Overview This collection includes records from two Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas businesses: the Carey Salt Company and the Richards-Scheble Candy Company. Included are shipping orders and waybills for shipments from the candy company in 1919. There is also a signed carbon copy of a February 3, 1923 notice from Carey Salt Company president Emerson Carey, in his capacity as chair of the Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee, and his son, Emerson Carey, Jr., announcing cash prizes to...

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Contains a brief autobiography by Myrtle Arvilla Trent, including details about her early years in Hartville, Oklahoma living in a family-built rock house and her family's move to Arkansas, Missouri, and eventually Kansas in 1922. Also includes details about her courtship and marriage to Lucas Trent, raising her family, and helping her husband with his work at W. B. Young Wholesale Company, the lives of her children, and a flood in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1929.