The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-18
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
MOrland Is to Have New Hotel
Building.
Two New Halls Are Planned for
Phillipsburg.
BUY HILL CITY BANK
Opposition to Incorporation of
Dresden Develops.
Nearly 10000 Sheep in 18th
Judicial District.


Morland, Kan, April 1S.-Morland is
to have a new modern hotel George
w. Stober, ex-member of the legiSla-
ture from Graham county, will build
The Masonic fraternity have recent
ly completed a temple in Phillipsburg.
The Odd Fellows are also going 10
erect a two story brick block, the sec
ond story to be fitted up for their hall.
Hill Cityites are making substantial
business investments in Smith Center
G. A. Garrison and P. A. Meyers have
bought a controlling interest in the
State bank, the former having been
chosen president and the latter was
elected cashier.
Dresden, a Decatur county town, is
having serious opposition in their eff
forts to incorporate. The newspaper IA
Vors the Incorporation idea.
The three leading towns in Mitchell
County show the following population:
Beloit 3,OS2; Cawker City $40; Glen Ell
der Sos.
Metz Bros, of Mankato, large poul-
try dealers, shipped four carloads of
eggs one day last week, consigning
them to Portland Denver, Boston and
Buffalo. And Jewell City, another live
and prosperous Jewell county town,
paid out in one day $4,000 for cattle
and hogs, besides an eastern horse
buyer paid out $4,000 for horses.
There are four counties in the Seven
IG6nLn SIdllSlICS SilOW
the number of sheep and dogs in the
district as follows: Jewell county, A.
O6S sheep and 1888 dogs; Mitchell, 10
1884 sheep and 1,843 dogs; Osborne, 2,6S5
sheep and 1870 dogs; and in Smith
there are 2,40S sheep and 2,841 dogs.
Total, sheep, 1895 head, and 1O'O42
dogs.
The Logan Herald has suspended
publication, the editor and publisher,
Herbert Baker, has entered the minis
try, and been assigned as pastor of the
Methodist church at Morrowville,
Washington county.
The health officer of Mitchell county,
DIR. Mary ]. Lobdell, reports the coun-
ty doing nicely so far as the race be-
tween life and death is concerned. In
the first three months of this year
there have been 663 births and only SO
deaths. In the same months "a mar
riages are reported.
James NJ. Morgan has retired from
the Osborne postoffice after continue
Gus service Of an even dozen years He
is succeeded by Cliff w. Weeks FOR
mer business man Of Osborne, and a
long resident of the town and Osborne
county. His assistants are Miss Adah
Hilyard and Gertrude Wells. There are
four rural mail routes out of Osborne,
and a heavy mail comes to the office
daily.
Fred w. Knapp, the new editor and
publisher of the Beloit Gazette, al
the Sixth district in residence, has al
ready been recognized by the COVER
nor in his appointment as delegate to
the peace congress which convenes in
Baltimore, May to 5.
r. r. Hays, of Osborne, will sail from
New York June 3, in the steamer
Caronia, for a three months visit in
England, Scotland and France.
The Kensington Mirror has started
upon its twenty-fourth year. The edi-
tor has compared the first issue of his
paper with the issue of last week, and
only finds two business men who are
there today. The surrounding coun-
try has also made wonderful changes.
Kensington is a Smith county town,
and one of the best stock and grain
centers on the Rock Island road.
Many of the business houses are brick
and cement.
The schools of Norcatur observed
Arbor day in a becoming manner. The
tenth grade of the school dedicated
their tree to Mrs. Margaret Hill Nc
Carter, the Topeka author in honor
of her love for nature, and because
she sees so much beauty in Kansas.
Fred Duvall says in his Norton
Courier: "Just a quarter of a century
this April since we took charge of the
Courier, and the only reason we
haven't been killed is because some
people believed we were doing the
best we could, and others didn't dare
to-" Duvan formerly carried on the