourdale. It will be read by the evening's firelight, and its items of clean, fresh and reliable news, gathered from every nook and corner of our progressive city, will be read and discussed.

That which our merchants have to say to the people will be read, marked, learned and inwardly digested in the family circle, thus making it medium of communication unsurpassed. Its clean.bright face will smile in every home in that of the rich as well as the poor. It is not a circular to be dropped upon the sidewalk, but will be carefully preserved, and be read and reread by all the members of every family. Therefore, let your light so shine in the advertisingcolumns, that the people may know what good things you have in store for them. Keep your Dames and business constantly before the people, until become house-bold words, not alone in Armourdale, but in all the country round about.

To the Ladies The Advocate will bring much that you need much that you will value. It will not try to tell you how to manage household, train children or a gardeti, but it its publisher, but, it will grow to meet the demands of it3 patrons, and just so fast as the needs of Armourdale ago winch prompt us to deliver a (KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.) preachment under the head of social Hans Lund, capitalist. John Beaton, dry goods merchant, Kelly Brent, resident agent Town loyalty. The circumstance was this: develop. If the business men need a larger sheet in which to tell the citi KANSAS.

number of the employes of the ABMOUEDAiE, Site Co. zen what bargains can be secured for Santa Fe were grouped discussing the ARGENTINE, KANS. the holiday season, soon to open, or if S. S. Kirby, capitalist.

Alfred Toll, president Badger Lum rumor that Gould bad secured a ma- real estate men need space in which to ority of the stock, and hence would ber in future control that road. One of tell of advantages they can offer, they have but to say so and the need will Jacob Barney, superintendent Ar Close figures and best ot stock. tvo us a trial. mourdale Foundry Co. be immediately met.

CAPITAL $100,000. DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS, Of. these the following are the offi the group, getting a good salary and doing little to earn it.saift he was glad of it, and there was no protest from the rest. The business of Armourdale is not cers: confined to any street. There are good Napoleon once said he loved the PATRICK LYONS, Blacksmith and Horseshoer.

Armourdale, Kansas. business houses on nearly every street in the city, and especially on Osage President C. E. Moss. Vice presideut -Kelly Brent.

Secretary S. S. Kirby. Cashier C. S.

Squier. Upon visiting the Bank, the active treason but despised the traitor. That faintly expresses the contempt every -DIEECTOES avenue, there are some good and large honorable man feels toward one. who houses. At the corner of 11th and C.

E. Moss. Miltoh Wblsii. is disloyal to the interest which fur Osage there is a large three story a- G. McLean.

Kellt Brent. Jacob Barxet. building that would do credit to any Hans Lund. John Beaton. 8.

S. Kirbt. Alfred Toll. manager of the Institution, Mr. Kelly Brent, kindly took us lu charge, and showed us over nishes him bread and butter for himself and family.

We have no desire to draw comparisons between the city. Wm, M.DUNMIRE'S Livery, Feed Sale Stable. All kinds of Feed for sale TransieriBg Expressing done on short notice ARMOURDALE, KANS While we were embarrassed in find THE BUILDING. It is located on the southwest cor two managements, but we want to ing a location lor the Advocate, we risk this proposition, that any man mot Mr. A.

W. Little, president of the ner of Seventh and Kansas avenue, and has the general exterior appear Armourdale bank, who oame rapidly to who cannot be loyal to the interest which employes him, should go else our rescue, bygiving us the use of the ance of a more than ordinary sub where. We have known the Santa Fe upper floor of the bank building for stantial and durable structure. Its coloring Is heavy, also, peculiarly nominal sum until we can get a better from its infancy. Its management location.

has been the most benign, liberal and successful of any railway company O. Q. Claflin, druggist on Osage ave consonant with the structure itself, and of the business carried on within. It is built of St. Louis pressed brick will bring the news of the day, nar which, has eyer existed.

An emp le nne, is an old time Kingsley man, hay rate the sooliil changes, and the po ing spent several years out there when McLEAN McANAN DKALKRS IN Staple Fancy Groceries, tjueensware, l'rpvlslons, Country Produce, Flour and Feed, Bottom prices tor cash. 001 Kansas ArmOurdale, Kas. W. il. CROSS, Bakery Kestaurant, 010 Kansas Armourdale, Kas with darkly lined red sautlstone fac nas been created nere in tne west tiy reason of its intelligent and master I ajej' the country was yet young and the in ings.

It is a square, massive build- habitants few. He has a very neat ful efforts Kansans should be proud litical outlook will have due attention. In devoting attention to political discussion, business development and church growth, it will treat of issues with which your life is iden stock of goods and now swears by Ar of the Santr Fe, and be loyal to it, SSSW559SM SKSBBSS mourdale. ing, but greatly relieved on its north front, or Kansas avenue, by a couple of semi circular arched windows in the third flopr the two forming the We should not spurn the bridge which carries us safely over. Allegi Cross' bakery, on 14th street, ance of allied interests brings liar kept busy turning out bread for the hungry public.

