The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-15
in SIXTH DISTRICT
RaWlins County Is Having a
Fruit Tree Boom.
Many Farmers Buy $500 and
$500 Worth.
ALMENA WAKES Up.
Talking of Having a System of
HaterWorks.
ALMENA WAKES UP.
Otis l.. Benton Retires From
Presidency ofOberlin Bank.

Rawlins county people are buying
more fruit trees than in former years.
| mere was a time when orders for
! 1run trees amounted to SIS and $40
from each purchaser. Not so now,
Inc orders now aggregate $500 and
| $500 each Herman and John
Folke purchased from $500 to $685.
| each- These men came to the county
IN 1893 and hired out as laborers Now
| they are. said to he worth close to $780,
OUO each And they made good share
OF thelr money raising wheat and cat
tie. n. NJ. Hastings is another Raw
inns county farmer who has invested
$500 in fruit trees
Norton having been declared a city
OF the second class by proclamation of
Gov Hoch, leads the News to remark:
Ii you don't believe there is build
ing going on in Norton make a drive
some Sunday and then the next day
60 over the same route. Where you
foundations and where you saw foun-
foundations and where you seen foun-
cations you Will find elegant homes"
j. d. Greason, the veteran editor
and publisher of the Atwood Square
Deal, has this bit of pioneer history:
Harry Root, of the Topeka State
Journal spent several days in the city
TINS week They moved the house the
other day that sheltered Harry on his
first night in Atwood nearly twenty
seven years ago. and the booze dispen-
sary of those pin-feather days of our
development now is used for the mob
Ter purposes of The Square Deal"
Almena is talking up waterworks.
1t has a population of 1000, and ought
TO be above the fire bucket proposition.
The town is enjoying great building
activity
Jewell City Republican: Many
Jewell county women have their inde-
pendent bank accounts and pay their
debts with checks, like a man. The
old joke about going through their
husbands pockets when the latter are
asleep is out of date AS long as the
helpful hen brings in $246,O0O year,
about the only use the Jewell county
woman has for a man is to mind the
baby occasionally and come with the
pltchfork whenever she sees a big
chicken snake.
Ex-state senator, ex-postmaster ex-
sergeant-at-arms of the state senate,
and ex-member of the state board of
charities, all of which Frank Lockard
Is on the record, is now doing mission
airy work for a Topeka paper. Besides.
he is doing some political work on the
side in Sixth district towns for the anti
square deaI' fellows. There wasn't
enough excitement on his Sherman
him. If the "antis" win out in the next
election, doubtless Lockard will get
close to the political office pie counter
Everybody who knows him is his friend.
ken care of years ago. His friends
claim, and justly, too, that he is more
deserving a fat office than many others
who have been more successful
How many Sixth district towns can
boast of a family like this as shown by
the Lucas Sentinel: Mr. Tolbert
Cooper has a model family. 1t ranges
from grown up sons and daughters to
small children, and we have never seen
a family in which such perfect courtesy
lad he oh Oh
perfect Difference to the elder while
they in turn show similar kindness to
the younger
According to size, a correspondent
claims that there are more young men
and boys in Russell who smoke and
chew tobacco, than in any other. Per-
haps this is the case. The town is noted
as big political center, and some fell
lows think they can't be politicians I'M
til they have learned the tobacco habit.
One of the attractions in Atwood is
the wintering of Hairs circus outfit 1t
is a wagon show, and will break camp
in a few days for their summer outing.
The first white child born in Rawlins
county was John Bird. He is now one
of the instructors in the State Normal
school, at Emporia.
Sherman Belveal. a grain dealer at
Luray has sold over so 600 bushels of
corn for feed since the middle of Sep
TENDER. The lowest price per busheI
was 361z cents, and the top notch was
As cents
In the month of March the Sylvan
business men and farmers in Plainville
and vicinity for eggs. poultry and but
ter fat $7.25S.54.
Otis L. Benton has retired from the
presidency of the Oberlin National
bank For more than twenty years
he has been actively engaged in the
banking business in Oberlin, during
which time no person having a credit
balance ever presented a check over
his counter who did not receive his |
money. 100 cents on the dollar For |
several years the deposits of the Ober- |
lin National bank have been from |
100000 to a quarter million dollars. |
This bank too, Is a special L. S. de-
pository. The new president is l. z. |
barrow, a banker of wide reputation. |
Mr.. Benton will remain director and |
stockholder. He has other interests, in |
both land and stock, to which he will /
devote more attention. He promises to /
keep out of politics SO far as regards
office seeking, and Will devote some !
time to travelling and sight seeing. He /
has at all times been a hard working |
and public-spirited citizen of Ober- |
Jewell City Republican: Jewell City |
still has number of persons in her
midst who are an interesting part of /
Jewell county's history. Mr.. Chas. l. |
Seeley was the first chairman of the /
board of commissioners and was also |
the first probate Judge Mr.. S. r. Wor-
rick was the first county superinten-
dent Mr.. VIM. Cameron taught the |
first term of school in the county and |
Mrs VIM. Runyan taught the second |
The first white woman to settle per-
manently was Mrs Won Secondorf and /
her sister, Mrs. Summers was the sec
ond Mr. S. C. Bowles of Formoso /
fired the last shots at retreating In
dams.
There is a man named Crank living /
in Hill City He is a weather prophet |
too. He says Graham county will have /
plenty of rain from and after the goth |
of April. He thinks the wheat crop