The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01
in SIXTH DISTRICT
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Cove City After the Aarned
Northwestern Railroad.
New Broom Factory Established
in Wallace County. -
DOWNS A CLEAN TOWN
Has Soap Factory Which Turns
Out 1000 Pounds Daily
Another Elevator for the Viii
Iage of VOda.

Cove City s after the Larned &
Northwestern railroad. This is one of
the several other paper railroads being
built through Kansas. but not one of
them has materialized to any great ex-
tent. Cove City is the county seat II
Cove county Her many friends wish
that railroad meeting be held every
day until Cove City can secure one.
A company for the manufacture of
brooms has been organized in Weskan,
Wallace county. The capital stock IS
50 800 ]. J. Wood is president, and ".
Pierce is secretary and treasurer The
company will start out with about ten
persons on the pay roll, and will make
about 200 brooms a week for a starter.
The Downs Soap factory is in opera
ton. The plant has a. capacity of 1000
pounds daily. The first Whiri Of the
machinery turned off 1000 pounds. The
plant will put their output on the mar
ket at once.
Voda, in Trego county, is going to
have another elevator. John F. Jones
is building one with a capacity of 10000
bushels Voda is situated in a fine
wheat belt The Union Pacific will be
asked to put depot in Voda, and the
postoffice department will be petftioned
for an office Other business av0ca-
tfons in Vodas are: General store, lurn-
Der yard, hotel and restaurant and
blacksmith
The Mitchell county poor farm COM
prises 100 acres. It lies in the Solomon
valley between Beloit and Glen Elder.
The past year the farm cleared about
"a 900. At this time there are seven IN
mates.
All Of oakley is rejoicing over the
completion of her $4,000 waterworks
and electric light plants, and really feel
that they are entitled to be classed
among the live and progressive towns
of the state. The system is under the
management of J. C. Reilly, a practical
engineer and is giving the best satis-
faction.
Ernest Musseman, sheriff of Trego
county, has moved to Wakeeney from
his farm, and is going to take it easy
for the next two years providing he
can find smooth sailing in the sherift's
office He came to Trego county a
dozen years ago, and by hard work he
has accumulated five quarters of land
In the county. He has 500 acres in
wheat, and 125 to $50 head of stock at
all times. He recently sold 30 head of
2-year-old steers for s45 per head. No
wonder Mr. Musseman wants to take it
easy and give the children a chance to
get a good start.
Emmett D. George, editor and pub
Usher of the Mankato Monitor has
been appointed postmaster of his town.
His friends say this is the only politi'
cal appointment ever made in the Sixth
district where the office sought the
man. In the last campaign the Moni-
tor was an ardent supporter of Hays
B. White for congress, and poured hot
shot into the ranks of the other fell
lows.
Marriage hasn't been a failure in
Ellis county so far as the Klaus and
Eberly families are concerned. The
h-ads Of these families are among the
pioneers in the county, and successful
farmers in the Munjor neighborhood,
which is mostly settled by Russians.
Five of the boys in the Nicholas Eberiy
family have married an equal number
of girls in the family of John Klaus.
The children of the two families were
born in Ellis county All of them live
on farms and are doing we'll
On the letter heads of the city gov
eminent of Wakeeney is the follow
ing advertisement: "City Of -Wakeef1ey,
best town on EARTH on the Union Pa.
cific railroad midway between Kansas
City and Denver, elevation 2,463 feet
above sea level Has municipal electric
light and water, Trego county high
school, 100 pupils, five churches, sue
cessful lecture course; population of
city SS2, of Trego county 5,2S1. Aver
age precipitation for % years 20I3
inches. Six days of sunshine per
week. -1a
Steps are being taken to organize "a
militia company In Smith Center. Since
Dan Dyer won out in his fight for
postmaster, and one paper quit and the
editors of the other two newspapers
getting along tremendously some peo-
pie can't see why a militia company is
needed in Smith Center. -s4s-- ,z7---s
The Wakeeney waterworl1s has lis
patrons, which is doing prettyawell for
a population of 900. The supply of wa
ter seems to be inexhaustible and Is
found about two miles outside the city
and, beyond any danger from sewage
or other contamination. 1t has been
analysed under the direction of the
state board of water and sewage and
pronounced one of the very best water
supplies in the state. The Union Pa
ciffc railroad company also had a
sample analysed and found it excellent
for use in locomotives, for which pur-
pose the company used more than
eight million gallons during the first
year of the operation of the water
works plant. The city electric light
plant has 95 patrons. beside maintain
ing 40 street lights, and is giving salts
factory aIl-night service. A very
noticeable feature Of this enterprising
little city is the waterworks tower and