Bala Kansas

History of Bala Township & The Town Of Bala, 1881.


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Riley County
Township map, 1881.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224007/page/43

On the county map Bala can be found Bala in Township 8-South and Rande 4-East.  On the township map Bala can be found in section 35.

 

Riley County.

Township map, 1909. 

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209449/page/13

 

Not only will you find Bala in section 36, you will also find a Bala City in section 35.

 

Business men of Bala, 1881.

 

Rowland Davis, General Merchants; Deales in everything, from Cymru, Great Britain, came to county 1870.

 

William J. Griffths, General Blacksmith and Horseshoeing, from Gogledd, Cymru, Grate Britain, came to county 1970.

 

J. H. Jenkins, Druggist, Notary Public and land and Insurance agent, from Great Britain, came to county 1870.

 

Mary Jenkins, Dealer in Millinery, Dry Goods, Clothing and Notions, from South Wales, England, came to county 1876.

 

Ann Jenkins, from South Wales, came to county 1876.

 

James Sharples, Deales in General Merchandies and Peop., of Bala Cheese Factery.

 

Farmers who used Bala as their P. O., Address as of 1909.

R. Bennings, Farmer and Stock Raiser came to county 1878.
Pliver Booset, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1872.
Fred W. Bulk, Farmer, came to county 1885.
I (J?) W. Coltharp, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1877.
Nathan H. Day, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1877.
John T. Fear, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1877.
Ludwig Hoarman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1883.
George Layher, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1890.
V. E. Ljewelyn, Farmer, came to county 1978.
T. Martin, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1888.
E. A. Maxwell, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1879.
Gustave F. Sand, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1882.
W. W. Simpson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county1871.
Henry Tidyman, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county ?

Bala Kansas, 1912.

Bala, a hamlet near the west line of Riley county, is located on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. in Bala township, 29 miles northwest of Manhattan, the county seat. It is supplied with telegraph and express offices and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 100. It received its name from a town in North Wales. A. D. Phelps, the first settler in the neighborhood, came in 1862.