Western Enterprise from Parsons, Kansas • Page 1

nccwyO, II I I I I VOL. 1. PARSONS, KANAS, NOVEMBER, 1872. NO. 3.

r-itA AAAA I i.i i i i ii THE MISSOUKI YAXLEY. HOME IMPKOVEMENTS. NAMES OP THE STATES. 8T TBI EXT. O.

T. WEIGHT. Perhaps some of ourlittle folks those who came, and lived, in covered wagons, and gives an impulse to society that makes this just now an interesting place to study the planting and growth of American institutions. The types of our institutions are the church and the i I will be pleased to know the derivation and meaning of the names of TERMS: On Copy, ne year Six Copies, 5.00 RATES OF ADVERTISING, (In Nonpareil type.) Line 1 Insertion $0.50 2 0i90 3 1-25 4 1.65 6 1.80 2.00 liberal Discount to yearly advertisers. BUSINESS DIRECTORY the States.

For their benefit we ap school. What of them? The churches are mostly small and pend tbeir origin feeble bands, struggling against many Maine So called from the Prince of Maine, in France, in compliment difficulties which we, at the east, do not fully comprehend. to Queen Henrietta, of England, who owned that province. Jbirst, we can hardly comprehend KANSAS. Whatever we do for the improvement of our homes, we do for ourselves.

Dryden never gave expression to a truer sentiment than when he wrote the line, -'Home is the sacred refuge of our life." Other places may possess interest for us, but our own homes are the places where the deepest interest centre. Thither we turn when the business of the day is over, and there, if anywhere, we find rest and recuperate our exhausted physical or mental faculties and gird again for the stern duties of life: And for the reason that home was our sacred refuge, we should give great attention to its improvement. Now improvements are all of them extensive and removed beyond the reach of the poorer classes. Some of the New Hampshire Named by John Mason, in 1839 (who with another GARNETT. "tARNETT HOUSE, Garnett, Kansas Thomas their pecuniary weakness.

As we look upon the rich and inexhaustible soil, covered in places with almost endless stretches of cora, we are amazed that any one should speak of the poverty of Omnibus to and from all VjT Bayles, Proprietor, trains. obtained the grant from the crown), from Hampshire County, England. The former name of the domain was HUMBOLDT. L. BYRNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW.

the country. Uut corn is a very cheap Laconia. Humboldt, Kansas. Vermont 'From the French rcrct monij or green mountain, indicative thing there, almost as profitable to burn in the store as anything most profitable of all to the Railroad Companies who transport it to the eastern markets, and pocket the dividends in New York and Boston. The possession of land is not of much present advantage till a great of the mountainous nature ol the State.

Massachusetts Indian name, sig nifying "the country about the great greatest luxuries of life are among its commonest. A tree planted in the garden, a vine taught to wind deal has been laid out upon it in improvements, and a generation has spent its energies in doveioping the country its tendrils and weave its foliage The tourist who approaches for the first time the Missouri River five hundred miles above its junction, with the Mississippi, finds it difficult to keep his imagination from breaking over the bounds of propriety. He is about to look upon a stream that conveys away the surplus waters of more than half a million square miles of territory waters that have in tortuous course descended an incline whose perpendicular is many thousand feet, and whose base is thousands of miles. But the sight of the river, in the month of August, seriously impedes the flight of the imagination. What you see is a rapid impetuous current, five hundred yards or more in width, a compound of two parts water and one part mud, eddving around shifting Islands of bare sand, bounded by low, long sand bars and moving columns of dust.

Trees, more or less abundant, line the shores at a little distance. But what the river itself lacks in romance, the valley of erosion, which represents its work in times past, supplies. The bluffs on either side of the river bottom, rise from one hundred to three hundred feet above it. The width of the river bottom is from five to twenty miles. From the Missouri line to Sioux City, the channel of the river is near the bluffs on the Nebraska side, while the bluffs on tho Iowa side retreat in magnificent curves, now three, now five, and now ten or mora miles from the present channel.

Nothing can be more picturesque and beautiful than the river from some' of the projecting points of these bluffs. One, for instance, nearly opposite the mouth of the Platte River, Drings before you the silver line of that stream as it comes down far off from the west, and reveals to you the Missouri at a distance so re about the door of a cottage will dif fuse and cheer, and give an air of ge surrounding. The present generation live in small houses, do wholly without nial comfort where everything else may be dreary and even repulsive. TREMONT HOUSE. Charles Apitz, Proprietor.

Accommodations equal to any other house in the city. Stages leaye daily for all parts of the State. Bus to and from all trains. LAWRENCE. FOR SALE.

An improved farm ten miles from Lawrence, one mile from Railroad Station, containing 640 acres of the finest land in the State. Well watered; plenty of timber and No. 1 Stone. About 500 acres under cultivation; well fenced. Four tenement houses.

