The Gate City Independent from Coffeyville, Kansas • 5

1 buffalo hides. What the freight boy and teamster has'de- Gkockrif.s and Produce: Among the many good business men' spoken of in the columns, none are more deserving for their honesty, integrity, and good bust- veloiK-d into might be expressed in saying that he lias been councilman three times, mayor one year, city treasurer two years and each of these places of trust he has filled with credit to himself and with ad vantage to the city. It is to such men as Mr. Boothby that Coffey -j ville owes her reputation for push and enterprise, as the well ness qualifications than Jacob Voll-mar. lie is a well known and coratctent grocery man.

King thoroughly posted in every detail of this line of merchandise. Although only a few months in business for himself in our city, he has built up a trade that many men would not accomplish in a life time, Being thoroughly posted in stocked drug store owned by him testifies. Cofleyville has grown from a trading post to a citv. the tne groccrv une, lie knows wlien an article is good and when it is bay tc a man and each is proud of the other. Mr.

Boothby feels that while it might lie jMissible to find a K-tter town than Coflevvillc vet the chances are that the search would le a long one ami further he's not going to take chances but stay right where he is and do as he al- faulty, consequently is more competent to buy such articles as his customers demand. He wishes to please his patrons and always has the lest that money can procure for them, and when these two items are taken into consideration I ways lias done pusli a good tiling 4 Mil "y-'-'vj, 5 jc" i along i. e. Lofteyville. it is no wonder that his trade is so large.

Mr. Voll mar also buys ami sells all kinds of country produce. (: i ij 5 I ll (3 Bros: The finn of Read and when wantimr to net ntivtliiin i r- nice and fresh, by calling at his place of business, northeast comer I of the Mjuare, you will not lv dis- api)ointed. ntCKSMITIIINi; AMI For the just eight years the ring of the hammer on the anvil has given notice to the passerby that Jacob Miller was doing his share of the blacksmithiug and re- i lir work ami no shop in Coffey-; ville has a K-tter reputation, in any Kirticular, than Miller's general! KllfL-vtnllli niil i comiMised of H. V.

and V. T. Read, is one of the leading firms in southeastern Kansas, ami ever since ColTeyville was considered any town worth speaking of, 'Read's store has lccn one of its firms. The present firm has three large store buildings that are literally cratned full of fine dress goods, dry goods of all kinds, notions, carjets, clothing, gents furnishing gntxls, groceries ami produce. Read always carry a large stock of goods and their trade reaches in all directions from the city, and even over half a hundred miles into the territory.

For some time past they have lieen making special sales that have proven wonderfully successful. They employ a number of w'cll-postcd and genteel lady and gentlemen clerks and patrons chvays meet with gnl treatment ami carry away the lst grades of goods to lie found in the market. Contractor and Brn.niiK: II. Ruthranff son, successor to Mr. II.

Ruthrauff, who I I -ti ment. R. J. Stage, the wagon maker, is with Mr. Miller and is ready, as every one who has the simp in the past five C.K'HT or SKTTKRS.

(I) J. S. Lang. C2) I). Davis.

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L'phani. II. V. lU .1. Iht.ot-y TacklU (4 V.

II. I II. Hum p. knsnir.xci: or mks. minmi: si.

vs4n. five years knows, to do any thing that may lie necessary in wagon work from the most simple repairing to building a carriage, ami no JoiixS. Lanc. old settler, was In January. 1S72.

Mi. Upham bom near Pittsburg, July i.Jliecame a resident of ColTeyville. 1S46, and came to Kansas in 1S64. engaged in the general merchandise settling at Round IYairie where for business and until iSSS. was one ulirity as .1 trading iiut is the rtnniturc ctunplaiiit is ever heard from thos-Th.

cor.ri.nv is imp is if utile who have patronicd him aUiut in- l.ui lin iii.s an with ferior work. He is a rapid as well an ample capiul Khind thetn thvir as vxcelletit workman. Mr. Miller ficiliiks jor the lbHt takes pride in having none but iie.trtrsllv is r.usi.rn:st d. The firm of the leading merchants of the town.

In i-s7. he returned to California after the "Girl he left lehiud him." and was married to Miss Kmma A. Morgan, of San Francisco. On account of deafness in iss.s he retired from the years he was connected with a general merchandise store, trading with the Osage Indians. years later he moved to Old Parker opening a hardware and gn eery store.

He stayed there until '72 when he came to CofTev- riKtl usirus in OctoK-r. first-cliss workmen in his simp and op lief has pmven true. fr jtmplc fim nuny miles. uh had itu going clsewlurc to trade came hetv to ev the new firm's Mtck and prices. An iuvestigarion was all ih.it was needed lt turn their p.iUon.-ige to ColTeyville.

