Stevens Opera House: Garden City landmark and its decline
The article chronicles the Stevens Opera House built in 1886 with 600 seats in Garden City, its architecture, early prominence, and later decline. It traces ownership changes from John A. Stevens to Milwain, Burtis, and Byers, wartime impact, advent of cinema, and eventual razing in 1953 for a JC Penney store, now Stage. Brian Nelson curates related exhibits at Finney County Historical Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Stevens
Ciddie
A. J. Abbot
George
Richard III
Garden City
Windsor Hotel
Main Street
J.A. Stevens
John Stevens
Stevens and Thompson
Chicago
Stevens Opera House
Kansas
Crawford
Topeka
Stevens
George Noble
James Milwain
Albany
N.Y
Milwain
A.H. Burtis
Burtis
Opera House
Lyric Theater
J.B Byers
J.C. Penney
Stage
Brian Nelson
Finney County Historical Museum
Southwestern College
Winfield
Brian
Garden City Sugar Factory to Start Work Next Week
Garden City sugar plant officials announce plans to begin digging October 12 and start operation October 13 with about 200 workers, weather permitting. Beets for the year are contracted on 10,000 acres with an expected yield near 80,000 tons, including beets from multiple counties beyond Finney and Kearny.
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E. Stoeckly
Garden City Company
Stoeckly
Finney and
Kearny
Ford
Pawnee
Gray
Barton
Reno
Edwards
Sedgwick
Finney County
Santa Fe moves freight dock to west of station
E C Hatter reports the freight office will be in the passenger depot by late next week. Work already starts in the men's waiting room to house freight operations while the waiting area shrinks. All Santa Fe business will be in one building with passenger and freight offices connected for efficiency.
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Santa Fe
E.C. Hatter
la Junta
Hatter
Police raid spills beer into sewers at headquarters cleanup
Chief Lee Richardson and officers seized hundreds of gallons of liquor and dozens of bottles from the police station liquor store room in a raid. Officers dumped beer into sewers as they cleared the room while hard liquor remained tied up by court orders and the evidence was disposed of.
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Lee Richardson
Richardson
Trials halted as eight cases await jury in district court
In district court yesterday only one of eight jury trials heard before a verdict was reached. Most cases were continued to January or later in the term. Judge H E Walter told jurors to return Monday for civil cases and that many criminal matters would be carried over.
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H.E. Walter
George L. Green
Charles C. Lewis
Edward B. Kellar
Walter
State
Smith
Thomas
Meyer
Murphy
Holstrom
Cleaver Girl Sprained Ankle After Bicycle Collision
Ruth Cleaver, daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Cleaver, sprained her ankle last night after a boy on a bicycle struck her following school. The boy’s name was not learned.
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Ruth
C.H. Cleaver
Get Out and Vote
Editor Helen Stowell urges Garden City women to participate in the November election. Citizens vote for Senators and Congressmen who will decide on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment, with importance placed on choosing leaders who reflect their views and support intelligence in voting.
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Helen Stowell
Garden City
Congress
United States
Plans for Garden City Young Republican smoking event
Plans for G O P Club routines were refined at a Warren Hotel smoker last night. Finney county participation is planned. Twentieth Century Book Club will arrange rural precinct visits with committee report next meeting. Programs include brief entertainments at rural centers followed by political speaker rallies.
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Young Republican Club
Garden City
Warren Hotel
Finney County
Twentieth Century Book Club
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the Garden City Telegram
Hutchinson
Liberal and
Kingman
G.O. P. Club
Zwiebach
Choisea Moos Pfefferneusse
BYU
Garden Valley Retirement Village, Inc
East Spruce
7Th Street
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