The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26
ReXfOrd Will Have New $4,000
BuShel Elevator.
Connecting Switch on Burling.
ton and Rock Island.
HELPS MANY TOWNS.
Means Saving of Considerable to
Shippers.
Hays B. White Sells His Big
Farm in Jewell County.

Norton, Kan, Feb. ga new ele-
vator with capacity of $4,000 bushels,
will be one of the business improve
ments of Rexford this year. Henry
Westerman of Kensington will put up
the elevator.
Dresden has her Sunfower, w. C.
Roughton. publisher. The paper is
pushing for the town and Decatur
county. 1t believes the time is ripe to
push for incorporation. A town so
thrifty as Dresden, with two banks and
two lumber yards, and all kinds of
business houses represented, every
voter Or every property holder at least,
ought to push with the Sunfiower for
incorporation. And Dresden deserves
better sidewalks, and take pattern
after sister towns, and incorporate. 1t is
a town that has never had an over
growth, every citizen of the town wants
to see Dresden do better, and they
never get tired praising the country
tributary to her business. Final action
will be taken on the matter of incor-
poration soon after the next census is
taken.
For several years the carload ship
pers on the B. & NJ. road west of Nor
ton have been trying to get connect
ing switch between the Rock Island and
Burlington roads. The people of Ober-
lin have been active in the matter, and
.
member Of the legislature from Decatur
county, and many of the representative
citizens of Oberlin, the matter has been
pushed to a successful termination The
state board of railroad commissioners
have ordered the connecting switch put
in at Calvert, small station east OF
Norton, and gave the railroads 80 days
to comply with the order. This switch
will materially affect several towns be-
sides Oberlin, including Ramona, Nor
20 t11r MI n hav
The Oberlin people claim that every
bushel Of export wheat shipped out of
Decatur county in the last several years
means a saving of considerable to the
shippers.
1t is hoped a conflict will not arise be-
tween the Dykes of Lebanon on ac-
count of the political affiliation. DR..
John B. Dykes was elected vice presi-
dent of the Sixth district at Kansas
Day banquet in Topeka, Jan. 20; while
DR.. Henry A. Dykes holds the only ap-
pointed office in Smith county from
Governor Stubs, he being a member
of the state board of medical registra-
ton, and is the president. Those who
don't know better will accuse the one
as being a standpatter in politics, while
the other would be accused of training
with the square dealers or insurgents.
The Methodist people of Goodland
want a new church, and they are going
after it in a fashion that they surely
appointed and is at work raising funds.
The committee ask for donations from
farmers as well as from business men,
and will accept wheat and barley which
can be turned into money easily.
1t is said that it will take 230 enumer-
ators to take the census in the Sixth
district. There are % counties in the
district. In the county of Norton, the
home of the census supervisor, there
are Is enumerators to be appointed. In
the recent examination for positions
there were 81 applicants. Or four times
as many candidates as there are posi-
tions.
The Hoxie Sentinel, organ of the
square dealers. has discovered that
Congressman Reeder has his agents
abroad throughout the district, pump
ing the dear voters in the hope that the
agents can find out first how the voters
stand toward him in the event of his
candidacy for denomination and cleo
ton. The chances are that no other
newspaper in the Sixth district has
caught on to such a rumor, and few,
if there are any. will believe the rumor.
The story is going the rounds that the
two best advertised institutions in
north central Kansas came from Cav
ker City They are the Lincoln Park