The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-18
MUST HAVE FUN
Sixth District People Will Not
Miss Good Things.
Chautauquas, Street Shows and
CarnivaIs on the Program.
HAM SELLS rs MULES
Veteran Prints His War Expert
ences in Kansas Paper.
Despite Dry Weather Norton
Has Plenty of Water.

The wheat harvest has come and
gone and the corn, some of it, has been
saved by the late rains. And during
that scOrching weather the farmers
kept on blowing their corn and keeping
the weeds down. Now comes the sea
son of chautauquas. Within q radius
of 100 miles in the Sixth district chau-
tauquas viii be held at Beloit, CaWker
City, Russell, Hays City, ELLSWORTH,
Mankato, Smith Center, Norton and
Oberlin. They will begin the last week
in July and end in September Scores
of other towns in the same territory
are going to have street amusements
of various kinds. later on will come the
county fairs, and to throw in good
measure Old pioneer settler picnlcs
will be held in Lincoln, Jewell City,
Oberlin and other towns. Does 1t look
if northwest Kansas is going to De
shy of any good things this year on !
account of the partial loss of crops2
one of the successful country papers
is the Hays City News. All hands on
that journal from the country cores
pOndents to the board of directors were
given a bountiful treat by the publish
ing company. They had day off and
picnicked in a grove near Victoria Ice
cream, lemonade, and pop was plenty
and foot racing and baseball we're the
principal amusements. B. NJ. Drilling,
one Of the board of directors, and pres
ent treasurer of Ellis county, was toast
master Among the takers was NJ. H
Mulroy. member of the legislature from
Ellis county, and former owner of the
Had Never Seen Train.
Jewell City Republican: A curious
thing happened here last week. A
wealthy Jewell county farmer came In
town the other day with one Of the
best motor cars on the market and
waited around the depot to let his
children and years old, see the
train come in. They live IA miles from
town and the youngsters had never
seen a train.
". B. Ham, Of Stockton. sold 2e head
of mules for $41Oo. This is good luck
Towns Make Good Fight.
The state board of control was shown |
a good time on its visit to the Sixth. |
The Sixth district towns have made
splendid fight, and in order to do so
neither town has made their fight by |
fighting the others. The board MADE !
its tour when the weather was the most |
disa greeable, and at a time when the |
farmers as well as the business men
we're feeling blue over crop prospects |
L. L. Alrich, of the Cawker City |
Ledger. is printing Renaissance of the I
war of the rebellion as it occurred 90 /
years ago and in which he was a par |
ticipant The "reminiscences are pre- |
nared from war letters written in camp, |
on the march or on the field, from his
diary They are entertaining as Well /
as intensely interesting.
Ice Shortage Pinches.
Ice is so scarce in Osborne that one
Of her. meat markets has locked It's
doors The Alton Empire suggests that
the people of his town put up enough
ice next winter rather than be at the
mercy of an ice plant.
Speaking of Sheridan county and
western Kansas the Hoxie Sentinel
says: Don't leave western Kansas I'M
til you have to. There is but one bet
ter country and you can prepare for
that as well here as anywhere.
The board of health officer Of Mitch
ell county reports the following for the
months of April, May, and June, l9ll:
Total marriages, %; births, As; deaths,
%. Other matters of importance per
tanning to the general welfare OF the
people of Mitchell county was the fact
that the commissioners paid out the
last three months $117 for wolf scalps.
Wheat Good in Spots.
Wheat in the vicinity of Scottsville.
Mitchell county, is threshing out 10 to
80 bushels an acre: In the last three
weeks one of her elevators report buy
ing 10000 bushels. This elevator was
forced to shut down because of the
scarcity of grain cars.
The new editor and owner of the Lin
coin Sentinel is improving the looks of
his paper to such an extent that the
subscribers hardly know the paper
Wenslow Cipra is a new man in Lin
coin, and he is taking well with the
people.
Manufactures Fly Traps.
Leon Crippen, of Cove City, is max
ing splendid wages these dry times. He |
is manufacturing fly traps which sell. |
There is a man living in Graham
county who has found out the value
of snake roots. He has been making
his dozen dollars a day digging the
stuff.
1t has been dry in Graham county I
but NO more than in many others. Char !
lev F1nmons the editor of the Hill City /
Republican. 'fesses up as follows: In
order to appreciate Heaven one must /
nave a few minutes in hell; in order to
appreciate a good rain one must have
three months of dry, hot weather"
The voters of WaKeeney decided by |
a vote of 62 in favor and u against |
issuing bonds to the amount OF $1,000 /
to paw the city Indebtedness.
Young May Speak at Cedar.
Cedar will have it's annual outing, |
August and ?. At one time Cedar
was the county seat of Smith county
And, by the way, Cedar is the first
town in the Sixth district to get Con |
gresham Young an invitation to be |
present and make a talk.
Ben Shipley, a Smith county wheat |
raiser has threshed 25 acres OF his
wheat which made an average yield OF /
more than So bushels an acre.
Athol, Smith county, will vote Tor
Incorporation, August 1.
While it has been unusually dry in |
Norton during the long drouth, at no /
time was water scarce unless it was
early in July, when the Norton News |
claimed that more barrels and boxes
of beer were unloaded at the depots |
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