The Enterprise Town Company, capital $50,000, was
Abilene Chronicle
Abilene, Kansas
January 16, 1873
The Enterprise Town Company, capital $50,000, was organized according to law last Friday....The following officers were elected: V. P. Wilson, president; John Johntz, vice-president; C. Hoffman, treasurer; T. C. Henry, secretary. Town lots are now for sale, not at fancy prices, but at very reasonable prices. Enterprise is bound to be a thriving manufacturing town, having the best water power in the Kansas Valley and the requisite capital for its improvement....
We have received the first number of the Kansas Folio, a magazine devoted to music, just published at Leavenworth by Hoffman, Brown & Co., publishers. They say in their prospectus: "We propose to publish the Folio at $1.50 per year and will give our readers, in addition to original stories and poems, from $15 to $20 worth of choice music during the year."
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