Conway Springs, a town in Conway and Springdale townships, Sumner county, is located at the junction of two lines of the Missouri Pacific railroad 15 miles northwest of Wellington, the county seat. The town is named for the mineral springs there. It has 2 banks, a theater, a flour mill, a weekly newspaper (the Star), good hotel accommodations, graded public schools, and several of the leading denominations of churches. It also has telephone and telegraph communications and an international money order postoffice with four rural routes. All lines of mercantile enterprise are represented and the business blocks are modern and substantially built. There are a number of well stocked and up to date retail stores. The population according to the census of 1910 was 1,292. The town was founded in 1875.