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Members of the Central Plains USD 112 board of education meet at 6 p.m. at the district office in Claflin.
Read moreThe Ellsworth City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. at city hall
Read moreEllsworth County Commissioners meet at 9 a.m. at the courthouse meeting room. Info: (785) 472-4161
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March. It comes in like a lion. So far, we haven’t been disappointed.
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Railroad fever spread like a wild prairie fire across the Kansas plains in the early part of 1870. The Kansas Pacific Railway had just crossed the entire state from the Missouri River to the western border and was about to reach Denver. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, building toward southwest Kansas, had temporarily halted a few miles north of Osage City. A new supply of iron rails was all they needed to reach Emporia while the summer was yet young.
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