The ware and dis. play Maruichi ck. arc large and well arranged for the -inducting of their splendid trade. Tile many InMUtiful s.Ih of funii-tii'-e and all the nice things that are kept in a first-class establish m.ul of this kind, will much to making life pleasant. Mr.

II, L. Jones, the gentlemanly 111 ville to do general mercantile busi-1 mercantile business, turning the ness. At the present time he is at stock over to his clerks. Messrs. the lit a I of the firm of Lang McKenna Adamson.

who are furniture ami undertakers, still conducting the business at the Hut .11 in Kansas stand hirh er es Mr. Lang in Masonry, tik-n the 320 lie has alwavs K-en con- having R't old stand. For the past ten years Mr. I'pham has devote 1 his time and attention to the real estate business, and to his energy and push, much of CofTcyville's success is due. More projicrty in the city has jk.t-haps passetl through his hands than any other man.

He is a man of good character, strictly teminrrate. siderel a first-class business man has enjoyed the confidence of the community, having frequently been elected to township and city i nice. ger. is ever leauy 10 hiav uis cs-turners, and Mr. Stmt want, bis assistant in the stre.

unhTsiands his business thojouhly. A i-it to their lwe. whether you vtsh to buy or not, vill K- of intv.rrt to vou. u- -r- if rj -v I). Davis, rears in the whose ortrait ap-old settlers group.

came to Coffevville in the fall of I. IK Mik; one of the ling workers in the and association, is 11 of hnsj. Park Park always at his work, and while he has made jHrrhaps a thousand loans for friends and eastern capitalists, he has the satisfaction of knowing that 110 on? ever lost a dollar through loans or investments made for them by him. IL'ing kind, generous and '71. Mr.

Davis is a native of Courtland county. Xew York. where he washrn in 1S40. In 'or lie was oiu of tlu b.iys tr answer the call of PrskL-nt Lincoln for 1 emiuty. Indiana.

He remained .1 his native Male until iKwmlier iss. at uhich time he 1 icated at I.iU-rty, seven miles north of this city. After a resi- sympathetic, he enjoys the confi- tiencc ol ins lellow men. ot voiunto.Ts ana scrveu ioriwo years in Co. ot the Sist regt.

N. Y. Infy. In '65 he west and located at Parker in '70. The next i 01 1 2 vears mere lie came 10 the non-residents have their pro- I ixrrtv in Ins hands, his rental list fall he cams here, a harness being larger than all other agents snpani contmueti in inai ousi- Mr.

Upham is an all until n-liotl ln rtirf1 I 1 lilt 1 II 1 1 iiwin romm Keuaoie Aian, aim nas from business. He owns good city identified with him in his real iii March The following August he was made jrrain insprtor of the Board of Trade at this point, and for nearly four years he rciJKiiued grain insjieclor h-rre. Mr. Morgan's woik vas the Ivst rated in the west and never a mistake was marked against him, something verv rare in the tnsec- property ami is highly respected by estate busines his son. Willard, 1 our people.

1 and together thev make a rustling team. MASONIC IIUCK I.CK1KINO WKST. tion business. On July 1, he i a H. V.

Rkad, of the finn of lopeiieu a gram aim commission Read is an old settler in building ColTeyville, locating here in 1S72. hmisc in the Bamdollar which he still continues. Jas. J. Hakxpollar is one of the oldest settlers in ColTeyville and was in business before any railroad was built, hauling his goods from Hum1xldt.

Mr. Bamdollar is a native of Bedford county and came from that state to ColTeyville. He has been activelv en- is tne pioneer amtractor ot tne city, coming here when one could mow hay where much of He was born in Metropolis. Illinois, and came to Kansas in '6o. Mr.

and their success has lievn phe-nominal. Car after car of furniture has leen received and out to please customers. Many persons felt that the opening of another furniture store in Coflevville would briiij? much trade here that ColTeyville now stands, is still Read has Ixren an active memlxrr of ready to figure on all classes of work. Since Decemlxrr 1st last. the numlicr of plows that arc re-jiaired or sharpened ready for work and those waiting for repairs liear evidence that the fanners of this vicinity know and appreciate a good workman.

When it comes to horse shoeing it will take 24 hours at least to find a tetter one than is to lie found here. Mr. Miller will lie found in the future as heretofore. business circles ever since locating Tut: IstUii'iiNiniNT is the only newspaper that has ever dared to gaged in business since locating here here and is now the president of 1 II A I venture cat such an edition as the Mr. RuthraufT hxs built ten residences and now has a force of ten ana nas enjoeii a en nierueu lhe Rea-Patterson Millinir Com was going cbewhere.

and their I e- pa-scnt one. trade. He is interested in a num-1 pany men ousy at worK putiinir tin ber ot enterprises in the city 111 addition to his excellent trade at J. S. H.

