The Congregational Church was dedicated on Sunday, July 13, 1870. Sept. 8, we have just got us a good job press and a supply of new job type. We can now do job work, plain or colored, including bill heads, cards, programs, posters, blanks, etc. We are glad to see that the Emporia people are about to do something to make a passable road over the Cottonwood bottom. If they don't, our merchants will be obliged to ship via Burlington or Humboldt.
Teamsters charge awfully for hauling loads through that mud.
The Herald for nearly two years the pioneer newspaper of southwestern Kansas, is so no longer. New papers have been established and now a printing press is going into Howard County. But a little more than two years ago Howard County had but about a dozen inhabitants. Butler was sparsely populated and the counties south and west of it were almost uninhabited. Now in this same area there are no less than eight newspapers, some 20 or more flourishing towns and a population that is counted by thousands.