With a full line of top quality products, Heartland Marketing is your dependable supplier for hardware, petroleum, agricultural and farm products. The business is open Monday – Friday from 8:00am – 5:30pm.

Lynn and Janeen Wallgren started Heartland Marketing 22 years ago to fulfill the need of someone to make the needed dealer calls for the rural farm stores, fuel stations, etc. that the larger big city companies did not and would not take the time for the “small” orders sales. Lynn has been in sales for over 45 years with prior experience in management positions with an international company for several years. He is a “hands on” manager. For example: when you call in with an order or question you are just as likely to get the boss answering the phone or catch him out on the forklift unloading a semi truck.

Lynn and Janeen Wallgren

Their short term goal was to deliver and service these rural accounts. Their long term goal was to branch out further, which they currently are selling their product in 48 states and have shipped overseas, but still not forgetting the original plan of service and commitment to the smaller customers so they too may stay in business. Heartland has made three physical warehouse location moves to accommodate the growth they have experienced over the past 22 years. They presently ship to 48 states by UPS and truck lines depending on the size of the order.

Heartland Marketing & Associates Inc.
844 3rd Street P.O. Box 543
Phillipsburg, KS 67661
Phone number (toll free): 1.800.258.7345
Fax number (toll free): 1.800.704.1612
Email: amy@heartland-marketing.com

The Island Café in Long Island KS is owned by Sylvia Kats  and Stuart Kats (Sylvia’s son). It has been in business for over thirty years and is located on the west side ofMain Streetin an old church building. It serves breakfast: rolls and coffee and lunch Monday-Friday. Lunch includes daily specials, grill items, and homemade pies and desserts. The café was opened in 1977 by Sylvia and AJ Kats. AJ did the cooking while Sylvia waited the tables. It is a classic mom and pop business. They started out providing good food and small town atmosphere to their loyal customers and still to this day have the same reputation. Throughout many years of business all of their children and grandchildren have helped at the café. It is a special place for all of them.

Their longest running customer is Steve Cox who started doing business with the Island Café in 1978. He along with Jim Cochran created a sandwich for the café which now the Island Cafe is known for this sandwich. This sandwich is called the C&C which is a chicken, ham, and cheese sandwich. All of regular customers know and love this sandwich. The hog farms, local farmers, work crews, and local citizens keep the Island Café alive and striving. If you want to have a good lunch, head to the Island Café.

The Babcock family has been providing a top notch grocery store for the Logan area for 20 years. Babcock’s Grocery store provides high quality grocery items, fresh produce, and fresh meat. The grocery store is located on northeast side of Main Street in Logan, Kansas. The store is owned by Steve and Nikki Babcock who bought it from James and Jama Babcock five years ago.

Store Hours:

Monday-Friday 8:00am-7:00pm. Saturday opened from 8am-6:00pm. Sunday-Closed.

After enjoying the delightful cuisine, be sure and purchase your own “Chubby Pickle” t-shirt.  Grab your camera and snap a photo of your family with the life sized Chubby Pickle.

For all your construction needs, contact Kent or Keith at 785.638.2880 or stop by at 319 Main Street, Agra, KS.

In 1930, Raymond Witmer moved to Phillipsburg to manage the Curtis Drug.  Raymond purchased the pharmacy in 1947. Since that time, there has been a Witmer standing behind the pharmacy counter to fill prescriptions for area residents.  In 1955, son Jack  joined his father in this business.  Raymond partially retired in the 1960′s and died in 1978, leaving Jack to run the store by himself. 

In 1986, Phillipsburg native Steve Schick came to work for Jack and joined him in serving our community. 

Jack’s son, Eric came back to Phillipsburg in 1991,  to be apart of this longstanding family business.  Jack sold the business to Steve and Eric on January 1st, 1997, where they continue to serve the area as the pharmacists. 

Phillips County Economic Development Board and Staff thank the Witmer family for their loyalty and service to our area.  We are fortunate to have such dedicated individuals in our community.

Congratulations on 80 year in business!

MOBILE ELECTRONIC CENTER

TEC offers a full line of radios, antennas and commercial headset project.  No system is to larger or small for Tim or Shawn to provide a bid or quote for your electronic system needs. 

