The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-15
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
Norton and G0odland Having
Good Natured Controversy.
" hich Town Has Largest POST
office Receipts.
OPERA HOUSE SECURED
People of Norton to Have One at
Cost of $4,000.
Miss KaekIey, Graham County
Register of Deeds, Retires.
OPERA HOUSE SECURED

A good natured controversy has
sprung up as to which postoff1ce does
the most business, Goodland or Nor
ton. AS both offices are first class, it
| doesn't matter much so long as the
postoffice department gets the re-
ceipts. AS far as the towns are con-
cerned, it is a horse race whether
Goodland or Norton is meeting with
the largest building prosperity. For
the last two years either town has
erected more than 100 buildings an
nually.
The Grinnell Record carries a page
of items headed Sixth District News.
That ought to win out, for every man
and woman living in the district be-
lieves it to be the best territory in the
state. Even Congressman Curtis
ought to believe this. In the caucus
vote for United States senator, on the
final vote which decided the result, he
received three votes of three state
senators from the district, besides no
less than eight votes from members
of the lower house. Considering there
are nine Democratic members from
the district out of %, this ought to
make Congressman Curtis friendly to
the Sixth district.
The Plainville Mill and Elevator
company shipped the past year 321
cars in 1905 This plant was estab-
lished in 1898 by J. V. Burroughs and
c. N. Burroughs, who operate it to
this date. The elevator capacity is
$4,000 bushels. In June, 1893, the
plant was destroyed by fire. and was
rebuilt in November. the same year.
The owners are also owners and oper-
ators of the Plainville electric light
ing plant.
In their first days outing" that is
soliciting for funds to build the new
opera house in Norton. the committee
succeeded in bagging the neat sum of
$4,000. This insures the erection OF
a building to cost not far from $4,000,
and to be as modern as an opera
house can be. M. F. Clarity, one of
the most successful business men of
Norton, is chairman of the opera
house committee. and this means sue
cess.
Miss Olive Kackley has retired from
the office of register of deeds of Ora
ably filed for two terms. She retires
from office with the distinction of hav-
ing been elected by the largest vote
ever given an official in the county
crat. She will take up elocution. She
will take a course of training either IN
Denver or New York. Miss kackley
is the owner of three quarters of land
in Graham county, and has cut $50
acres of wheat, all in fine shape. She
is succeeded in the office by Miss Edna
Sperry, another talented lady, ana Tor
mer school teacher. She was born and
reared in Graham county, and is uni
versally popular wherever she is known.
Her host of friends bespeak for her the
best wishes OF success in her new cho-
sen occupation
The removal of the Advance newspa-
per from Morland to Menlo, a Thomas
county town, will only hasten a new,
enterprising journal taking its place.
Morland is too prosperous ond progress
sive to be without newspa per.
The travelling men know a good thing
when they see 1t. Three bus loads of
them got off the train at Lincoln, most
ly from Salina. The Salina travelling
men were heard to say that street
car system will pay better in Lincoln
from the depot to town than in Sa-
lima.
The people of Vesper, a Lincoln coun-
ty town, say when it rains they have
the muddiest roads of any town in the
state. And they go on and say that
it means big crops and prosperity. They
claim to be in the garden center, and the
wheat and stock center of north central
Kansas.
Abe Marshall, ]. L. Stoner, D. R.
Moore and w. B. Middlekauff, well
known citizens and business men of
Lincoln. and prominent Shriners, will
attend the meeting and excursion of
the Shriners to the City of Mexico.
Israel Morris. of Palco. is believed