The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-03

pie to add this first class water system
One of the sights of Saint Francis is
TO see the 20 car loads of baled broom
corn here and there in the town. 1t
is the property of Josiah Crosby, who
is holding it for let live prices. In
times of war these bales of broom corn
would make durable breastworks.
There will be no war in Saint Francis,
for the county seat of Cheyenne coun-
ty was settled years ago.
There is good nest egg of money
boarded up in the banks of Saint
Francis. The March statement of the
Cheyenne County State bank shows
$74,500 on deposit. L. E. Harrison is
president and Harry H. C1ore cashier.
The Citizens State bank in it's
March statement shows $153, 9S3.7S
deposits. L. J. Willis is president;
W. B. Lockwood, vice president, and
f. L. Shields, cashier. The last named
Is the present member of the legisla-
ture from Cheyenne county.
There was time when Saint
Francis had two newspapers. One of
them quit. The Herald absorbed it
and owner, printed the Herald for
some time and in February, 1910, the
Cheyenne county high school started
the Four Winds. The staff of the pub
LEGATION are pupils of the high school,
as follows: Editor in chief, Ruth
LOChNOOh, dSSOCldI6 CO1IOIS, bSILuos
Kerndt, Josephine Jaqua, Louis Tapp,
Floyd Deal, Belle Kellum, Vera Page
and Blaine Phipps. One of the ed
itorial blasts in the Four Winds runs
this way: 1.-The east wind represents
the seniors, on account of their wis
dom; the north wind the juniors, be-
cause of their herceness and the sud-
denness with which they swoop down
upon both the just and unjust; the
west wind, the Sophomores, since they
are rarely seen or heard from. but
generally make a great disturbance
the freshman, from the fact that with
the warm. south winds. the green
things make their first appearance. y
The Cheyenne county high school is in
most f1ourishing condition.
The Saint Francis people hope to be
on the line of the Gulf & Northern
railroad, now building from Garden
City, and expect to reach Winonas in
Logan county, in July. Cheyenne
county has already voted $4,000 in
bonds for the Gulf & Northwestern
If this road is built, Saint Francis ex-
poets a division, from the fact that the
line expects to branch here, one going
to Benkelman, Neb., and the other to
Sterling, Colo. With these two lines
| in operation and the Burlington push
II ing out to Colorado Springs or Pueblo
it looks as If Saint Francis is the ia
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| important city and trade center.
The State Journal representative
| can always see changes in his visits tc
Saint Francis. He has been visitor
| to Cheyenne county long before the
birth of this town. and when Bird City
was the county seat and Wano was
splendid trading point and progress
sive town, and before either place wa!
connected by railroad. Later on Sain
Francis started up. mile or more
from Wano. the Lincoln Land com
pany Joined in the boom, and Wans
died as a town, her business men NOV
ling to Saint Francis. Later a count.
seat election was held and Bird Cit!
lost and Saint Francis won. The tow
has been growing ever since. Her PEG
pie pull together, and the many en-
| terprises that has headed this way TO
years the people of Saint Francis hav'
been q unit for