The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-05

been converted into a meat market.
1t is said the proprietor of the former
has left for parts unknown.
Mahin & Mahin of Smith Center,
are doing their part in the develop
ment of Smith county and building
up Smith Center. They own 500 acres
in one body on the north Solomon riv-
er, near Cedarville. They will put out
stock it with fine cattle and hogs.
The Farmers Supply company of
MOrland, Graham county, which was
started in the good old times of Popu-
lism along with many other stores of
the same sort, and which went out of
business last year, has just made an
85 per cent payment on Its stock.
Probably one other store of the same
kind exists in the Sixth district. that
in Osborne.
Fred Duvan is as proud of his Nor
ton Courier office as a kid is of his
first pair of boots He has had full
control of the office since 1885, and
from that day to the present much of
the history of Norton and Norton
county has been recorded in its col
umns. The Courier dates it's existence
from 1878. Recently to progress with
the town the paper has added a new
Cottren press and a Simplex typeset-
ting machine, besides added other
material Duvau went to Norton in
1877, and for several years engaged in
the hardware business. He has met
work that he doesn't believe he jump
ed from the frying pan into the fire
when he went into the newspaper
field.
Agra, a Phillips county town. is go
ing to have her third annual jubilee,
August Z, and 9. Her people are go
ing to cut out all the grating and will
have baseball tournament and a bal
of Kensington VS.. Agra, and Kirwin
VS.. Agra will play the first day; Kir-
will and Kensington and Kirwin and
Agra will play the second day, and
Kensington and Kirwin and Smith
Center and Almena will play the last
day.
Workmen have been moving sew
eral old wooden shacks off the main
business street in Smith Center. 1t
was good to part with them, they had
kept the town company for the last
quarter of a century. AS her promi-
nent business men suggest, now is the
time to pull for a modern hotel, and
one, too, large enough to put Smith
Center in the list of Sixth district
towns who will go after and secure
conventions. There is no town in
northwest Kansas the size of Smith
Center which needs a large modern
hotel so much as this town does. Bust
ness men, go after it with all your
might; you have the energy and capt.
tai to build 1t.
The first chautauqua at Oberlin-
was complete success both in atten-
dance, financially and program. 1t
assures another ohautauqua a year
later. 1t goes to show that the people
of Oberlin, Decatur county and north
west Kansas will stand together in
any enterprise having for it's object
only that which is good. Oberlin is
on a "stub" of the B. & NJ. railroad
and that road ran a train for the con-
venience of the people who wanted
to see Oberlin and attend the chau-
tauqua. The town is progressive and
has a whole lot of people who work
and pull for the place
The Harmony Library club of
Smith Center, Is the recipient of a val
liable collection of books from S. S.
Hite, who now resides in Georgia. He
was for many years a resident of
Smith county. and at one time was
candidate of the Populists for railroad
commissioner. At one time during
great Populist county rally in Smith
county he was given the title of gen.
eral. He was in command of the
Populists that day and he succeeded |
in getting them all out to this rally, |
the largest ever held in the county.