The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
CLASCO CROWS.
Little Town in the Solomon
Valley Is Prosperous.
A Splendid School House Is
Being Erected.
TOPAVE THE STREETS
The First National Bank Is
Carrying $26O,OOO Deposits.
Have Four Rural Routes and a
Splendid Phone System.

Glasco, July Situated in the
heart of the solomon valley WISE it
is widest, richest and best,"-this
truthful thought is printed on the
business letter heads of the hardware
and implement firm of Davidson &
Co Never was statement more
truthfully made. In fact, the whole
Solomon valley between Beloit and
solomon City, on the line of the Union
Pacific railroad, is a garden of crops
as 1t is tnickly Inhabited by as indus
tr1ous, we'll to do farmers as can be
round anywhere. The wheat crop is
little ship in bushels this year, but
VIII be made UP in the berry and the
price. Hundreds of acres are run
ming Is and 20 bushels per acre.
me Glasco people have long want
cd Touring mill, and are now, and
have been ready for years, to give it
substantial business and financial en-
couragement.
The best of clay is found here, and
yet there is no brick yard. What Glas-
co most needs this time is a Touring
mill and brick yard. The wheat is
raised here, and the finest clay banks
exist These enterprises will receive
financial encoura cement to anyone
who will esta blish them.
The population of Glasco is close
to 500. year ago it was little over
Four rural free delivery mail
routes start from Glasco, and the
prospects are that the fifth one will be
esta blished in the near future. This
ought to establish the fact that the
country Is thickly populated.
There is being built in Glasco a
$4,000 school house. Five teachers
are employed. The new school
house which is being erected because
Of necessity. will be inviting as it is
imposing
There is talk that the main bust
ness street Will be paved this year, to
keep in fashion with the several miles
of brick and cement walks which lead
all over town.
Nor has Glasco quit her building
progress. There are in the residence
line, going on at the present time and
completed since the first of the year,
not less than 10000 in residences alone
The modem and beautiful architectural
homes of ]. w. Studt, c. H. Marshall
G. H. Bernard, j. M Haddock, Thos.
Butler. Levi F'rankfarther, James Kis-
singer, Harvey knight, J. H. Cleaver,
Butler, and others. costing
from $1,000 to $500, show that Glasco
Is highly prosperous, and deserves all
the kind words visitors say of the town.
TIE First Matte nal bank carries depos-
its aggregatingi $269.000 and still there
are some who say a secof1d bank is
necessity, and movement Is on foot
to establish a state bank.
The Glasco Telephone and Telegraph
company have sold their system to the
Mutual Telephone association in order
to maintain harmony, for a considera-
ton of $4,000.
Postmaster Hillhouse has fixed the
Glasco postof1ce in convenient order, |
1t, and is now so convenient |
" arranged that its patrons never tire
looking at it. The postmaster is SO
proud of 1t that he is going to take a |
months outing to Utah and Idaho.
The Davidson 81 Co. hardware and |
implement business handles stock !
close to $4,000, while the Studt Bros. |
general store carry stock estimated |
about $25, OG0. Large concerns as these |
ought to convince those seeking loca-
ions that Glasco ia a good financial in
,estment to put in a Touring plant. |
Davidson & Co. have the contract for
putting in the heating plant in the |
new school house at a cost of 1000.
The Glasco Grain company organized
md owned by farmers, and only year,
I'D has already paid a Z per cent divi-
lend to the stockholders.
Frank Wilson. president of the |
7lasco Live Stock Show and. Sale as
,ocia ton, has increased his fine herd of
Short Horns in recent purchases to the i
AMOUNT of 81. 900.