The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.


| Pacific, has been elected chairman of
the joint protection board of the Gould
southwestern system at salary of
$1,000 year.
At an old folks good time social held
in Alton, Osborne county, there were
about twenty-five present, and fifteen OF
them were more than 70 years old.
Another good Sixth district fellow has
borne county has been appointed ranger
on the forestry reservation in Arizona.
1t is said Secretary of State Burrow Sc
cured this recognition through Senator
Burton.
The new paper in Downs, it is said,
has gone Democratic. 1t is claimed the
second paper to be started in Logan will
be Democratic. Must be these new or
gans are going to try and knock out
the Republican prosperity in the Sixth
district.
The new home of Lawyer Lewis in
Phillipsburg will outshine all others in
convenience and beautiful architecture.
1t will cost close to $4,000, which might
indicate that there are some attorneys
in the Sixth district making money.
One of Beloit's BARRIERS has settled the
fuel question so far as coal is concerned.
1t has raised to so exorbitant a price
that he quit burning it, and as timber
is quite plentiful along the Solomon
river, when he needs any fuel he puts
on sub and goes to the timber, buys
tree and cuts it up in f1rewood. He
pays a dollar a tree, and there is usual
There is talk Of putting in operation
most any old outfit to haul freight to
Atwood from either the main line of the
3. & M. or Rock Island roads. No
their branch road from Monday until
Thursday, although they have a train
daily. The service given that town is a
trif1e better than none at all.
Major w. H. Caldwell, of Topeka for
merly of the Sixth district, for many
years the editor and publisher of the
Beloit Courier. will be agreeably sur
prised when he hears that he has lately
fallen heir to a financial chunk, be-
1 lated printers fee, amounting to $6.75
/ It came about this fashion. There was
docketed in the district court of Mitch
/ ell county in the early part of 1892
case for divorce by woman who agreed,
/ to take her husband for better or for
worse Soon after the marriage the
wife sued for divorce on the ground of
cruelty, and it was granted. The notice
was printed in Major Caldwells Beloit
Courier. The bill was presented but re-
fused payment on account of poverty.
In few years the woman disappeared,
and Caldwell gave up the account as
being no good. A few days ago the pro-
bate Judge of Ottawa county wrote to
the Mitchell county officials that that
same woman was about to marry again,
and asked if all the expenses had been
| paid in the divorce case. A return an
sWer was made at once, and by next
I
and the woman was given her right to
marry, and in the next "a hours the
second marriage ceremony was per-
formed.
Mitchell county will have a big corn
crop, too j. w. Hicks, adjoining Be-
lott, is husxing his 80 acres. He says
than so far it is averaging 10 bushels an
acre. Il have raised better corn than
this Mr.. Hicks says. but 1t IS the
best crop he has raised IN the past Is
years
The whisky is so poor at Jennings that
several Of her people have been called
to Oberlin, to appear before the county
attorney of Decatur county, to give the
why's and wherefores of said stuff.
CIV Anderson can win more fame than
ever if he will see to it that the 3. & M.
road will give better train service on the
Oberlin and Atwood branches OF tnat
road He is a part of that section
through which these branches traverse,
besides he is secretary of the state
board of railroad commissioners, ana
ought to have a great large pun. In
fact. the train service on both these
lines is simply disgraceful, and the
many thriving towns on these lines
keenly feel it.
-Four of the active young business
men of Phillipsburg, DR.. G. T. Nelson
10 A Lewis Ed Page and VIM. HARD
Imam have purchased sixty acres OF
land adjoining that town. which IS IN
derlaid with fine clay, and they are
now at work with view of estabIlsn l-
ing a brick plant. They clay mas peen
tested and proven to be first class Tor
building purposes as well as for max
ing vitrided brick
Time works great changes in the
sixth district In the winter of 1896 81
J. H Wool1en, now postmaster of Man
Ikato. bought $4,000 bushels of corn in
Fshou a small Jewell county town,
at an average price of 101a cents a
Owing TO continued Ill health Jack
; Downing, the most accommodating and
painstaking postmaster Hays City
: has ever had refuses to be q candidate
for reapDointment. He is one of the
plain, everyday pioneers of Ellis
, county. and his hosts of friends
| throughout Kansas will regret to heal
of his illness. Should Harvey J. Pen
ney succeed him. which now looks as
if he will might result in the selection
of L NJ Yost. the big miller, as one OF
the Sixth district delegates to the ma
tional Republican convention.
Joe Cadden's town of Beioit is elated
because the high school football team
Il of Beloit beat the high school football
team of ToDeka. And Gladden. has rea-
son to feel better over it than anybody
else. He has drilled those BelOit ath-
tleteS: many of them belonged to the
Beloit fire department the years he was
fire marshal: then, again, most of them
attended the Beloit schools when Cad
Joe Cadder is glad he lives in Reloit
where the successful team resides
where the schools are the best, and
where her fire department will take
front rank with any outside of a few
of the largest cities in the state. He
the Union Pacific, and has been for the
last fVrarfW-f1ya