The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

substantial improvements, mostly
business houses and residences, whose
cost aggregates not less than SIS, 900,
were built in Logan since the first of the
year.
Captain V. E. Cunningham. of Os-
borne, is after a position in the forestry
department under the general govern
ment
It seems that about all the people in
Hill City have money. Two fat pocket
books were lost in that town one day
last week.
J. S. Turner, ex-postmaster of Hoxie
will go to the Pacific coast shortly, and
finally locate in Seattle, Wash.
E. H. Marshall and E. N. Kendall
two Beloit boys, have recently been ap-
pointed railway postal clerks. The for
mer was an employe in the Beloit post
Office for two years.
NJ. B. Lease, of Norton, dealer in i'm
plements, sold $4,000 worth of goods in
two months this year.
The people of the Sixth district will
| hail with pleasure the removal of ex-
Sheriff A. w. SWayze, of Ottawa coun-
ty, from Minneapolis to Beloit. He has
come to the conclusion that there is TO
money in politics, and has accepted a
position with the Parlin & Orendorf
Implement company. Mr.. Swayze has
heretofore taken an active interest in
Republican politics, and was sheriff of
Ottawa county for five years.
There is something good in name
after all. Felix X. Gygax, of Osborne
| county, has passed the final examina
ton at Annapolis for naval cadet. and
| is now at work on his course of studies.
He is 10 years of age, bright young
man, and his examination was good.
Russell ]. Harrison, the Democratic
war horse of Smith county, has quit
politics long enough to dash off a few
verses, entitled When it Gets Wet in
Kansas" So far no one has had time
to read them except the proof reader.
Miss Kate Stotts, editor of the Sylvan
Grove News, has retired from active
work on that paper. In her valedictory
she says she retires on account of poor
health. Miss Stotts is an all-round
printer, and has worked herself up from
devil boy to editor girl.
Congressman Reeder will attend the
Hays City irrigation meeting, Septem-
Der and 9. Clarence c. Johnson, who
is in charge of agricultural division of
national irrigation, will be present as
we'll as several other irrigation officials
from Washington. 1t is predicted that
Congressman Reeder will show those
Washington officials what practical ir
rigation is out in the Sixth district. He
has been an enthusiast on that point
ever since he located in Logan, nearly
a quarter of century ago.
The Mankato Advocate throws the
following bouquet about Jewell county
to the world: This year Jewell county
walks right up in the front row in ev
cry department A big wheat crop;
splendid oats; the greatest crop of al
falfa ever put up in any county in the
world: breaks her own record-breaking
record on poultry and eggs and will
shuck out the biggest crop of corn she
has produced since '96, when she beat
the world"
The Lincoln grist mill is shipping
flour by the ton to Belfast, Ireland. One
order this mill is now filling will con-
tain 240 tons, and will be put up in 2S0-
pound sacks.
The Mankato Monitor is now issued
this, but all failed. 1t will be the only
one of that kind in the district There
is only one daily publication, the Call,
of Beloit.
Mankato isn't so slow, after all. Be
cause it is fashionable this year for
every Sixth district town to have some
sort of show, the people of Mankato
want to be in fashion, and are planning
a soldiers reunion to be held in connec-
ton with a street fair. sometime in
October.
The old settlers of Lincoln county
will reune for the third time in Lincoln
August %. If Congressman Reeder at
| tends all the Sixth district street carni-
| walls fairs, old settler meetings, horse
racing, and irrigation conventions this
year, he will have but little time TO
work on that new First National bank
building. now being erected in his town
of Logan.
DR.. r. j. Dickinsin of Kirwin, writes
an article for the Phillipsburg Post, and
in closing, says: what Kirwin needs
is a good live newspaper and everybody