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While many details of value might be added, these larger general interests may be considered as furnishing the basis of growth of this beautiful and promising region of the "Land of the White Earth." To conclude this chap- ter we add a tabulation of the estimated products in the great lines in industry at the date of this work, given in part by State Bureau of Statistics.
Output of Kittitas County in leading industries, 1917 :
Coal, 1,500,000 tons.
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Precious metals, many thousand dollars, but no definite estimate by bureau. Agricultural and horticultural products :
Amounts in Bushels
Value
Wheat
86,000
$ 165,980
Oats
280,000
226,800
Barley
30,000
34,500
Corn
9,500
15,390
Potatoes
296,730
272,920
Fruit
250,000
Sugar beets (tons)
3,169
31,690
Hay (tons)
75,000
1,200,000
Wool (pounds)
500,000
160,000
Lumber (feet)
12,000,000
240,000
Live stock
250,000
Total, approximate estimate
$8,000,000
The estimate for 1918 is not complete at date of writing, but it is known that the wheat crop has enormously increased, being estimated at 636,765 bushels, worth $1,400,000.
It is of course to be remembered that Kittitas County has never been a grain country.
It is probable that the value of the output of the county for 1918 will total more than $9,000,000, an immense sum for a population estimated on July 1, 1917, at 25,027. By far the largest item is coal and the next is hay.
Perhaps nothing in the history of Kittitas County has ever been more pleasing or has more distinctly illustrated the varied character of the interests and industries of the people than the leading position awarded to the county at the Northwestern Industrial Exposition at Spokane in October, 1890.
The fact that this exhibit came so early in the history of the county makes it the more impressive in comparison with the present-day statistics just given. It may be added that at the time of the Northwestern Industrial Expo- sition, Kittitas County had already held four county fairs at Ellensburg. The exhibit at Spokane was thus tabulated in the "Register":
THE KITTITAS EXHIBITS
AT THE NORTHWESTERN INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION-KITTITAS COUNTY LEADS ALL OTHERS AND BRINGS HOME A RECORD TO BE PROUD OF
Advance sheets of the official report of the Northwestern Industrial Expo- sition management have been kindly forwarded by Mr. C. W. Robinson, gen- eral manager. The report upon Kittitas County's exhibit opens as follows : "Attention was drawn to the exhibit of Kittitas County more than that of any other exhibit, owing no doubt to the diversity of the resources and the attrac- tions which were daily offered by Mr. H. C. Walters. Taken as a whole the display was wonderful, showing that almost everything can be raised in Kittitas County."
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The following is an itemized statement of the exhibit prepared by H. C. Walters :
Kittitas County, central county in the state of Washington, aptly termed "staple," "prolific" and "diversified Kittitas," exhibits as follows:
THRESHED GRAIN
Little Club wheat. 50 bushels per acre; Blue Stem wheat, 50 bushels per acre : Russian side oats, 60 bushels per acre : Chevalier barley, 60 bushels per acre. The average yield of these crops throughout the entire county, year in and year out, being stated at wheat 30, oats 45, and barley, 40 bushels per acre.
GRAIN AND GRASSES IN SHEAF
Wheat, 41/2 inch heads ; oats, 15 inch heads; barley, 4 inch heads; timothy, 8 inch heads : Hungarian millet, 14 inch heads ; rye grass (native), 10 feet tall.
VEGETABLES
Potatoes-Weight 21/2 pounds each ; usual crop 350 to 500 bushels per acre. Onions-Weight 2 to 23/4 pounds each ; usual crop 300 to 500 bushels per acre. Beets-(Red table), weight 15 pounds each ; a prolific annual product.
Squash-(Three varieties), 20 to 45 pounds each; a fine crop: often attain 50 to 90 pounds each.
Beets-(Sugar), weight 20 pounds each. A big certain crop.
Beans-(White Navy and Butter), excellent samples of large annual pro- duction.
Sweet Potatoes-(Yams), 4 specimens, on one root, weighing 7 pounds.
Turnips -- (White), weighing 15 pounds each.
Tomatoes-(Vick's early), excellent samples of a large annual product.
