The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-25

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Phillips county needs to get into line
and erect a new court house. The
Phillipsburg papers are a unit in it's
advocacy. If for no other reason than
to decorate and make her court house
square more attractive, a new court
house is a necessity.
The B. & NJ. railroad has discon-
tinued the station of Seth, in Norton
county and the depot has been moved
a quarter of a mile, and anchored close
to the Rock Island depot of Calvert,
and in the future both stations will be
known as Calvert.
The Phillipsburg Dispatch prints it
"Chroker City" instead of Cawker
City. The place didn't deserve such a
horrible name as the Dispatch gave it.
and some one has suggested that
Grace Snyder, the bright correspon-
dent of Cawker City, ought to rip the
taching the new name to her town. 1t
was Mrs. Snyder who suggested chang
ing the name to Waconda, and some of
the Cawker City people came near
having q fit over it.
Norton has forged forward so rap
idly that the town now has a daily pa
per, the second in the Sixth district.
A town that has SO wideawake COM
mercial club. and is gonig to have a
home baseball club which will make
history by beating all other clubs out
of sight, was entitled to a daily pub
lication, and Will Garland launched
the daily Telegram, a five column To-
lilo. filled with good stuff for progress
sive Norton.
According to the records in the Of
fee of the clerk of court of Smith
county. for the last twenty years, there
has been ESQ divorce petitions filed.
Sol Reece of Decatur county, now
living in Jennings. refused an offer of
$50 per acre for his half section farm
five miles from Jennings. Mr.. Reece
came to Decatur county from Indiana,
in 1870.
Walter Herndon is a Smith county
farmer He is also a hog raiser. When |
ever he wants a little spending money |
he takes a few hogs to the Lebanon |
market, and usually realizes the top !
notch in price, as was the case few |
days since when he took an even half |
dozen to market, whose average weight |
was 372 pounds. for which he received |
a check for $147.50.
Word reaches the friends of Frank |
Baker, in Phillipsburg, that he is dan |
gerously i'll of cancer in a hospital in |
Kansas City. He is the superintendent |
elect of schools of Phillips county. Mr.. |
Baker is one of the brightest education |
al workers in northwest Kansas, and at |
one time was a candidate for state |
superintendent of instruction.
The thriving little town of Grainheld, |
in Cove county, is growing so rapidly |
that a second hotel has been opened by |
Mcmillan & Cordell. 1t has been sug-
gested by many to name the new hotel |
The Welcome"
Almena, in Norton county, the town |
which gave an alfalfa carnival for |
three days, is not afraid to make her |
wants known through the newspapers. |
Her people are clamOring for Touring |
MILL laundry, bakery and brick plant. |
In the midst of her prosperity, the new
State bank now six months old, is in |
creasing the capital stock from $4,000 !
to $25.000 besides they are at work on
the new bank building.
Thomas is the only county in the !
state where every township was named |
in honor of 4 private soldier who was
killed or wounded in the battle of Chick
while the county itself was
named after a general IN the civil war.
C. w. Abarr, Union Pacific agent at
Grainfield, has set a model example. |
He is strictly enforcing the tobacco
rules. Now women can sit in the depot
awaiting trains without getting picked |
in tobacco Juice and smoke.
One of the big improvements in
Smith Center this year will be the |
election of the Uhl business block,
5Ox12O feet, of brick, and two stories
high above the basement. The block
will cost over SIS, 200. L. c. Uhl, the
head of the firm, came to Smith
county in 1872. He is one of the fore
most attorneys in his section of the
state. The next oldest is Chas. S.
Uhl the abstractor, who mas lived IN
Smith county since 1876. In 1884
these men located and made final
proof papers as high as six and ten a
day, at times running as high as Is a
day. L. c. Uhl. jr.. is also a lawyer,
and Fred H. Uhl, the youngest, lis no.
tary public and abstracter. Their ad-
vertisement reads: l. G. Uhl & Son,
lawyers; Uhl & Uhl, bonded abstrac-
ters. The Elm's addition to Smith
Center is the property OF Chas. S. Uni,
which has been laid out in desirable
tracts, and is improving rapidly in
sales and the erection of beautiful
suburban houses
There is a story going the rounds
that the Sixth district has only one
editor in its confines This