They do custom  manufacturing on commercial headset products and controllers which are designed for FM Two Way Radios.  This manufacturing is done in the business, at 224 State Street in downtown Phillipsburg.  The website is: 
www.mobilealerthandsfree.com

Please contact Tim or Shawn Ellenberger for any of your electronic needs.  Phone numbers are 785.543.2313 or 1.888.268.8229.

Wenzl’s new building includes the addition of durable medical equipment  as well as a larger gift inventory.  Be sure to stop by and check out this new addition to downtown Phillipsburg.

In addition to the remodeling already done,  Couli Kaffee has started facade renovation.  They will continue to operate their normal hours during this time. 

Couli Kaffee hours are Monday – Friday 6am – 4 pm; Saturday 6 am – 2 pm. 

Couli Kaffee is More than an espresso shop, it’s an experience. 
 Sneak a peek at Coulikaffee.com

Ron’s Restoration, Inc. employs full-time technicians: including an ASE Certified Master Technician for mechanical, Certified and award winning re-finishers, bodywork and frame fabrication technicians. The business also maintains up-to-date equipment for the fabrication, refinishing and assembly of it’s projects.

The president of the company, Ronald Kester, was born and raised most of his life in the Phillips County Kansas area and has always been a car buff. He credits his father for the love of cars. As a young man he bought his first vehicle for $35 when he was just 13 years old and still has that car, a 1930 Model A.

Ron has been in the automobile business since 1959, as a vehicle salesman, mechanic and bodyshop technician. He sold new and used Chevrolet and Ford vehicles for 30 years. When he and his wife, Sondra, were married in 1959, they would spend their spare time in area quarter-mile strip racing. After graduating on to legal racetracks in the late 1960’s, Ron qualified for the World Finals in Dallas, Texas amd is a charter member of the National Hot Rod Association.

In the late 1970’s he switched his car building attention to the upcoming Street Rod era building him and Sondra a 1932 Ford. The car made two trips to the east coast and back before selling it, and building for themselves a 1933 Buick 4 door. He and Sondra still have this car and is a favorite among their children and grandchildren. Ron is a member of the Buick Street Rod Association and the National Street Rodder’s Association.

Many of Ron’s projects have found themselves award winners and publication features. In 1992 the company restored a 1960 Chrysler 300 F Convertible for a realtor in Hastings, NE that won two National Chrysler 300 awards. The car was then sold at the Barrett-Jackson Classic Auto Auction in Arizona in 1998 with the purchaser being Tim Allen of the hit tv show “Home Improvement” It was re-purchased a few years later by a collector in the state of New York. That person had Ron’s restore another Chrysler for him during the years of 2004-2005.

A gold medallion award was received by Ron’s on a 1957 Ford Thunderbird Convertible at the CTCI meet in July 2000. This is the highest award than can be earned through the Thunderbird Association.

In the March 2001 issue of Classic Truck you will find featured a 1960 Ford pickup built by Ron’s equipped with a 4.6 Ford police car package drive train and a 1994 Ford step-side box.

Northern Rodder magazine featured in three of their monthly publications a 1935 Chevrolet, a 1937 Pontiac and a 1933 Ford Roadster completed by the business. The 1933 Ford Roadster was also picked by Rod and Custom Magazine as one of their top 100 cars during the year 2001 and won Boyd Coddington Pro’s Pick at the GoodGuys Mid-Western Nationals in Kansas City in 2004.

During the year 2002 the business completed a custom 1971 Ford Mustang with a 502 Chevrolet Ram Jet Fuel injection engine and Vortech Super charger. The car was invited to the Daryl Starbird show in Wichita, KS at the end of January 2003 and won a Comp D’Elegance gold award. From their it traveled to the ISCA World of Wheels show in Kansas City and won 4 awards. It was the featured article in the September 2003 issue of Super Rod magazine and the April 2004 issue of Car Craft magazine.

Nebraska Street Rod of the Year, Outstanding paint and Best in it’s Class at the 2004 ISCA World of Wheels show in Omaha was awarded to a 1935 Chevrolet Master Deluxe Coupe built by Ron’s. The car was also featured in the May 2004 issue of Street Rod Builder.

In June 2004, Ron’s Restoration completed the changes to a 1967 Corvette qualifying it for Bloomington

This article and pictures taken from the website:  http://www.ronsrestoration.com/