Carrots, Parsnips and Rutabagas-Fine samples of large annual yield.
MISCELLANEOUS
Baled Hay-Samples of 1,000 ton crop, cut and stacked in three weeks on the famous "Bull" hay ranch ; average yield 11/2 tons per acre.
Timothy Seed-Plump, bright seed ; a sample of one of the favorite local productions.
FRUITS
Peaches-Five varieties, many weighing one-half pound each and repre- senting a yield of 3, 4 and 5 year old trees.
Pears-Four varieties, of fine appearance and flavor, weighing one-half to 1 pound each.
Plums-Three varieties, of luscious color and flavor.
Prunes-Silver, German and Italian varieties, of excellent size and appear- ance.
Grapes-Zinfandel, Riesling, Black Ferret, Black Hamburg, Pinto and other varieties, many specimens being from two year old vines and several from this year's cuttings. All finely flavored, richly colored and full bearing, indicating
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admirable character of the Wenatchee and Columbia river bottoms for vine culture.
Apples-Bell Flower, Blue and White Pyramid, Rhode Island Greening, Yellow Baldwin, Winter Swaugh, Northern Spy, Rambo and other varieties ; large, bright, thin skinned, juicy samples, weighing from one-half to 1 pound each : also common and Siberian crab apples ; a most prolific annual yield.
MISCELLANEOUS
Russian mulberry tree, 2 years old, 15 feet high.
Japanese chestnut tree, 1 year old, 10 feet high.
Apple tree, a root graft, planted in 1889, made five feet and ten inches growth the first year.
Tobacco plant, 45 inches long.
Chestnut burrs, well filled with nuts.
Grape and peach brandy, 90 degrees proof.
Corn, sweet and field; many well filled ears, measuring 10 to 13 inches long and 8 inches around : also two varieties of pop corn.
Note-While all staple grains, grasses, vegetables and hardy fruits are from the general agricultural area of Kittitas County, peaches, grapes, sweet potatoes and the larger samples of corn are from the lowlands bordering upon the Wenat- chee and Columbia Rivers.
MINERALS
Nuggets of native gold from John Black's mine in the Swauk placer mines 25 miles north of Ellensburg, contributed by Ben. E. Snipes & Company, bank- ers, weighing as follows :
No. 1, weight 14 oz., 13 pwts., 10 grains ; value, $325.
No. 2, weight 8 oz., 9 pwts., 12 grains ; value, $135.60.
No. 3, weight 6 oz., 18 pwts., 4 grains ; value $110.55.
No. 4, weight 3 oz., 2 pwts., 2 grains ; value $49.66.
No. 5, weight 3 oz., 7 pwts., 3 grains : value $53.70.
No. 6, weight 2 oz., 18 pwts. ; value $46.40.
No. 7, small nuggets ; value $39.70.
No. 8, two balls retort gold ; value $48.80.
These specimens of native gold were washed from a gravel deposit which employs annually an increased number of miners and has yielded to date $175,000 in coarse gold.
Gold brick from George W. Seaton's "Gold Leaf" quartz mine in the same mining district taken from 1 ton of quartz; weight $38.00.
Also beautiful specimens of native gold in form of fern leaves.
Gold quartz from the "Humming Bird," "Culver," (or Shaffer) "Pole Pick," "Golden Phoenix," and other mines in the Peshastin mining district, 38 miles north of Ellensburg.
Average working value $20 per ton in free gold and ten per cent. of aurif- erous pyrites worth $175 per ton. Total average working value $37.50 in gold
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per ton. Veins regular and massive, ranging from ten to fifteen feet between walls.
Gold-bearing quartz from the same district-Sybil mine-showing consid- erable free gold and high grade gold sulphurets. A recent discovery of excellent size and general characteristics.
Asbestos, white, silken fibred, from a recent discovery in the same district. An extensive belt of parallel veins or seams (not yet determined fully which), each 18 to 24 inches in width.
Copper ore, "Glance," showing native copper, the outcrop of the "Kelly," a recent discovery in same district; massive vein.
