Throwback Thursday: dog racing in 1900s Hutchinson
Throwback Thursday: dog racing in 1900s Hutchinson Steve Harmon Today's installment of Throwback Thursday takes us to the northeast corner of East Fourth Avenue and North Halstead Streets. M.E. Allison was one of the earliest settlers of Hutchinson. He moved here about 1877 and became a real entrepreneur. He was a real estate agent, a druggist, a grocer, a miller and was part owner of the Water & Power Mill, now known as the Stevens building. In 1883, Allison started some kennels with two purebred English Greyhounds named Sandy Jim and Reno Bell. In 1886, a group from Cheyenne Bottoms...