The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-30
Mrs. Frank McIYOr Author of
The Upper Trail.
School Ma'am Saves Salary I'm
til Term Ends.
TRADES FARM FOR FIDDLE
He Could Sell 1t but Not the
Farm.
Malone to Make Race for State
Senate.

Hoxie, Kan. April 3O.-sheridan
county has a book writer. Mrs. Nc
Ivor, wife of Frank McIvor, editor and
publisher of the Hoxie Sentinel, has
written a novel entitled 1.-The Upper
Trail" The publishers claim that it
is one Of the most powerful western
novels of the day. and is all that its
title implies-a story of the whole
some out-of-doors- 1t is a tale of
Texas, not the Texas of a score of
blood cur6ling novels, but the real
Texas struggling against cattle thieves,
bootleggers, the corrupt and the cor
rupting. Mrs. McIvor is an entertain
ing writer and for several years she
has contributed to magazines.
Warren White of the lhQsburg
News Dispatch declines an invitation
from the newspaper fellows of indie
pendence to visit that town on the
date of the Republican convention,
May 8, for the reason that he would
have to slick up and buy a new suit
of clothes. besides riding on the rail-
roads now isn't what it used to be.
Town Needs "a Bank.
Montrose is going to have a new
school house, and a brick one at that.
1t has outgrown its present dingy
quarters To complete and furnish the
new building will entail an eXpendi-
ture of about $4,000, which will be
paid for in full as soon as the keys
are turned over to the school directors.
The town is one of the Jewell county
trade. grain and stock centers-
One of the greatest needs of Mont
rose is a bank. The town has an ele-
vator, two general stores, lumber yard,
hardware and implements, stock buy
er, hotel and blacksmith 1t is such
an important station that the Rock
Island keeps the depot open "A hours
day.
Miss Bessie Haworth is Jewell
county school teacher Last school
CHI Ilf n nffT
school term was eight months, for
which the board paid her $50 a month.
Nor did she draw one cent of her sal |
airy during the entire term, but the
closing day of school, and while her
scholars were picnicking, the board
gave her a check for the entire term, !
of S4OO.
The farmers wives around Mont |
pay taxes. The general store of w. |
L. Chandler paid out in one week |
$3.50 for eggs, besides $50 for cream
Old Settlers Picnic.
The old settlers of Smith county will !
hold their first annual home coming !
and good time, September 25 and 26. !
Anybody living in Smith county prior |
to December 81, 1880, are eligible to |
membership. Chas. 5. Uhl is secre- |
tary of the Old Settlers Home Com
ing association. There will be plenty |
doing all the time. The old timers will |
tell interesting "reminiscences of the !
pioneer times of Smith county. The |
Commercial club of Smith CeQter will |
present a beautiful silk banner to the |
township having the largest member
shin registered at the first anniversary. |
Pawnee township, Smith county, |
presents surprising figures to the as |
SCISSOR this spring. During the year
1, 400 hogs died from disease; there |
was 10000 bushels of corn in the |
hands of the farmers automo biIes in |
creased from five to fifteen in a year, |
and the population is 515, an increase
of 4 over one year ago.
Traded Farm for Violin.
There was time in the early set
Element of Thomas county when a |
quarter section of land was only worth |
what the owner could get for it-way |
back in the early SOS was about the |
time when more people were leaving |
Thomas county than were going there |
to locate. Near the thrifty town of |
RexfOrd there is a quarter section |
that has a history. 1t IS owned by F. |
o. Williams. From the time it was |
squatted on to the present probably |
dozen or more people have owned !
It and some of them in the early days
made some improvements. At one |
time the owner snapped it off for a |
violin. He wanted to leave the coun- |
try. hot winds and drouth. He could |
sell the violin but no one wanted the
farm That same farm is now worth |
more than $50 an acre.
Cove City, county seat of Cove |
county, has a hotel. For the last two
years ner only motel was closed, up SO l
far as furnishing meals was concerned. !
During court week lawyers and jurors |
found lodgings around town.
New Paper Lives Two Weeks.
The new Democratic paper at Wa
keeney, the Short Grass News, lived |
two weeks when its editor w. s. Ber- |
wick, became convinced there wasn't |
room for two Democratic papers in |
Trego county, so he bought the Re |
porter office, and in the future he will |
be contented with one paper He will |
make the Reporter a prominent Demo-
cratic factor in that part of the state |
J. w. Bingham, the retiring owner.
has given the patrons, Wakeeney and |
Trego county a clean paper. He re-
tires on account of failing health
The short crops last year in Smith
county don't keep her farm lands
from increasing in prices. A half sec
ton of land in the Athol country scId |
for $50 an acre, or total of $4,000 |
Three years ago the owner of this half |
section wanted to sell it at S45 an