The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-16
Rocks County Issues Edict
Against 2 Per Cent.
BELOIT TO HAVE FAIR
Esbon Baseball Tournament
Was a Great Success.
Phillipsburg Dispatch Now
Issued From Its New Building.

Is marriage a failure" must be an
swered in the affirmative so far as Os-
borne and Phillips counties are COD
cerned- There were 10 divorce cases on
the court docket in the former county
and nire in the latter.
The late Norton county fair was the
largest attended and the exhibits more
largely shown than in any former one
In the four days more than Ii, 900 people
attended the fair
The record for wheat yield this year
in Graham county is that of Arthur
Norrish- His 20 acres threshed out 9S5
bushels
Bogue is one of the rapidly growing
towns of Graham county. Her enter
prfsfng merchants carry full page OF
news new items and advertisements in the
Hill City Republican every week. One
of the needs of the town is bank
The county attorney of Rocks county
has notified holders of government
licenses to sell per cent siop that they
must quit handling the stuff The
pie will live longer If they drink it in
stead of the slop called per cent
The Beloit Gazette. ike the sinner
who is seeking religion at an old-fash-
Toned religious revival, speaks out
plainly as follows: Don't You Know
is having lots of trouble lately over our
affairs. The Gazette is getting along
very satisfa ctorily, don't you know
the right side of the ledger, we have no
mortgages that are bothering US, don't
you know, and we are toleFably busy
attending to our own business. don't
you know.
If the Democrats are still hunting for
a man to beat Reeder for congress what
is the matter with them drafting J.
NJ Woodruff. the big sheep raiser of
Rocks county His friends say he would
run as bad as prairie fire on a windy
day.
The new Phfllipsburg Dispatch build
ing is one of the model offices in the
Sixth district II is freproof- John O.
Royce is proud of his new office 1t is
conveniently arranged. and the fighting
editor has room all to himself The
Dispatch doesn't take a back seat for
any paper so far as good looks is con-
cerned- With new presses and new
type the paper is handsome as good
ripe peach.
The baseball tournament and street
carnival held at Esbon was such sue
cess in every particular that her COM
mercial club. is sure it has come to
stay Over $1,000. was subscribed by
stockholders in the~a association, and all
of them are satisfied with the invest
ment. Esbon is one OF the best bust
ness towns in Jewen county
is up against the most complete crop
failure she has seen for many years,
no getting around that Fruit. vege-
tables, hay, corn, everything either
county will have considerable corn, in
spots
The stockholders of the Smith Coun-
ty Fair association have decided to
quit their annual fairs for the reason
that they have been nonsupportfng.
The one this year ran the stockholders
$500 in debt
John Ford made enough money on
his Alton Empire to sell II at high
enough figure to buy farm, which he
planted in corn. Dry weather knock
ed the crops out of time, and now he
has accepted a position on the Con-
cordia KanSan to help him tide over
his loss through the winter
The Republican prints a list of Is
retired farmers who have been blessed
with so much prosperity on the farms
of Phillips county that they are living
comfortably on Easy street. in Logan
The Lenora News which is printed
in the western terminus of the North
Solomon branch of the Missouri Pa
cific, dreams of the early extension OF
this road from Lenora to Denver.
The Cawker City Ledger shows signs
of good time. 1t has discarded its
patent print, and the work Is all done
at home. 1t has been improved quite
noticeably of late
The Oakley GEapfllC points WIN
pride to the fact that of the 25- or
more boys in the high school not one
of them smokes cigarettes
The First National bank of Smith
Center has been made a government
depository by order of the comptroller
of currency.
Rev. B. Matchett. who represented
Osborne county in the legislature In
the stormy session of 1891, and was
speaker pro tenn OF that body is pas
tor of a church in Kansas City.
The several banks in Jewell county
are not afraid to compare their bust
ness with a similar number of banks
in any county in the Sixth district
The last statements made Aug. %
last show a capital stock of 100000
To this is added the surplus of SAL
200. and undivided profits of S43.sOO,
a total of 100000. The combined
deposits of her several banks was ST.
6S7.49o; loans and discounts, $1.369.-
246. while the cash on hand amount
ed to s706.ss7.
The Kensington baseball team has
quit for the season, having lost s
games outsof a total of 81 played.
Beloit will be ''in it, the first week