Hetrick Theater and the Chanute Oil Boom
Fred Het rich, a Warren County Indiana farmer, built a renowned opera house in Chanute as oil and gas rights surged in Allen County. The Hetrick farm yielded wells for I N Knapp who financed the venture. Het rich’s royalties climbed past seven hundred dollars monthly, funding a landmark theatre and a prosperous life for the couple.
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Chanute
Hetrick
Knapp’s
Mid- Continent
Kansas
Fred Hetmonth
Monthrich
Warren
County
Indiana
Neosho River
Here
Allen County
I. N. Knapp
Philadelphia
Knapp
Fred Hetrick's city holdings and river island land
The text notes Fred Hetrick invested in local property including a three story lot at Evergreen and Main with his initials F. H. above the proscenium after a decorator opposed placing his full name. He also bought 518 acres of river island land that his wife and he worked a full day on.
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Evergreen
Main
Hetrick
Fred
F. H
Grist Mill at Austin and the Theater Bond Debacle
A local history notes the Grist Mill at Austin signing bonds to guarantee a $60,000 theater debt, pledging all they owned except the home. Oil prices fell, wells were abandoned, and creditors foreclosed. The Hetricks left for Mexico after financial ruin and a major fire at the theater in July 1925.
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Minnie Carter
The
Tribune
Austin
Neosho River
Hetrick
Chanute
Mexico
Austin on the Neosho River a vanished pioneer hamlet
A Kansas Neosho River hamlet near Chanute named Austin once had five houses a grist mill and a rock dam. A pioneer girl watched the water power the mill before floods and time erased the buildings leaving only stepping stones.
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Neosho River
Chanute
Austin
Urban river town recalls artist’s trees and dwindling population
The fragment recalls Urbana once hosting trees for an artist with his brush and a pallet to paint in 1979. By two years later the town’s population had fallen, leaving only the river and the inhabitants.
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Urbana
Stark and Kimball Founded in 1888 in Grant township
Stark and Kimball, both in Grant township, were established in 1888. Kimball was platted as Dalton but the railroad station and post office were named Kimball. Stark’s plat was filed July 27, 1888, and Shaw was laid out with a post office opened September 1, 1885.
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Stark
Kimball
Grant Township
Dalton
Shaw
Light on Voting Is By Kerosene Light in Ohio
In Pomeroy Meigs County Ohio residents recall kerosene lamp voting in the 1960 presidential election. An abandoned one room schoolhouse served as a polling place since 1926. A new township hall several miles north will host future elections with Mrs Orville Rhodes as presiding judge cleaning the old building for each vote.
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Barston
Pomeroy, Ohio
Meigs County
Orville Rhodes
Break-ins Hit Frank's Handi Grocery In Groton
Thieves target Frank's Handi Grocery in Groton for the 15th time in eight years. Loot consists mainly of grocery items, marking the ongoing pattern of break ins at the store.
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Groton, Genn
Frank
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Dell Reed
Bob Williams
Con- Stockade
Hetrick Theater
Famous Playhouse
the Tribune
ALF Krone
N. Evergreen
B. F. Goodrich
Dale's Skelly Service
Dale Stemple - Owner
W. Main
Bank OF Commerce
Bank of Commerce of
State of
S. A. Lyon
M. T
MR. L. S
Smokey" Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Katy Park
Chanute, Kansas
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Stark and Kimball
News - Standard
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