The Dwight Independent from Dwight, Kansas • 1

NO. 14. dwight, "Kansas, 2 ,1 887, VOL. 1. 1 1 I SUNSET Writtotofat'tnt Wis; frY DKI.f V.

JAYNUS. Nebraska railway, west of Topek We took flying trip Into llic country north of town last Sunday and 'saw several fields of com In tliQf valley of Humboldt creek that would average eight feet In lielghthf whlltr fife are Oppoirtiinitles 'Vise ftiB is 8iukln in the wester All nature Is at rest; ,7 And lol the Ileavens as I lift mine eye, Iu glorious beirnty tiw wlde etuetel bluev Apollo given tlw wprhj a pajting glance; Amf slowly sinks from towing' the' skyabKvltirgotdeh! Hgfit, And irlorious Un'H o'V UAS STMCK THE it JS OE-JIOU- VI- Wltii p. "Veiling the huh God' bed. SHOULD the tast'l just peeped forth from between the top leaves There are still nmny ofrpoftufiifics here for the establishment of ififlereirt; lines of busiiK'88 not yet rrpreseirteit. Tlier follow-ini list shows I WHAT WE HAVE An excellent bank, enpifal occupying a liaiulsomo stone building which cost nearly two goixl hardware stores; the finest hotel biiilillng on the line west of Topuka, two nfri-cultimit implement houses, one general merchandise store doing a heavy business: two grocery stores; two drug stores; on-livery stable; one lumber yard; one furniture stofcj one boot and shoe maker, one barter shop, one physician; three real estate firms; one blacksmith shop; one store; mciit market and loc house; one coal yanl; two resbmrxiitsj twenty carpenter; three plnsterersf ami an energetic and In'telligent class of people who are ready to aid airy cirtcrprise that will bene- DWIGHT IS THE PLACE.

NEARtY $50,000 tXtEMS flf- THREE MOJTTHS BE HOT NEGLECTED i An ftetoi'eefd" tfaif, Toet'e lith those Under Contract Amount- in to $31,000. EIGHT HEW BfcSIHESS HOUSIS AND SEVEEAL KESIDEN- 'SUCHOf PORTUJnIITIES NOW EXISTIN The' growth: and Improvement in! DwlgW Jaftf Utt in- ackanco of tlie mrst CESTO BE BUILT IMMEDI- ATELY. sanguine expectations of either the foun-; dcrs town of the' business men whos 4 have' reeentty located Aiui the end Is not etf the ho6ih hows no sign of leav--ing nsJ SurronmWd ws it is by' the best and richest; fatHfrlng. hmd Mofris otmnty, as (which is fully a prollfitf as any to be -foumil in tlie great Simlfcwer Over 50,000 Expended in Improvement! hj, the Last Three Months. i DwlgM is (bmid to become (he most im- 4 portant business, oint in (Shis' portion of Kansas.

The- lnrpKvetnentS' Which are be- lit the town WE NEED, and there are splendid openings the establishment of a creamery and cheese factory; a fionflug mill; dry goods house; clothing store; harness maker; wagon mak er; lMnlk and stationery store more gener-id -merchants' and manufacturers. There i is no Ix'tter place In Kansas to-day than Dwlglt for any of tlie above lines of business; We already have the best new town on tlie' Kck Island railway aud It will i i soon outrival many or the older established1 ing nuiile and' the- feiiiWiiiirs erected are i-' good sized and1 of a substentiid character. Where once grew fields of waving grain, A lovely, welcome sight; ffk establishment 0 several tfcncMiW business not yet There upon that fertile plain it iffi 'Viistirooii btit soim1 and permanent-- fully represjnkij Standi the magic city Dwiifht. Three mouths ago tlie present town-site Tlie following- list shows the' iniprovet r. mefttesineer Matfoh and the cost of each' of Dwight yvas, nothing but a vast com building: -l-ax field and scarcely any one imagined tliat Grand Vfow ItoiSt twCstoT.

