The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
Is Fast Becoming Metropolis Of
That Section of Kansas.
ALL ARE PROSPEROUS.
Alfalfa, Staple Product, Is
Bringing $40 Per Ton.
Sole Complaint Is About the
Poor Mail Service.

ker City is not only 'the Boston of the
plains but promises to be in the near
future the metropolis of the plains.
Every business man in town has a
fine trade and the farmers are all
prosperous
Our electric light system is giving
perfect satisfaction and has orders far
ahead for wiring homes.
Work on the big well for the city
waterworks system will begin next
week, and the Cawker City Electric
Light company will furnish power to
pump the water
and has a capacity of twenty tons a
day C. H. Carleton is the manager
and is paying ten dollars ton for
alfalfa.
The Cawker steam laundry has in
stalled more new machinery ard has
all the work the proprietor can ham
die, though he employs three assist
ants
The Cawker Telephone company de-
clared 5 per cent semi-annual divi-
dend last month, and gives as good
service as any system in the state. 1t
| is we'll patronized since our mail serv-
ice is SO poor. A letter mailed in
Cawker City at Sis p. m. is not de-
| livered in Downs, six miles west of
us, until a. m. of the second day
following, or about thfrty-f1ve hours.
A letter will go from here to Salt
Lake City, Utah, in less time.
Wheat Is in Fine Condition.
The recent heavy rains left the
wheat in fine condition for the heavy
blanket of snow which now covers it,
| but left the roads in terrible shape.
Our ice harvest is now on and our
dealers and farmers are putting up
| the finest ice ever cut from the Solo
| mon river.
This is the season of weddings and
homecomings in Cawker.
DR.. French c. Smith of Lyndon,
Kan, and Miss Harriet Klinkenberg,
our assistant postmistress. were mar
ried Sunday, December 20. and start
| ed Tuesday to their new home.
1 Prof. Edward Bemis Of Annes Agri-
| cultural college has been visiting his
parents here and was married Wedn es-
day afternoon to Miss Grace LOOMS
| of Osborne.
B. H. Hackett, one Of our leading
druggists, will be married this week if
rumor is correct, to a popular young
lady of Logan.
r. H. Marihugh. was. married last
week to a Mrs Smith Of Nebraska
| Social News in Cawl1er City.
| Charles Oliver of Denver Martin
Oliver of Chicago and Mrs. Artie
Smith Of Chicago are visiting their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs W. r. Oliver.
visiting his parents in Cawker.
Fred Buist and Samuel Wertheimer
are home from Lincoln, Neb.; Clar-
ence Hill and Andrew Mcneil from
Campbell college; Clyde Bohrer, Ward
Woody and John Schlef1e from Man
haitian Agricultural college; Orner
Smith and Edgar Sutton from K. o.
| All will return next week.
Misses Florence Mc.1un and Lucille
| Cribs will go to Bethany college next
| month and Miss Gna SNYDER will n
the Kansas Wesleyan.
Joe Banks is spending the week at
Manhattan, taking the farmers short
| course.
Herbert Howard is in Manhattan
taking the examination required for
those who test cream.
Miss Mabel Macy has returned from
a three months stay in Boston and re-
sumed her place as cashier in the
Iowa store
E n. Woodbury. of the Banner stock
farm went to Lincoln Neb.. Monday
to attend the Percheron sale of Kelly
&c Son, and will probably bring home
some of the best offered
c. T. Mccoy has purchased G. l.
| Hudkin's stock in the Commercial
State bank and will assume control
next month.
! Work on the handsome new bunga-
low being built for DR.. D. NJ Can't
is being pushed as rapidly as the
weather will permit and the family
hopes to occupy it March 1.
4 D. A. Atkins is building a modern
cottage of attractive design.
i Cawker not only has more good ce-
ment sidewalk than any town of its
size in the state. but has more new
up-to-date residences and fewer knock
ers. The finest schools and churches
and no joints or billiard halls. In
short. Cawker is "a mighty good place