The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
G. A. Fesler Built First Frame
House in Rocks County.
More Antelope and Buffalo Than
People in Those Days.
PROSPECTS ARE FINE
Battle of Shiloh Veterans OF
Cove County Hold Reunion.
Dan Dyer Elected Clerk OF Smith
Center School Board.
PROSPECTS ARE FINE

c. A FesIer ex-county treasurer OF
Rocks county, has moved into his new
modern residence recently completed
in PaIco. He has done more than his
share in the building up of Palco and
Rocks county. In the pioneer days
of 1878 when he first settled In North
ampton township, Rocks county, there
were more antelope and buffaloes than
there were people. He built the first
frame house in his township, In 1878.
He has been a large land owner anu
has done a big share in turning
under the buffalo sod and cultlVatlng
the soil until recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fesler are going TO
take more case in the future as they
Justly deserve to. He has written
hundreds of columns of ROCKS coun-
ty news and Palco locals, all of which
have had a tendency to settle up the
county and build up the towns. For
the first time in many years sickness
laid him up this last winter. he IS
regaining his health and his host OF
friends are glad to see him out again.
For a good square meal call on Mr.
and Mrs. Fesler when in Palco-
Spirited Election at Oberlin.
There was a spirited election in
Oberlin as to who would be elected
clerk of the school board. While the
OIIlCG lISeIL Will ne an dilllOy ehAAOC ~ liz
successful candidate, the opposition to
Otis L. Benton claim it was an anti
Benton victory. The candidates were
]. D. Flanagan and L. E. barrow, both
honorable citizens; 512 votes were
polled, the winner getting 313 of them.
The successful crowd celebrated
with booming cannon, bontires and
speeches. The Eye, which is opposed
to Benton, appears to think it was an
anti-Benton victory. The friends of
BENTON also claim that he has been
killed politically about as often and as
many times as has Congressman
Reeder.
J. E. Robson of PaIco, one of the
largest wheat raisers of Rocks county,
is holding 1000 bushels of wheat, for
which he has been offered SLY a
bushel. He is also interested in 700
acres of growing wheat, all doing
nicely. He is a careful observer, and
didn't need the money bad enough to
sell for these figures.
Lincoln Wants Place on State Ticket
Lincoln county is almost certain to
have candidate for state superin-
tendent in 1910. The friends of A. J.
Stanley, present county school super
intendent and member of the state
board of education, is being urged for
the honor. He is one of the leading
educators of the state
According to the Norcatur Dispatch
over $7,1O0 in cash changed hands
with the business men and farmers in
that town one day last week.
Joe Collier is one of the old timers
trapper. In the year 1908 he made
about 5000 trapping and selling the
hides of the animals he killed in the
county, mostly musk rat, minks and
skunks.
There is a prospect of Goodland get
ting new $4,000 modern hotel u
take the place of the Rock Island
hotel destroyed by fire several months
ago.
County Seat But No Railroad.
The county seat of Cove county is
Cove City. 1t is situated about II miles
from a railroad. 1t has a population of
about $50, according to the Republican
Gazette. 1t is centrally located in a
rich, thickly settled farming commun-
ity. including a bank, general mer-
chandise, implements, hardware. news
paper, drugs, school, and churches.
Some day a railroad will be built to
Cove City, and then the county seat
will grow. And her people stand ready
to act and pull all together whenever
that time comes.
The Cuban Itch" oftentimes refer
red to as smallpox by the doctors, no
longer eXcites the people Of Jewell City.
Several homes in that town are quar-
antined, but business, schools. churches
and work move right along just the
same as if no quarantine lid" was on
Oakley. There must have been a spir-
tied election; $40 votes were poIled he
having received 126 to the other feI-
lows ITO. The new mayor says: There
are no sore spots on me, and that Oak
ley will grow faster in the next two
years than it has in the past two"
Needs a Modern Hotel.
Jewell City needs a modern hotel so
much that the Commercial club will
put up $500 donation to the one who
will build $4,000 hotel in the town.
The receipts of the Osborne postof-
Ace the past year were the largest in
the history of the office. From March
81, 1908, to March 81. 1909. the receipts
were s6241.25. showing an increase over
the year before of $712S9. This will
give the salary of the postmaster an
other 800 a year, or $500 . per an
mum.
The Smith county town of Athol is
talking for an alfalfa meal mill. 1t is
said there is plenty of alfalfa raised in
the vicinity to run a mill.
o. P. Summers, of Cove county. is
one of the successful ones who went
there in the pioneer days and succeed
ed He went to Cove county in 1879