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Wichita-with a combined membership of 1,500. Topeka and Kansas City own association buildings, the one at Topeka having been completed in 1911 at a cost of $75,000. Topeka was the headquarters of the state association until in the early part of 1910, when it was merged into the territorial organization with Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, the headquarters of which are at Denver. The provisional state committee held. over until Sept., 1911, when the territorial committee took its place. The work of the Y. W. C. A. has been very much extended from the original field. It is a young woman's club in every sense of the word, providing not only religious, moral and social training, but rooms, meals, physical training, employment bureau, assistance in a material way to young women out of employment, study classes in all academic branches, reading and rest rooms and a home for working girls.

Youngsville, a country postoffice in Greeley county, is located 14 miles. north of Tribune, the county seat and nearest shipping point.

Youngtown, an inland hamlet and trading point in Marion county, is located 7 miles northeast of Marion, the county seat, from which place it receives mail by rural delivery. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 51.

Yuma, a hamlet in Cloud county, is located on the Missouri Pacific R. R., 5 miles west of Concordia, the county seat and the postoffice from which it receives mail.

Zarah, a village in the northern part of Johnson county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. and an electric line, 10 miles north of Olathe, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice, telegraph and express facilities and in 1910 had a population of 50.

Zeandale, a village of Riley county, is located on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. in Zeandale township, 8 miles east of Manhattan, the county seat. It is supplied with telegraph and express offices and has a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 75. The name is taken from the Greek and means corndale. It was named by J. H. Pillsbury, who settled the township in 1855.

Zella, a country hamlet in Stevens county, is located in Harmony township, 14 miles northeast of Hugoton, the county seat, and 7 miles east of Woodsdale, the postoffice from which it receives mail.

Zenda, one of the villages of Kingman county, is located in Rochester township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 17 miles from Kingman, the county seat. It has a bank, telegraph and express offices, a number of mercantile establishments and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The principal shipments are live stock and grain. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 275.

Zenith, a hamlet in Stafford county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 8 miles east of St. John, the county seat. It has

2 general stores, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 40. Zinc. (See Lead and Zinc Mining.)

Zurich, a little town in Rooks county, is located in Logan township, on the Union Pacific R. R., 20 miles southwest of Stockton, the county seat. It has a hotel, a grain elevator, a telephone exchange, owned by a local company, a number of general stores, a telegraph office and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population in 1910 was 200. Zyba, a hamlet in Sumner county, is a station on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., 12 miles north of Wellington, the county seat, and 6 miles south of Peck, in Sedgwick county, whence its mail is distributed by rural route. The population in 1910 was 27.

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