The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-14
Former Hill City Newspaper
Man Doesn't Like Colorado.
MOrland, Graham County, Is
Famous Kansas Town.
FINDS OLD SCENES CHANGED
Harlan Receivers From Storm
of Last Summer.
May Rent Nebraska to Stack
Alfalfa Upon.

Hill City, Kan, May 14.-George B.
Nunson has returned to Hill City from
Durango, Col. where he journeyed a
year or more ago to better his fnan-
ciaI condition. Munson printed pa
per in Hill City for some years, but
like many other good people he went
away to better his condition. HIS
friends are glad to see him return, ana
hope he will engage in newspaper WORK
again.
''Gideon Inn" is the name of the new
hotel in Morland. Graham county. And
why not for the town is the home OF
a defeated candidate for state treas
urer on the Populist ticket, and Nor
land came near being made famous
the year of the big Chicago EXPOSE
ton, for one of her citizens proposed
to ship a Graham county sod house TO
the exposition to show the eastern ana
foreign visitors what the people OF
Graham county lived in during pioneer
days. The sod house advertisements
failed for want of funds.
Electric Lights for Lebanon.
The Smith Center Commercial cluo
has enough money on hand to serve
ranouets to neighboring clubs, and the
first to be treated to a good meal is
the Kensington Commercial club.
Lebanon has a good waterworks plant
They are now figuring on lighting the
town with electricity. L. X. Green OF
Concordia, who is furnishing the sys-
tenn of lighting at Jewell City, Man
kato and Glasco, is figuring with the
Lebanon people.
It is up to the people of Hill CITY
to get up a jubilee and have gooo
time on the completion of the water
works and electric light plants Inc
town has push. Citizens of the toWn
have filled the offices of lieutenant gov
ernor and auditor of state; one of her
men is holding a nice appointive office
from the governor.
He Visits Former Home.
Col Joe Wright, of Lebanon, has Wis
tied a section of Smith county for the
first time in a quarter of a century
WAY back more than so years ago he
hauled hogs from the Dentonia settle
ment to Cawker City, a distance of 81
miles, and during the hot days of sum-
uler he would start with a load of fat
norlxers about midnight for fear the hot
sun would melt them if he Travelled in
the daytime In those days sod houses
only were used as dwellings,; today
only one remains; palatial residences
dot the prairieS now, and the farmers
appear to be contented as well as pros
perous The one store in the Dentonia
1,eiehborhood is that of Archie Bone
cutter, which carries stock of about
$4,000 The scene has all changed;
there is a blacksmith, telephone, and
daily mail service.
Inc OOu11LS OAu OCbItCAS
Coming association now numbers over
400. and new members are enrolled ev-
cry daY.
Town Receivers From Storm.
Harlan, Smith county town, and
former site of the Gould college, has
about recovered from her wind and
rain storm losses suffered last August.
The wrecked buildings have been re-
built besides the completion of tho
NJ w of A. hall. There is also talk
of rebuilding the Touring mills which
were washed away by high waters.
Many farmers tributary to Harlan own
autos The prospects for crops are
fine.
The work of excavating for the new
Phillips county court house is going
on. Bonds to the amount of 100000
were voted for the new court house and
jail The building will be fireproof.
Big Money in Farm Produce.
The Selden Independent is boosting
Fred E. Bear for the Office of state
superintendent. He is county superin-
tendent of Sheridan county.
The Simpson Produce company paid
out in April for eggs alone 81, 500. An
other firm in the same town handled
in one d $500 dozen. Simpson is
Mitchell county town. Recently a pa
per has been started up and two banks
are in operation. An effort is now be-
ing made to organize a stock COM
pany for the purpose Of building an
opera house.
During the year 1911 w. D. Libby
of Glen Elder, paid out for horses
which he shipped to the eastern mar
kets, $4,000. Besides, L. o. Norris
the hog buyer, shipped III carloads
Her roller mills did a business aggre-
eating 35S carloads of flour and feed
forwarded, and paid out S21, 4S7 for
wheat. During the year this mill was
operated 296 days at an outlay of about
SIS. 500.
The Simpson News is seven weeks
old. 1t has already started a boom
for Commercial club.
-Four Carloads of Eggs Shipped.
Metz Bros, the big poultry buyers
of Jewell county, shipped out four car
loads of eggs last week. one going as
far west as Los Angeles and three cars
to Buffalo. N. 7.
The editor of the Mankato Advocate
won't take a back seat for ANYBODY
front yard. Hear him: Speaking about
lilacs the editor believes that in his
yard on Center street is the most bean
tfful cfumD of lilacs to be found in the
state of Kansas" The same paper goes
on to say that the wheat fields and