The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-20
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Chas. H. EmmOns Retires from
Hill City Reyeille.
Example of How Graham County
Land BOOms.
IN COL. CONEY'S SHOES.
Capt. J. s. M'DOwell May Succeed
Him in &. A. R.
Norton Makes Bid for the Odd
Fellows Home.
IN COL. CONEY'S SHOES.

Chas H. Emmons has retired from
the active management of the Hill CITY
Reveille. His successor is A. c. IN
low. Mr.. Emmons is a bright writer
from his political standpoint. The new
editor says he, too, has pronounced re-
form ideas on great public questions,
and says the paper will stand upon the
broad idea Of clean politics, supporting
candidates for political preferment who
have shown in private and official life
to be worthy and competent regardless
of their party affiliations
A piece of Graham county land has
been sold three times in as many years.
The first sale was for $500. the second
for $500, while the third sale brought
81, 200.
The Argus says Kirwin must have
city marshal, but wants one appointed
who has nerve enough to go to a law
breaker unarmed. The editor will have
no shotgun marshal if he can prevent it,
Norton county has a whole lot of
good looking school teachers which was
an inducement for the Norton Courier to
reduce the price to fifty cents a year to
the teachers exclusively. This partiality
is likely to make trouble with those not
teachers who think they are as good
looking and deserving as are the teach
ers.
That must have been a sight never to
be forgotten by the drinkers in Smith
Center and Colby who looked on and
witnessed the return of the packages to
Kansas City from the depots in these
towns which had been shipped in Q.
o. D.
Col. L. G. Parker of the oberlin
Times. is a fighting editor. Hear him:
our publishing the Hughes letters
seems to have stirred up the preachers
of Oberlin. We are glad of it,
The Goodland News gives a column or
more space each week to the cause of
the ". c. T. U. It is edited by Mrs
Eva Murphy and Mrs. Mary kaufman.
At the top of the column is this motto:
We mean to be as pleasant as sun
shine, but as persistent as fate"
Grace Snyder, who edits the Cawker
City items in the Beloit Call, can see
an item as far any anyone as the fol-
satisfied if they are employed by one
party to a. suit, but a prominent Beloit
Iawyer. goes one better and is attorney
for both the plaintiff and the defendant
in suit to come up at the next term
of court"
Lebanon people to the number of Is
or 80 have bought lots in the new Indian
Territory town named Lawson
The Atwood Patriot is deserving of
good medal from the people OF the
town for suggesting the pretty name
of Pearl of the Plains for Atwood.
The town is deserving of all the kind
words said about It,
1t may be a little early to talk of
who is going to succeed Pat Coney as
department commander of the G. A.
r. at the next encampment, which will
be held in Salina, May next. Already
the old G. A R. boys are talking for
Can't. J. S. Mcdowell, of Smith Center.
The Sixth district is for him. and his
following in other parts of the state
will be large. Capt. Mcdowell has al
wavs been true blue. He hasn't asked
for the honor, but his comrade friends
are going to put him there if they can.
He will make an admirable successor
to Capt. Coney, who is making a splen-
did record. as department commander,
and one Of the best the department has
ever had.
S. J. Moorish is a prominent Oberlin
business man. He sells pumps and
windnills. Here is his advertisement,
taken from the Oberlin Times, and
headed Corrupt Politics." WAS you
ever in then2 You have heard of salt
river. The source of the river is the
tears of your friends. Speaking Of
/ salt river reminds US of fresh water,
to get it you must have q windmill and
The Stockton Record has discovered
that there is less trouble and anxiety
printing a weekly. and has shut down
on the triweekly issue after two at
/ tempts.
The Colby Touring mills have orders
/ for hour from England and in one or