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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 2014
Page
11
A historic snow event left the town buried under three to fifteen foot drifts, halting business yet sparing serious damage or cold-related suffering. Notable residents and laborers helped shove out, restoring coal, groceries, and daily routines as cattle recover from a prior cold snap and oilcake feeding aids morale.
Dr. B J Patterson leads plans for a August motorcycle run described as a press agent stunt for the town. One Velie truck will transport camp gear as 200 runners journey through Scott Colby Cheyenne Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and Canon with a pathfinding book and public interest in multiple events and races.
Garden City lists achievements and projects over the last two years including road building, railroads, free mail delivery, library funding, park system, farmers institute, Chautauqua assemblies, poultry shows, street lighting, a beet pulp plant, broom factory, public building authorization, county road through the Santa Fe Trail, oiling roads, hosting associations, two show exhibits, a Methodist church, local offices, and a thriving experiment station with rising appropriations plus Boy Scouts. It also notes a Welcome Arch and a dinner for 500 Finney county farmers and the creation of a county highway engineer, with irrigation expansion and pumping plants. WHAT GARDEN CITY NEEDS NOW includes sewer, soft water, paved Main Street, a concrete bridge, better fire equipment, a city building, Masonic temple, and more irrigation projects.
Walter Munsey, a well known resident south of the hills, had both feet and several fingers amputated at Helwig hospital after severe cold during the holiday storm. He braved 2 foot snow to reach Garden City for provisions and fuel to save his family. Captain Holmes organized aid raising about 50 dollars, with more expected. Finnup has written the Carnegie Commission about the case.
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