The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26
WEDNESDAY.

chautauqua and the Hudkins AutOmo-
bile agency. The former has been a
great success from the start. while the
latter is putting in agencies in all the
towns in that section.
Business was so lively in the office OF
the Hill City New Era last week that
the paper really went to press with four
pages instead of eight, which is it's usual
custom. Besides it was the papers
fourth birthday. And, by the way, the
political announcement of John Dawson
for attorney general can be found in
the New Era. The paper hopes to shine
brighter than ever throughout the year
1910 1t is clear that Editor Munson
knows how to get up an attractive
newspaper.
One of the historical points in Smith
county in the early pioneer days was
known as the "Sweet Home" postoffce.
The exact location was mile and one
half from Lebanon one of the most
the Rock Island road. In the days of
the Sweet Home postoffice the sod
house and dugout were more numerous
than frame houses. 1t was in the early
seventies this office did thrifty bust
ness, for it was on a main Travelled
road midway between Mankato and
Smith Center. The building was sod
and contained two rooms, one occupied
for a store and postoffce and the other
for housekeeping. 1t was kept by a
1879, and was the first burial in the
cemetery nearby, and still bears the
name of Sweet Home" cemetery. In
later years, and before the building of
the Rock Island road. frame building
was erected by w. N. Rogers and his
son. who started a store, a mile from
the old Sweet Home sod postoffice,
when the office was moved to the new
building. The postoffice kept its
"Sweet Home name until 1887. The
Il
growth of Lebanon killed the Sweet
Home postoffice and store but the
cemetery will ever keep fresh the name
of the pioneer postoffice.
Hays B. White really believes he is
pretty close to a seat in congress, so
near it that he has sold his 4SO acre
farm in Jewell county. two and one
half miles from Mankato. 1t is well i'm
proved. One quarter of this farm
brought $100 an acre, the other two
quarters sold for $500 each, making a
grand total of $4,000. The purchaser
was his son, Ira L. White. who will
keep the farm in first class shape as did
his father for quarter of century.
One of the biggest auction sales Sher-
idan county has ever known was that
of Chas F. Horne. near Se1den. It ag-
gregated $4,000. The sale was farm
stock machinery and furniture. His
favorite riding horse brought 5000. 1t IS
said the IS head of horses and mules
at a sale in northwest Kansas. 1t took
two auctioneers to cry the sale, and
they put in a good share of the day.
The Curtis tract of land in Sheridan
county, of 400 acres, two miles from
Selden, has been sold for $21 an acre.
The history connected with this land is,
that about the year 1908 this man Curtis
came to Sheridan county and bought
800 acres in a body, paying for the same
$4,000. A few years later he sold the
half of it for $4,000 or about $500 less
than he paid for the entire tract. Sales
like this one ought to show that Sheri-
dan county and northwest Kansas
lands are worth all the owners ask for
it.
A renter out in Sheridan county made
money last year. A renter Of $50 acres
raised crops last year aggregating 49,
900. He paid the owner $1,000 for the
rental, and only farmed 300 acres. The
crops he raised consisted of millet, cane,
corn, oats, wheat and barley. After
paying all expenses the renter cleared
about 1000. He now claims that
Sherman county lands are worth more
than gold mines