Bump, who is one of the Nowata, Indian Territory. homes in various parts of the city. One thing anyone going to RuthraufT Son for work can rest assured of, and that is that the work prompt and attentive to business, always ready to welcome new; oldest settlers here, is a native of North Bend, Ohio, and was born customers as well as old ones. Oct. iSio.

He had been a rcsi will le done at the time the con Willard S. Uimiam, whose portrait appears in the old settlers dent of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois tracts call for, and that it will be group, and who has made a spec prior to casting his lot with the done in a workmen like manner. people of this section in 1870. At ialty of the real estate business for ten vears is of the old Puritan Farmers Renovation i has lieen the 'watchword at the1 Fanners Home since Mrs. C.

Winters took charge two months ago, Mr. RuthraufT is a Pennsylvanian me time ne came nere mere was and learned his trade at a time stock, whose ancestor, jonn upnam, but seven houses visible, including came over from Lngland in 1635. hinv imi1w nti nii when everything was "worked and now everything is in perfect out. Shortly after marriage he readiness to make one and all com His father, Rev. W.

P. Upham, all the times of the was sent from lioston in 1845 as r-ntr ritx- tiovprrnromAn.m.t moved to Ohio where he remained several years, then he came to fortable and at home. Mrs. Winters is a perfect lady, with a way that captivates and once a guest of missionar- 10 me wiieroKee in- lost it fntlirv ir i.ns dians. and in 1S45 the subject of 1,, nnW wi- Kansas, settling in the Gate City.

He had nothing but his trade and tir -ketch was boniin this mission for himself and is one of t1ie sl our energy to look to for a livclyhood field. At the breaking out of the rsr yJ lit Jt fr, I known and highly respected of our civil war the familv moved to Law people. At present he lives on mm rence, Kansas. From Lawrence they small iarm adjoining tne citv and went to Vermont and then Boston. is just as jolly as ever.

and after working four years as an employee he became an employer and now owns his home and several lots, with a clear track to prosperous old age. There is not a block in the city that hxs not ts monument, in the way of a build After remaining at the latter place about one year, he went to Call for Masonic Block Drug Stork: nia. I he next seven years were From a beardless bov withoti i 1 her popular Home always a guest is the invarable rule. Mrs. Winters has ljccn a resident of CofTcy-ville and vicinity for the past 10 or 15 years and her friends include all who know her.

Though quiet and unassuming, having her own way to make in the world, she faces the inevitable bravely and is fast making a recognized place for herself as a cartcni to the public. The Home under her management hxs liccn greatly improved and will continue to be a first-class $1.00 per day house. The Home is always open to the traveler who desires a good quiet nights rest, or a II Boothby speni me enipioj 01 ms ui iei friends or money, A. ing, to his industry, and of those WHO was ai ine neau ui uie wnoic- nm mift lilmclf one r- i-w I who have had him do work not one person has ever had any trouble sale millionaire nrm 01 11. m.

rvew- Tti 1 1 1 i nau ui orcd tow-nsraan. Born in York with a mechanic's lean and his When Mr. upnam leu aan rran-Unniv. Mnine references cover every good busi ness man in the city. Cisco to go into business for him- working 1 and late for I rudiments of an education, at 16 he old home near the Indian Terntorj.

turned his face westward and after Box Ton Bakery, II. Goertzcn, Mis employer gave mm ine iouow- a o( om im. injr letter: I irtic vm rrvT-m'iii mii- proprietor, is conveniently located on Vest Ninth street, and in addi AHr: for himself a place in the world. good wholesome meal, with prompt attention to every want. Strangers will always find Mrs.

Winters ready to make them welcome. been our employ lor seven For years he freighted and farmed, vears as a faithful employee. He tion to being prepared to furnish everything in the bakery line on short notice, Mr. Goertzcn makes goes of his own volition and with him eoes our best wishes for his a specialty of ice cream in season saving what he made and always making his word as good as his bond. Mr.

Boothby tells of the times When he went down into the Nation freighting and brought back success in life. We endorse him and his ice cream parlors arc always COFFEYVILU5 FURNITURE Co: One of the new institutions that have added much to the dtys pop- CROt-f OP RKStnnN'CES. 1L U. LeriD, 8.S. CArriaxtaa.

Ceorjt tfartc CU.ku. places of popular resort. tinconditionall), H. M. Newhaix Co.".