The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-16
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Charles Emmons a Believer in
Roosevelt Theory.
Norton Editor Having Trouble
With County Superintendent.
STOCKTONGE TSLIGHTS
Electric Plant Will Be Installed
at Once.
w. b. Hams Friends Approve
His Action in Attorneyship.

lily RepuDllCdn De1eVeS In ROOSe-
veltism., He is also partial to the lords
of creation. The new arrival at his
home is a boy making three and only
one girl.
For several years the Norton Cour-
Ter has been the medium through
which the superintendent of public in
struction of that county has reached
the schools and the ears of the teach
ers. and this information has been
printed as free as the waters which
run in the Prairie Dog creek. The in
formation ought to be continued, but
for some reason not stated at the pres
ent, there seems to be hitch some
where, not on. account of the Courier,
for the editor has rendered the col
umnS of his paper to the new superin-
tendent free of charge as in past years.
Before the close of the year Stockton
will be lighted with electricity, besides
her Masonic order is planning the
erection of a magnificent new hall.
Harvest headers were in full blast
all over Graham county Sunday last.
w. B. Ham. member of the legisla-
ture from Rocks county, has set wise
precedent in refusing the appointment
of attorney for the railroad board. He
Is a candidate for congress to succeed
Reeder, and he didn't think it was the
square deal idea to chase after two
offices at the same time. Some of the
Sixth district fellows are claiming that
John Royce put this job up on the
governor to appoint Ham in order to
take a strong man for congress out of
the way of Reeder. while others are of
the opinion that he wants the Office
himself. Royce and Mead ought to pull
together, for they are antiprimary and
antisquare deal politically. 1t was too
bad that Mead had to go to Topeka
and announce his candidacy for con-
gress, for his friends had given it out
taht he would be a candidate in the
Sixth district, instead of in Topeka.
But he changed as-do all the politi-
clans, and whenever any of them want
an office they invariably go to the state
capital first and make their wants
known.
The Northwest Kansas Chautauqua
commences in Oberlin July % and
continues ten days 1t Will be sue
cess, for the people there have never
failed on any good turn for the town. 4
Besides many notable speakers from
abroad who will be- present, the fol-
lowing from the Atwood Patriot will
set all minds at rest on the home
speakers: Oberlin is full to overflow
ing with brainy morta1s, among whom
we might mention Prof H o. Caster,
Colonel L. G.. Parker. COlum bus BORN,
Judge w. H. Langmade, Deacon Col
dren of the Herald and John P.
O'Grady, any one of whom we would
walk ten miles through a Scorching sun
have found a place on the programme.
The probate Judge of Graham coun-
ty contradicts a statement printed in
a Hill City paper that he ties the mar
rage knot Sundays-as we'll as through
The week. Judge Martin answers the
item stating that he is willing to go
to any part of the county Sundays to
perform the ceremony but that he
never has and will not issue mar
rage license on Sunday.
A close observer of the wheat yield
in the vicinity of Colby, in Thomas
county, predicts there will be market
Cd in r.
loads.
The big event of the year in Ken
sington. is her annual picnic. Her peo-
pie this year are too busy to celebrate
only two days, August 16 and II, IN
stead of three as heretofore.
One of the Norton papers said that
it took a carload of malt to quench the
thirst of their people Fourth of July
A quarter section upland farm near
Athena sold for 1900, which according
to the Plaindealer was the highest price
ever paid for a prairie "Quarter"'in that
vicinity.
dedicated $4,000 church in Bird City.
Volume Is, No. l. was the last issue
of the Atwood Citizen. And in these
years that paper has watched the
growth of the town from a few stray
Cling buildings to town bordering
close to the 1000 mark in population.
1t is said the probate judge of Ora
ham county is having about all the
marrying people that the Hill City min
isters will petition the next Legislature
to so change the law to allow only
ministers of the gospel to perform mar
riage ceremonies.
There are 1876 school children in Ora
ham county who were neither absent
nor tardy for five. months during the
past school year. And those children
are entitled to more than little taffy.
GrainfieId, that usually nice progress
sive town out in Cove county, is getting
her name up. Suitors for the hand of
one of her pretty young ladies got 70
another, in which the marshal was call
ed on to settle the disturbance. The
case will be aired in court.
The two Downs newspapers and the
two in Osborne are wide apart on the
near to favor Congressman Reeder
while the other two favor Young and
Ham. Better get together and give the
delegation to Charley Lands. One of
the prominent square dealers in Osborne
county saws: us square deal newspa-
ner fellows want a change so we can
have an Office And there you have it.
The Pioneer says Col. D. B. Dyer, of
smith county has come out openly for
,seorpe Holland for congress. That
cnehf to settle it without any of the
other fellows getting into the race.
Geventy-two gallons of ice water was
nod nv the thirsty ones who traded in
the smith dry goods store in Hill City,
in one day. Wasn't that much better
than quenching thirst with the two
ner cent beverage
The Record is the new paper in
brewster, Thomas county. by G. W.
woods, publisher, and Mrs. K. F.
woods editor This will be unusual for
the visitors who call on the Record to
see the fighting editor confronted by
woman with mallet in one hand and
the shooting stick in the other The
new paper has a good line of advertis-
ing.
The first new wheat raised in Rocks
county and marketed at the Plainville
Mill and Elevator company tested 63
pounds to the bushei. Joseph Jelenick,
roiSad has 500 aoror xz-I1i1I ~