Microfilm source obtained from Kansas State Historical Society by interlibrary loan.
Extracts from the newspaper are part of on-going genealogical research about the Beadles family. Other articles extracted here mention breaks in the Sny levee on the Mississippi River near East Hannibal, Illinois [a disaster repeated in the Flood of 1993], and others who migrated to Butler County, Kansas from Fulton County, Illinois.
The heaviest grading is done through this part of the county, about 130 teams are still piling up the dirt. Mssrs. Beadle, Watson, Sloan, Chenoweth, Wiseman, Runyan, Wood, and others are crowded with boarders. There is more business in Little Walnut than any township in the county outside Eldorado and Augusta. The comapny is putting up good depot buildings all along the line.
Lookout for the train about the 15th of May. An excursion and a big boom is what we expect. The St. Louis & SF Road is coming here to help build up this country...
Main St. next to town well is Beadle's Hotel.
W. L. Beadle is building an addition to his house on the north, east, and skyward. He has purchased 4 lots fronting on Main St. and expects to build on each of them without delay.
There are 2 hotels (in Leon). Mr. Beadle keeps the Leon House. Of course both of the houses are new and the accomodations are not what they will be.
W. L. Beadle paid $1.50 for a 1 year subscription.
W. L. Beadle of the Leon hotel, dropped in last week and subscribed, also ordering a card which by some means was left out. See it under head of business and professional cards, then when you get hungry you will know where to go for a square meal.
Good milch cow for sale; 3 miles northwest of Leon. D. L. Easley.
Second crevasse in the Sny Levee opposite Hannibal, Missouri.
Teachers Exam held July 31. Grades A, one and two. Grade one, Miss Ella Rector of Eldorado.
W. L. Beadle rang the first bell at the first temperance lecture and the first church service held in the town of Leon. Mr. Beadle has a nice bell and puts it to good use.
W. L. Beadle remembered ye editor to the extent of a whole box of nice peaches this week.
C. R. Noe, W. L. Beadle, and F. W. Beckmeyer: committee chosen to collect $500 for attraction of a 3-run steam flouring merchant and custom mill.
DIED.--September 4th at 12 o'clock PM, Robert, infant son of W. L. and Mary Beadle. Elder Allen Butt delivered the funeral discourse Sunday the 5th at 12 o'clock after which the remains were deposited.
One more to the earth is loosed
One more treasure safe above,
In our seeming sad afflictions,
Well we know, that God is love.
W. L. Beadle is having a 20 x 32 foot building erected on the lot north of the Leon Hotel. He has also bought the Watson building and is fitting it up, and having a well drilled.
W. L. Beadle's new residence is nearly ready for occupation. It will probably be occupied by J.P. Smith.
W. L. Beadle has added lightning rods to both his buildings, the first in town.
The cold weather is delaying improvements somewhat. The Calvert house, Boellner's grocery house and Beadle's building would have been about completed and the mill would have been well along by this time had the cold weather held off.
Stephen Thurman and his son Levi of Fulton County, Illinois are visiting friends here. Mr. Thurman is a brother-in-law of Messrs. John and Robert Snodgrass, of this vicinity. They like the country and we should not be surpristed if the son located here.
....Four miles north of Leon near the Vanhuss school.
S. H. Thurman and wife of Fulton County, Illinois.... immediately erection of house.
S. H. Thurman says we should have a woolen factory at Leon. Three large factories are in Fulton County, Illinois.
Meeting to decide location for cemetery at Leon.
Sny Levee at East Hannibal, Illinois broke.
W. L. Beadle talks of erecting another building in town this season. Mr. B's investments here have paid him well. Five families have occupied his two buildings most of the time....
Elder Butt lectures at Tabings Hall.
Tabing's Hall--Baptist meeting, elder G. W. Churchill
W. L. Beadle was in town yesterday and remembered the publisher. We noticed his wagon going out loaded with manure, good stuff to keep a mortgatge off a farm.
Subscriptions, July 1881. W. L. Beadle $1.00.
Beaumont - 14 miles east and 2 miles south, summit of Flint Hills
Keighley - 8 miles east - first station to east
W. L. Beadle has paved the street in front of the bank with stone.
W. L. Beadle has purchased a lot in North Leon and is erecting another residence thereon. Mr. B's investments are paying him well.
W. L. Beadle is pulling a first class pavement and awning in front of his building at the corner of Main St. and Central Ave.
Notes at the Fair.
Peter Johnson of Prospect got 1st Premium on his stallion. The sire was brought
here from Fulton County, Illinois by W. L. Beadle and purchased by the Indicator
man. He was known as the Phillips horse and was driven to death by a drunken
galoot 2 or 3 years ago...
The following pupils of the high school deserve particular notice for good conduct during the last month:....Nathan Beadles....Susan Beadles....
W. L. Beadle called Wednesday; he is opposed to a repeal of the herd law; he is also in favor of an improvement of the condition of the public highways.
W. L. Beadle has sold his building on the corner of Main St. and Central Ave. to Mr. Eaton for $700. We understand Mr. Eaton will put in a stock of milinery.
OHIO HOUSE. North Main St., east side, Eldorado, Kansas. Will be glad to meet all my old friends and hosts of new ones at the old stand. 31 years, N. Rector, Proprietor.
W. L. Beadle has moved to his suburban home northwest of the school building; His son Oscar has returned to Kansas and is living on the farm. Oscar was married during his absence, to a former schoolmate, near the home of his youth in Illinois.
W.L. Beadle drove through town last Saturday with a fine load of winter apples from his own orchard.
William Six, of Schuyley County, Missouri, and wife are visiting W. L. Beadle, Mrs. S's father; they arrived last Friday. The name would seem to indicate one who could have his own row; at any rate, he will be "six to your half dozen".
William Beadle subscribed $60 of the $525 for the liquidation of the debt on the new church; "Uncle Billy" never does things by halves.
The Leon Baptist Church is to be decicated on Sunday, Feb 18.
Leon School Report, Lower Room; not absent for the month: Effie Beadle.
George Hobart, from Iowa, lives in a portion of the Beadle Bank building.
--Recent arrival-- Miss Beadle is registered with papa Oscar.
Mrs. Fraley of Fulton County, Illinois has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Beadle the past two weeks.
W. L. Beadle is building a house in West Leon.
Oscar Beadle has returned from a tour of several weeks in the western part of the state. He found nothing so desirable as southeast Butler and therefore returned. He has purchased a lot in North Leon and will proceed to erect a dwelling thereon at once.
Contributors to the Ohio River flood sufferers fund: W. L. Beadle, $1.00.
W.H. Martin, father-in-law of O.F. Beadle, arrived in Leon last week with his family and will make this his future home. Mr. M. left Fulton County, Illinois last spring and tried Arkansas for seven months, but did not like it. He is a carpenter by trade and we wish him success.
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