The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-04
Lincoln People Encouraged by
Success of Ellsworth.
Shady Bend Will Grow When
ToWnsite Is Plated.
SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES
Downs Will Have Birthday
Three Days Long.
Threshers to Meet in Norton in
Two Weeks.

/ Lincoln. Kan, May 4.-The Lincoln
people are not only going to prospect
for oil, gas and coal. but they are go
I ing to have a business mems club also.
The officers are: w. T. Nimmons,
president; vice president, Lee Grubb;
secretary and treasurer, E. H. Elgin-
] The club started out with member
ship of about fifty, which will be in
creased to one hundred or more. They
have secured rooms and will have a
reading room, gymnasium and bill
| liards.
! Shady Bend, east of Lincoln in Lin
coin county, bids fair to grow and be
good sized trading point. There is a
grist mill and alfalfa mill, besides
store. A new townsite is being sur
veyed and when completed and laid off
| in lots several new business houses Will
be added to the town.
Downs Celebrates July 25.
I The dates for the thirty-second an
niversary celebration of Downs have
been fixed for July 25, 26 and 81. The
| officers this year are; II. A. Mel
| bergen, president; Ralph Rhoades,
secretary; c. NJ. UT, treasurer. The
| committee is contracting for several
amusementS. and will eXpenG $4,000
| or more if necessary.
The elevator firm of Lund e. Son of
| Cedar bought and shipped out eighty
carloads of wheat of last years crop.
The town appears to be going ahead at
| a good pace. A newspaper has started
up, the first since a dozen years ago,
and the Touring mill has been put into
use. The town has four general stores.
There are banks and lumber yards,
hardware, implement and drug stores.
Threshermen Meet May IL.
The Northwestern Kansas Thresher-
mems association will hold a conven-
! ton in Norton May II and 18. 1t is
expected that between 800 and 400
people will be present. Several of the
big manufacturing firms promise to
send representatives.
Stockton people are discussing
plan to hold a chautauqua this sum-
mer. Many Stockton families own lots
in the Lincoln Park chautauqua
The GOV City Republican-Ga Gazette
last week started on its twenty-third
year. A. K. Trimmer has owned and
edited the paper all these years. Some
years ago the town had three newspa-
pers: there is only one now, and it is
we'll patronized.
The new alfalfa mill in Lebanon is
doing business. The first carload OF
meal was marketed in Enterprise
Wheat Looks Well.
The Colby Tribune says there is a
better feeling among the farmers of
Thomas county now than there was
during the disagreeabl high winds of
a few weeks ago. Much of the winter
wheat that was thought to have been
dead IS coming up anu DIuS ldlE ~
make a good stand. While the wheat
crop is usually killed several times
every year in Thomas and other west
ern kansas counties. Thomas county is
the home of the largest wheat raiser
in the United States, j. N. Fike of
Colby, who has a total acreage OF
$4,000 acres sown to wheat.
There is an industry in Rocks coun-
~ not generally known outside the
borders of the county. In one of the
country homes there lives family
named Mobbs. The lady of the house
is a professional bonnet maker, and
during the last year she has made with
her own hands, besides doing her
house work, not less than $3.50 worth
of bonnets They find ready sales in
the neighboring towns, and this year
she will branch out and put them in
the Stockton stores.
Many Autos Sold.
Few people complain of dull times
and the partial loss of crops in Deca-
tur county One firm in Oberlin re-
ceived a carload of autos and in less
than a week every one of them had
been sold.
The new brick school house now
being erected in Gaylord is located on
an attractive plat of ground, and over
looks the valley of the Solomon river
for miles. The building will cost from
$4,000 to SIS, 900, including the furni-
ture, and will be ready for the schools