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Chester Thomas and Lydia Steevens — her family retained the original double e in the name — were married in 1856. He was 46. She was 23. The couple moved to Kansas in 1858.
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Anyone who has been out and about lately probably recognizes the sign at the bottom of this editorial. The signs can be found at the J.H. Robbins Memorial Library. At the splash pad in Preisker Park. And in front of dozens of other places — not just here but across Ellsworth County. It’s all thanks to the Smoky Hills Charitable
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Hillary Clinton had her deplorables and they may well have cost her the presidency in 2016, because of the disrespect she showed them. If that is in fact true, then Donald Trump should lose in a landslide.
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In the late 1700s French trader Pierre Chouteau encouraged a large portion of the Osage people to move into today’s Oklahoma valleys of the Arkansas, Verdigris, and Neosho Rivers.
Read more“Justice Ginsburg represented the best of the American tradition, the best of a devotion to the American experiment ... She believed in the journey toward a more perfect union.”
Read moreYou might think that excessive imprisonment of a nation’s people would be something found in countries led by totalitarian regimes with atrocious human rights records. Places like China, Russia, Yemen or Venezuela.
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Operating out of Independence, Mo., Waldo, Hall and Company began providing stagecoach service in 1850 to and from Santa Fe, in addition to carrying the mail on a monthly basis.
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Editor’s Note — Prior to the August primary, several campaign items landed in voter mailboxes. They were aimed at moderate Republicans and in most cases were misleading at best. Rep. Steven Johnson, who has been a leader in the effort to restore civility to public debate in Kansas, represents Ellsworth and other counties in the 108th Kansas House District. He is unopposed in the general election. Here is his response with information that will undoubtedly be as important during the general election. This is the second part of a twopart column on tax legislation in the wake of the Brownback tax experiment.
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