The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-24
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.
A Variety of Interesting Items From
Northwest.

The Citizens State bank, soon to com
mence business, will be the second bank
in Kensington, Smith county.
In the consolidation OF two Of the
tour Ph1lIpsburg papers, the old say
ing that the lion and the lamb shall
lie down together has come true. John
@ Royce, Of the Dispatch, and L. W.
Mattison. OF the Herald, have been
lighting IN their respective journals for
years. No blood was shed, but it came
near this several times In the console
dation Royce remains the fighting edi-
tor-in-chief, while Mattison will have
charge of the mechanical work and
write locals.
The editor Of the Lebanon Argus kicks
because some of his exchanges come
to the office poorly printed. He goes on
70 say We would rather be cut off
their list If perfect papers cannot be
sent"
The chickens are doing their shrare
to make Paradise Flats, in Rocks coun-
ty, famous. P. d. Spellman, the poultry
and egg man Of Plainville, is shipping
a car load of eggs a week.
Three premiums amounting to ten
dollars win be given by the town of
PlainVille June 90 for the cIeanest yard
and the finest display Of flowers grown
in the yards.
The Cawker City Ledger is authority
for the statement that John w Nc
Bride of the Beloit Times, has been ap-
pointed deputy oil inspector, which is
trifie better than nothing at ali.
Bishop Isaac w. Joyce of Mime
apolis, Mimi, who attended the Meth
odist conference in Smith Center re-
Gently, says of this one; In all the
conferences which I have attended
during the last eight years, covering a
good share of the United States, the
one just closed at Smith Center has
been the most satisfactory, both from
the standpoint of attendance and in
terest, both inside and outside the
membership of the church.
Frank McIvOr, of the Hoxie Sem
incl, celebrates his birthday July 5.
HIS paper is tWenty-one years old in
July. He therefore announces that he
wants TO see an old rousing Fourth of
July in Hoxie. His contemporaries
are willing.
Russell is to have a grist mill and
elevator combined, at a cost of be-
tween 100000 and $4,000 and in
time to catch the grain harvest of this
year.
It is better financially to own
Mitchell county farm than be a mem
Der of the legislature. A G. Mead, of
Beloit, sold his 200-acre farm near
that town for SIS an acre.
New banks are springing up in sew
eral towns in the Sixth district. Three
have already been announced at
Brewster, Selden and Kensington, and
rumors says the second bank is going
to start in Plainville-
The Agra Sentinel editor speaks out
plainly as follows: THE editor of this
paper may not wear as good clothes
as some people, but he des not steal
them. They are paid for before he
wears them"
The Atwood Citizen seems confident
that this years wheat crop in Rawlins
county viii reach over a million bush
els. That paper goes on to say:
There has not been 4 time since the
Il. L.,
Inns county has experienced a boom
equal to that of the present time 1t
is reported from all parts Of the
county that people are coming into the
county buying farms and improving
the same. It is not like it was in the
early days, when people bought farms
here only for speculative purposes. but
the people who are coming here now
are coming with the intention of stay
ing, improving their farms and max
ing themselves a home. In the last
year land has doubled in value and
with the present prospect for 1,O00,-
900 bushel wheat crop there will, no
doubt, be a large immigration to this
county during the next year
The organ of the boss busters of
Phillips county, which was the Phil
lipsburg Herald, has consolidated with
the Dispatch, which was the "betwixt
and boss busters. Now if the Smith
Center Messenger would come out
and favor the machine faction, the
thing would be about evenly divided,
as the Pioneer is generally regarded
as the organ of the boss busters. Be
sides, both Smith Center and Phillips
burg have Democratic organs.
Every railroad town in the Sixth
district is forging ahead at break
neck. speed in building In many towns
the activity in building is phenor-
email. the like of which has not been
Witnessed since the early settlement
of this station.
Rev. C. r. Jackman, pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Lincoln, has
been performing double work for a
long time. On Sabbath he breaches
from the pulpit to good congregations,
while the other six days in the week
he labors in his blacksmith and ma
chine shop, and enjoys a splendid
trade, for he is an expert in these
professions.
A new general store was thrown
open to the public in Hill City the
other day Tt took 20 clerks from I
o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock
at night to supply the wants of the
patrons. Every lady customer was