The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-29
BIG CORN CORNWALL.
Republic County Will Celebrate at
BeIlevilIe, September 1929.

Belleville, Aug. 29.-Belleville and
| Republic county will celebrate their
great corn crop this year, three days,
| September 81, IS and %. Such carni-
walls as this are worth their weight in
| hard cash and the people in town and
country are alike IN singing the
praises of the good old town of Belle
vile and the rich county of Republic.
This county is going to have an old
fashioned crop of corn, and the people
are Jubilant enough to celebrate for
three days. Ample funds amounting
to about $500 have been already
subscribed by the business men of
Belleville alone. State Senator r. b.
Ward is president of the association,
and George A. Chaplin is treasurer.
These are the right men in the right
places and all of them have had pre-
vious experience in former corn carni-
composed of the representative bust
ness men of Belleville. Here former
carnivals have been . great success.
and this one will be more so, because
every business man in town has con-
tributed money, besides all are work
ing in harmony for it's success. Prem
iums will be given for the best farm
display and every township in the
county will be invited to take part.
The flower parade is in charge of the
following ladies': Mrs. C. P. Carsten-
sen. Mrs. r. NJ. Brigham, Mrs. Adela
Perry, Mrs. G. w. COINS Mrs T. M
Doyle and Mrs. H. L. Pierce. Alto
gether the people of BellevilIe will
give the visitors the biggest affair of
the kind ever pulled or in this part of
the state.
Concordia is one of the towns of
Kansas where prosperity seems to have
taken up permanent quarters, and no
city In the state is enjoying a more
steady or substantial growth or better
business conditions. The new ice and
cold storage company, the new brick
plant, the new artificial stone industry,
he 111-ar nah - ~
vester company, together with a num-
Der of new business houses all contrib
ute to this pleasing era of prosperity
and makes the average Concordian
swell up like a toy balloon when you
mention his town. More handsome and
costly new homes have been built in
Concordia in the past year or so than
in any city in this portion of Kansas.
and it is remarkable that so few of
them are built on credit. 1t is a city
of beautiful homes and well kept lawns,
shaded and clean streets and the gen
eral appearance of healthfulness and
prosperity makes it a place worth Iiv-
ing in.
One of the successful politicians in
the Fifth district is Mrs. Evelyn Brad
ford, of Concordia- She has held the
Office of department president of the |
Women's Relief corps; she is postmas-
ter of the Kansas house of representa- |
tives, and she fills the office of treasur- |
er of the RebekahS. She has been |
beaten for Office once, and that was
register of deeds in Cloud county. She
is a good campaigner, and Chairman |
Stubs should put her on the stump |
this fall.
One of the pioneers of Kansas is P. |
w. Hull, of Concordia. He came to |
Kansas in 1856. and located in Con- |
cordia in 1879. He is now 70 years old, |
and hale and hearty as a. cricket. For !
three years he has been engineer at the |
city waterworks plant, and in this time |
has missed eleven days on account of |
sickness. Through his sagacity and |
foresight Concordia has a first class |
waterworks plant. He was instrument !
tai in carrying Cloud county for Major |
morrill,. for governor. He knew him |
well, having resided in Brown and |
Atchison counties for many years. Had |
there been enough offices to go round |
Mr.. Hull would have gotten a good job |
many other Republicans. Mr.. Hull can't |
stand hitched for the whole ticket this |
year.
One of the youngest postmaSters in |
the Fifth district is s. H. Knapp, of |
Clyde. One of the most important Off /
ces in the district Is. Clyde. And Mr.. |
Knapp and his assistants are up to the |
standard IN giving satisfaction and |
pleasing the patrons of the office. Con-
gresham Calderhead made a happy hit |
in appointing Sid Knapp and reappoint- |
ing MIN for another four years. In the |
recognition of the young crowd Sid |
Knapp is the right fellow in the right |
place.
Few Fifth district editors are filling /
postoffices compared with the large |
in the Sixth district This /
might seem as IL Congressman Calder /