The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-20
Most Everybody Has a Good
Word for the Town.
State Journal Correspondent in
Reminiscent Mood.
SPEAKS OFlTSGROWTH
Many Fine Modern Homes Have
Been Erected Lately.
Postmaster Perdue Quits After
Nine Years, Service.

Beloit, Kan, Aug. 20.-"Going back
home" this is the answer that comes
from everybody who formerly lived IN
Beloit, who have moved elsewhere, bu'
are on their way back to pay the OLD
home visit. The same is true with the
writer of these Beloit items For Ia
years he lived here, among as pleas
ant and entertaining people as can be
found, and in as progressive, enterprls-
ing town as there are in north central
Kansas. He still keeps his dues PAID
In two secret orders in Belolt, although
having moved away upwards of eight
years ago. 1t is good to go back home,
to Beloit, often, for every visit mere
he sees new improvements, and hears
good things said about the place. In
eight years Beloit has made wonderful
advancement in growth and population
A daily paper exists, the Call, and with
the eight free rural delivery routes has
gained a wonderful clrculat1on5 mod
ern residences were then few where
they are numbered by the dozens now /;
not an automobile then, there are two
dozen or more now; the always excel
lent school service has grown almost
double in population and school room;
the old shack used for a court house
then has been succeeded with a mod
ern one at cost of about $4,000. Elm
wood cemetery has increased her pop
ulation to an alarming extent in eight
years; since then the Catholics have
completed and paid for one of the larg-
est cathedrals in north central Kansas,
and many dilapidated structures built
in pioneer days have been torn down
to make room for beautiful homes and
brick and stone business houses.
And Beloit has kept growing all these
years. There are three mammoth COM
mission and poultry, egg and produce
plants, three solid banks, three news
papers, one of the largest and most
successful milling plants in north CEN
trail Kansas, waterworks, electric lights
fine system of telephone miles of ce-
ment and stone sidewalks, the site of
the state industrial school for girls,
half dozen or more churches, ample
school room and successful schools as
can be found in any town, and dozens
of prosperous business firms.
In the removal of Rev. and Mrs. F.
D. Baker from Beloit to Salina, the
loss this city sustainS will be Salinas
gain. Our people feel that it will only
be temporary. Mr.. Baker is presiding
elder of the Beloit district NJ. E.
church. and Mrs. Baker has been elect
ed preceptress of the girls domitory
Of the Kansas Wesleyan university To-
Gated in Salina, a position she is
qualified to hold, and a work she has
been engaged in for number of years.
The work of getting out a directory
OF Mitchell county is well under way.
P. G. and H. r. Chubbic are the edf-.
tors and publishers. The names and
addresses of every resident in Mitchell
county over years Of age will ap-
pear in the directory. The publishers
guarantee there will be not less than
1900 copies delivered to the rural resi-
dents of the county. Such a work will
be of valuable interest to the county.
The publishers have lived here since
pioneer times, and they know Mitchell
county and her people.
What is the future Of the Beloit
ChautauQua? At the close of the one
recently held here the following direc-
tors were elected: ]. c. Postlethwaite,
E. L. Getty, T. ]. H. Taggart, W. L.
Cannon, ]. w. Bates, C. W. Snyder,
A. S. Cooke, S. H. Dodge, B. F. Brac-
ken. H. A. Phelps. J. D. VanHook, A.