This is the Simon's Fair Groceries at  State Street and Main which is Forth and Main  now in the year 2004.  Today it is the Pony Express Museum. 

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# 1.  The Opera House, demolished in 1927 and  the present theater built same location.
# 2.  Unknown, now Community Bank Retirement Center
# 3.  Sign on front is  (John Wempe - Flower - Feed - Coal - Wood)
# 4.  Sigh on front (Millman Livery.   (Buss Transfer -- Baggage)
# 5.  Feed and Seeds
# 6. Two stores with Winkler and Wempe with sign  - "Hardware"  "Deering Farm Machinery".
# 7. Simons Fair Dry Goods and Simons Fair Groceries, written on canopies.

Will have more information here as it is found,   You all come back.

 From the crowd in front of the Winkler and Buser Hardware it  would appear this is the place where the machinery is sold.   There seem to be quite a crowd in town this day to see this new machine,  I am wondering if it was some kind of sales promotion this day with this new corn binder.   As all the binders seem to have come from the east. I am thinking perhaps they came to town by the Kansas City North Western Railroad, as their rail yard and round house was on Second Street.

Back to the picture above, the building to the east The large building of Simons Fair is now the Pony Express Museum in the year 2004.The next building to the right (east)  is now the Professional Building which  was build in 1884 as noted on top of the building.  It was a ice-cream parlor for a time in the forties and if I am not mistake it was Doctor's Hash's Medical Office for some time in about the  year 1950. The buildings from there to the end of the street have all been replaced. The Opera House to the far right  replaced in 1927 with  the present theater building  which was know as the Royal Theater.  The building was remodeled again  in the 50s as it appears today.