The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-10
Citizens of Lincoln and Lincoln
County Are Prosperous
Can Sell Property for Almost
Any Old Price,
BUTHAVENONETO SELL
COntented to Remain on the Old
Home Places.
No Saloons Nor Gambling Places
to Mar Its Morals.

Lincoln. Kan, Jan. 1o-The change
that has taken place in Lincoln and
Lincoln county in the last ten years,
If written in detail would read as Won
derful as the arabian Nights entertain
ments. Ten years ago. when wheat sold
for forty cents a bushel, corn for ten 10
fifteen cents. if there was crop. cattle
FOR whatever buyer wanted TO pay,
and when the best land in the county
If offered for sale would not bring ten
dollars per acre while cheaper lands
were going a begging as low as three
hundred dollars per quarter; when the
loan companies or their eastern clients
owned a big lot of the land and were
trying to sell and few had money TO
buy with ard those few We're afraid to
invest: when men were crowding every
street corner talking politics; those were
dark days for Lincoln county
If all the land and all the personal
property had been sold at forced sale at
that time it is doubtful if enough would
haVe. been realized to pay the indebted
ness Of the people. The picture has been
changed, as if by magic. Lands are
selling readily. wherever offered for
sale, as high as fifty to sixty dollars per
acre, and there is not piece Of rough
pasture whiting the limits of the county
with fence and water that VIII not sell
AOI ten QOlaTS per acre. N neat LleS
not sold for years at less than So cents
to S1.G0 per bushel; corn has been
good crop for several years and has not
ECld for less than IS TO 40 cents per
bushel; cattle have been fair price; in
LaCt, anything and everything that
farmer has raised to sell has been
bringing a good price for the last ten
years until there are no poor, nearly
everybody is well-to-do and many OF our
farmers are rich
There are farmers in Lincoln county
who have never known anything but
hard work, who have not speculated and
who could clean up from fifty to one
hundred thousand dollars. Many Of
them do not realize that they are rich
They do not want to sell their land or
property and still they move on the even
tenor of their ways.
All this prosperity has had its effect
On this city. Ten years go many of our
Best citizens were hanging on here to
try to gtt themselves IL better financial
condition so that they could go some
where else and live in comfort. Today
they are calling Lincoln home and es-
tablishing themselves to lead lives Of /
comfort right here- New, conmodious,
modern, we'll furnished homes are being
Ewit
Icstead OF looking east, west, north or
south for a model place for residence, !
they speak OF Lincoln as the model place. |
And 1t is So This modest county seat 1
of seventeen hundred inhabitants is one
where. lit is tcpOgrap hically beautiful. /
Elevated from the low bottom land. we'll
drained and healthy The business 4
streets are 100 feet wide and the resi- /
Gence street so feet Trees and blue
grass lawns are beautifying the homes. /
IL would rather live in Lincoln than
fin any town that I know Of" is an eX-
preston used in substance by most OF
our people today And why not? It is
a very moral town. No saloons, no
gambling places. good school a college,
six protestant churches with commo-
diCus church homes and one other,
Christian (NewlighD, in process OF I
erection and the Catholics are building
a $4,000 stone church in a beautiful de
siSn.
Happenings of the past year tend.
particularly to make Lincoln an attrac-
tive place to live Bonds are voted and
wateIworlzs and electric lights are go
ing in: besides the residences already
here. many have been erected this year
that would be a credit to Topeka, Wich-
Eta or any town IN Kansas
Among these may be mentioned j. AL
belt Smith 8. J. W Grubb's, J. ". Mercy
nolds'. Henry Sahlman's and a large
number of lesser prominence.
Then the changes on the business
streets are equally noteworthy Troup
e. Robinson have built a new hardware
store 50z120 feet and put in the latest
modern fixtures, making II one Of the
finest stores in the state. They also
have large stone warehouse in the rear
OF IT, A. r. Han Is erecting new room
for his furniture store. 35X115 feet which
when occupied by his stock Of furniture
will be a thing Of beauty. A travelling
man. who makes most parts OF the state,
a authority that Halls store was one
Of the incest kept furniture stores that
he had found anywhere ard when he
Jccrpies his new quarters II viii be far
ahead CT what It is now. The Lincoln
Drug company viii occupy one of the
two new store rooms being erected by
Henry link with their drug stock and
new modern fixtures VIII furnish it,
q. Munich & Co. have just increased
their stock and VIII occupy a double
room. fifty feet frontage, on Lincoln
avenue; Abel & Bower, the present
owners Of the opera house. are arranging