ELLISVILLE THE RED Gourdlike, Ellisville grew up in a night.

It was not, and lo! it was.
Many smokes arose, not moving from crest to crest of the hills as in the past, when savage bands of men signalled the one to the other, but rising steadily, in combined volume, a beacon of civilization set far out in the plains, assuring, beckoning.

Silently, steadily, the people came to this rallying place, dropping in from every corner of the stars.

The long street spun out still longer its string of toylike wooden houses.

It broke and doubled back upon itself, giving Ellisville title to unique distinction among all the cities of the plains, which rarely boasted more than a single street.