The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
THRIVING TERRITORY.
Lincoln and Lincoln County Have Lit
tie Cause to Complain.

| Lincoln county have commenced to
harvest. The majority of the wheat
will be cut by headers. Three imple-
ment firms in this place will sell be-
tween 40 and so headers. There will
De more wheat raised in the county
/ than generally supposed ten days and
two weeks ago. Some of the farmers
| IN this vicinity estimate they will raise
| 10 and 20 bushels an acre, while
others report a yield far below these
| figures. 1t is wonderful the changes
| that can come about SO quickly after
| rain has fallen. Before the rain the
| wheat crop was dead. Since the rain
there is going to be half crop or
eral rains and warmer weather has
| made wonderful change in its ap-
pearance and growth
The merchants of Lincoln close
their doors at p. M, in order to give
their tired clerks a rest. There is
| nothing happening to discourage any
| or them. Little building is going on,
yet every business house is occupied
| and there isn't an empty residence in
| town. An indication of a good town
is the return of A. L. Shire from ST.
Louis to again engage in the general
| merchandise business after an alb
sence of three years.. He made money
here before and he will make money
again. He knows a good town, too,
and this is what brought him back to
| Lincoln.
Lincoln has had living example of
what can be done by vigilance and
economy in the person of John r.
Hunter. He came here with a 1O-cent
hack, and now ne has property scat
tered all over the town. He is also
the financial end of the Scandia Furni-
| ture Co., the pioneer furniture store Of
Lincoln. He owns no less than three
quarter sections of Lincoln county
| lands. He built himself UP by close at
tention to business matters, having
made money in whatever avocation he
was engaged. He carries a furniture
stock of $4,000 to SIS, 900, His mana
ger is VIII Dodds, one of the most
popular young business men in
town.
Another enterprise in Lincon is the
new furniture and music store of A.
R. Hall, who began business on
small scale about dozen years ago.
Today he owns stock of over $4,000,
including general furniture line, I'M
dertaklng and music. In the musical
department will be found all kinds
or instruments, besides the Edison
photograph, and he has a standing or
der for every record as fast as they
can be billed out.
This store of Mr.. Halls is among
the largest in the state, and has a bust
ness extending to many other towns.
1t mas a frontage Of thirty-two feet
and 220 feet long. 1t Is the intention
or Mr.. Hall as soon as every thing is
d
public reception. He will also branch
out in the wholesale trade. The COM
mercial men pronounce this new bust
ness industry of Mr.. Halls the finest
In its line they have seen in the state.
The schools of Lincoln have grown
so rapidly that the city contemplates
submitting a bond issue for $4,000
or $4,000 to erect further necessary
school buildings.
The Lincoln Normal Institute will
convene Tn ic oaI
has the reputation of being one of the
best in the state. With a teaching |
force of LOG teachers, the institute last
year had an enrolment of 1856. and 16
counties in the state were represented |
This year splendid faculty has been
secured and the enrolment is ex- |
pected to reach over 200.
The Lincoln county court house and
janitor is Ed NJ. Harris, a man of |
taste, who takes interest in keeping |
everything in proper shape. He is an |
old resident of the county, and all WISH |
tors can be pleasantly entertained while |
he relates the early "reminiscences of
his pioneer days in Lincoln county.
Lincoln has grown and prospered in |
common with other northwestern Kan |
sas towns. Nor has her growth been |
of mushroom nature. There is room |
for all who are here. The country trib- |
utary to Lincoln is not surpassed in |
agricultural richness nor population |
were hundreds of sod and log cabins, |
and today it looks If all the farmers |
are living in comfortable houses and |
surrounded with the necessary Iuxur- |
les to make home and family happy |
and contented. The changes have been |
so far as the country tribu-
tary to Lincoln is concerned. The wa
terworks and electric light plants are
successful, so is her ice plant, although |
the owner, ]. c. Cooper, will double it's
another season. The Touring
mill is working full time, and has been
a source of revenue from the time it
was opened. Everybody in Lincoln is
attending to their own affairs. When it |
comes to pulling for an enterprise fof |
good of town, then everybody's shoulder
Is at the wheel pushing in the same di-
rectiOn.
And Lincoln, 500, is a city of elegant,
costly homes, whose surroundings of
shaded trees and blue grass lawns are
as attractive are those in larger and
older communities. AS a musical cen
Ter, here one will find a town worthy
If all the good words said of her must
al talent. The choral union has won I
praise from near and far. And there
S Joe McCanles' band, also much APP
lreciated. 1t is old and we'll trained.
Mr.. McCanles has had charge of it for
Years. He is a fine leader and cornet-
St There are other musical or2ani-
sations in Lincoln, and all of them
nave made good regulations.
1t has her three banks, solid as any;
t has her up-to-date business men who
larry large enough stocks that her peo-
Die don't have to go to cities to get
What they want; it has her several
,hurches and splendid schools; it is
lot overrun with newspapers, there be-
ng two, most county seats having
hree or more; and it has a hospitable
people the visitor will find in all
lis travels.