The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-14

| county to make a thorough practical
| test of the Campbell farming system.
| The test will be made in the vicinity
| of Oakley. The plan is to make the
| test on not less than 100 acres, the
business men and farmers to put up the
cash, the crops to go to those who fur
niSh the finance. The farmers believe
that if the Campbell system of dry
, farming is thoroughly tried it will re-
suit in a great Improvement in the
yield of wheat.
In the list of Sixth district towns
after the new state asylum, there are
Stockton, Norton, Downs, Oakley and
Hill City. There may be more. All
of them are good towns, and all hust-
ling to secure the new state institution
If hard work will count then Norton
will be in the swim. They sent to To-
peka a strong committee of representa-
tive business men to work for it.
Hill City is where E. E. MuIlaney
lives. He is cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants bank, is a member of
the state penitentiary board, he is a
big booster for more and better roads
through Graham county, and now that
the board of control has it in their
power to locate the new hospital Ed
Mullaney ought to be able to bring it
to Hill City.
The Cawker City Record starts out
on it's thirty-ninth year this week. For
! e years it has been under the man
I agement of L. l.. Alrich. The Record
has succeeded three former publica-
lions, Tribune, Echo and Free Press. 1t
is a clean newspaper. and its one
policy has been in looking for the well
fare of the community and surround
| ing country.
| w B. Ham, of Stockton, is one of
the few men where political officers
| hunt the man instead of the man hunt
| ing the office. He has been rendered
three good jobs and each one has been
declined.
| The Sixth district is likely to hold the
office of state superintendent of schools
for an indefinite time. The present in
| cumben comes from Ellsworth coun-
ty, and he is serving his third term.
Two bright educators have been sug-
gested already to succeed Superintend-
/ ent Fairchild in 1912, F. w. Simmonds
of Jewell county, superintendent of the
public schools of Mankato. He was
recently appointed member of the state
! board of education. A. J. Stanley of
/ Lincoln, ex-superintendent of schools of
Lincoln county, has also been men,
toned for the Office of state superin-
/ tendent. They are fine educators, and
either of them would make a worthy
successor to superintendent Fairchild.
The late Golden Belt Teachers as
ISOLATION meeting in Hays City was
one of the largest in the history of
the association. Not a fault was found
by any teacher, and probably only one
kick from any source. The Free Press
says: There seems to be but one dis
appointed man in our city over the
| event. With hundreds of pretty teach
erS of maria gable age in the crowd
not solitary young man came to the
probate judge for permission to take
a teacher home as his wife" The Com
mercial club helped to entertain, and
the Essex club opened their hall room
for their entertainment. The teachers
| were so kindly treated by the Hays
| City people that the town was unani-
mously chosen for the next annual
meeting. The enrolment reached 40.
Major John Conway prints the Nor
| ton Champion, one of the newsieSt and
| most entertaining of newspapers. Ow-
| ing to dull times for the newspaper
| fellows in the counties where the crops
We're shy last year, and Norton coun-
! ty was one Of them, Major Conway cut
| down his paper in size His friends
wish his advertising will pick up, and
his delinquent subscribers will come in
| and pay up so his Champion can be
enlarged to its former size.
| Hank Beardsley, of Oberlin, is dead.
He has lived in Decatur county for
more than quarter of century, and
| most of this time he was an active
| business man of Oberlin. Prior to en-
gaging in business in Oberlin he follow
| ed business pursuits in Ludell, Rawlins
county. He was a pioneer in both coun-
| ties. Hank Beardsley and the writer
! of Sixth District Notes could almost
truthfully say that they had seen the
smoke coming out Of most every sod