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8 THE REAL WESTERNER May, 1921 NORTON, KANSAS Norton has justly been called the metropolis of northwest Kansas. It is a live and growing little city of 2,600 population by actual count and not guessing. The city has a large retail trade extending for many miles in each direction, it being no uncommon thing to find automobiles loaded with customers from fifty miles or more into the country. Large distributing interests are rapidly developing in produce, fruits, groceries and machinery. Already two produce houses, one wholesale grocery and three or four machinery distributors are on the ground and operating plants, while the Norton manufac- elsewhere.

We believe in our town and can help you make good. The great spirit of hospitality prevails in the west. We are glad to "have you come out and join us and we are just as anxious to have you succeed in your undertakings after you join us as we are to succeed ourselves and will do all that is possible to help you. The idea of helpfulness is a part of the great west and you will find it on all sides of you, if you come west, you will soon catch the spirit and be delighted with it. This is the spirit that has built Norton and made it the banner town of Residence of Geo.

Rickey, Contractor, Norton, Kansas turing do an annual business of close to a million dollars with their wheat stacking machinery. Wholesale bakeries, ice plants, laundries, bottling works, chicken hatcheries, green houses, broom factories, ice cream plants, are either on the ground or being arranged for. However there are many more openings in distributing and wholesaling lines as Norton is the logical distributing point for north and west Kansas. The retail lines are well looked THE WESTERN SPIRIT northwest Kansas. We have room and business for several thousand more good people and are going to get them.

We want you for a neighbor and will help you in any business that you care to enter in our town. The progressive spirit of the west has made Norton the best paved, best watered, best sewered, best lighted, and best organized town of its class in the state. There is yet all kinds of undeveloped business and resources in our town and room for Residence of F. E. Benton, Cashier Farmers State Bank, Norton, Kansas after but not over done and there are openings in most every line and the merchants of Norton will extend a helping hand to all new comers.

You are always welcome in Norton, regardless of whose field you may want to enter. We believe that there is plenty of business for all and proceed to go out and get it. The best town in northwest Kansas invites any prospective business man to stop and look the ground over carefully before deciding to locate 10,000 more happy contented busy business people. Come out and look the field over and we will convince you. Get the urge and link up your fortunes with a good progressive helpful town, that will welcome you to a place of usefulness among its' business men.

HOSPITALS Norton is the seat of the State Hospital for Tubercular. It was selected out of dozens of other aspir-' Scene at Elmwood Park 1921 Kansas Fair at Elmwood Park, Norton, Kansas Offers $3,000 Worth of Free Attraction as Follows WILHAT BICYCLE TROUPE, TWO ACTS ORIGINAL FLYING WARDS--NINE PEOPLE-LARGEST AERIAL ACT IN AMERICA KIMBALL SISTERS, WIRE ARTISTS LEROY TRIO BUTTERFLY ACT MAYME WARD, AERIAL ACT ORIGINAL EBENEZER MULE (Educated) MLLE OCTAVO, TWO VOICED SINGER, THREE PIECES DAILY THE BIGGEST AND BEST FAIR IN WESTERN KANSAS DO NOT MISS IT. WATCH FOR DATES ants for this honor because of its wonderfully healthy climate. The institution is located on a 240 acre farm three miles east of the city and has a building and equipment plant worth about two million dollars now with over 200 patients and a demand for accommodations for nearly a thousand. This year about a third of a million dollars of improvements and buildings will be added to the place to help it take care of its rapidly increasing demands.

This institution will eventually have a capacity of, one to two thousand and will be one of the large and important state institutions. It has a wonderful record for cure amounting to about 85 per cent of its cases. There are also two large private hospitals in Norton and about twenty physicians of all schools so that one has a wide range of choice in methods and skill. The town is the best known in western Kansas for its hospitals and doctors. All schools and medicine are represented and the city has a large and growing hospital interest NORTON LODGES Practically all the lodges are represented in Norton, Masons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen, U.

