"Haverhill
is a lively town during harvest season. Every summer for a few weeks it regains
the flow of trade which its founders must have envisioned. Haverhill, like many
settlements, of its size, is a casualty of the automobile age. The once
bustling community even lost its depot agent a few years ago. Only the grocery
store retains a thriving business. Most people go to Augusta, that metropolis
of South Butler county, for trade, but for groceries they stop here."
--
Letter from my father, Haverhill, Kans., to my mother, Winfield, Kans., Monday,
July 14, 1947.
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