The Job Situation In Howard, KS Thanks To Mr. I.B.Udder & His Milkmaids

[Warph]

I'm afraid this is where we moved from plausible fiction to pure fantasy. 

Then get a couple of county run cat houses and the county extension council to find a few farmers
willing to do some planting and watch the taxes drop. 

[Teresa]

Then get a couple of county run cat houses and the county extension council to find a few farmers
willing to do some planting and watch the taxes drop. 

I'll manage and run it... 

[Anmar]

Congress is debating increasing tariffs on chinese goods,  lets see how it goes

[W. Gray]

In reference to a "proposed" Elk County cat house:

The Boston Catholic Church building was moved from Boston, Ks, to Moline in 1879. At some point around 1900, a bigger house of worship was needed.

After a larger wooden structure was built, the old church building was sold and the new owner moved it to a location adjacent to the railroad tracks. According to information from a good authority in Moline, the facility was used for several years as a cat house, mainly for railroad workers.

The old building was standing as late as 1981.  A photo and story (minus the cat house information) appeared in a 1981 edition of the Moline newspaper. A photocopy of that article is in a room on the second floor of the Shaffer House Museum in Moline.

Sometime in the 1990s the building was torn down.