The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
SIXTH DISTRICT PAPERS.
Are Bright Lot and Ably Edited
Some by Women.


journals are making money so fast that
they can buy new outfits, entertain
friends and indulge in extravagant lux
urieS New papers are Springing up,
and old ones are selling a one-half iii
terest. Some misses edit one sode of
their fathers journals while on others
married women have control. Notably
is this true of the PlainviIle Gazette,
where Mrs. L. A. King has full sway.
She edits and prints one of the newsiest
journals in the entire district.
Miss Olgay Parker is the localizer on
the Oberlin Times, while Mrs. Lillian
Loofburrow fills a similar position in
the office of the Atwood Patriot.
The DOdges are bound to keep the
Beloit Gazette on top for two years
longer, because s. H. Dodge, its editor
and publisher for many years, has been
reappOinted regent of the state normal,
a position he is now serving for the
third term.
A. w. Robinson, an old time Jefferson
county printer, has taken charge of the
Cawker City Ledger, new publication.
started by G.. L. Hudkins.
William A. Hill has bought a one
half interest in the Hill City Republi-
can, and promises to enlarge it and
make it newsier than ever before.
E. A. Ross, of the Burr Oak Herald,
promises to move to Mankato. the coun-
ty seat of Jewell county, and buy the
Monitor soon as he finds a purchaser.
This is because he has been made a re-
gent of the state normal
John Mcbride. of the Beloit Times,
is the happiest editor in the town since
the commissioners awarded him the
Mitchell county printing at As per cent
of the legal rate.
The Mankato Advocate is putting up
a new building, and the names of all
subscribers who pay 81 for the paper
up to April 18th will be placed in the
corner stone.
In two weeks more the Cawker City
Record will start out on volume IT.
number l. It was started 81 years ago
7 ha T7.fI no to ENa6R fIar1
to Free Press, when its present editor
and owner, L. L. Aldrich took charge.
The Beloit Call issued eight pages
last week all home print. The Parks
can't be kept down.
Speaking about the wrecIxing of news
paper offices the North Solomon coun-
try carries off the honor. A few years
ago the towns west of Downs supported
13 newspapers, where today there are
only four.
Ben It. Baker is now the sole editor
of the Smith Center Journal, and is
therefore responsible for everything
that appears in its columns. E. S. Rice
hauls down his name from the paper on
account of his law business.
Mrs. Grace Snyder continues to keep
an open office in Cawker City, where
she writes her bright department of So
ciety and news items for the Beloit Ga
zette. Her department is widely known,
and her items are copied in many Of the
leading papers in the state.
The Scottsville News is soon to be
resurrected, and the paper recently
started at ESbon by Percy Root is not
yet old enough to wear long clothes.
A meeting of the Sixth district editors
is soon to convene in Colby. An organi-
zation similar to the one in the Sew
enth district will try to be organized.
c. V Kinney, editor of the Oakley Gra-
phic, has the matter in charge and Will
soon issue a call
A corps of irresponsible fake scrib-
blers are doing the towns in the Sixth
district Business write ups have ap-
peared In Beloit, Oberlin and Colby pa
pers recently.
It didn't bother Charley Lands a
particle to be beaten for state printer.
His Osborne Farmer is among the best
paying journals in Kansas. He is go
ing to put in a new press, having re-
Gently washed its pages with new
dress of type.
The PhillipSburg Herald folks, E E.
Brainerd and ]. NJ. Tadlock, seem to
favor expansion. These two editors
were presented with lively young ex-
pansionists of the male kind by their
wives last week. The Herald, however,
came out on time.
No one has worked more earnestly
for Oakley than has G. v. Kinney
through his Graphic. He has pulled sew
eral business enterprises to his town
and now he is after creamery. He has
called a meeting for March 1S of the
business men to take action in the en-
terprise, in which he contribute liberal
ly according to his means.