The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-13

and then the Free Press. So it is now
in its thirty-third year
The State bank of Downs celebrated
its fifteenth birthday last week. 1t
had a good right to rejoice, its deposits
reaching over $685. 000. the largest in its
history. This is the bank in which
State Senator D. b. Harrison is one
of the owners and managers.
Smith Center Pioneer: March I. 1907.
was record breaker at the Uhl & Uhl
abstract office. The total land values
preparing abstracts of title reached the
sum of s150,000. March 1, 1906, was a
record breaker up to that time with
total consideration of 100000.
Mrs. Ida F'lorea. one of the good
farmer wives of Osborne county, mark
eted in Downs, in one day, 40 pounds of
butter for which she received So, and
IA dozen eggs for $780, A splendid day $
business. In this connection, it can be
said that out of the 300 skimming sta
tions operated by the Continental
Creamery company, Downs heads the
list in the amount of cream furnished.
last week receiving 80 ten gallon cans OF
cream.
Before the closing of the year the
Colby Free Press Will be printed IN
it's new modern home. Prosperity has
hit both the Colby editors, the Tribune
having completed its new home last
year. e-
Brotherly love is once more supreme
with those Mankato publishers. the So
600 libel suit which the Advocate
brought against the Monitor having
been thrown out of court. 1t is to be
wished that the two good fellows VINO
are making success out of their pub
locations will now be good.
Everyone who knows Frank Burrow
rejoices at the streak of good luck he
met with He has been appointed ma
tional bank examiner by the president.
He was born and raised in Smith coun-
ty. which is a part OF the glorious
Burrow, ex-secretary of state. Smith
county has always been lucky. from the
time before Populism to the preSent
date. That county is the home OF w.
H Haskell warden of the peniten-
tiary, of Webb McNall, ex-insurance
superintendent, of Capt. ]. 8. McDoW,
ell. member of the state agricultural
board of r. NJ. Pickler, judge or the
Fifteenth district; II mas mao ean ~
dates for congress, Sixth district, on the
Democratic ticket, and for lieutenant
governor on the Populist ticket; 1t mas
had candidates galore Tor inns thal
and other offices For the last LII III
years Frank Burrow has practically
managed the large and growing oank
interests of his father with as complete
success as though Mr.. BurroW was MIN
self attending to them. He was tram
ed in the First National bank of smith
Center and is one of the careful and
shrewdest young business men OF the
place. This is only a stepping S1oiie
for q better position, ana I'll dim u
row will be the winner in something
better. ...o5
Mankato is one of the best painted
towns in the Sixth district SO the
Monitor claims, yet, the "hd Is Oh
tighter than ever before.
Among the healthy contributors Ior
the new $4,000 opera house Whlcn -
exnected> to be erected in Smith Cen
ter this year is the $4,000 subscription
of ex-Secretary of State j. X. BurroW'
If this isn't sufficient ne will double II.
And he commenced in life DRIVING OF,
a stage line, later owning the llhe anu
a Smith Center liver stable
twenty-five acres of Graham county
alfalfa land in the solomon valley
near Hill city, sold for $4,000
The Smith Center schools nave an
enrolment of about 40, SURPRISING
that of any of her rival towns, when
gives her papers reason to crow some some.
The question in stockton Isl park or
no park. and it may get INTO the elec-
tion- contest this-Sprtng. -. =.
w. H Hit of the Hill CITY fSepuH
lican is the Qorfy etit9r lin sthe- Si SKI
district who can afford an automobile
II will haul five persons easliy- az q
rate of 25 miles an hour. Its cost Was
about $780,
Colonel Dan Dyer, sergeant at arms arms
If the lower house of the legislature
has cnened a real estate office in smith
| Center.