The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Reform in Politics of Russell
County.
Candidate Must Possess Clean
Record to Win.
HOLLAND IN TROUBLE
One of His Home Papers Is
Fighting Him.
Echoes of the Big Flood in Ellis
County.
HOLLAND IN TROUBLE

Politics is not so bad in Russell coun-
ty as formerly. One of the politicians
of that county says: There was time
in Russell county when the Republi-
cans were slated a year or more in adj
vance for the offices. Now the people
do the thinking. and he has got to be
a good citizen to win out. If a fellow
is nominated for office he has to pos
turn him down."
Lee Atherton, son of Judge Otis L.
AthertOn. of Russell, helped to save the
wheat in Russell county this year, by
going to the harvest field. He worked
from early morning until darkness.
And Lee is the son of ex-State Treas
urer Atherton. who is rated as very
rich man, and he wasn't so stuck up
that he wouldn't go into the harvest
field, and pull off his coat and roll up
his shirt sleeves and go to work even
If he didn't have to do so.
Oakley young ladies to the number of
nine instead of Is, have organized a
club and named it the Wise and 9th
erwise club" The object is to have a
GOOD time The first member who
sQueals or gives away any of the Sc
crets will be fired.
Since the Russell Record has COM
menced its fight against their home
land, there are rumors that the friends
of Holland will buy the Reformer and
make it his organ. The Lucas Senti-
mel and the Luray Herald, both of
Russell county, are for Holland for con-
gress.
Speaking about the rain storm in Ellis
and vicinity a week ago. the Review
Headlight says: The oldest inha bit
ants agree that it was the worst flood
since the town started. 1t is said that
in 1870 the water flooded the fiat where
the town now stands. In 1879 a disas-
trous flood is reported. About Is years
n on nod ont fIa d~r17 hut
none of these were as bad as that of
last week.
The dates for the annual jubilee at
Logan have been set for August q, Is,
% and go
The delinquent tax list of Thomas
county, printed last week, is the small
est in the history of that county or
ganization. This is good news to all
holding some little fat job. will find
poor comfort in a short delinquent tax
list.
The little town of Agra where they
have a great celebration annually, re-
ports birth and two marriages, Sun
day last.
w. F. Metz. of Mankato. the butter.
egg and produce dealer, forwarded the
first six months of this year 7215 car
loads of eggs, 80 cars of butter and
four car loads of poultry. 1t is no
who generally pocket the money re-
ceived from the these articles, are so
independent. healthy and good-looking.
The egg item alone means that Mr..
Metz has paid out in the first half of
the year $4,000, or about $4,000 a
month
The Ellsworth Reporter is after the
nonenforcement of the prohibitory law
officers of that town in a manner that
is liable to produce good results. 1t
concludes its article as follows: why
do not the city and county officials unite
in giving Ellsworth a good clean up for
once It would be the most creditable
thing they could do at this time, and,
moreover, they would be saving them
selves a good deal of trouble"
The Mankato Monitor prints a column
headed: Peculiar Mankato Girls" Now
If what the editor says of them is true
the items are certainly peculiar, and
some of the girls are liable to pull his
hair or lay in wait for him with a horse
whip under their apron.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Kaufman, the
veteran hotel people of Oakley, have
leased a hotel in Kansas City. Their
hotel in Oakley is the largest as 1t is
one of the most popular west of Sahna-
Mr.. and Mrs. J. o. Lovejoy will leave
Atwood to make their future home in
Lawrence. They are pioneer people of
Rawlins county, and have taught school
there for many years in days gone by
The Atwood Square Deal says of them:
'Mr. and Mrs. Lovejoy were among the
early teachers in our public school. when
1t was held in what is now the Baptist
church. In regretting to lose them from
among US, our consolation is that the
tears that are shed in the night of our
separation will be followed with joy on
the morning of the days when their boy
and their girls graduate with honors
from our greatest institution of learn
tng-the University of Kansas"
The following wheat raisers among
hundreds of others in Ellsworth county
hauled old wheat to the Ellsworth ele-
vators last week: James Wanek Joe
'Svoboda. Fred Retman, Godfrey Soukup
Frank Prochaska, w. A. Bauer, James
Dolezal. August Peterson and Joe
Prochaska
People know a good town when they
see it. S. c. Smith & Co, general mer-
chants of Mankato, advertises in the
home papers two full pages while
Sheedy & Reed another large firm. have
sold their business to business men of
Scranton who will locate in Mankato.
About the only thing wanted to i'm
prove Woodston is band stand The
people of this town are always easv
to please.
The Northwest Kansas Soldiers as
ISOLATION, which embraces several
counties in northwest Kansas, are
making elaborate preparations for
their annual reunion, to be held at
Rexford. Sept. IS, 10 and 20. 1t is a
good place for the old comrades to
congregate to swap soldier anecdotes