The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
Many Substantial Buildings Be-
ing Erected at Jewell City.
CAWKER CITY GROWS
During Past Year 100000 Has
Eeen Spent for Building.
s. III. Dodge Paid $4,000 for
Two Quarter Sections.


ed in a Smith county town. is of the
opinion that the farmers around that
town are unusually prosperous, in
fact they have money to buy autou1o-
biles. In the last month they have
bought and paid for eight autos. and
several others have about made I'D
their minds to purchase them.
Jewell City Republican: This town
is putting more money into substan-
tial buildings than it ever did before
in its history. $4,000 worth of brick
and stone will be piled up on one-half
block when the new school house is
done; while the granite blocks. cut
and carved stone and handsome arch
ways and windows of the new bank
buildings begin to give US an idea of
how fine they will look"
Democrats May Buy Lebanon Argus.
the Lebanon Argus is no more G.
Z. McNefce, the owner and publish
er, says: 1.-THE future of the paper is
not settled, but the probabilities are
that the material will be used in start
ing Democratic paper"
A business sign in Agra reads: "Six
days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work, but for general conversation
call on Sunday" And the editor of
the Sentinel seems to want to work
more than six days, for he advertises
IAAe1L 4AC ~ PIGPdI6u 10 90 notary WOrk
any hour of the day or night.
The Beloit Times, daily and weekly,
w. A. Holt, editor and proprietor, is
another newspaper claiming that the
Lord has been on its side to such an
extent financially that property has
been bought and a modern newspaper
plant will be erected on its site
The. Christian Scientists of Beloit
have made steady gains in their num-
bers to such an extent that they now
own their church.
Plenty of Money in Mitchell County.
Beloit Call: eff anyone has any
doubt as to the wealth OF Mitchell
county people they ought to be at the
office OF the county, clerk some day
when the county assessors are MAX
ing their returns. 1t is very common
for an assessor to run across a family
where from 1000 to $1,000 in cash
are lying idle, with no seeming place
for them to be put, while the ma
jority of the farmers have some idle
money lying loose. One man was in
the other day who: had forgotten to
tell the assessor about a small sum
Of over $4,000 that he had in the
bank, and thought it best to put this
little mite in with the remainder of
his taxable belongings he had re-
ported 1
Ex-State Senator Dan Hart of Nor
ton county. Is one of the big stock
holders in the new bank in Edmond,
in his county Senator Hart has been
farmer 50 long that it is a chestnut
to him, and hereafter he is going to
take life easy.
The Selden District Fair association
have set the dates for their 1909 meet
ing September Z, 8, 9 and 10.
The Gaylord grist mill is shipping
-four in carload lots.
Cawlxer to Vote Waterworks Bonds
Cawker City will vote on SIS. 600
Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. B. Cranda1 of
Jewell City. celebrated their thirty
eighth wedding anniversary in a man
ner that all their numerous guests
wished they could celebrate these pleas
ant anniversaries more often. not for
splendid people grow old, but on ac-
count of the fine way they can enter
tain their guests.
In the pioneer days of Jewell county
Mrs. Crandan, who was then pretty
miss, homesteaded a quarter section,
while Mr.. Crandall. then a young bust
ness man, opened a drug store about
the size of a boxcar.
Cawker City, too, has been growing
some In the last year, according to
600 invested in new building improve
ments, including the new school build
ling and several modern residences. Lin
coin Park Chautauqua grounds, Wa
conda. Springs and metropolitan COM
merciaI club are drawing cards for
Cawker City. Then. again, many of her
people are getting on easy street for
one of her business men sold half
dozen automobiles In one week.
Exhibitor Dodge as a Farmer.
Executor and publisher of the Beloit
Gazette, S. H. Dodge, who got a good
financial start in the newspaper har-
ness, has bought two more quarter sec
tions of Osborne county lands for which
he paid in round figures $4,000 The
life of an editor was too slow for him,
and since he retired from the profess
sion he has made piles of money on
real estate deals and feeding sheep on
the side.
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