The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-20
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Congressman Reeder isn't SO sorely
afflicted politically but that he and his
/ family viii attend the two Chautauquas
at Beloit and Cawker City during the
entire season. Besides all the harvest
home festivals in the district expect
him to be present. He is at the BeIoit
! Chautauqua this week.
Ed Wilcox has returned to his home
! In Hill City. He has been searching for
new location on the Pacific slope for
some weeks. He returns to his old home
better satisfied than he has ever been
before that northwest Kansas, Graham
county and Hill City are good enough
for anybody to live in, make money,
have good health and enjoy ones self.
The fact of it is. that most of the
political fellows in the Sixth district
have had to help out on the farms the
last month, and because of this all that
is talked of is wheat. corn, oats and
alfalfa, which is safer to raise barring
hot Winds than succeeding in politics
unless you have a bank account to back
you UP.
Lebanon changes the dates of her an
niversary and the Smith county SOL
diers' reunion to September 8, 9 and TO-
the reunion occurring the two last
dates.
A new Democratic organ is talked of
for Logan, the home of Congressman
Reeder.
Everybody for miles will go to Downs
July q and help celebrate the towns
Among the many attractions will be
three rival ladies' bands
j. A. Quinn, one of the leading imple-
ment dealers of Oberlin after selling
complete threshing outfit and putting it
up the hottest day of the summer so
far says: Genius is l per cent in
spiration and SO per cent perspiration.'
For the benefit of anyone who is look
ing after a scrap with either the editor
foreman or local editor, the Oberlin
Times prints under its name in bold,
black letters: Il. G. Parker, editor;
James A Harris. foreman; Grace Rush,
local editor"
The Kansan favors a street fair for
Ki1win, but at the same time believes
the resident and transient jointists and
bootleggers ought to be driven outside
of the city limits during the event, ana
that the sheriff and county attorney
should be kept in Kirwin to act in case
of violation of law beyond the confines
of the city"
In cutting a field of wheat in Norton
county it was noticed that In one acre
there were 1900 bundles. The yield in
this field is estimated at 50 bushels an
acre.
The Norton county soldiers reunion
has been set for September "a, 25 and rs.
If it wasn't for a few patent medicine
advertisers the Atwood Citizen would be
without any advertisements. Only one
firm in the town is advertising in the
paper And the paper is twenty-five
The new hotel being erected in Os-
borne will be superior to most hotels, in
that it will be modern in every par
ticular. The hotel viii be in charge of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Maxwell, who are
experts in this line.
l.. K. Davis, former resident of Hill
City. is anxious to head an enterprise
looking to finding coal, gas or oil in Ora
ham county. He is interested in several
oil wells in the east. He thinks the
chances for finding the prize are good
in Graham county.
There is shedding of tears in Jewell
county because one of her steam merry
go-rounds caught fire and burned up.
The Mitchell county farmers fall fes-
tival will come off in Beloit, commence
ing September 80
Decatur county will help swell the one
hundred million bushels mark this year
by raising two million bushels of
wheat herself.
Jewell county has some "croakers" as