Dwight Bank; (tone, 2 story, 25x40.1.'., .7.. SohtllW A'Qwiti. onerat l.Sotf J' Wa up 2 utory places! The surrouudlug country is rich i WHER IS DW IGIIT? its agricultural res Hires aud nature seem? XlCurtia'Drtigitore in sa Jshort a spa( of time a bright and prospt-rcus town would spring up to take tiie-liice of growing croi. Work, com-inenced on Die first building in Dwight about the first of March and In a little over three; months about fifty buildings have heen erected at a cost of nearly fifty thousand dollars, while the contracts for to have adapted it especially for general fan i ili pmiMises, (lie uplauils making excellent pasture for stock, also produce good crops, while tho valleys of the vari (lea. On(fco.

2 atory, 25x00 80')' -1 W. A. Hoita, mat nrarket 4 ic Pantry, utolfis and reiddoiico, flfory Dwight Ltfnd A'ToMrhiit l'5o J. 7otf Afv Bottf'ne, rcaiifonfo 1 Coo' HanionVrtrtrfttfanf gSroeerJf. iitory.v...

It ist 125 miles west of 1 Kansas City on the ous creeks are rich and fertile. The conn try is fairly well settled and" is far in ad SEBMSM KEESffS MILWSY vnmC of the town, (exactly tho reverse of B. CoBclamf, 46o' building ten more business houses and five residences, to cost over thirty thousand dollars, have lxn let, and work is already rapidly progressing upon several of them. the usual condition) and will easily main win A OITY OF 6.000 POPULATION. The improvements already inudti have eost nearly $50,000, wiiilc the Art extension of the Great Rock Island, in the northwest portion of Morris Drawing trade from three counties, for a ra The boom which first struck Dwight has concluded to remain permanently and Lurtb'ofli, gnods 4 Dwfebt Und liBjU 0U W' li M.

LftBtfron A Hardware rtofe 7W Cf. F. fc'rafo HardWare tor. eotf G'obb St MrerataMo; 4070. 2 rtory 8o Sotf 4o(C.

WRoCM 4So' If. (. Cbrnoltua, rosffoiico, 2atory Tioe v.v Jij CK. A Tank, tftockYard? Ac- N. Cobb1.

residonee, itory 65o; Dtiftl, Cwtih. reniitence, atory. 6off dius of ten to fifteen miles, in either direction. Three months ago buildings are rising up with astonishing new buildings in course of constnition and rapidity. under contract rtmonfit to more than it Was Dwight is located in Oliio Dwuship, in 000 more, dm any ncv town irt Knw the Northeastern portion of Morris county near enough the lines of Davis and Wa.

or a ny other state beat this siiowing? If so step to the front and show youf The manager of tle Dwight stone quarry A CORNFIELD. BUT baunsee couutie to draw trade from both. awcrts that tho rock rmxluocd here is rh It isjiu the heart or the finest in I lie State of K.iiisas and i fouiui RICHEST AGRICULTURAL DIS- Aniltt'aon, 1.2ixy C. F. Cralgi minc 76QI F.LEmry, 2 6o' E.

06H, reiienrti, 16et i 3 O1, Claytoh, resilience, Sfstory'. 60O1 i I)w febt Kith1iitm) rea4lM, story'. D'wfchtM. E. 2,000 J.

ll. Orton, r'orftonco, 45o T.M. irfiers. paint 15o' JH0attt, loo1 -Mtaoellafneott i wprovolmmtr, eatrawtteJ.l TRIOT in tho Stiitc, and 'perhaps in the world i The nearest towns of importance arc twen. in almost inexhaustiiblc quantities.

Ex-eellent water is attained at a ilepthof from 25 to 35 feet. Dwight is distant from Topcka miles, ty to twenty-five miles distant and our Now it is a lively Burg, fJuSTLING WITH BUSINESS. Mono than 60 buildings have been erected hi the meantime by an army of a cost exceeding $50,000 and still the good work jjocs on. The surrounding tributary country is rich in its productions and agricultural resources and will easily maintain (O OF 45,000 4 IHIHIBMHTSsI on the Chicago, Kansas Nebraska merchants are already encroaching upon the territory heretofore largely controlled by other places. Farmers who have al totnl' ways been to liaul their products extension of the Great llock Island Kansas City miiesv Thk Wasp predicts that at no distant day Dwight will be the largest and most prom incut little city in this portion of the Sun-' flower State.

