Ministers, of course, usually took their wives with them.
Ellisville had thirty business houses and two thousand inhabitants.

It had large railway shops and the division offices of the road.

It had two schoolhouses (always the schoolhouse grew quickly on the Western soil), six buildings of two stories, two buildings of three stories and built of brick.

Business lots were worth $1,800 to $2,500 each.

The First National Bank paid $4,000 for its corner.