Show prosperity WITH AV A V VENGEANCE ent GEAN the history of kiowa county kansas it is the com ai mon history of the boom porn town eight years ago when kansas kansas was reveling in its mushroom growth greensburg greensbury Greens burg was a thriving town of 2700 inhabitants its enthusiastic citizens were glowing gloving in the prosperous career that awaited it and the most conservative saw it population of in the ne near future lands land worth 15 per acre were were plotted and sold for per acre the city was bonded for put in water works and in an electric diat plant another was waa added to the indebtedness for the purpose purpose 6 of f erecting a school build t in gand us dollars dolfax 6 or more to id V 0 any and every enterprise that i came along alon g finacy the bubble was wai bunc punctured the boom flattened broj crops s failed If idled I 1 y and people began to seek other er climes until toy today the he co caius but 13 persons periods pe rions nasf are c not prope property arty owners neof 1 real estate went down and tilly went w ent up until lots with houses on them that cost from 1000 6 2000 each were vere sol coldor dor j the purchasers were fe Y i at f the ga were wt air 6 a prairie r farms to supplant rr c so perishes i ansburg ns burg f a u di 1 I h p i I 1 N y s ik is many a kansas kan asi town hasteen has as 4 been 4 L f MS 3 a wiped froni from the map 3 c the foregoing i tra ai tion of can binom only i has haa L at the state il ae of crr kansas a as auf hii az e z sa i s 1 l t 7 y a 5 ya from fro ni oil loan bt jiffo tj V extravagance t ita et ef 2 f 44 F feet reach y al s oo 00 v er tia r c i states afie rhe asa iid doritt pO ritt S v have hee t been n c ot li y i bi 5 past is ar gi i tent ii adream iia y 4 i ia r the he kin 0 materials j out bf s which k re rt 5 1 the example i of A town t t y t lesson io the v yote 0 o stati l j e m t b t S p 3 return ito the couns counsel ti fy y i i |