The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

| A sorghum mill at Mcpherson has
made $500 gallons of molasses this
rail-, and 1t will all be needed in the
absence of fruit.
| A Salina item says the Owls. Elks
and Eagles at that place have agreed
with the mayor that no liquor shall be
handled in their club rooms The rest
of the menagerie has not vet been
| heard FROM
| Another prosperity story from the
Sabetha Herald: George Miller who
! married Miss Rebecca Cramer in Sa-
Detha twenty years ago and is well
known here, was visiting his wife's
| relatives here last week, on his way to
Kansas City with load of cattle. Mr..
| Miller says that when he and his bride
| went to Norton county for their we'd
ding trip they were 5000 to the bad.
He went in debt for farm near Nor
catur. In twenty years he has paid
for that farm and bought more land
| until he now owns and farms 1900
| acres. He has also raised a fine fam
lily of ten girls and boys. The boys
he oversees all branches. Besides the
farm he has $4,000 in the bank. For
many years the butter and eggs from
his place have paid all the family
grocery bills. and groceries for a fam
| lily of twelve means something. For
| instance Mrs Miller uses 5000 pounds
| of flour a year. This seems almost i'm
possible. Mr.. Miller says the corn
been said of it this year; simply
wretched. Last year he raised $4,000
bushels of corn this year he will not
have over 200.
Some of Will Palmer's wisdom: A
Hiawatha man paid thousand dol
of the things we want, in the order
we want them, we find that thousand
dollar parlor rugs are quite ways
down the list 80 Kansas vino VIM
er. The best cure for nervous
prostration is to go to bed at nine
o'clock before you get it,. the
hardest luck woman ever had is to
marry a man for his money and then
lose the money and have the man left.
A rich man never refuses to
take a penny in change. It's always
the poor man who thinks penny isn't
worth bothering with. You ought
to ride on the cars now whether you
want to go or not, as the two cent rate
can not save you any money unless
you give it a chance. The men
get out of apple picking and corn
huskinS some years, but woman
never gets out OF house cleaning until
she's dead. If the assessor should
make close inquiry he would find that
more women than men own razors..
we like october. She never
makes us worry about the crops. the
ice bill and coal bill are moderate, the
woods are beautiful, the weather fine
and Thanksgiving and Christmas are
both on the way
Bent Murdoch tells this story of
how his father brought his family to
Kansas: tHe cut a stout hickory stick
on the south bank OF the Kaw river
near the foot of Kansas avenue, To-
peka, hung a pack on the stick, put
it over his shoulder. crossed the river
on a log wagon, took his foot in his
hand started on a Decline and walk
ed from Topeka to Mount Pleasant
Iowa, where he landed in twelve days
the distance being over three hundred
miles. That was fifty years ago last
March. Thomas Murdock-he was
colonel of a Virginia regiment that
was mustered for the Mexican war but
didn't go-left the Allegheny noun
tains with his wife and five children in
a covered wagon and a carryall early
in the fall of 1856 for the Territory
of Kansas. The father and two Oldest
sons made the overland trip from
Mount Pleasant. Iowa, to Topeka IN
the winter of 1871 by wagon, the wife
and three younger children remaining
in that town. When Thomas Murdock
returned to Mount Pleasant he loaded
y is family into the cars for burlington
where they took a Mississippi steam
boat for St Louis. Here they changed
boats taking a Missouri river one
for Ieayenworth where they were met
by a team and hauled to Topeka. And
this is the way the father of the Kan
sas Murdocks brought his family from
tho East to Kansas.