Offerle Kansas

Offerle Kansas.

 

Edwards County.

Trenton township map, 1906

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On the county map you can find Offerle in township 25-south and range 20-west.  On the township map you can find Offerle in section 7.

 

Offerle Post Office.

 

Offerle post office open May 27, 1876 and was still running in 1961.  E. P. Ott was postmaster in 1906.

 

 

Postmaster, Dealer in Lumber and Hardware.

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Patrons of Edwards county who used Offerle as their P. O. address as of 1906.

 

M. G. Verill, Farmer and stock Raiser, came to county 1889.

 

R. F.. brown, farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1886.

 

J. M. Delaney, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1875.

 

F. E. Fox, Stock Raiser, Well Driller and Thresing Operator, came to county 1978.

 

C. A. Geitgey, General Merehandise, came to county 1904.

 

Blair Hedges, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1901.

 

M. J. Heltzel, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1877.

Jacob Albert Fucker, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came county 1888.
 

G. C. Kimes, Genreal Merehandise, came to county 1905.

 

Etuart Kurth, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1886.

 

I. B. Miller, Minister, Evangelical Association, came to county 1903.

 

B. l. Sams, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1903.

 

Konsthntine Sckwartz, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1877.

 

Henry G. Wetzel, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1890.

 

L. L. Wilson, Farmer and Stock Raiser came to county 1903.

 

Offerle Kansas, 1912.

 

 

Lawrence Offerle was founder of Offerle, was a Merchant and Farmer and Stock Raiser.  Mr. Offerle was one of the earliest settlers in Edwards County.

 

Offerle, a village in Edwards county, is located in Trenton township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 9 miles west of Kinsley, the county seat. It has a number of general stores, a mill, a grain elevator, a creamery, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population according to the census of 1910 was 200.