Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-02-16
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Our CITY and its SurrOandings-lts
Advantages and Attrac-
tive Features.

Il Advantages and Attrac-
tive Features.
North Missouri has never yet, elthe1
as an agricultural, stock raising OF
: manufacturing region. received the at
tention it deserves. While other sec
tons have been persistently "putfed'
r into notoriety either by fortuitous &C
cident, or interested efforts, on the
part of railroads owning lands; oul
citizens have been contented with a
steady but healty growth. Had any
ono Of the great railroads that were the
recipients of land grants been interest.
ed in North Missouri lands. as they
were in other sections of this state and
of Kansas, the north and the east would
have rang with praises OF our salubrl-
GUS air, our magnificent timber, our
inexhaustible coal beds aud our broad
prairies, and our thriving and growing
towns. Our great St. Louis dailIes
which ought to represent and help to
build up all parts of the State, would
not then have persistently ignored and
''snubbed" US or exhibited such stupid
ignorance of locality. history and Pop
ulation when speaking of North Mis-
souri, affairs.
| SOCIALLY
and educationally this particular por7
ton of North Missouri finds no peer
any where in the west. Kirksville is
specially blessed in this particular. We
know of no town IN the west, or else
where, where there Is less snobbery, or
more genuine hospitality and socialness
than IN kirkSville, or where true
merit and moral character count for
more. While the people are moral and
religious They are not bigoted or intol-
Grant either in religion or politics.
Happily, society has not dropped into
the deteStable clique or ''our particular
set system too often observed in other
places. We have a number OF fine
Churches, and Sunday schools, and
they are served by corps of pastors of
ability and character. All the leading
denominations are represented.
EDuCAT1SNALLY
kirksvllle Is known far and wide,
from California to Massachusetts, for
her splendid State Normal School, and
the cheapness and thoroughness with
which an education can be acquired
here.
OUR TOWN
We speak now for the information of
those who are not residents, and into
whose hands this Taper may fall. Our
town is situated about IS miles west
of the Mississippi river, on the great
north and south divide between that
river and the Missouri river. It'll sur
rounded on the south east and north
by beautiful rolling praire lands,
varied here and there with creeks,
tringed with timber. From our town
limits ives. extends belt of timber
land fifteen miles in width and run
ming north and south with the general
course OF the Charlton river. These
timbered hills once considered almost |
valuless, are.daily developing the fact
that they contain much OF our natural
store of wealth valuable for their tim
Der. valuable for their excellent stock
range, and still more valuable tor the
coal beds which underlie them. Our
coal mining industries are yet almost in
their infancy, but will grow in import
ance from year to year.
GEOGRAPHICALLY
We Dear about the same relation to
the west bank of the Mississippi river.
that Galesburg does to the east or llli-
nois side. Kirksvllle with her present
three thousand lnha hitants, is destined
to remain the Queen City of the prai-
RES as she has been aptly termed-a
center NJ future manufactures, and we
consider it only question OF time when
she will show a goodly array OF pillow
factories. wagon factories, implement
factories. rolling mills, and machine
shops. Our tour railroad outlets, east,
west. north and south, will admirably
serve to distribute these products to all
points of the compass.
Last year our building BOOM was
thought to be unprecedented, and yet
the demand for comfortable houses
keeps ahead oflhe supply. The build
ings to be erected the coming summer
will doubtless more than equal in value
if not IN number, those of last summer.
Already we can count ten or twelve
large business houses that will be built
of brick or iron IN addition to a fine
Commercial College building already
contracted. Connected with this latter
institution will be fine public Hall or
Opera room, with seating capacity OF
twelve or thirteen hundred. This
building is to be fifty by eighty feet,
two stories and hasemenf and will