Gold and silver ores from the "Silver Dump," "Silver King," "Madeline," "Aurora," "Mountain Sprite," "Bald Eagle," "Ida Elmore," "Fortune," "Cle- Elum" and "Hawk" mines, in the Cle-Elum district, 45 to 50 miles north of Ellensburg, and twenty-two to thirty miles north of the towns of Cle-Elum and Roslyn. These properties are in various degrees of development from mere pros- pects to very fairly determined propositions. The ore bodies are large and well mineralized. The assay values range from $30 to $45 per ton.
Copper silver ores, copper glance, black oxide and copper pyrites from the "Bullion," "Copper Head," numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; "Bob Tail," "Silver Bow" and "Copper Bottom." These copper veins are very strong and well defined. Development includes a 120 foot shaft and numerous drifts.
Copper bullion, a bar of copper weighing three-fourths of a pound, melted in Ellensburg sampling works from two pounds of ore ; labeled, "Entire Copper Product of State for 1890. Watch the Industry Grow."
Copper-Silver ores, assay values are from $30 to $80 copper and from $15 to $60 gold and silver per ton.
Iron ores, red and brown hematite, magnetic, limonite and red oxide from the different massive iron veins included in a great iron belt, extending from the southern to the northern boundaries of Kittitas County, parallel with and crossing the Yakima and Cle Elum rivers, near the town of Cle Elum. These ores carry 40 to 69 per cent. of metallic iron ore, remarkably free from sulphur and phosphorus.
An abundance of fine "Bessemer" ores are obtainable at several central points of development. Among the samples exhibited were blocks of iron ore weighing from 500 to 5,700 pounds each ; also two lumps of magnetic ore, which by their extremely powerful "lode-stone" properties attracted a great deal of attention. The iron product of Kittitas County as indicated by the samples, is most remarkably abundant and highly diversified.
LIME
Samples of pure lime, also several fine fluxing limes and most curious stalag- mites resembling huge mushrooms, or other fungus growth, were included in the exhibit and represented the various large lime deposits discovered in the several iron, copper and coal fields of Kittitas County.
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COAL
Semi-bituminous gas and steam coal from the great Cle Elum coal fields. A block of this coal contributed by the Northern Pacific Coal Company from mine No. 2 at Roslyn, was a leading feature of the exposition. This monster black diamond measured 21/2 by 4 by 12 feet and weighed 9,500 pounds. Over 375,000 tons of coal were shipped from these mines in 1890. The product in September, 1890, was 40,140 tons and the output will be steadily increased in response to continually growing demand. Over 1,000 men are employed directly or indirectly by this infant industry. Samples of excellent coal were also included from several discoveries in the Wenatchee region.
BRICK AND CLAYS
Fine red and white brick made from clays abounding in the Kittitas and Wenatchee valleys. Also several varieties of untested clays.
CURIOS
An ordinary coal mining pick, being the first regulation pick employed in the Roslyn coal fields, was profusely decorated with ribbons and attracted much attention, as the simple instrument that had prepared the way for the employ- ment of thousands of people in Kittitas County.
NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS
The names of contributors and their addresses, in so far as obtainable, are as follows :
Wenatchee Postoffice-Philip Miller, Jacob Shotwell, George Miller, W. J. Gray, James Turner, W. H. Brownlow, Edward Hinman, Charles B. Reed, T. J. Graves, Jacob Bolenbaugh, Gardner & Stewart, C. Roose, John Galler, George Parrish.
Colocken Postoffice-Edward Cook.
Cle Elum Postoffice-Walter J. Reed, John Lynch, E. P. Boyle, Brannan & Thomas and other citizens.
Roslyn Postoffice-North Pacific Coal Company.
Ellensburg Postoffice-E. Messerly, John Amlin, John Catlin, A. Stevens, J. D. Damman, J. Amlin, Father Taylor, J. M. Hatfield, P. H. Schnebly, Jacob Salladay, Walter Bull, W. H. Stoddard, L. Klein, Emerson & Burch, William Donahue, Dalton & Lindsey, Jessie McDonald, F. N. McCandless, Walters & Co., Leonhard & Ross, A. A. Meade and others.
