The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
SIXTH DISTRICT
lest Tor Legislative Seat
From Osborne County.
o Candidates Before the Re-
publican Party.
%ILE BE YOUNGEST.
NO Delegates to National Con-
yentiOn Are Youthful.
handsome NewMethO Church
at Plainville.
ILL BE YOUNGEST.

at fIalnVliles
The legislative race in Osborne coun-
70 Is apt to be exciting, so far as the
tepublicans are concerned. E. L. Get
~ of Downs, and ]. A Morton. of Os-
ba-ne, will go before the primary cleo
ton for endorsement. They are old
settlers of the county, and which one is
chosen the people Of Osborne county
will be represented by able legislators.
One of the recent improvements in
Osborne is an alfalfa meal mill, recent
ly put into operation. 1t starts up with
a fair prospect of success. The Solo
mon valley in which Osborne is locat-
ed is getting to be quite an alfalfa
country, and the product is a big
/. Npuree of revenue.
4 There is talk of Zurich, a Rocks
<etInty town, getting a bank 1t is sit
Ssted on the Salina & Oakley branch
the Union Pacific. With bank to
art zap in Bogue there will be six
banks in operation from Plainville to
Rogue, a distance of about 25 miles.
urich is growing. 1t is said that most
of the buildings in the new town of
Hobart, on the line of the proposed
Gulf, PIainville & Northern, has been
moved to Zurich.
Such items as the following will
show that Cove county lands are worth
while to go and see. A man named
Springer bought quarter section
year go for 5000; he refused $1,000 for
It a year later. Another farmer re-
fused $4,000 for his $40 acres. Gov
county lands are advancing rapidly in
price.
The two Sixth district delegates to
the Chicago national convention will
probably be the youngest in that large
convention. Chas. w. Lands, of Os-
borne, and Otis L. Benton, of Oberlin,
we're elected by acclamation. The for
mer is 40 years old, and the latter Al
ars of age. Mr.. Lands has resided
Il Osborne since 1880. He was raised
n a farm. For IS years he was con-
nected with the Farmer newspaper as
devil foreman and editor and pub
Usher. For the last seven years he has
been cashier of the First National
bank of Osborne. He enjoys one of the
loveliest modern homes in his town. He
is popular at home as he is throughout
the district. He was the Sixth district
census supervisor in 1900. He is a bus
mess and political fighter, and he all
ways wins.
The Methodists of Plainville dedicat-
ID their new church building. The cost
vas S13,500 which was met at-the, dedi-
catory services. At its completion there
was an Indebtedness of $4,000, which
was promptly met, besides more than
$1,000 was subscribed for good meas
ure- Two other churches, costing
about the same amount, have beer
built and paid for in Plainville in the
last two years.
DR.. French Oliver will conduct relig-
ious meetings in Phillipsburg next fall.
1t is good place to go. There are some
belligerent editors there. Editors have
Jared we'll at his meetings, as was the
case in Smith Center, Jewell City, Man
kato and Russell.
The total valuation of the taxable
property of Osborne county as return
ed by the assessors in 1907 was Sc, 200,-
; 600. 1t is estimated that under the new
tax law the taxable valuation for 1908
will aggregate s12,000,0eO.
R. r. Hayes, of Osborne, has been
appointed a delegate to the inter-
national council of Congregational
churches which meets at Edinburgh,
Scotland. June 80 and July 9 inclusive,
Kansas is entitled to two delegates.
Rev. ]. G. Dougherty, of Kansas City,
Kan, is the other delegate. Mr. Hays
will sail from New York June 10. He
was abroad last year.
The Mankato Monitor is making a
fight on one of the drug stores in the
town. One of the patrons of the store
mas pad case OF grip, and in a
months time he signed up for dozen
or more pints Of whisky That paper
sgoes on 20 say: THE man was able to
AIne to town six miles from the coun-
for his medicine, and was not too
Sick to sign up for it,
]. c. Newell of Norton and Gilman
Garlic Of Agra, Phillips county, are old
college students, having attended Cor
nell college in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, years
ago. They both happened to be dele
gates at the late Osborne county con-
vention. and met for the first time
since their college days. Neither of
them knew where the other lived. The
meeting and visit was like that of two
old army comrades getting together
for the first time since the war to talk
over old army scenes. Mr.. earle was
honored in being selected chairman of
the convention. He was a former
member of the legislature from Phil
lips county.
". H. Hill. of Hill City, one of the
founders of the Republican. has made
money in the newspaper work, and now
combines that business with that of
making loans. In the last issue of his
loans in Graham county seven years
ago when no other loan company would
touch the county's real estate securi-
Ties with a ten foot pole. During these
years we have never foreclosed a loan
nor sued a man on his interest ac-
count"
Out in Cove county the poultry are
helping out the prosperity. One buyer
alone shipped two car loads of eggs
last week, containing 400 cases to the