The First State Bank Ad Solicits Business Loans
The First State Bank conducts a general banking business and offers money to loan at favorable rates. Your business is respectfully solicited.
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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1901
Page
5
The First State Bank conducts a general banking business and offers money to loan at favorable rates. Your business is respectfully solicited.
City leaders debate a westward pipe to Cedar Creek to bring water to the lake. The plan would be costly but improves supply. advocates call for lake dredging and enlargement and an enormous deep well as ultimate solutions. Citizens likely to support decisive action during dry weather.
Very hot days bring town chatter of visitors from Richmond and Garnett, and letters report men drilling wells west of Garnett while stock and cattle move daily to pasture. Social events, remembrances, and farm notes fill the week as residents travel to nearby towns, visit family, and prepare for summer heat.
A Risley Factory worker, blamed for missing a fire alarm, angrily accuses colleagues after a Fourth Avenue blaze. In revenge on a scorching day, factory boys sparked weeds in front of the Hotel Royal, prompting the man to rush town while the rest teased him for his earlier neglect.
A four year old asked his mother why God does not turn on water. She replies that people pray for rain. The child immediately voices a bold, if crude, interruption urging God to act, highlighting innocent faith clashing with tough language.
Advertised July 26 lists Frank E. Arnett Mrs. Cate Anderson H H King Peter Mohler C J Melveri Mes Rogers Mrs John C Starr Jay Tilden. The notice appears as a local public or classified item informing readers of ringed names and pending notices.
Reports from Missouri Pacific line describe a wreck Friday night near LeRoy in which a work train backed onto a hand car. A brakeman was jailed and several section hands were injured. Other local items note farm moves, travel to Nebraska, visitors returning to San Francisco, hay shipments from Arkansas at $8 per ton, and miscellaneous ads and weather notes.
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