The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-30
in SIXTH DISTRICT
Editor of BeIOit Gazette Boosts
Girls Industrial School.
Gives Mrs. Perry, Superinten-
dent, a Deserved Compliment.
ALFALFA GOLD MINES.
They Are to Be Found All Over
District.
NOrtOn's Band Is Proving
Good Thing.
ALFALFA GOLD MINES.

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The editor of the Beloit Gazette has
been shown through the State Indus
trial School for Girls. which is located
in his town, and in the columns of his
paper he tells his readers OF this model
state institution. Of the superintendent,
Mrs. Julia B. Perry, the Gazette truth
fully says: When she was selected for
the position she now holds a better Sc
lection could not have been made. She
is a business woman who surpasses the
average woman of ner time. She was a
successful school teacher, which means
great deal to the institution. She is
firm in her beliefs regarding right and
wrong; yet with all her firmness she
has a heart full of love and sympathy
for those who look up to her for ad-
vice. She has the ability to draw the
good out of an individual, thus making
one feel there is a place in this world
for them. Above ALL Mrs. Perry is a
mother, and in dealing with the girls
in her charge she deals with them from
a mothers standpoint as we'll as from
any other, thus making her the woman
for the place"
There was a public sale in Decatur
county on the farm of A. D. Litton, of
stock and farm implements, which aG-
gregated over s1,40o. A work horse sold
for $9S and other stock in the same pro-
portion. Only three notes were given,
the rest of the sales were paid with
bank Checks. This ought to indicate
that the people of Decatur county are
making money.
The Norton News, Perry Coler, editor
and publisher, is a splendid publication
for the town. Coler watches the prog
ress his town is making and then prints
the right kind of stuff. Nor does he
forget to boom the alfalfa meal mill
plant and all other enterprises tending
to build up Norton. His paper deserves
the prosperity it is enjoying.
Alfalfa meal mills are getting to the
front in northwest Kansas. The one
in operation in Mankato has so far
proved successful. money is being hber-
ally subscribed Cor the erection of plants
in Kirwin and Osborne. The new mill
in Norton will be first-class and abso-
lutely fireproof 1t will take the place
of the one destroyed by fire a few
months ago More than $4,000 has al
ready been subscribed, and this sum is
likely to be increased from $4,000 to
SIS, 900 more.
r. M. Rowse. of Plainville. has Joined
the square dealers, that is. he has made
his store a cash one, and adopted the
square deal system to all alike
Bonds to the amount of $13,500 have
been voted for the Almena waterwOr<s
plant.
Raising alfalfa is surer than engaging |
in politics, so Geo. w. Dart, the Jewell
county man who promised to camp on
says. He hauled a few sacks of al |
falfa seed to the Formoso market which |
netted him $117. He says but for the
alfalfa he couldn't stay on Reeder's
trail. Another Jewell county Alfalfa
raiser is William Patrick. He, too, |
hauled a load of seed to the same mar |
ket for which he received a check for |
S5S9.11.
Careful estimates. place the improve,
ments in Almena this year, public and
private, at a cost close to 100000. This /
includes a 5000 school house. 1t will |
enable the school board to put in |
high school course prepara-
tory for any university. Almena is
Norton county trade center, and occa-
sinally holds an alfalfa carnival.
Col. Joe Wright will dish up the Le-
banon stuff for the Smith Center Mes
senger as of yore even if his name as
editor and publisher will be hauled
down from its masthead. He is going
to rest for year, get acquainted with
his family, stop paying cash fares to
the railroads, raise a few hogs and sell
some Kansas and Oklahoma real estate.
He has been in the newspaper harness
for 25 years, and thinks he can afford
to rest from the work of conducting a
Politically, Wright will re-
main a Populist. He says: Here's
to the loyal Pops scattered here and
there. When you get tired of the 'hoss
play of the two old parties, were with
you to a finish. Until then you can
find us at home, attending to business
around the place just like the rest of
you"
Norton has one of the best bands in
northwest Kansas. 1t was the main
drawing card at the late old soldiers
reunion at Rexford, and Norton easily
secured the next reunion by the pres
ance of this band. There is music in
he air at all times in Norton. Some
times her band makes it, then, again,
the carpenters hammer, and the ma
sons trowels, and the hundreds of chill
1ren on the way to and from school,
he whistles of her varied industries
her steam printing offices-there is mus
C always in the air in Norton.
The two banks in Almena have de-
oosits aggregating 100000.
At least two papers in the Sixth dis
rict are making money. They are the
Hill City Republican and Plainville
Gazette. The former will furnish the I
paper until Jan. 1, 1909, for the sum
Of so cents, while the latter will give
away at least $500 in its effort to /
please its patrons, in the next few I
weeks.
The Sixth district is after the office /.
If grand secretary of assembly, which
Katie A. Horne, of Selden, instructor
Sixth district, is a candidate for the
1onor- The district has never had an
elected officer, and it has So lodges.
During the two years she has been in
;tructor she has instituted seven new
edges, and revived several others.
Sixth district delegates will be in To-
oeka in good numbers in the interest
Of Mrs. Horne for grand secretary.
There are close to rs families living
On Easy street in Oberlin, who have
made money out of their Decatur
county possessions, and have quit the
arm.
One of the big alfalfa raising sec
ions in northwest Kansas is the coun-
ry tributary to the Prairie Dog creek.
n Norton county. Almena. the only
own in Kansas where her people have
ever held an alfalfa carnival and
paved her streets and walks with it is
n the center of the alfalfa belt of