They bake from three tified, and will become morn bo as your influence in all becomes more recognized because more potent. The Advocate will become indis- entire lighting surface of the upper floor on this front. In the remainder of the north front, ar.d upon the east, mony, success and prosperity. Disloyalty brings anarchy, failure and to five thousand loaves every day and ruin. keep eight men busy, six at night and are heavy plate glass windows in two in the day time.

Let us be loyal to our business asso pensible to you, and should be left at your homes. Its columns are open to groups, wide and solid looking. In ciates to our town, to our church, to The roof on the Layton Hank build' STARK OTTOSON, Merchant Tailors. 718 Kansas Armourdale, Kans. MRS.

J. DOW, you at all times. our order. ing is completed. The Providence deed, the whole exterior is devoid of attempted display or unnecessary or nament.

It is a business block, evi To the Secret Societies AVe wautto NO APOLOGY. Savings Bank will occupy the principal publish a directory of your officiary room in this building as soon as com' UI courso no apology is necessary dently built by business men, with '7v and place and hours of meeting. See for the failures and shortcomings of plcted, which will be in the first part of business in view. -DEALER IN- first issue of a newspaper. Acquaint January, 1889.

to it that your secretaries keep your societies prominently before the pub Upon entering the bank office, upon ance witn men and tuings is a the ground floor, the visitor is at once R. S. S'earlo, of Lawrence, has pur lic. It will cost you nothing, and be prime requisite to a readable sheet confirmed in the.view formed by the chased the grocery department of Coy of great value to visiting brethren. Dry Goods Notions.

Second door from cor. 8th and Kansas Avenue, ARMOURDALE. KANS. This will come in due season. Our re Simms, and will hereafter conduct it, structure itself, and the term solidity It will -gladly advertise your enter coption nas been most kind.

We have N. B. Thorp, of Lawrence, is assisting can alone express the idea. The room 3 1 p. (D g-s CD 3 Ul S'SS'fl! 1 CD EUlll IQ fa 0 5 (3 fwQ lip not met a single person who has said tainments, and set forth the benefits of your organizations.

Mr. Searlo in the store. occupies the corner, and is splendidly us nay. All have given us a cordial lighted. It is fourteen feet high, and To the Churches The Advocate Ihe two buildings on Kansas avenue welcome.

With half a chance the Ad the finish, as is the entire building, is at Eight street, have surely rivaled each holds the places of public worship vocate will be a blooming success in plain white, for walls and ceilings, other in tbe quality of building mater and those who preside at their altars Armourdale. SMARTS Delmonico Kestaurant 613 KANSAS ARMOURDALE, KANS. and hard pine finish for doors and ial. They would be a credit to any in the highest esteem, and will be glad ine advocate printing omce was triminiugs. Massive counters, sur city- to notice in its columns, without the first in Armourdale.

Now there mounted by bronze fret work, ex charge, all items of interest connect IJ.b. Anderson, the furniture man are four. Famer Scales Urie, tend from front to buck, the whole ed with your various organizations, on Kansas avenue, was the first person interior being visible at a glance. At and Mr. Johnsou.

Our business men will find the Advocate printing office to give tho Armourdale Advocate an KELLY BRENT, The Advocate comes to you and asks that you use it as an aid in jr work. the farthest extremity is the bank advertisement for this paper. ever tbe Armourdale bank, where we vault, a colossal affair, intended also To Professional Men Notoriety is R. Bowie, Kelly Brent, A. Eeal Estate Loans.

shall be glad to have them call with their favors, guaranteeing as good as a safety deposit vault, in wlncli Little, Wm. M. Dumnire, and other money to professional men. Keep your card alive in our columns, so will be placed about one hundred and work, for as little money as any office prominent citizens, have visited this AKMOURDALE, KANS. can afford between the two oceans.

that all may become familiar with fifty boxes lor the storage of valuables. Mr. Brent took us through its office during the week. your names and places of business The fire department was called out capacious iron jaws, and here we find An overall factory is being talked up by our business men, with every It will cost you but littlfl, and we shortly before noon on Wednesday, to the burglar-proof steel safe, with oW rr SIM. antil lattljr.

I IV a watch In tat worM. shall be glad to publish gratuitously probability of its successful establish a false alarm at Swift's packing house ii time lock, in which the money of the Wf if ranted. Hhtt Solid tiaA any items you may deem of general ment here in Armourdale, It will be VJSTr TTt-- institution is kept. The vault is A large number of new dwellings and interest to the people. t-mmtm.

wia laaiee funi fratt1 work 1 u4 cuN qoal valM. I One Penoi i iack lo gladly welcomed by those of our peo built of solid masonry, and is carried 1 business houses are being built in the To Our School and City Officers ple who go to Missouri for employ eaUir cm arcara aaa fraa. solid down to the foundation. southwest part of the ci ty. tetntatr wita aw Urgt aad ral- We desire to aid you in winning pub abi una or Howenoia Passing to the rear, after an intro ment.

Machines and power will be furnished the operatives, and all work anapiea. tbrm luipiei, as Charles Honick, exprcsaman, gave no approval for every good planjjf work, ond shall bo glad to assist in wen aa ina watca, aenv Vr. assd after tm ban kent duction to Mr. Squier, the cashier, the first order for printing to this office ba done by the piece 1 1 a whose form, to pardon a pleasantry after it was reajly for work. Him hi yw homa for 9 Month ana abawa ta taoaa who may kava called, laejr aieanyoaf aw afopny.