A photograph of the fine public school building, under construction at Ellensburgh, to cost fifty thousand dollars, was also displayed.
In awarding premiums the exposition committee decided that Kittitas County was entitled to receive the gold medal and silk banner for the best combined mineral and agricultural display made by any county. Also that for the greatest variety of natural resources our county should receive the magnifi- cent mountain sheep head offered by Mr. J. H. Friedlander, of Wilbur .- Wash- ington State Register, November 28.
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THE FIRST PIG IRON
In order to demonstrate that pig iron can be made in Ellensburg and to determine the requisite fluxing material, a trial run was made at the Cornth- waite foundry, on Tuesday. Kittitas County iron ore and lime stone was used. The experiment was a decided success, a high grade of pig iron being the result. In a few days another run will be made, and in the light of experience gained, a fine lot of iron will be produced. All of the materials necessary to the up- building of the great iron industries are directly tributary to Ellensburgh, and such practical demonstrations will do much toward their early establishment here .- "Washington State Register," November 28th.
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CHAPTER III
THE CITY OF ELLENSBURG
FIRST SETTLEMENT, LAYING OUT OF TOWNSITE AND CHARTER-YEARS OF EARLY GROWTH-ADVERTISEMENTS AND EXTRACTS FROM "KITTITAS STANDARD" OF JULY, 1883, INCLUDING "DIRECTORY," EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS-POEM, "KITTITAS VALLEY"-ELLENSBURGH DESCRIBED, DECEMBER, 1883-FIRST T INGS IN ELLENSBURG --- C RISTMAS TREE AND SUNDRY SOCIAL EVENTS, 1883-CITY CHARTER-AN ACT TO INCORPORATE. ELLENSBURGH, ETC .- THE "STANDARD" SKETCHES ELLENSBURGH IN 1885-ITEMS FROM "LOCALIZER," APRIL, 1889-QUARTERLY APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL MONEY, APRIL, 1889 -- FIRE OF JULY 4, 1889-BUSINESS FAILURES-THE WATER QUESTION-EDI- TORIAL ON CITY WATER SUPPLY-CITY GOVERNMENT-MAYOR'S MESSAGE --- MAYORS AND CLERKS, 1886 TO 1918-CAUCUS FOR CITY OFFICERS, NOVEMBER 5, 1918.
The chief city of the Kittitas Valley is so intimately related to the county in history and present conditions that in some degree the county history already given anticipates many things which might be written of the city. It will be our endeavor in this chapter to present such facts as belong to the history of Ellensburg in its municipal organization and development, reserving for later chapters the important topics of the newspapers, schools, churches and societies of various sorts.
FIRST SETTLEMENT, LAYING OUT OF TOWNSITE, AND CHARTER
The first settler on the location of Ellensburg was William Wilson, com- monly known as "Bud" Wilson. From the records handed down from that early period by A. J. Splawn and others in book and paper and from the remembrances of the earliest comers it would seem that this first settler was hardly a real settler, certainly not a builder in any true sense. He seems to have been simply a renegade, consorting with the Indians and finally losing his life in connection with too close an attachment to some other man's horses. Wilson came to the site of Ellensburgh in 1868, and a little later in the same year Frederick Ludi, who with Jacob Goller had lived the previous Winter on the Manashtash, came to the same location and found Wilson there with the Indians. The location was such, both in respect to the valley itself and the river and the ingress and egress each way, as to make that location almost necessarily the site of the future city. Besides the natural conveniences and the surpassing beauty of the spot, of which the hill, known later as Craig's Hill, was a con- spicuous feature, there was a spring back of the subsequent location of Shoudy's house, between Third and Fourth streets, and Main and Water streets.
