The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-16

Leonardville had wet ticket in
the Held election day, and &c votes We're
cast for It, there being but the one
ticket out The newly elected officers
met Thursday to consider an offer OF
5000 for the privilege of running a joint
in the town, the jointist Offering to pay
year in advance.
The Leonardville State bank has
moved into its new building, a sub
stantial stone structure erected at a
cost OF $4,000. The bank has been very
prosperous the past year under the ef-
ficient management Of Cashier William
Karrigan, the March statement show
ing individual deposits Of over $37, 600
and total resources of $47,250.
Mrs Mendenhal who died last week
in Leavenworth county. aged 81 years.
on the farm on which she settled in
1866, was an old-fashioned woman; no
services were held over her remains
and she requested that no hearse be
used.
The Hiawatha Democrat says a
phiIanthropist is looking for the geo.
graphical center of the United States
on which to erect two philanthropic in
situations and expects TO find it near
Fort Riley He thought everybody who
read of Kansas in the boom" days
knew that Kanopolis was the center of
Kansas. the center of the United States,
the center of civilization and the center
of the universe.
We knew Kansas would get in on the
ground floor John Mccoy, who has
entire charge of President Roosevelt,s
train throughout his trip has two sis
tiers living at Morrill,
Rev. William Cardwell, the last of the
pioneer preachers of the u. B. church
in Kansas, was buried in Jefferson
county last week aged So years. He
came to Kansas as a missionary in 1886
and helped organize the first Sunday
school in the territory, at Big Springs,
which has had a continuous existence
He was pastor of the first organized
church and helped build the first church
building. He also baptised the first
white person that is known to have
been baptised in the Kaw river, Mr..
Thos. Edmonds, of McLouth, who is
still living there.
Joe Flickinger recently discovered
stratum of rock ten inches in thick
ness. The rock was in regular sizes
about 915x41z feet The space that was
uncovered was about 30x90 feet. Inves-
| tigation showed that there are yet two
/ LAYERS below that that was not taken
out Farther than that no exploration
has been made. The rock is suitable
for building and requires little or no
dressing. If the farm abounds in rock
of this quality Mr.. Flickinger can quit
farming and turn his attention to quar-
rying News.
Inc I1OltOu IACCOIQC1s GCFNA COA0AlAA
quarto, has gone to all home print be-
cause of the demands made by, the
home merchants on its columns.
Dr.. John P. Wood, of Coneyville. who
died last week at the age of 1Ol years,
was the Oldest practicing physician in
the United States. His mantle falls on
/ w. F. Boyakin of Marysville, the cor
oner of Marshall county He Will be 80
years old on Memorial day. For the
! last ten or a dozen years he has been
coroner of his county. He is actively
engaged in the practice Of medicine,
and is hale, hearty and vigorous
The high wind Sunday afternoon
blew the hat and wig off his head of a
stranger just as he turned the corner
at the Universalist church, and a boy
who was following close behind picked
them up and handed them to him.
Thank you, my boy said the owner
of the wig, you are the first genuine
hair restorer have ever seen."-Seneca
Tribune.
The Gazette says Corning has a
young lady who walked three miles
each day 10 her school when the roads
were so had the horse could not make
the journey. That's the kind of girls
Kansas produces. They get there If
they have to walk.
w H. Dyke and s. E Springer. two
old gentlemen living at Morrill,, celebra-
ted their 90th birthday last week at
which four generations were represent
ed.
adopted a litter of pigs and affords
them a warm shelter to crawl under
these chilly spring days.
Be it said to the credit of Tonganoxie
merchants that well dressed stranger
searched the town the other day for a
box of cigarettes, and could not ind
any for sale.