The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-27

the Reveiile comments as follows:
/ THE suppression of the Boston Cash
store is the destruction of an old land
mark Its history dates back to the
sos, and since then has played an inn
portant part in the ups and downs of
Graham county"
A petition unanimously signed by the
business men of Agra for Incorporation,
will be heard by the commissioners Of
Phillips county early in July.
The socialists of the Sixth congress
sional district hope to nominate a win
ner for congress in Norton, July 8.
Chas. NJ. Sawyer, chairman of the
Democratic congressional committee Of
the Sixth district, has issued the call
for the convention to be held in Hill
! City, August 10. The district is enti-
4 tied to 100 delegates.
The Ellsworth Reporter is printing a
/ list of the Ellsworth county people who
voted for Lincoln in 1850. So far as
known there is one living in that coun-
", p S. Cunningham. who voted for
Scott in 1852. for Fremont in 1856, and
for Lincoln in 1860 Another resident
of Ellsworth county, A. w Phelps, voted
for Taylor in 1S4S. and Samuel Long
voted for Hale in 1852. Both Of them
voted for Lincoln in 1860.
/ The three banks in Lincoln had on
deposit last week 1905. 1928.
/ ]. G. Blaine Pinney announces that
\ he is a candidate for the Republican
nomination for the legislature in Lin
coin county
Election for school director gets red
hot in Lebanon. Certainly not because
the salary for director is so large E. I.
Derge and DR.. John B. Dykes, two OF
the prominent business men OF tne
town. contested for the honors- Result;
Derge As votes; Dykes, SO.
Esbon is spreading out so that most
of her business men favor incorporation
They have so petitioned the Jewell
| county commissioners, and the petltlon
will be heard early in July Grand
Avenue, in Esbon, is also looking up
INT r.FT f1T7rl ord
| cashier of the State bank, cost close to
/ S. 500: other capitalists who live on
/ Grand avenue are H. B. Kein, president
of the State bank; r. W. Helmer, re-
tired farmer; c. F. Noble and Jerome
Hill, farmer and stoclman. Esbon is
doing so nicely that the town is going
to be lighted with gas.
/ J. E. Housed, of Lebanon, IS one OF
the large cherry. raisers of Smith coun-
! ty. He will raise this year over lOO
| bushels He has about 300 trees'nlany
of them bearing He has 500 apple
| trees also several varieties OF peach
| trees and bearing pears. At one time
last week he had over twenty persons
picking cherries. Mr.. Housed IS a ne
lever in Smith county soil as frult
Fx-Judge John r. Hamilton, of
Norton. was a happy man when ne
struck Norton county in june To- 4,
coming from Iowa He IS % yeas
| old and is today as happy, pleasing
a man as there is in Norton county.
He opened his law Office IN Norton IN
! 1874 and is Therefore the Oldest Dusl-
ness man in continuous service D N tlls
/ town When he first located in Norton
! there were only three houses on tne
townsite, and less than 2eO lnha Oh
tants in the county There We're put
three single roof buildings in the en-
| tire county He has seen buffalo on
the townsite, and killed them less
than two miles away. At the Tune ne
| located in Norton only one mail
a
from Kearney, Neb-, IL miles, Dy
| pony express. He served in the legls-
| lature in 1877 and 1873 AT one uIIie
he was elected county attorney quar-
ned. and resigned the next day, for
the reason that he had to in order 10
make his resignation legal. he also
served one year as judge of the Sew
enteenth district Mr.. Hamilton en-
joys a good law practice, and IS con-
tented to leave politics alone
Lebanon, which is situated in Smlth
county the home of Secretary OF state
BurroW is putting on style. That IS
three residences in the town are be-
ing built with modern conVenlences
and colonial porches. They are being
built by DR.. John b Dykes, Dr
Henry Dykes and H. n. DuntOn, they
having ample money to erect these
| houses That of DR.. John Dykes is
a little ahead of either of the others
in that his viii be heated by a not an
furnace and lighted with gas me
Dykes have other property than their
homes. considerable real estate, and
lucrative practice. They have between
them about 800 head of hogs of the
Poland and DurOc varieties Mr. Dun
ton has a large real estate and loan
business. and is successful
There are spirited legislative fights
among the Republicans in the Sixth
district going on in Lincoln county
where there are three candidates, one
of which is a boss buster, another is a
sort of betwixt and between candi-
~ AT-s 4 10 A-l N frnr
aspirant. In Jewell county there are
two candidates, one of which got into
the HOch wagon early and circulated
the petition for a Hoch boss busters
club, while the other candidate has
kept out of the fractional turmoil In
Norton county there are four candi-
dates including Col c. D. Jones, the
present incumbent, whom the boss
busters want to turn down. In Mitch
ell county Boss Buster Meade present
incumbent, expects third term NOM
ination on the record he made in the
last extrava CANT legislature He Is
pretty apt to meet with strong oppO-
sition at the polls if Geo. H McKinnie
or J. c. Eresch, present sheriff, are
either nominated. Mr.. McKinnie
1 served in the legislature two or three
terms. In Osborne county there is a
hot time being INDUCED in by the ma
chine men who want to renOminate
the present incumbent, and the boss
busters who favor J. A Morton In
Rocks county the present incum bent
declined a denomination and so far
only one other candidate has come to
the surface. In Phillips county the
chances are good for a lively scrap
that is, the machine fellows are feel
ing around for a suitable man. and il
may be DR.. c. E Nelson or L. A.
Champlin. The counties of Cove
CHEYENNE. Rawlins, Decatur, Graham
Sheridan. TregO, Ellis, Thomas and
Ellsworth have not had their trouble
vet. but in MANY of them machine and
boss buster politics is already sizzling
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