Taoaa wba wrtta at aaca tmm mm aara of reeeivtaa; taa Watch and Hah plea. Wa pay aiprata, Addraai feUBMa dc Jttw f14. JPwrUAJad, MsUsts. Petitions are in circulation for secur is in harmony with his substa itial waning ciear any proposed work or plans. Our columns are open to you without charge, and a scribe awaits your commands at any time.

Give us ing two justices of the peace for Ar and good looking surroundings, we W. has returned to Armourdale, and is now with Cham Baker, stepped upon the carpet of the direc mourdale. It Ib preposterious in the extreme that our citizens are compelled the barber, in Moss' block. INSTRUCTION on VIOLIN. tory, a beautiful room, with deep re a call.

to go to Wyandotte for. any little legal cess for toilet equipments. From The Citizen's Bank occupied their new and elegant room in time for business service to be rendered by a justice of J.C. KlNDIG this room we pass into the hall and the peace. up the wide stairway to Hie second Makes a specialty ofgitlng Instruction on the on Monday morning.

Kingan are just completing To Mechanics and Laboring Men This paper is your opportunity. Its columns are yours as i-iuch as they belong to any class of men. You will always be welcome to give your views upon current topics. AVe will aid you The problem of a "sure founda or office floor, Uvclvfi feet high, and violin. Uses De Bertot.s raetnod.

Also tion" is being solved for Armourdale large addition to their already large having ten divisions for offices, some of which nre as fine as any we have in the e-ection of the huge biicK an MUSIC FURNISHED packinghouse. ever seen, in every way we can. Remember, stone buildings now going op. Wb notice ni cracks or evidences of set Mr. A.

W. Little left for Medicine this is your paper. Use it. H.L.PEAGUE MAGUIRE, Manager. Builders' and Shelf Ear tare, Stoves, Granite and Tinware.

Carpenters', Machinists' and Butchers' Tools a Specialty. Plumbing, Roofing, Guttering and Spouting OQ5 Kansas Avenue, ARMOURDALE, KANS The next floor is a grand hall one of the finest in the west, whose acous Lodge on Thursday, to be absent un tling in any of them. To All Greeting. We have come til Sunday. tor balls, partlea.etc Call on or address J.C.

KM DIG. Room 12, Moss Block, tic properties we are of a into your midst to publish a newspa We know little as yet of tbe merits of i very high order. The hall is intended Moving seems to be tha order of these per, and to do your general printing, "consolidation, but at least a dozen ii 1 for any ordinary use, outside of a pro By patronizing our printing office, you Armourdale, Kans. our citizens have emphasized their de fine days. A.

Profitable Business. miscuous public assemblage room will stimulate the newspaper, and In sire that our paper shall be called the if fuse itLwith life and vitality. Re "Armourdale" Advocati. And so it Ante rooms are provided, and tha whole can be brilliantly lighted. Two L.A.ULLOtf.Prop'r take anazsncvlor a re reads that way.

The people of Armourdale wiU idea and part of a third are rilled member, wi were first to appreciate your wants, and came here trusting to your tenie of justice and fairness liable enterprising hoiue, learn thtir business and stick to It, "get on'' in the world. PeJple who have any idea of engaging in any canvassing business Armourdale Laundry, with plate glass. The size Is nearly JIBS. M. M.

CEAFI'S Wonderful Cleansing AND- glad to hear that Mr. T. J. Enright had that of the entire building, which Is to meet ui half way in an earnest sxured the Fifteenth street sewer eon will do well to write to ueorge btinsos 60x80 feet. effort to serve you.

610 KANSAS AVENUE. tract, as they know he will do a good The roof is made of plastic material Give di a call, in the offices over the job and do it promptly. impervious to moisture, and the en Armourdale Bank. Portland, Maine the great art and general publishers. They offer tbe most exceptional advantages to those who ar.

sufficiently enterprising to be willing to make a puih in order to better their condition. It cost nothing SEMPER MADDEX. There seems to be a fight between tire structure stands oyer a large eel- Washing Fluid. Our directory of fraternal organi coal dealers which will be good for x. The walls have been sunk to zations is incomplete.

We should be those baTinz ready money to take ad to try. women suceessiui can proper depth, and rest upon huge vaMers, as well as men, 1 nil particu glad if those noticing omissions or vantage of. For sale at 521 S. 6th Street, flat rocks, and any thought of settling 50cts. per Quart.

lars will bo sent to tbo who address All work guTt nted to giv. Satisfaction. Shop oin Irura 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fir-l-elM rixt guiiemitl to euttnmera.

inaccuracies would call attention to is put aside as visionary. Improvements are being msle on the tia firm their full BMres is given ARMOURDALE, the matter. i if The piljjipal CQOtracUjr was Mr sidewalks on Oage avenue all along Miop at optij oa tiirt nv a cao, above..

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

About Daily Advocate Archive

Pages Available:
20
Years Available:
1888-1889