The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-07-20
TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN
KANSAS.

FELLOW CITIZENS: Since the settlement
of your section of our State, its trade has
been directed to cities in Missouri, having
no sympathy with US or our institutions.
except so far as they tended to enrich their
State. Feeling that the time has come
when you realize that fact, the undersigned
the principal business men of the city of
LAwRENoE-would, by all honorable means,
endeavor to attract your attention to this
place, for the following reasons:
1. We are the natural business, literary,
and political center of Kansas, at the pres
ent time.
2. We are accessible from every direc-
ton by good roads, now being much i'm
proved.
8. Our storehouses are now filed with
goods, carefully selected with view to
your wants.
4. They represent every branch of whole
sale and retail trade, viz. Groceries and
Provisions, Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats and
Caps, Boots and Shoes, Furniture, Hard
ware, Iron and Nails, Crockery, Agricul-
! tural Implements, Seed Stores, Drugs and
Medicines, Wines and Liquors, Paper,
Books and Stationery, Jewelry, &c.
5. Every branch of industry is well es-
tablished and encouraged, among which we
may name Machine Shops, Brass and Iron
Foundries, FIGURING Mills, Saw Mills, Car
rage and Wagon Manufactures, Plow
Shops, Blacksmith Shops, Broom Manufac-
tories, Harness Shops, Tanneries, Door,
Sash and Blind Manufactures, Lumber,
Soap and Candles, Breweries, Gun Shops,
Printing Offices, Book Binderies, Photo
graphists, &C.; making it possible for you
to get anything, from steam engine to a
rat trap, made IN your oaOn State, and also
convenient to make repairs of any kind,
readily and reasonably.
b. We open to you market for grain,
vegetables, hides, &C., not excelled, as we
can afford to give more for grain at this
point than any in Missouri can, being SO
much nearer its final depository, the min
ing region, and having mills to work it up.
7. We are all FREEMEN, and heartily well
come the people of the southern counties to
our thriving "Valley City," promising
them satisfaction.
Hoping to gain your favorable consider.
alton, by reason of the advantages above
named, we are
Your obedient servants,
RIDENouR & BAKER, Groceries, Iron, Nails, DC
DUNCAN ALLISON, Dry Goods, Grcc's, Prov ms.
COUNTRY STORE, General Assortment of Dry
Goods, Groceries, Clothing, &c.
ENGLEsMANN & THoLEN, Groc's Prov ms, Liquors
WHITNEY, Groceries and Provisions.
h d G GRovENoR, Groc's, Prov ms, Lumber.
CIV CoATs, Groceries and Provisions.
| PRENTIss d GRIswoLD, Wholesale and Retail
Druggists, and dealers in Paints, Oils, dc
| WOODWARD d FINLEY, Wholesale and Retail
Dealers in Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints
RW LUDINGroN, Liquor d Cigar Jobbing House
| A L WINCHELL, Deal. in Wines, Liquors, Tobac
Jos BREcrELsBAUEE, Cigars, Tobacco, Liquor.
ALLEN d Co, Hardware and Stoves.
STORM Il MOSTAGUE. Stoves, Tin and Hard ware
7 CWILLEMsEN d Co, Tanners; Leath , Shoe Find
B WLDERsEN, Mani. Boots and Shoes.
| W II ABERNATHY, Furniture, Met. Burial Cases
F A BAILEY. Mani. Doors, Sash and Blinds.
JAS G SANDS, Saddle and Harness En- porium.
A G DALEE, Photographer.
HAsELTINE d. WALTON, Eastern Bakery.
Il S & L FILLMORE, Dry Goods Ladies Shoes
NJ SOLOMON, Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, &c
BULLENE READ, Dry Goods and Groceries.
DUNCAN BRowN, Dry Goods, Groc's, Prov ms
W SUTLIFF & Co, Mereh' t Taiiors, Cloth g, &c
0 WILMARTH, Books, Stationery, Periodicals.
r LFkAzER, Watches, Jewelry and Fancy G'ds
t ID Pager, Matchmaker and Jeweler.
H RUTHRAUFF, Matchmaker and Jeweler.
| BABCoCK d LYKINs, Bankers.
z ID THOMPSON, Banker, Dealer in Land Warts
| SIMPSON BROTHERS, Bankers.
A SMITH, Cashier of Lawrence Bank.
SAMUEL Fay, Livery and Sale Stable.
Il GRAFTON, Mani. & Deal. in Guns, Rifles, &C
- G E Holt, Mani. & Deal. in Boots and Shoes.
] II WLDER, Carriage, Wagon d. Plow Manufi
BLOOD d KENDALL, Prop. Lawrence Flour'g Mil
KIMBALL Bios, Law'ce Foundry d Machine OK
FULLER d OLIVER, Architects and Builders.
A KATzENsrEIN, BOokbinder, Blk Blk Manuf
SANGER, Lawrence Soap Candle Works