Corn Cribs to hold 4,000 bushels five good wells, living spring nearly all bottom land. Address MRS. M. M. DEN3IAN, Lawrence, Kansas, GEORGE WELLS PRACTICAL ARCHITECT.

Plans and Specifications furnished on short notice. Public Buildings a specialty. Southeast corner Massachusetts and Henry streets, up stairs. HARRIS, ABRAM3 Sole General Agents Kansas Pacific Railway Lands. 6,000,000 acres for sale, on long time, at from $2.00 to $6.00 per acre.

Land Department. JO. HASKELL, Architect. Will furnish Plans and Specifications for Dwellings, Churches, School Honses, Public Buildings, etc. LAWRENCE SAVINGS BANK, No.

52, Massachusetts street. General Banking and Savings Institution. Collections made on arapoints in Kansas nd Missouri, and remitted for on day of payment. barns, make poor fences at great cost, drive over poor roads in heavy wagons, and make many long circuits in lack of bridges. Those now at tho West, who add to the struggle for existence, the The surroundings of a house often have more to do with its attraction than the interior arrangements.

We all admire a well kept garden, hills." Rhode Island This name was adopted in 1G44 from the Island of Rhodes, in the Mediteranean. Connecticut This is the English orthography of the Indian word Quon-eh-ta-cut, "the long river." New by the Duke of York, under color of the title given him by the English crown in 1664. New Jersey So called in honor of Sir George Carteret, who was Governor of the Island of Jersey, in the British Channel. Pennsylvania From William Penn, meaning "Penn's Woods." Delaware In honor of Thomas West, Lord De-la-ware, who visited the bay and died there in 1610. Maryland After Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles of England.

Virginia So called in honor of Queen Elizabeth, the 'virgin in whose reign Sir Walter Raleigh 4 made the first attempt to colonize that region. 0 North Carolina and South Carolina were originally in one tract, called "Carolana" after Charles the LAND OFFICE OF D. S. 93 Massachusetts-street, up-stairs, does a General Land Agency Business buys and sells Lands on Commission, and direct. For Sale, 10,000 acres Selected Lands, on line of railroad, on time ten annual payments.

Improved Farms and unimproved lands in nearly every county. Selections made for Soldiers, if desired. Charges moderate. MORRIS WHOLESALE DRUG- GISTS, -Manufacture Fer-ro-phcphorated Elixer Calisaya Bark and Iron. Fine burden of maintaining religious institutions, are deserving of high commendation and effective sympathy, notwithstanding their possession 'of so many broad acres.

Home Missionary Societies have reason still to exist, most certainly. Again, the worldliness that prevails at the West is peculiarly stulborn. Those who are disappointed in getting rich suddenly are legion. The farms of such are for sale at any time, that they may follow the retreating sound of speculation to other regions. The permanent class must come, or be made in larger numbers, before the churches can be independent.

As to educationtheirlmbh: Vchool system is good and well carried out in its details. The Christian College is of slower growth. One of the most interesting adjuncts of Christian labor in that region, is at Tabor, in the southwestern county of Iowa. One who had bten a Missionary to tho Indians, and had thus been made acquainted with the re rnarmaceutical Elixers, Extract jra 4 if OTTMAN Sc rOTWIN, MERCHANT TAILORS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods, No. 67 Massachusetts street.

G. L. Ottmax, IIarrt Pot wis. SIMPSON'S BANK, corner Massachusetts andnenry streets. Established in 1858.

JKInterest allowed on time deposits. STATE BANK. Transacts a general banking business. Collections promptly made. Bonds and Securities negotiated.

Accounts of Banks solicited. Reference, National Park Bank, New York. I. W. Johnston, Pres't.

R. G. Jamison, Cashier. NEW CHICAGO. i-IARPENTER Sc.

JONES, Attorneys. spectable, that its waters "shine the sirtrcj clear-as. thosVof Lake George. A series of bare, clean-cut, fantastic buttresses and pinnacles follows the course of an immense "oxbow" in the river bottom that sits inland several miles to the east and terminates in a point, like that on which you stand, eight miles south. Every shade of color which depth of atmosphere can give, and every degree of softness of outline which distance can lend, graces the scene.

Tho retiring outline of a similar "oxbow" brings the eye around to Council Bluffs and Omaha on the north. For a score of miles up and down the river, and two hundred feet below you, stretch the unrivaled corn fields of the bottom lands of the Missouri. Half a score of miles sources of the country, gathered a colo a well trimmed hedge, with fences in good repair, carefully painted. They are not only evidences of thrift and industry, but are of themselves a source of real gratification. On the other hand, a garden allowed to keep itself, grow up with noxious weeds, hedges scraggy, or wanting and tumble down fences, will give an air of dearth and utter discomfort, painful to contemplate or behold.

