Speed, a little town in Phillips county, is located on the north bluffs of the Solomon river and on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 8 miles southwest of Phillipsburg, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Clarion), a grain elevator, a hotel, a number of retail establishments, express and telegraph offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 225. The railroad name is Big Bend. It is surrounded by a fine agricultural country, and live stock, grain, produce, poultry and dairy products are shipped.
Page 727 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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