The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-20
SHE MARRIES ESQ
Woman Probate Judge Far
Ahead of Divorce Court.
No Farms for Sale in Norton
County Now.
SMALLPOX SCARE IS OVER
Railroad Too Slow, Stage Will
Deliver Mail.
Dykes Says He viii Support
Young for Reelection.

10 marriage llCSnScSf ctIA0 Ii ]AAO
time there were only nine divorces
granted. Tie probate judge is Mrs.
Mary Cooper She has given complete
satisfaction and her friends are going
TO RIM her for another term, and they
IRE so numerous that she will likely be
reelected.
May Draft Clarity.
The Democrats CT the F'ortieth sena-
torial district are talking OF oraItlns
M. F. Clarity, of Norton, for state SEN
ator if he will promise that he Will not
hire a substitute. He is one OF the
earliest settlers in Norton county re
is vice president of the Norton Mel-
camille company, secretary of the Elni-
wood Park association, president OF Inc
Commercial club, manager OF the auai-
torium and one of the wee preSlue:tAI
Of the Topeka State Fair assoclaLOh.
The senatorial district comprises the
counties of Norton, Phillips ana SrnllH.
Crosby Seeks Place.
Josiah Crosby, of ST. Francis, county
seat of Cheyenne county, and one OF lile
Democratic wheel horses OF nortn H.HtssI
Kansas, is a candidate for national
delegate to the Baltimore convent12Lac
Mr. Crosby is one OF the pioneers ~
his section of the state He mas serEe'
Chey enne county as sneriI' coulits
torney and member of the legislature.
| II will also be remembered that the iasL
| time he was elected he. was conteslssu
| nv the Republican member ana ousteu-
/ Josiah CROSBY anu OlleAS9' ~
| IF Norton as delegates to the natlonsu
convention. the Sixth district will pc
well represented
FIRST paper the Locomotive"
The first paper printed in Norton
| county was the Locomotive The mater
al vas moved from Marshall county
in about 1874 and was printed IN LeoI-.
which town was pulling for the county
seat. It is said the remnants OF tns
printing press are scattered mere a a
here aad that it would take inc
| tooth comb t. get the pieces toSether.
Peonle from Illinois. Ohio and Ne
braska recently visited the Daliy Iel5
egrarn office in Norton. Ihey claAihe -
| rev we're looking over Norton county
lands with a view of buying some real
! estate. but didn't run across re'll
estate advertisement in the daily paper
No s.Contests'' for This Paper
The Philliusburg Dispatch refuses to
i he roped in by the fellows Who wan
to give away pianos, automobiles ana
numerous other articles in contest
scraps. That paper goes on 10 say
half of what they are able to Work
the subscribers fer, and hanged II we
| could ever see where II Denenteu oul
| DaoT1e to be roped in in this manner
tx1brn This raper has to resort to the
oor+as+ scheme to secure subscribers
Veil lust lay aside the pencil and
quit" z.z .o-+-
40 s4a1 for Burr Oak for many years.
60 r,,oDla saw ne has been serving
neople in that capacity in Burr OAK
ever. since before the war. Whether
+l,is is a fact or not he has been a
,,r11ai officiaI He was reappointed ana
annfSrmed, And this is another case
where CONGRESSMAN Young is to be con-
graduated.
Smallpox Scare Ends
The smalIr.ox scare in Esbon, Jew
oil county town. has subsidized. Schools
have been reopeI ed, the churches hdve
resumed their services, ana business IL
carried on as usual. Editor Vaughan
~ +he Times was quarant1ned at ms
house and friends came to ms a ss.lse-
a1ce from ether towns and the Times
came out on time ,.,oo,,
Mail will be delivered daily petwee ~
Ct FRANCIS and Goodland, about 80
niles on and after March 10 next, by
staee line. The B. s. M. railroad is trc
slow.
Smith Center to Get Opera House.
II is said that an experienced the
atrical man promises 70 nullo tis
Another paper railroad Is heaolhS
toward Norton, the Fort W orth q
Northern. The promoters OF TINS rof a.
didn't forget to ask for assistance III
+beir effcrts to build the road to Nor
The Norton Commercial club which
has met defeat but once e. T the
new state hospital is going TO nave d
big time, Msrch l. ,,,. A.
There must be something unusuauy az
tractive in Norton. Robt. M. McGon1gal,
one of the main spokes with the chicago
GI1rnber Co in western Kansas. and
Frank NJ Lockard. who formerly lived IN
Norton but moved onto a stock farm IN
sherman county, are going to move TO
horton. They are well known politicians,
and are standpatters in politics
Old settlers Organize.
Tho old settlers of Smith county are go
| nj association, the ODJeCk
being to have an old fashioned home
coming picnic some time during the sum-
mer. "a.
| chaufauqua this summer
Miss Alma Levangood is an Athol girl
| and all Smith county is throwing bou-
| ouets at her. She is graduate OF the
| Manhattan Agricultural college, has fill
| ed the position of assistant teacher in the
domestic science department. and , nov
she has been rendered a responsible posi-
| ton in the Holton high school
Honey to Go to Convention.
Henry R Honey of Jewell county viii
be one Sixth district editor who will at
| tend the national Democratic convention
| in Baltimore. He publishes the Mankatc
Advocate. He may ask for the eiectaon
| as one of the delegates from the district
| Mr. Honey publishes an up-to-date anc
| outspoken paper, and deserves FecOsiii
| ton from his party
Dykes Is for Young.
DR.. John B. Dykes of Lebanon thanks
| his friends for mentioning him ror con
| gressional honors. He refuses to get mt.
the race and will support the presen 3
| Young He believes he viii be renonl-
| mated and elected by an increased ma
| jority-
one of the busy men in northwest Kan
sas is Hays B. White of Mankato- he i
at work early and late, sometimes he i
buying live stock. and ne Z Z xee4,ins
the people cool for he supplies them VIII