 Instead of paying more for the land in Friendship, the railroad placed the tracks two miles (3 km) south of Friendship.It was recorded that Emma Barnes, wife of "Appletree" Barnes, Friendship postmaster in the 1920s, wrote in 1957, "I believe that the people of Friendship should express their appreciation of two of the early citizens... J.B. Hill and J. W. Purves... for holding the price of their land so high that the great C&NW R.R.