. Memoirs and recollections of C. W. Goodlander of the early days of Fort Scott, from April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870, covering the time prior to the advent of the railroad and during the days of the ox-team and stage transportation. And biographies of Col. H. T. Wilson and Geo. A. Crawford, the fathers of Fort Scott . the old Commissary Building of the fort,and Dr. Bills store was as I have described asbeing in the building that fronted on Marketstreet and the fort grounds. Colonel Wilson hadhis store still in the old log building which he hadoccupied for years as a sutlers store, until 18
. Memoirs and recollections of C. W. Goodlander of the early days of Fort Scott, from April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870, covering the time prior to the advent of the railroad and during the days of the ox-team and stage transportation. And biographies of Col. H. T. Wilson and Geo. A. Crawford, the fathers of Fort Scott . the old Commissary Building of the fort,and Dr. Bills store was as I have described asbeing in the building that fronted on Marketstreet and the fort grounds. Colonel Wilson hadhis store still in the old log building which he hadoccupied for years as a sutlers store, until 1859he built what we called in those days his big-store building on Market street. In those daysthese merchants used to go spring and fall to , and sometimes to Philadelphia to buy theirgoods, and make their collections generally everysix months, and pay for their goods at the sametime. Goods in those days were hauled from Tip-ton, then the western terminus of the MissouriPacific Railroad. The commercial traveler atthat time in this western country was an unknownquantity. In the early days of Fort Scott the opportunitiesfor following Dame Fashion, were not so great asthey were in the states, especially for the ladies,as there was no such a thing as a fashionabledress-maker or millinerv establishment at which. Mrs. C. H. Haynes, born in Ohio, came to Fort Scott,March 1858. The tirst married woman now livino; inFort Scott that was married when she came to FortScott. The leading lady of the Episcopal Church whenorganized. EAliL y DA ys OF FORT SCOTT 31 the ladies could get their dresses or bonnets madein the latest fashion of the day, The men werebetter supplied in that line, as Bob Blackett,who was the first tailor established here, wouldoccasionally make a suit for the boys after hisown fashion, having no fashion plates from whichhe could, but the clothes usually worn by us werehand-me-downs from the stocks of Colonel Wil-sons and Dr. Bills stores which were maderegardless
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