History of Nemaha County, Kansas . resident ofthe village who refers to it as Shinntown. Colonel Shinn erected a storebuilding, which eventually became the postoffice, with J. O. Stienbaughas postmaster, succeeding the farmer. Kerns. An acre of land was pre-sented to G. W. Buswell for establishing thereon a cheese Shinn meantime was traveling through the East advertising histown by lectures, handbills and pamphlets, and giving away lots to all 139 140 HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY comers. Surely no town was built on firmer faith. He opened a landoffice and started a newspaper called
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . resident ofthe village who refers to it as Shinntown. Colonel Shinn erected a storebuilding, which eventually became the postoffice, with J. O. Stienbaughas postmaster, succeeding the farmer. Kerns. An acre of land was pre-sented to G. W. Buswell for establishing thereon a cheese Shinn meantime was traveling through the East advertising histown by lectures, handbills and pamphlets, and giving away lots to all 139 140 HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY comers. Surely no town was built on firmer faith. He opened a landoffice and started a newspaper called the Oneida Real Estate customary blacksmith shop and necessary stores followed and atwo-story hotel was built, called the Lindell. The first keeper of theinn was B. F. Chamberlain. The owners since have been manyand varied. But the hotel is still open and of daily use to streets were named in order after Presidents, as are the streets inChicago, in whose footsteps it was supposed to follow. Two churches. PUBLIC AND CHURCH BUILDINGSi ONEIDA, KANS. were built immediately, one a Christian church, and the other with themetropolitan name of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian. Oneida was built at once. Xo makeshifts were permitted. A schoolhouse, two stories high and graded into four departments, was erectedon a sightly hill without delay. An opera hall was built for public gath-erings, substantial and roomy, in continual use today. A park was re-served, with the distinguished name of Hyde Park, and a restaurant was HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY I4I opened with the famous title of Rialto. The town thrived and flourishedand filled up with smart, progressive people, and is so filled today overforty years later. The Real Estate Journal, however, was sold to J. F. Clough, editorof the Sabetha Republican, who conducted it for four years as theOneida Journal, and four years later suspended the publication. Thecheese factory became the most famous in the county, its sales e
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