The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-10
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Not many Sixth district editors will
give up a good paying job for news
paper plant. This is what E. A Mellen
did, and now he is the full fedged
editor and publisher of the Lenora
News.
The Norton Courier is badly in need
of a good printer. A SOBER industrious.
neat man can find steady employment
on that paper.
Everett Taylor. a Phillips county
printer, has traded his profession for a
patent washing machine.
The Socialist party in the Sixth dis
trict is being kept before the people by
the state lecturer, Miss LuelIa r. Kray-
bill, which reminds the people of the
trict, when the cause was being cham
pioned by Mary Ellen Lease and Annie
Diggs in every sub-alliance in the dis
trict.
Stockton people hope to get another
railroad. This time Hutchinson people
viii build it, and Stockton is on the
proposed route" If Charley Woods,
the former Stockton banker, was alive,
he would take out his map. and check
up another railroad for Stockton The
last time this map was seen Charley
Woods had checked off about two
dozen railroads surveyed and chartered,
and all of them would run through
Stockton. The new line doesn't ask for
bonds, but the plan Of the promoters
is to sell stock to farmers and business
men benefited by the road. Shares will
have par value of $40, to be paid as
follows: One dollar per share at the
D. time the stock is subscribed, and 81 per
share when ten miles of the road is
built. Farmers will be given an oppor-
tunity to pay for their shares in right
of way or working on the construction
of the road.
Rev. W. K. Loofbourrow is going to
leave Atwood. and will locate in Free
port, III. He has been a preacher, edi-
tor, real estate boomer and farmer since
his short grass residence. Had he re-
manned in Atwood and Rawlins county
he might have given the politicians
some uneasiness. for his name had been
mentioned for state senator of the Thir-
ty-ninth district
District court is in session in Rawlins
county t.lis week. AS usual the docket
is full of cases, there being a.
The st. Francis papers say that w.
b. Lockwood, member of the legislature
from Cheyenne county, has sold his resi-
dence and other business property, stu
ated in that town. His friends are Won
dering whether he is going to quit that
town. He is connected with the bank
there. while his wife is postmaster Mr..
I-ockwoOd's name is frequently mention
ed in connection with the state senator
question in the Thirty-ninth district
Most every '@dasS out of the box a
Sixth district citizen gets glory. This
time it is Chas- M. Sawyer. of Norton
president of the First National bank of
that town. He was elected one of the
executive committee of ten members OF
the National Bankers association of the
United States at their recent annual
meeting in San Francisco. Mr. Sawyer
is also vice president of the Farmers
State bank, of Oberlin.
October is the record breaker for rail-
road business at Hoxie. a, Union Pacific
town in Sheridan county. Their station
handled 81 car loads out and "a cars in.
The amount of cash taken in was about
$21 600 At the Crum elevator in the
town, during the same month there was
handled Il, $50 bushels of wheat, 2S1f
bushels of barley, and 2.S15 bushels OF
rye amounting to about $4,000 paid out
for grain. Since the shipment of grain
commenced, in August, Mr.. Crum has