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These articles were taken from newspapers dated 1887.
Oberlin
Opinion Allison we found to be thriving little village, situated in the southeast part of the county on the North Solomon. It is a new place, having been located in 1886, and now has 16 buildings. The schoolhouse here would be a credit to any district. There is a good hotel, feed and livery stable, barber shop; blacksmith shop, real estate office, meat market, furniture and hardware store, and a general store. McGinley Bros. Are energetic businessmen. They located here in Aug. 1885, and are doing well. Allison is certain to make a good town as it has a good country to support it and is about the center between Norton, Millbrook, Hoxie and Oberlin. Allison is almost certain of the C. B. R. R. and is a splendid location for some good businessmen looking for openings. There is also a brickyard here, and the finest clay in the northwest. John J. Cass came here in 1880 and owns 320 acres of land on the Solomon. Mr. Cass has been engaged in the sheep business, has about 100 registered Merinoes, perhaps the only flock of registered sheep in the northwest. They are very fine, Mr. C. is proprietor of the Allison town site, and is a hard worker for Allison and Decatur county. He has set out a large amount of fruit trees and supplies the people of this vicinity with trees and shrubs of his own raising. J. W. Horner is the city blacksmith. He came from Lucas county, Iowa, and wants no more of Iowa. Allison Breeze Allison!!! Way out in Western Kansas, in the southeastern part
of Decatur county, on the North Fork of the Solomon river, is located the
little town of Allison, which we will endeavor to describe to you without
bias or prevarication. The many advantages which Allison possesses to make
it a large trading center, are unequaled by any town in the west.
It is thirty miles southeast of Oberlin, the county seat of Decatur
county, twenty-three miles northeast of Hoxie, the county seat of Sheridan
county, and eighteen miles west of Lenora, the present terminus of the
Central Branch Railway. Our mail facilities are better than those of most
inland towns as we have several good routs connecting us with two
different line of railroad, and at present our prospects as a future
railroad town are very flattering.
We cannot fail to get the rock Island extension from Phillipsburg
to Colby, which is now being surveyed, as it is on a Direct line
and affords the only good means of crossing the river.
The Santa Fe line from Millbrook to Oberlin is the latest railroad
agitation and the prospects are that it will go through inside of a year.
Should such be the case it cannot miss us unless it goes out of a
direct course. It is
also a settled fact that sooner or later the Central Branch will be
extended up the river from Lenora. No
town ever had a better country tributary to it and no town of the size and
age of Allison ever could have brighter prospects of making a railroad
center and a good trading point.
The town is not owned by a �Corporation or Town Site Company�
who have their main interests in Chicago or New York but it is owned by
individual parties who have all their interests here as a consequence they
will work for the town and not against it. All these without referring to the extremely
beautiful and magnificent location of our town site or the unexcelled
advantages and attractions of Allison.
Situated on a gradual incline, sloping southward toward the river,
thus affording natural and perfect drainage; with her broad streets and
avenues and the good buildings already erected and others in course of
erection; surrounded by the most beautiful country in Kansas; its close
proximity to living waters of the Solomon river and its several branches
and outlets makes it a sight to beheld and furnishes alone natural
advantages sufficient to warrant the up building of a promising city.
Although but a new place, yet individuals have expended several
thousand dollars here in the way of buildings and still the good work
continues at an interesting rate.
The music of the saw and hammer causes the festive prairie dog to
wonder in amazement at the transformation taking place, way out in this
beautiful valley, where for years they remained unmolested except by the
roving beasts of the prairie or the rattle of white covered emigrant
caravans. � Sharleen
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