A little patch devoted to flowers, well cared for, although it may contain no rare plants, no ex-" otics, will enhance the pleasure of any home and impart a feeling of laudable pride to its possessor. Tho family may be poor unable to decorate the walls of the best room with a single picture, but a very little time devoted to the cultivation of a flower garden, will give them a living, variegated picture, as grand and beautiful as ever was limned by a master genius of pallet and brush. The cultivation of flowers is a recreation and a positive pleasure for both sexes, not to mention its hy-gean effects. We often notice the wide contrast between two homes, equal in situation and natural advantages. One is the type of ease and comfort the other cheerless and neglected.

When we look for the difference, we find it is simply this, the owner of the one has paid attention to these little arrangements which give it an air of a true home, while the owner of the other has neglected them, and closed his eyes to the fact, that the care and improvement of things trivial in themselves, gives the greatest effect and is in reality the highest art of improvement. Make home beautiful. It is at home we are to find happiness, if at all, and the feeling that our houses have much in and about them that is attractive, will never impair our sense of satisfaction. If we have the means at our command, a few good pictures should find a place on the walls. A fine picture has an influence of its own.

Books are 4 always attractiveand a judicious se T. C. JONES. JNO. C.

CARPENTER. PARSONS. L. WILLIAMS, M. D.

Office, Atchison and Wheat's. below the river, rises the smoke of trains upon the Pacific Railroad. Into the centre of the on either COOK Jb SNOWDOWN, Wholesale and Retail Grocers; Coffees and Teas, Fine Old Bourbon Whiskies, Wines, Ac Depot east of the Post Office. CITY TOBACCO STORE. Fine Imported Havana Cisrars.

Best brand of chewing and smoking tobacco. 'Deals exclusively in tobacco. Wholesale and retail. Call at the Big ripe Store, kept by B. B.

Meisse, opposite postoffice. side, and from down the river, and from far up it, come heavily laden trains of cars from Chicago and St. Louis, to ny of devoted Christians and went there to settle twenty years ago. They consecrated their energies to the work of laying the foundations of a Christian College. A colony on the border of Missouri at that time, that was anti-slavery and anti-rum stood in no danger of incurring tho curse pronounced on those of whom all men speak well.

But their continued exhibition of piety, wisdom and tenacity of purpose, has had abundant fruit and demonstrated their right to live, and their necessity to the country. Their colony is in pleasing contrast with the general worldliness in new countries. Their church has grown without Missionary aid, till it now numbers two hundred and fifty. Their school has grown by natural steps into a college, with fifteen or twenty in the college classes, and a hundred and fifty, or more, in the preparatory department. Tho colonists themselves have given forty thousand dollars towards its endowment, and others have helped half as much more.

It is essentially without competition, with a population of three C. WARD, ATTORNEY, connect with the great thoroughfare on Parsons, Kansas. the other side. V. I it 1 it There are unmistakable signs that FIRST NATIONAL BANK.

A. D. Jatxss, Pres't, Cashier. Authorized Capital, Capital Paid up, $50,000.00. Collections made on all points this region, extending seventy-five miles in Kansas and Missouri and remitted for on day of each side of the river from Kansas City to Sioux City, was covered by the wa ter of a lake that came into existance subsequent to the glacial epoch.

The payment. GABRIEL KENNEDY, Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Smith's Drag Store, No. 4 Johnson. GO TO HAYES 3c PIERSON for Books, periodicals, Stationery, Toys and Holiday Goods Crockery and Xucensware, Tobacco and Fine Cigars.

Post Office building. lacustrine deposit is identical in compo- smon wun me present sediment oi tne 11 luissouri principally smca so finely comminuted as to produce no feel ARRY LEE GOSLING, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Parsons, Kansas. ing of grit when rubbed between the oi trance, in ioim. ouuse-quently, in 1605, the name was altered to Carolina. Georgia So called in honor of George of England.

Florida Ponce de Leon, who discovered this portion of North America in 1512, named it Florida in commemoration of the day he landed there, which was the pas- quas de Flores of the Spaniards, or "Feast of Flowers." Alabama Admitted into the Union as a State in 1810. The name is of Indian origin, signifying "here we rest." Mississippi So named in 1800 from the great river on the western line. The term is of Indian origin, meaning "long river." Louisiana From Louis XlV.j of France, who, prior to 1703t owned the territory. ArJcansas From "Kansas," the Indian word for "smoky water," with the French prefix "arc," bow. Tennessee Indian for "the river of the big bend," i.

the Mississippi, its western boundary. Kentucky Indian, for "at the head of the river." Ohio From the Indian, meaning: "beautiful." Michigan Previously applied to the lake, the Indian name for a fish wier, from the fancied resemblance of the lake to a fish trap. Indiana Bo called in 1812, from, the American Indians. Ulino is From the Indian "illini," men, and the French sufiix together signifying "tribe of Wisconsin -Indian term for "wild rushing channel." Missouri Named in 1821, from the great branch of the Mississippi which flows through it. Indian term, meaning "muddy." Iowa From the Indian, signify- ing "the drowsy ones." Minnesota Indian for "cloudy water." California The name given by.