Wilson had a rough log cabin, and when in 1869, A. J. Splawn, then hardly more than a boy, came to revisit the valley through which he had driven cattle some years earlier, and led no doubt by the location on the Taneum of his
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brother Charles and F. M. Thorp with his family, saw the spot selected by Wilson for that first cabin on the site of Ellensburg, he decided at once that there would be a natural location for a trading post. There was much move- ment to and fro by cattlemen, prospectors and Indians, and right there the adventurous cowboy decided was the place to make a stake. In 1870 Mr. Splawn bought out Wilson, finished the cabin, and started a post. Mr. Splawn gives in "Kamiakin, the Last Hero of the Yakimas," an entertaining account of his settling at that place and how the name "Robbers' Roost" came to be at- tached. It seems that J. W. Gillespie was responsible for that not very inviting name. Coming along one day he asked the youthful proprietor if he did not want a sign. Upon acquiescence to the suggestion, Gillespie proceeded to make the picturesque and alliterative one which stuck so well on the popular tongue both for the store and the place that it lasted for several years. The location was near where the Rex Hotel is now, near Main and Third streets.
"Jack" Splawn, full of life and movement, was too active to be tied down to a single spot and soon tired of the store business. In 1871 John A. Shoudy of Seattle appeared in the valley. He too perceived the adaptability of the location for the center of what was obviously going to be a rich and attractive country. He soon induced the tradesman, who was only too glad of a chance to get back on the range, to sell out to him. As Mr. Splawn says, he sold his store and threw in the claim.
Mr. Shoudy enlarged the building, brought in a new stock of goods and became the "Father" of Ellensburg. A man named Cooper hauled in from The Dalles the first wagon load of merchandise for Shoudy's store. In 1872 the pioneer merchant built a new building, the first frame building in the town. In 1875 Mr. Shoudy laid out on his claim the "original town of Ellensburgh." The plat embraced eighty acres and derived its name from Ellen, Mr. Shoudy's wife. The final h of the name was retained till 1894 when the post office depart- ment dropped it.
The plat of Mr. Shoudy's eighty acres was recorded in the names of John A. and Mary Ellen Shoudy on July 20, 1875.
It embraced twenty-four blocks on the west half of the northeast quarter of section two, township seventeen north, range eighteen east, Willamette base and meridian. There were seven streets running east and west, and those received the numbers from one to seven. The streets running north and south were Water, Main, Pearl, and Pine. Block 8 was set aside for a courthouse location, and block 14 for a park. From a map kindly furnished the author by Mr. Gerrit d'Ablaing and dates derived from the records, it appears that the following additions have been platted: Shoudy's first addition, January 13. 1882; an addition by George F. Smith and wife and Jefferson Smith, October 3, 1883 : Shoudy's second addition, August 11, 1885 ; Homestead addition, Decem- ber 22, 1887 : Hick's, March 22, 1888: Elliott's, 1888; Shoudy's third, June 13. 1888: Sunnyside, June 13, 1888; South Ellensburgh, June 21, 1888; Tacoma. June 24, 1888: Depot, July 27, 1888; Railroad first, October 5, 1888; Railroad second, November 21, 1888; Sunny Slope, January 7, 1889; Grandview, Jan- uary 15, 1889; Santa Anna, February 6, 1889; Michel's first, February 14, 1889; Michel's second. February 23, 1889; Smithson's, February 27, 1889; Central.
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF ELLENSBURG ABOUT 1889
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March 21, 1889; Electric, April 10, 1889; Shoudy's subdivision, April 15, 1889; Columbia, June 3, 1889; Becker's, August 31, 1889; Lapointe's first, April 9, 1890; Ames', May 26, 1890; Knox and McIntyre's, November 12, 1890; Lee's subdivision, August 28, 1891 ; Iron Works Annex, October 3. 1891. It appears that of the twenty-nine additions recorded, twenty were recorded in 1888 and 1889. Those were the great "boom" years.
YEARS OF EARLY GROWTH
The period of the first four years after the platting of the town was one of slow growth. In 1878, seven years after Mr. Shoudy's arrival and three after the platting of the townsite, there was but a small group of business places. These were grouped around the crossing of Main and Third streets. They consisted of the store of Shoudy & Stewart, Jewett's saloon, Becker's blacksmith shop, a hotel conducted by Mrs. James Masterson, the post office and a "hall" in Shoudy's store. There were a few residences. In 1879 A. A. Bell and H. M. Bryant started a store in the old building which had been built the previous year during the scare from the Moses Indians. Hence that store was often referred to as the "Stockade Store."
