People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-06-24
AVON TOWNSHIP.
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adopted. The order of the board was
made May Is, 1872, and reads as
follows:
Petitions were presented from
citizens asking that the name of the
stream heretofore known as Antelope
running through portion Of town
ship thirty-twO and thiuy-three in
range me east and flowing into Slate
creek he changed.
SeverI Il names were petitiOned for
and til" board finally decided that the
said stream be hereafter known and
designated as Avon.
Why Avon Center? We have often
wondered at this seeing that the
school house is only mile from the
south line. When we learn that Avon
township originally included three
tiers of sections Of what is now Greene
township all is plain.
Dalton took its name from family
by that name who lived over the line
10 Oxford township. Hon. James T.
Dalton, who was representative In
the late legislature from Stevens
county, told the writer last winter
that the town was named after his
brother.
Samuel Balm named Deer creek by
killing deer near its source, which
is but short ways from his home.
Slate creek takes its name from the
formations Of that nature along its
banks.
Rosebud school house was named
, by J. S. Epperson and W. G. Holdings.
worth who came from school district
by the same name near Vinton, Iowa.
Pink school house was so called be-
cause 1t was first painted pink,
although it now conforms to the
conventional white. II was known
for while after it was built as the
Balm school house.
NATURAL TOPOGRAPHY.
There are few congressional town.
ships that can show less waste land
than Avon township. We do not
believe there are forty acres in the
whole township that are not available
to the pillow. The larger portion OF
the township is low up land or
second bottom. Slate creek flows
through section 81 in the southwest
corner and runs along the southern
boundary Of the township occasionally
crossing and recrOSSing the township
line. This affords considerable fine
bottom land, which yields immensely.
Such farms as those Of |. ]. Stewart,
Norman Hull, A. Logan, N. Loot.
bOurrOw and Others along the line
attest the fertility Of this section
Deer creek traverses the township
from north to south in the weste n
half, flowing into Slate creek on Sec
tiOn 81. Avon creek traverseS the
eastern half Of the township
in the same way. Both these
streams rise near the north line of
the township which marks the
divide between Slate creek and the
Minnesota.
The soil is a rich sandy loan and
will produce enormously. The farm
improvements are good and growing
better each year. Land is compare
lively cheap made so by the de-
preston Of the times.
STATISTICAL.
The population of Avon township
as reported by the township assessor
for 1897, is 397. The value of real
estate in the township is s343, 76l;
personal property $42,345. The as
SeSsment is made on the basis of one
third Of these values viz: real estate
SlI4, 597; personal s14,1l5.
The territory comprising Avon
township has furnished the following
county officers.
c. S. RrOdbent served as county
clerk frem this election at a special
election Sept. 26, 1871, until April "a,
1875 when he.resigned. He was the
first county clerk by election Of the
people. He owned land in section Sc
with n. LoOfbOurrOw, but stayed in
Oxford most Of the time. He is now
in Texts.
Samuel Balm served as county COM
missioner from Jan. 1876 to Jan. 1888.