The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-08
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Norton Commercial Club Elects
New Officers.
C. NJ. Sawyer Ia President of
Organization.
ABSTRACTORS TO MEET
Those in Sixth District Have
Session Jan. %.
Sheridan County Farmers Have
ABSTRACTORS TO MEET
Sheridan County Farmers Have
Trouble With Rabbits.

yer; vice president, Geo. Moulton; sec
rotary, T. w. Simmons; corresponding
secretary, F. S. Hazelton: treasurer, j.
E. Gleason. Among other business
transacted, it was voted to support the
Kansas centennial, and notify the mem
Der of the legislature from Norton coun-
| ty that it was the desire of the club
that he vote for an appropriation, and
that the centennial be held in Topeka
The Sixth district abstractors Will
hold convention in Norton, January
! %. They will be entertained by her
progressive commercial club. A good
number of the visitors will be present
The editor of the Hill City Republi-
can is happy. He is getting fat on eat
ing home cakes made Eom pure DUCK
The Champion says the usual scram-
| BILE for postmaster at Norton is on in
dead earnest, with several petitions in
! circulation. That paper adds: wish
Teddy would come here with his big
stick and club a few of them on the
head"
The farmers of Sheridan county are
trying to get rid of the rabbits. In one
days hunt more than $50 were slaugh-
| ter ed.
Col. Joe Wright, who prints the only
Populist paper in the Sixth district, in
Smith Center, thinks he ought to have
| the whole LOO Populists of the state
who voted his ticket at the last election
subscribers to his Messenger. A wise
vance.
The Norton Courier has forever
settled the question where the first
alfalfa was grown in Kansas. AS was
to be expected, the Sixth district
claims the honor. As early as in 1874.
alfalfa was sown and grown in the
now famous Prairie Dog creek valley,
| in Norton county, and the person who
sowed the seed was Mrs. r. b. Curry.
From this small patch this woman
sowed, it grew so rank and spread so
rapidly, fully so as did the Russian
| thistleS in the remote western coun-
ties, that it was plowed under. with
| the remark: Il don't want the stuff
| spreading all over the farm" Later
settlers found out the value of alfalfa,
and now Norton county is giving
Two years ago the town of Almena, in
| Norton county, wanted so to Guido
Atchison in her corn carnival, and
Clyde with her watermelon show, that
she gave an alfalfa carnival, which
was a big success. Nothing the mat
ter with Norton county.
The Hill City Republican. is for
home first. 1t says: Tell your
columns Of the Republican; it stands
for home industries; it is with the
people and against corporate greed; 1t
is in favor of throwing the town fight
to the dogs and letting it be under
stood that Hill City is Hill City from
the west end of Main street to the
north end of Pomeroy avenue
Norton county must beat all records
for corn husked. Isaac Wynn shucked
1850 bushels in II Y days in success
sion. His best record was 116 bushels
in s Il hours.
Elmer E. Ames. national bank ex-
aminer. must be getting ready to run
for congress. The Norton Courier
says he is back in his old home for
the purpose of buying residence prop
erty, with a view of moving back to
&c III
and when it comes to politics he gem
orally knows how the district is going
to land.
That scrap going on between the
Mankato journals has resulted in the
Advocate bringing suit against the
Monitor for $4,000 for libel. 1t must be
that these papers are making more
money than most country publications
and can afford to let the law take its
course. Gentlemen editors, you are
printing splendid papers, get together
for good of town, bury your weapons
and continue on the good line as you
have been in the past, and make Man
kato as good town as there is in the
grand old Sixth district.
Thanks to Congressman Reeder from
his Sixth district constituents for keep
ing away from Topeka in this sena-
torial fight. He has the people on his
side, and they are proud of the fact
that he is attending to his duties in
w aSnlnSlOn, rather imam InlnSunS with
the politicians in Topeka.
Otis L. Atherton, of Russell, has
walking cane made out of portion of
the first floor laid down in the executive
mansion in Washington, D. c. 1t was
presented to him by an old comrade of
the regiment he served, the 18th Penn
sylvania-
One of the SWEETEST weddings ever
solemnized in Hill City was the mar
risge of Perle E. Jones to Charles A.
Groves. The parties are colored peo-
pie the bride being the cultured daugh-
ter of Geo. w. Jones. a noted attorney,
and having served as county attorney
of Graham county. At one time he was
a candidate for congress in the Sixth
district. The groom is highly connect
ed and well-to-do financially. The GER
emony was performed by Rev. Arling-
ton Wilson, of Kansas City, Kansas.
The receipts the opening night of OBJ
erlln's new opera house were about 3d.
600. The boxes sold for 500 and $110
each.
Goodland people are organizing to
drill for gas. coal and oil. The News
says: THE business men who are push
ing the enterprise mean to drill a hole
deep enough to get the fumes from
hades and burn plutonic fire."
Most of the Sixth district editors bid
farewell to their passes after using
them the last few days of 1906 And In
their issues of the first week. in the
new year they have become so independ-
emit or the railroads tnat many or them
have editorially told MIR. Railroads they
prefer the cash for their advertising
rather than trade space for "annuals"
They go so far as to say they will
henceforth stay at home and improve
their papers with the good hard cash
the railroads will now have to pay for
their advertising.
There are so many aSpirants for the |
Norton postofice. the excitement having |
become so intense that petitions are be-
ing circulated, that Chas. Sawyer has
been away from home, and Elmer |
Ames has gone to the Pacific coast to |
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