The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-15
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There are fifty threshing outfits in
Clay county.
An Emporia woman comes to the
front because her brother is one of the
stenographers who took the evidence
in the Bailey investigation at Austin,
Texas.
Mrs. Rosa Branch has petitioned the
Montgomery county district court to
use it's pruning knife to separate her
from her husband: She asserts that Mr..
Branch is poor stick
There are two railroads out at Stat
ford. One of them refuses to pay any
attention to the towns ordinances con-
trolling speed and signals within the
city limits. AS a result the business
men have taken action to divert all
their tonnage to the other road. That is
one way of bringing a railroad to time.
Atchison Globe: Tom Tarrant has
three violet beds in his yard on South
Sixth street, in full bloom His daugh-
ter, Miss Stella Tarrant, who works for
the McPike Drug Co., in Kansas City,
and who spends her Sundays at home,
has taken over hundred violetS back
to Kansas City with her every Monday
morning for the past four weeks, from
her fathers violet beds. This morning
she took 275 violets and the beds had
many blossoms left. Mr.. Tarrant start
ed his violet bed about 20 years ago
from a clump of violets which Louis
Rochat brought from Switzerland. Vio-
let's are as prolific as Belgian hares and
Mrs. Dan Ayers and Mrs. Mary Treat
have big violet beds which were started
from Louis Rochat's clump Of Switzer-
land violets.
Here is a bouquet which the King
man Journal hands out with its compli-
ments to T. L. Bond who recently re-
tired as grand master of the Masons of
Kansas: Few grand masters have
been more universally beloved as the
now retiring one, Thomas L. Bond of
Salina, the last and crowning act OF
whose administration was the formal
acceptance and dedication of this
chapel. Few men before him Who have
been called to the duties Of that exaft-
ed office have brought to it such
measure of ability, sterling manhood
and genuine Christianity he. In ev-
cry way he has been the embodiment
of the principles cherished and defend
ed since time immemorial by the great
fraternity of which he is so distinguish
ed member.
Horace Tucker is a wealthy farmer
living near Warsaw, Ind, and has a ma
tional reputation as a fine stock breeder
he visited Salina and in travelling over
the county he was impressed with the
fine alfalfa fields. He had tried to raise
alfalfa for some years, but every effort
proved unsuccessful. He conceived the
idea that the Indiana soil was not
adapted to alfalfa growing and he con-
cluded to inoculate it with some of the
fertile Saline county soil. He procured
a trunk and filled 1T with three bushels
of good rich dirt and bought seventy
five cents worth of alfalfa seed at
local seed store. The dirt was taken to
Indiana as baggage and spread on
piece of ground 100 feet square on his
farm. On this ground the seed was
sown and the results were marvellous.
The seed sprouted and grew and Horace
Tucker was envied by his neighbors, all
of whom have failed in their efforts to
grow the feed; and one nice fat hog was
envied by all the other animals of the
neighborhood because it was feeding
upon a small patch of real Kansas al
falfa. The experiment proved such a
great success that Mr.. Tucker has de-
cided to treat larger piece of land to
a bit of Kansas soil, and has ordered
ton of fine Saline county dirt In a
few years, Mr.. Tucker writes, he ex-
poets to have large field of alfalfa
that will be equal to any that is grown
in Kansas.