We took Roberts in on our return trip . . .

We took Roberts in on our return trip and spent a few hours pleasantly among her business men.  Meserve & Hubbard, bankers and grain dealers; Thompson & Lyman, hardware: Floyd & Newman, R. B. Chambers, Pfaat & Gose, and Anderson & Campbell, dry goods; Thos. McNeish, boots and shoes and harness, and A. D. Wyckoff, drugs and books.  The latter is a new comer from Chebanse and will prove a valuable acquisition to Roberts.  We must not forget our brawny armed workers, Taff & Tinklepaugh, who run the wagon and blacksmith shops, and was fat and rich at the same time.  Roberts has a fine country surrounding it and just as fine a set of business men and citizens as any town in the west can boast.
Geo. H. Thompson was at his post again, after a visit of some weeks in the East, and finds the prairies more attractive than the hills and rocks of New York.
The hotel de Newman is a marked improvement over the same house as we remember it several years since.  A dinner enjoyed at that house is not soon forgotten.  We can commend it to the wayfarer as the place where the money's worth is always to be had.
We had contemplated taking Melvin in our route, but wind and weather said no, and we shall be obliged to set apart another day and accept the invitation of our friend Charley Ellis to hunt chickens with him, though we have not the most remote idea that we shall be the death of any.

1875

Meserve & Hubbard    Bankers and Grain Dealers
Thompson & Lyman     Hardware
Floyd & Newman       Dry Goods
R. B. Chambers       Dry Goods
Pfaat & Gose         Dry Goods
Anderson & Campbell  Dry Goods
Thos. McNeish        Boots, Shoes and Harnesses
A. D. Wyckoff        Drugs and Books
Tapp & Tinklepaugh   Wagon & Blacksmith
Newman Hotel         Hotel

 

 

--Paxton Record.  7 October 1875.