The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-02
news FROM sixth
W Onderful Growth and Pros
perity in Northwest Kansas.
Hard Luck Story of Editor Of
PalcO Enterprise.
CONG. REEDER AT WORK
Planting More Trees on His
Logan County Land.
Ike CrumIey Making Expert
ments With Upland Alfalfa.

That was a great write-up the Enter
prise gave the pushing town of Palco.
It was a splendid article of the business
OF the town and the push of her mer-
chants. The article was carefully pre-
pared by c. A Fesler, one of the towns
solid citizens and progressive farmers.
1t was printed in two issues of the pa
per, and contained about Is columns all
told There ought to have been several
hundred copies circulated. The
strangest thing about it was that the
Enterprise only sold "A copies, for which
the paper realized 2 cents a copy. And
Palco has grown and become one of the
most enterprising towns on the Salina
g. Oakley branch of the Union Pacific
road.
Thomas county, also, has a plucky
school teacher. Her name is Sadie
Boyce- The district pays her $40
month besides she is not afraid to do
homework before and after school hours.
She is saving her money, and will some
day be the owner of some good quar-
fers'' of land in that county.
One of the big public improvements
developing in Morland,a Graham county
town, is the organization of a company
to erect q stone block, 50x100 feet, two
story with a commodious public hall.
The building will cost from $4,000 to
$4,000, part of the money having al
ready been subscribed. Several other
substantial stone buildings are under
way. The present year promises the
best returns for both business and
farming in town and country.
Ike Crumley, OF Colby, member of the
legislature from Thomas county, is go
ing to make a thorough test of the pro-
ductiveness of the upland soil of his
county for growing alfalfa, which if
successful will result in a large acre
age being sown on the upland.
Samuel Payton, of Rocks county,
husband of the woman who writes the
-.Stringtown" items in the Palco Enter
prise, located there in 1903. At that
time he bought a farm for $780, and
later sold it for 5000. He then bought
again for $500. and now values his
quarter section at $4,000. Mrs. Payton
makes $1.O0 a day off her hens besides
$3.50 a week from her COWS. String
town takes it's name from the many
houses situated on the main Travelled
road between Rocks and Graham coun-
ties, the most of the farmers owning
from One-haIf to a section of land.
Among the many prosperous farmers in
the locality are L w. White, VIM.
Brown, Lewis Ford and Columbus Cox.
''Stringtown'' has a happy faculty of
gathering up items, and they are gotten
up in pleasing manner.
The St. Francis Herald has a chip
on it's shoulders and dares any one to |
knock it off, when it says: Saint Fran |
els can make the proud boast of being |
in the state of Kansas.
The First National bank of Osborne |
has been designated as United States |
Think of it! What was Beloit and |
Mitchell county 35 years ago. And this /
is the age of the Belcit Gazette. With |
out railroads then, 1t now has two; a |
few struggling sod houses and dugouts |
So years ago, it now has a population |
close to the 1000 mark; 1t has a fine |
system of telephone, electric lights, wa
terworks, milling industry, the site of
the State Industrial School for Girls.
and hundreds of modern homes and |
business houses; 35 years
ago the Indian and buffalo were about |
as numerous in the county as were the
white people; today one can walk for
miles on substantial stone sidewalks,
her people can attend religious wor-
ship in no less than eight different
churches, and attend school in at least
four buildings. 1t is no wonder the
Dodges, the editors and publishers of
the Gazette, are proud of their clean,
newspaper. Although the
paper is growing aged, 1t gets better
With every issue.
The Hill City Touring mill is branch
ing out. In one order recently the
mill shipped five car loads of their best
Among the needs Of Bellaire, a Smith
county town, is doctor. drug store
and a high school. Her people say
hat the latter can be secured easily if
1 few of the school districts could be
With better school ad-
1antages, several families would locate
n Bellaire
Jewell City is losing two good citf-
sens. Pat Foy will move to Formoso
where he will become prominently con-
lected with the First National bank re-
,ently organized there, and ]. E Std
nam will move to Esbon, where he will
be cashier of the new State bank or
yanized in that town.
The First National bank of Norton
he oldest national bank in western
at the close of business March
2, last, showed their deposits to be