The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-25
TWO MILLION BUSHELS.
Decatur County Has a Wonderful
Wheat Crop This Season.

Oberlin, Kas., July $50. l. Benton
estimates there will be not less than
two million bushels of wheat raised in
Decatur county this year. The $4,000
acres soXn is practically harvested.
The crop is the largest and the berry
the best the county has ever known.
Mr.. Benton is of the opinion the value
of the grain will exceed one million
dollars, which is equal to 500 for every
man, woman and child living in the
county.
T. B. Wolfe is the first farmer in the
vicinity of Oberlin to do any threshing.
He has about 100 acres, and the first
load hauled to town tested SO pounds.
and was bought by the Decatur Coun-
ty Cooperative association for 90 cents.
Other loads that Mr.. Wolfe hauled test
ed so pounds and more.
The farmers of Decatur county who
are in the business of raising cows, il
is said, are receiving close to 100000
a year from the sale of butter fat.
There is a big demand for residence
houses in Oberlin. Every house in
town is occupied, and at the present
time eight residences are in course OF
construction.
The Northwest Kansas Real Estate
and Abstract company, incorporated, is
new business industry for Oberlin.
The capital stock is $1,000. This is a
consolidation of the real estate and alb
stract business of Geo. w. Keys, Guy
L. Conklin, ]. c. LathrOp. Chas N.
pany will transact business in Decatur
and adjoining counties.
The prospect hole for oil at Ramona.
Decatur county, has reached a depth
of 1,600 feet, and the drilling is still in
progress. The last eighty feet has been
in solid sand rock, and the drill has
entered a stratum which G. A. Fisher,
of the United States geological survey.
says is similar to the sand in which OH
is found in Wyoming. The drillers are
jubilant over the oil indications.
Oberlin will give her first street fair
and carnival in September, the dates to
be fixed as soon as the attra can
be seeurad. AS the town has never
failed on any enterprise, and as her
people always give the visitors the
worth of their money. this street fair
and carnival will eclipse any other at
traction of a similar kind. ever held in
northwest Kansas.
The Decatur County Cooperative as
ISOLATION, Incorporated, and similar to
stores in Osborne and Hill City, has
met with wonderful success since it
started up less than a year ago. The
stockholders are in the main farmers.
and prosperous and well-tO-do. They
also own an elevator in Oberlin, and
will handle grain as well as operate a
general store. 1t has so far proved q
valuable investment.
| A. H. MCGEE, who built and operated
the first grist mill in Oberlin for sew
eral years. will spend the summer ana
liable citizen to the town, and his host
of admiring friends will wish for his
return.
Rev. ]. C. Anderson, who has been
pastor of the Oberlin Episcopal church
for the last year, has moved to Dodge
City, where he will take charge of the
church. When he. came here he found
a membership of 81, and during the
year IL have moved away. Yet the de-
nomination has secured lots and will
build a church in the future Rev. An
derson has averaged travelling about
600 miles a month preaching in Good
ton, Logan and Kirwin, besides Oberlin,
Goodland and Logan are the only
places where the Episcopalians have
churches. The membership in Norton
has grown TO almost double it's congre-
cation when Mr.. Anderson took charge
and the Goodland church has grown
from six communicates to 81.
Oberlin is the admiration of all who
visit the place. 1t is the hosDltable.
progressive county seat of Decatur
county. It has grown despite her rail-
/ road inconvenience. 1t is a place
worthy of better railroad facilities. Her
/ those in few other county seats. Go
where you will you can't find them
more sociable and prosperous than here.
And Decatur county farmers are get
ting rich in raising alfalfa. stock and
\ grains. Her schools and churches are
good as any, her grist mill, elevators,
two banks, three newspapers, tele-
phone, creamery court house, water
works, opera house, oil indications, two
lumber yards. large business firms and