Transcribed from volume I 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.

Hesston, a village of Harvey county, is located on the Missouri Pacific R. R. in Emma township, 8 miles northwest of Newton, the county seat. It is the shipping and receiving point for a large and wealthy agricultural district. All lines of business enterprises are represented, including a bank. There are several churches and a graded school. The town is supplied with telegraph and express offices and has a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population according to the census of 1910 was 250.

Page 840 from volume I 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 May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.