Cortes, the discoveror of that region. He obtained it from an old Spanish romance, in which an imaginary Island of that name is described as abounding in gold. Oregon According to some, from the Indian Oregon, "river of the west." Others considered it derived from the Spanish "oregano," wild marjoram, which grows abundantly on the Pacific coast. fingers. It lies all over the space indi hundred thousand, within a radius of fOE.

M. KLEISER, M. D. I Office over First National Bank, Parsons, Kas. cated above, from fifty to two hundred feet above the drift.

A striking pecu JW. RHODUS, Dealers in Dry Goods, Gro-. ccries, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Ac, No. 7 Johnson-avenue East. one hundred miles.

It has developed with the country, and has a guarantee of its future, the wisdom, watchfulness and prayers of one of the most interesting communities I ever visited. Its lected stocks hould be found in every uarity oi mis soil, ana one mat is a condition of securing such fantastic variety in the contour of the bluffs, is its home they are an ornament alike MOORE, Undertaker and Dealer in all kinds of to the mansion of the wealthy, and tl Furniture. Repairing neatly and promptly doae. Coffins and Metalic Burial Cases. love for perpendicular attitudes, (I have work would be more satisfactory if the cottage of the poor; Music, no more scientific name for it).

too, has its charms, and we are glad to reflect that few homes are now Tho inhabitants dig wells fifty or a hun JG. PARKHURST, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR at Law, Notary Public and Conveyancer. Office up stairs, corner of Riggs and Forest-avenues. Has a large experience and a professional record nnassailed. deprived of its elevating strains.

dred feet deep, with no more formidable tool than the shovel and the shaft keeps The care we take of our domestic retreats, and the improvements we make in them, will yield a rich re its position for years without curb or wall. When exposed to the outside ir this soil becomes fruitful, from whatever somebody would give it enough to endow two new and add to its building fund a few thousand dollars. The colony could then carry on its work advantageously for some years, till its numerous friends in that region become forehanded enough to help it and the community better able to help itself. Certainly, such a school with such a patronage, ought not to be lost sight of in such a central region as "TT1NNEDY, SMITH lvery, Feed and Sale JV Stable, Belmont-avenue, West of the Depot. LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS, Blinds, at the Lowest Cash Prices.

Also. Hydraulic Cement. A. C. CALKINS CO.

depth it is taken. turn for all our time expense, not only in our own lives and conditions, but in those of our children. This much has been said about the physical peculiarities of the country, PARSONS HOUSE. MERRIT NO YES, Proprietor. Passengers and Baggage conveyed to and from all trains, free of charge.

An attractive home is one of the safeguards that can be thrown that we may better appreciate its moral A visit to so new a region can not fail ana intellectual wants. JLne nonness and depth of the soil, its freedom from RM. DONLEY, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Parsons, Kansas. of impressing one with a keener sense of the effects of drouth, the abundant rail the blessings we enjoy from the accumu road and river-communications with the RP. DIES' MEAT MARKET.

Have a fine refrige- rator. Meats always sweet and fresh. Riggs avenue. lation of capital and the inheritance of around the young. Its remembrance is to them1 a shild and an influence which cannot be easily superceded by evil and when long and busy years have passed, its sweet memories still come back to us with the freshness of a Summer morning, and like a star in the blue ether of heaven east, south and west, are drawing population with wonderful rapidity.

Its PATRICK, DEALER IN SHELF AND OTHER Hardware, Saddles, Harness, Johnson settled ways in the Eastern State. It is no time for priest or people to go West. Those who go there labor for its future and not for themselves. They central position with reference to the fu avenue. ture, enhances the importance of the Christian work that is done there now.

are living in small houses that their chil For twenty years, or more, an eddying dren may live in larger ones. but gentle current of population has SUTER Jfc Undertakers and Furniture Dealers, Self Sealing Cases. Johnson-avenue. SETTLERS' STORE. Groceries, Provision and Country Produce.

Goods delivered free of charge. Johnson Kelly, Johnson-avenue. WC. HOLMES, PHARMACEUTIST and dealer in Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Oils, Paints, Depot on Forest-avenue east of Post Office. been setting inland from both sides of the river.

The recent completion of shed upon us a mild and chastened light. Rockland (Maine) Gazette, Success don't consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same oyer the second time. Billings. Read, then hand the Enterprise to your neighbor, and ask him to send his name and address, with one dollar to Cory Knapp, Parsons, Kansas. railroads from the east, brings in now, a more permanent class of settlers than.