The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-17
I'M SIXTH DISTRICT
Rev. j. Ed Stevens May Enter
Congressional Race.
Geo. w. Dart Is Also Remote
Possibility.
NEW AUTHOR IN WEST
Alison L. Woodward, of Hill City.
to Publish Book.
MOrland Is to Have Newspaper
Once More.

| ing on Reeder's trail since the Lincoln
| convention. With these aspirants
| there are now seven candidates for
| congress, and several counties to be
heard from. 1t is only fair 10 ask,
what has become of N. E. David, of
Decatur county, who was doomed for
congress by John P. O'Grady, of
Oberlin, two years ago. Mr.. David
was a candidate as was Mr.. Dart
and the papers throughout the dis
| tr1ct printed the announcement
| In 1879, the year Samuel Henrie
located On Paradise Flats, in Rocks
| county, five miles from the townsite
OF Plainvflle, only 81 objects could be
| sean and counted from his homestead
which included all that could be seen
In Plainville. Today upwards 200
W1ndmflls can be seen, not to say any
thing about the houses, barns and
stock. Mr.. Henrie died some time
| ago, and his son, B. F. Henrie, sue
| ceeded him.
Hill City has an author, Alison Ian
| don Woodward, who is compiling his
writings. which will make a book of
poems he has written jr the thirty
years or more he mas lived in Graham
county The office of the Reveille
| is doing the work, which will be ready
for distribution in the next few days.
The Commercial club of Lincoln
has under consideration a scheme to
| offer a bonus to any one who will To-
| cate paying quality of shale suitable
| Tor cement. There is millions of lime
stone in Lincoln county and all that
| is needed is to find the right kind of
shale. There is said to be number
| or good deposits in the county. Any
one who is an expert in the cement
business can make a good deal by
writing the Commercial club of Lin
coin.
Morland Is making such wonderful
progress that her newspaper, the Pro-
gress has been resurrected. 1t was
frst known as the Advance; it jump
ed out of the frying pan into the fire
when it moved to another town and
county. The infection was too big;
1t changed its name and hiked back to
Morland, one of the most prosperous
trade centers in Graham county.
DR.. d. M. Freeman, who located in
Sheridan county in 1879, has Witness
ed the coming and going of thfrty-one
doctors in these years. Some of them
have died, others have located where
they can make a living. while a few
remain to watch the people to keep
them from getting sick. Hoxie and
Sheridan counties are all right.
The world is surely getting better.
One of the Norton real estate rustlers
has quit the real estate business to
devote his entire time to the ministry.
Newspaper business is first class in
Beloit The Times man, who has been
there few weeks, has made so much
money there that he is going to give
$3.50 of it away.
w. F. Metz of Mankato, the big pro-
duce buyer and shipper of north CEN
trail Kansas. has bought his lumber
for egg cases for another year, |
amounting to twenty-five car loads, |
besides fourteen car loads of filters. |
AS an indication of the way lumber |
of all kinds has advanced, Mr.. Metz |
pays this year $50 car more for egg
case stuff than he did last year. Egg
cases cost now more than twice as
much as they did ten years ago
Chas. H. Beers, who conducts the
leading general store in Hoxie, doing
a business annually aggregating 500
900, has the following sign on his
building which can be easily seen and
read a block or more away: The
busiest store in the county" Mr.. Beers
was approached by a visitor, VINO SAID
to him: 1.-THE only error In the aoVer-
tisement is that 1t doesn't state the
name of the county, When MT. Beers
informed the visitor that he was con-
building another addition
TO his already mammoth building ana
then he could insert the name OF the
Ex-senator J. r. Burton has accept
ed the Invitation of Plainville G. A. r.
most TO deliver the memorial ADDRESS
there, May 80, next
There ought to be some significance
in the fact that q real estate and III
vestment company in Arkansas traded
a veil improved s0-acre farm a few
miles from Waldron for two jacks own
cd bv a Morland, Graham county, man:
This ought to prove the h1sn standard
of the Graham county JACKS
Lincoln is coming to the front as tne
center of the new national game OF
pitching horseshoes- 1t is SAFE pet
that she has more men devottng their
time to this game than any other town
in the Sixth district. The players nave
!, we'll kept ground in front of black
smith shop and the proprietor Is doing
a GOOD business making special KIND OF
horseshoe for the players. one retirea
farmer, who can count his fortune by
the thousands. is one of the best play
ars and is ready to meet any horseshoe
pit6 her in the state
Hill City has unique character III
the nerson of o. p Proyles. grocer and
general merchant. Big and uncouth,
ENJOYING the reputation OF being the
homeIiest man in the Sixth district, he
is the very last person one would sus-
nec+ of being a successful husiress man.
Mr. Rrovles called by his intimate
friends ''Jun.bo,' began life under un-
circumstances. Left upon his
,vyn. resources ir early life by the death
IF his parents, his lot was for years 4
, a,-5 one. = His first savings We're earned
Nv husking corn for Fred Beeler of
Jewell county. He then came TO era
ham county and took q homestead and
worked at any task he could get. For
years he drove a bus for one of the Hill
-itv hotels and a few vesrs ago he sold
MS land and embarked upon CONNER
.ial career. He is now rated as one of
he solid men of Hill City
Joe Jackson. one of the pillars of
lincoln and Lincoln county, has gone
10 Seattle. to engage in the real estate
trade He was, former sherln or that
county and like all other good fellows
who hold office he retired from the Of
ice poorer in pocket than when he took
hold of it, jackson is young yet has
70 1act ,f health and intimates that