The human digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract plus the accessory organs of digestion (the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder). In this system, the process of digestion has many stages, the first of which starts in the mouth.
If you head south from there you will see the building where the grocery store is now which was a dry goods & shoe store and then The Hardtner Supply, City Drug Store and then the Silverton Hotel. -- John Nixon, 9 May 2008. Hardtner Plot Map, Barber County, Kansas. From Standard Atlas of Barber County, Kansas, 1905.
The first European people to come to Hardeman County looking for permanent residence came in 1819-20. They came from middle Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Kentucky. The first town in Hardeman County was established in 1823 on the banks of the Big Hatchie, the Indian name for the river, and was called Hatchie Town.