Read the itemized list of from ten to twenty miles now come to Dwight and get fully as good price. Our Eight daily trains pass through Dwight aud livestock shipping has already been commenced. livestock buyers and shippers are paying i buildings in course of erection and under better prices than any neighboring towns WHAT WE ALREADY HA VI and no doubt this will 1 the MOST IMPORTANT SHIPPING An excellent bank, capital $50,000, owui)jlngnliamisrmo 0,000 ftoiic building; two good hardware stores; one general merchandise store doing a large business; two grocery stores; two drug stres; one livery stable; one lumber yard; one furniture store; one barber shop; one shoe shop; a physician; three rod est ite firms; one blacksmith shop; one millinery store; meat market three painters; twelve carpenters; one coal yard, two restaurants and an intelligent aud ncrgctic class of people. -point 1 on the line oftlic Kock Island betwecu The; foltowlrrg ilist of buildings Itf. 'j course of erection ami undc contract, wit i proposed eost of eaeh Starr Oalbrarth, office 20x30.

Kff Dwiftt tumtlt TowiMstto build1- 1 (nt. totjr; lOff Hodfn A Sun, roneral uiJae'. atore, 2 J. T. nr'wood, bnaroeisa 40x40, S.OOO K.

G. Cornelfu, buaneaa bow, atory, 1,009 1 II. Houghton, bufffnea htilWD nj public S.00O -Dwtfht RathbohefeaMeneo, 2,000 S.F.ftunypI, Law II.Houghton, 2,000 Dr. J. I.

Curtis. 2,005 Stcpbton Daniel Nord'oen, 2.600 Parabna; netf addition, 4001 Dwftfht Land and- Town-lite elerator 5, C001 Mweellaneout improvements for which fhecontraetii arnot yetleL. is positively no other bran new -1 "1 i Topcka and Wichita. Work will soon be commenced by the railway on capacious stock yards and our live stock shippers will AndUicrcare eplendid openings for a creamery; flouring mill; elevator, cheese factory more general mcrehmits; dry good otiaq dofltiHg; hanmB nukcq wagon makei; and uianHfactiirers. also build their own private yards.

The T'OZl THS LATEST STATE MAP OP KANSAS sh.owln.g- tlxe exact contract, in another column of this is-uc. Don't take our word for all this bnfeome and see for yourself. In the Magazine of American History for July, General Arthur F. Dbvereaux Will publish a thrilling account of "Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg," wWch fierce battle he was a partioipaut. Mr.

Choate was sitting in his office, when a young man very well known in society, who is alwajs extreuielr well dressed, takes great pride in his family connections, and has a pretty high opinion of himself generally entered, and introduced himself something as "I am Eeginald Adolphus JonHS." AbPrc-pliod Mr. Choate, a clmir." continued the young man, bent upon impressing his importance upon the lawyer, "lam er the son-in-luw, you know, of com acreage hi the country tributary to loati3a. twad. fia.rtli.or ia.fsrra..tio33. prices Scc, writs to Dwight Is 25 per cent larger than ever be.

fore and if the season continues 'favorable i i the crop will be the lieaviest ever grown in Kansas, many fields in tlte valleys of Zr, i Mgr. Dwight Land MAXAGiiR WKSTKRS HKATi ESTATE ASSOCIATION, CHAS. B. HOLMES, 20, iJISbyUia AVJliA UHi, KAtJAS CITY, 51U. town Wthe Wofeto tliat can make as good aslwwing can tell but that Djvlght the creeks promising 75 bushels per acre.

Nothing happening to prevent a good crop the corn shipments from this place will undoubtedly be larger thau any other slatiou on the' Hue of the Chicago Kansas and may yet be one of tie. promineiit eities? General Smith." ''Indeed!" replied SEND! FORt COPY OF THEDWIGHT WtSP. tWs great istateT Choate; "tako two chairs.".