C. T. Knights of Columbus and all the smaller organizations and orders have live and aggressive organizations. The American Legion and the G. A.

have well organized posts. All of these -orders are well supported by Norton people and are in a thriving growing Several own their own halls and others are considering building and at no distant date the city will have several fine beautiful business and lodge structures built by these organizations. A COMBINATION WITH A PAST RECORD Mr. John Ackard, the hustling real estate dealer and land owner of Colby, Kansas, has just recently transferred. his son H.

B. Ackard from the Ackard Land Company of Denver, to the Colby, Kansas office, where they will both be actively engaged in closing out the entensive land interests owned by the Senoir member of the firm. Mr. H. B.

Ackard is founder and builder of the Ackard Land Company with offices at 317-18 and 19 Denham Theatre building which is no doubt the best known and advertised Land Company in the Rocky Mountain District. We do not hesitate in making the statement that this new firm will be as well known over the territory covered by the Real Westerner, as any other land operators in the west. Mr. John Ackard owns individually in northwest Kansas sixty or seventy farms and is in a position to give live wire dealers contracts which are most attractive and profitable to them and desirable for their customers. The new office of this firm just opened at Colby, Kansas is the one of the finest equipped offices in western Kansas.

Mr. H. B. Ackard will be in charge of the Colby office personally and will bring all of his large land experience and acquaintance to the Colby business. Mr.

John Ackard will spend most of his time with the firm and looking after his various investments in western Kansas. It will pay any land man to get in touch with this active Kansas firm and form a working connection with them as they can deliver the goods from their large lists of personally owned lands. Mr. John Ackard recently invested in a fine new car, a Jackson Princess, that he purchased at the Omaha Auto show. Mr.

Ackard drove this car from Omaha to Colby without taking her out of high gear for the entire distance, a feat seldom accomplished with any car. The Jackson Princess is without exception the finest car that we ever rode in and can hit off fifty miles an hour on Kansas roads without the least vibration of the car. It runs smoother than a pullman and is equipped with more than all the modern conveniences and appliances that go to make a car a real joy. When you come out to Colby to see The Ackard land company they will put you in the Jackson Princess and spirit you out to see their Thomas county lands in a jiffy. Riding in this car is a real pleasure and buying any of the Ackard lands at the present prices will prove a wise and profitable investment.

By all means get acquainted with this firm and line up for business connections with them. Professional Finishing for Amateur Photographers We Put the Snap in Your Snapshots You Take Em- -We Make Em REEDS STUDIO NORTON KANSAS FOSTER LUMBER CO. Building Material Coal PHONE 39 NORTON, KANSAS THE CONSOLIDATED TELEPHONE CO. THE UNITED TELEPHONE CO. The Best Servant in Business or Home is a Telephone, a Necessity and not a Luxury.

SERVICE FIRST Norton, Kansas THE WAYSIDE INN Norton's Old Establshed Hotel Forty rooms, remodelled, refurnished, redecorated. Conveniently located near depots and garages. Fully modern. American Plan $2.50. SERVICE FIRST CLASS Norton Works FOR BETTER MONUMENTS Of The Classic Type Hicks Bros.

cop 12 FT. Norton, Kansas We Carry Representative Showings of: Society Brand Clothes Arrow Shirts Michaels Stern Clothes Arrow Collars Dubbelbilt Boys Clothes Cheney Cravats Florsheim Shoes Chalmers Underwear Douglas Shoes Hatch One-Button Unions Queen Quality Shoes Lee Overalls Phoenix Hose Stetson Hats Black Cat Hose Hansen Gloves J. H. BROWNE SON The First State Bank A GOOD, CONSERVATIVE, GROWING BANK. DEPOSITS ROUNDING THE THREE QUARTER MILLION MARK.

J. E. GLEASON, President! H. J. JOHNSON, Cashier.

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