Later in 1879 a more ambitious mercantile establishment was started by Leopold Blumauer on Main and Fourth streets. That building is still in exist- ence. T. F. Meagher and J. H. Smithson started a butcher shop the same year.
Beginning in 1883 there was rapid growth. On June 16th of that year the first newspaper, that vital necessity of any growing town, was launched.
There had been a little type-written sheet of a few copies called the "Kitti- tas Wau Wau," which contained news and advertisements and must be ac- corded the credit of preparing the way, but it could scarcely be called a news- paper. The first real paper was the "Kittitas Standard," managed and edited by Richard V. Chadd, formerly of the "Yakima Record."
We speak of the "Standard" as a pioneer paper in the chapter on The Press, and are introducing it here in order to present some extracts, advertise- ments, news items, and some editorial comments, as casting light on the Ellens- burgh of the summer of 1883. From the "Standard" of July 14th we draw the following announcement of its own business, with a directory of state and county officers and the arrivals and departures of the mails :
From the "Kittitas Standard," July 14, 1883: THE KITTITAS STANDARD Published By THE STANDARD PUBLISHING CO.
RICHARD V. CHADD, General Manager.
THE KITTITAS STANDARD is published every Saturday at the following rates, payment invariably in advance :
One year $3.00
Six months 1.50
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Three months 1.00
Legal advertising, $1.50 per square for the first insertion,' and 50 cents each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertisements same as legal.
Local notices inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line. No local notice given short of 50 cents.
Ordinary business advertisements will be charged at the following rates: One inch, one month $1.50
Two inches, one month 2.50
One-fourth column, one month 4.50
One-half column, one month
7.00
One column, one month
12.00
All bills payable monthly.
STANDARD DIRECTORY
TERRITORIAL OFFICERS
Delegate to Congress, Thomas H. Brents.
Governor, William A. Newell.
Secretary, N. H. Owings.
Marshal, Chas. B. Hopkins.
U. S. Attorney, John B. Allen.
Auditor, Thomas R. Reed.
Treasurer, Frank Tarbell.
Surveyor-General, Wm. McMicken.
Judge First Judicial District, S. C. Wingard.
Judge Second Judicial District, John Hoyt.
Judge Third Judicial District, R. S. Greene.
Register U. S. Land Office, R. B. Kinnie.
Receiver U. S. Land Office, J. M. Adams.
COUNTY OFFICERS
Representative, J. A. Shoudy.
Prosecuting Attorney, R. O. Dunbar.
Probate Judge, I. A. Navarre.
Auditor, S. T. Munson.
Sheriff, J. J. Tyler. Treasurer, J. A. Splawn.
Superintendent of Schools, Ella S. Stair. County Surveyor, T. H. Look.
Commissioners, D. Murray, J. W. Masters and S. R. Geddis- J. W. Masters, Chairman.
Clerk of District Court, R. G. O'Brien.
Coroner, W. F. Morrison.
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ELLENSBURGH POSTOFFICE
The mails arrive as follows : From The Dalles daily, Sunday excepted, at 6 p. m. From Yakima, Selah and Natches, daily, at 6 p. m. From Milton, Tuesdays, at 12 o'clock m.
The mails depart as follows: For The Dalles daily, Sunday excepted, at 6 a. m. For Yakima, Selah and Natches, daily, at 6 a. m.
For Milton, Tuesdays, at 12 m.
Mail closes at 30 minutes before departure of mails.
No registering done after 5 p. m.
Registering on Sundays only while the office is open.
The office will be open two hours on Sundays-from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. No mail delivered on that day except while the office is open.
JOHN A. SHOUDY, P. M.
Perhaps more history can be found in contemporary advertising than in some more formal and ambitious types of writing. To oldtimers, especially, the following extracts from the advertising columns of that issue of the "Stand- ard" will be both interesting and amusing :
July 14, 1883. 1883
1883
Attention Attention Attention
THOMAS JOHNSON
Wholesale and retail dealer in General Merchandise
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