GREENWOOD COUNTY, KANSAS 1881 Gazetter and Business Directory Fall River Upon the line of the Kansas division of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, in the county of Greenwood, in Kansas, is a station known as Fall River. Its first settlement was in December, 1879, and during a period of only fifteen months it received a population of about 300. Its educational and religious interest are engaging the attention of its people, and the construction of a school building and churches will soon be accomplished. It has already a Masonic and Odd Fellows hall, and a lodge of each of these orders. That town is progressive and earnest, and will secure the prominence it deserves. Bulkley George, postmaster Beard A. S., harnessmaker Canyer D. N., wagonmaker Crow J. H., merchant Edmiston J. M., merchant Foster & Ravenscroft, merchants Gardiner William, merchant Keen E. L., merchant Lloyd J. J., furniture Marr William, wagonmaker Mitchell J. F., railroad agent Parton W. H., notary public Pellet Miss Lizzie, milliner Push & Taylor, physicians Ramig Bros., merchants Ritz & Putnam, merchants SEVERY That town is one of sudden and surprising growth, only found in the great West. Its first settlement dates in February, 1880, and its population is already about 500. These marvels of progress and development show the energies and capabilities of a people who are aided by a sectino of country of great fertility and production. In that section of Kansas, whenever the hand of industry touches the virgin soils they yield abundantly, and towns spring into existence with a rapidity that appears, in a recital of their growth, more like imagined places of thrift and enterprise, then the solid and practical realities that tread firmly towards permanence. Already it is an incorporated city of the third class, having a mayor and council and other officers, a public school-house of sufficient dimensions to be used as a public hall, and an average attendance of scholars exceeding 150. it has also two churches, Congregational and Methodist and other religious organizations, one newspaper, the "Pioneer," four hotels and a good representation of mercantile interests, together with the various minor industries. Its situation is in Greenwood County at the intersection of the Kansas division of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway with the Emporia branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, 442 miles from St. Louis. CITY OFFICIALS: R. C. Swegle, mayor; J. Custer, J. W. Carey, H. Maldy, A. R. Tomlinson, J. Evans, councilmen; J. Reed, judge police-court, M. F. Gibson, clerk; B. B. Finch, treasurer; S. Lybarger, postmaster. HOTELS: Wier House, Sherman House, Pacific House, Commercial Hotel Adams J., grain dealer Beecher J. W.,. Coal dealer Bethel G. W., baker and restaurant Black H., grocer Bowlin Bros., livery stable Brown S. A. & Co., coal dealers Brown S. A. & Co., grain, lumber, lime and cement Burrell A. carpenter Butts & Cottrell, livery stable Casner P., tinsmith Clark Bros., drugs Corey & Block, hardware Custer J. C., carpenter Cutter & Clayton, grocers Deford C. H., grocer Deford C. H., saddlery and harness Dittemore & Dunning, millinery Dixon & Tomlinson, blacksmiths and wagonmakers Eagan J. M., railroad agent union depot and express agent Enterkine J., grocer Evans J., hardware Finch B. B., dry goods Johnson J. D., butcher Johnson Mrs. J. D., millinery Kirwin W. H., barber Kohler J., butcher Lang J. M., justice of the peace Lang J. R., physician Lock Rev. J. M., Congregational church Lybarger S., drugs Maloy H., grocer McDonald U. S., physician Meriditt J., carpenter Price I. C., lawyer Ravenscroft R., physician Reford W. W., carpenter Rogers J., carpenter Sanders T. J., furniture Shutz & Gibson, lawyers Small O. V., dry goods Stewart W., saddlery and harness Sunderland J. W.., billiards Swegle R. Z., carpenter White Rev. J. F., Methodist church

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