Hi, Ardie I don't know who owned it, but it was next door to my ggrandmothers millinery shop. There is a photo of it in 70 years in Norton County. I have buried somewhere a really poor copy of the page it is on. Freida Gay's millinery shop, the cigar factory was on the corner. I don't know the owner, but Freida's father owned a cigar shop in Wichita about 1890. Freida and Emory Gay were in Norton and her shop, I believe, dated to 1894, perhaps a bit earlier. Thanks for giving me chance to see the box. Wonder if the needles were Great-grandma's? Linda

Linda; Do you have "70 years in Norton County" what areas does it cover. Would you have time to share information? I attended Rose Hill school in Rockwell township. School established about 5 miles NE of Norcatur around 1889 on a NE corner of W.B. Roe's west 80 acres. Any information on families of the area is useful. Where was the Millenary shop? Thanks. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ballakelly@aol.com> To: <KSNORTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [KSNORTON] cigar manufacturing in Norton > Hi, Ardie > I don't know who owned it, but it was next door to my ggrandmothers > millinery shop. There is a photo of it in 70 years in Norton County. I have > buried somewhere a really poor copy of the page it is on. Freida Gay's > millinery shop, the cigar factory was on the corner. I don't know the owner, > but Freida's father owned a cigar shop in Wichita about 1890. Freida and > Emory Gay were in Norton and her shop, I believe, dated to 1894, perhaps a > bit earlier. > Thanks for giving me chance to see the box. Wonder if the needles were > Great-grandma's? > > Linda > > > ==== KSNORTON Mailing List ==== > Check more Norton County, Kansas queries at > http://wb.kumc.edu:8080/~ksgenweb/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >