The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-08

A large sum of money has already
been subscribed to defray the expenses
of the reunion.
Lebanon people are shy of giving up
$1,000 for the survey of some paper
railroad through their town. Lebanon
needs a north and south railroad, ana
will donate literally for the genuine
article.
In many towns last week the wheat
raisers took the Sixth district itemizer
for a harvest hand. The writer could
have hired out in a dozen or more
Sixth district towns at as good wages
as fullhedged harvest hand.
H. P. Fripp. commission mercnanI
of Quinter, Cove county. buys eggs ana
poultry During the last year ne snip
ped regularly a car of eggs to Denver
commission merchants. In the month
CT April last he shipped twelve car
loads a week for three weeks.
Prosperity has been so kind to the
brethren of the press in the sixth olS-
trict that the Phillipsburg Dlspaten
has moved into a new home, ana the
Osborne Farmer has got It's new
folder in running order.
Hot weather, a sensational divorce
case and a damage suit Tor $o'oou are
among some of the noted events
which are making Phillipsburg IA
nous.
Kensington people will celebrate
their annual birthday August 15' 10
and H.
one of the largest wheat raisers In the
Sixth district He reports his 1000
acres of wheat in Sherman county
good for Is and 20 bushels an acre
The Hoxie Sentinel is another Sixth
district paper which refuses to give
buttons, pins and needles, sewing ma
chimes. charts, maps. fountain pens.
etc. for subscribers. 1t goes on 10 say
a prize in itself and it's patrons appre-
ciate it. The Sentinel says: 1t is
without doubt wise plan. when
paper offers nothing in the way OF
sort to the plan of giving away pre-
miums, but with US, we prefer spend
ing the money. time and energy print
ing the news"
On and after August 1, next the
public cisterns in Lebanon Will be
abandoned, and a license will be ad-
hered to.
one of the best known Republican
politicians of Lincoln says of the SiXtH
district congressional situation; Tine
candidates are coming out of the brush
and the race is now likely to see the
following gentlemen asking for the
nomination: w. A. Reeder, present IN
cumbent, and State Senator J. D. Young
and A. G. Mead, of Beloit. 1t is to be
wished that these two latter men Will
&C out in the back yard anc nght II
out so as to not disturb the rest or
the district while they are laundering
their dirty linen. Then w. B. Ham:
of Stockton, and Geo. W. Holland, OF
Russell. have signified their Willingness
to get into the race. OF course Hol-
land is not new timber, for he served
notice at the last congressional conVen-
tion in Lincoln that he would be In al
the killing two years later. Inen
Charley Lands, of Osborne, would IKE
Ia get some of his money into cir
culation. and take a hand in the game,
likewise John Quincy Royce, of Phil
Inns county. 1t is said that Warden
Haskell wants to run on his RECORD
made in the last session OF the stare
would not object to be drafted Whlle
the uprising in the district some months
ago for Joe Burrow. of Smith county,
has been pulled off. Then. theer are TWO
or more favored sons from Jewell
county That man Dart, who said ne
was going to camp on Reeders trali'
and Dr. A. B. Peters and Rays %.
WHITE Then there are a dozen or
more, NJ ere Of the favorite sons in the dis
trict who may be in the fight. Ine
more the better it looks for Reeder go
ing back to congress, unless the DSihI
Gratis can put up man VINO can pea
him at the polls This Lincoln states
man might have mentioned another
man. n. E David, of Decatur county,
Who was brought out two years ago
by some Oberlin fellows TO peat heeu-
err And there may be others.
There may be Il lively tilt for the he
publican nomination for state senator
in The Thirty-ninth district, to succeed
the present incumbent, Chas. BusehoW-
The names already mentioned are r.
M. McGonigal, of Thomas county, II
A p Jones of Trego county, John =
Innes of Cove county, Ed Ward of Wal
lace "~e7 county. and f. E. Mullaney of
Grabann county A we'll known politi-
clan of the latter county says: era
han county will ask for the nomlna-
-, If r f Mullaney for state sena-
tor This county has never had the Of
Ace except when the Populists were m
mower. and they gave it to Levi Pritch-
g ofT3ce neither is he an Office seeker.
He has been fighting the battles Of the
RenubIican party for years, and his
friends will ask for the honor for MIN.
TO THE HARVEST FIELD.