The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-17
Ellsworth Officials Have Long
Distance Record.
GOOD BUTTER RECORD
Made by Women Who Sell at
Low Price.
Judge RuppenthaI May Run for
Congress.

served the people OF this district he has
sent his check in advance for a years
subscription to all the papers, which
aggregate % or more.
The Osborne Farmer is adding a
new standard linotype machine to its
we'll equipped Office. This will be the
\ second machine Of its kind on the Gem
trail Branch road, the other being in
Concordia. When this machine is in
operation Bert Walker will have time
to serve the people Of Osborne county
in the legislature.
There are hints that third bank is
going to start in Jewell City. Times
are not so good in Logan, one of the
most progressive towns in Phillips
county and northwest Kansas, so the
two banks consolidated. One seemed to
be plenty.
Officers Are Long Termers.
Three Republicans of Ellsworth coun-
ty have saved money for the taxpay-
ers, A. s. Chase has served the coun-
ty as probate jurge for 20 years: T
R. Wilson has served the people since
1891 as register of deeds. and J. NJ.
Wilson first took the once of clerk of
court in 1897. There has been no use
for anyone to try to beat these Off
Gals They have made careful and
obliging officers, and are candidates for
denomination
J. J. Yapp won out in securing the
Esbon postofice. Congressman Young
ed harder fer Republican success. De-
served congratulations are pouring in
to Mr.. Yapp as well as Congressman
Young.
Mrs. A. w. Upp. of Lebanon, and
Mrs. J. T. Vanskiver, of Smith Center,
are making records in butter making
The former marketed the past year o.
pa pounds of butter from a dozen
same time from half a dozen cows l.
121 pounds These excellent butter
makers only received on an average 25
cents a pound when they ought to have
realized not less than 35 cents a pound
No Fruit in Smith.
The prospects for fruit in Smith coun-
ty have gone glimmering this early &C
cording to Schuyler Stevens, who says
there isn't a live fruit bud in the
county.
NJ H. Mulroy, Of Hays, member Of the
legislature from Ellis county. will be
candidate for reelection. Mr.. Null
roy will not object if the Democrats
select him as one of the national dele
gates at-large to the Baltimore con-
The Thirty third senatorial district is
represented by a Democrat. The dis
trict comprises Jewell and Mitchell
counties. The Democrats of Jewell
think it is their turn for the office, and
are urging n. E. Myer1y, of Burr Oak,
to make the run. The county is Re
publican. but Mr.. Myerly has never
been beaten for office, he having served
the county as sheriff for four terms
on separate occasions
No Chautauqua This Year.
The Free Press doesn't think this
year is the right time to organize and
hold ChautauQua at Colby
There are three papers printed in
Oberlin, two Democratic and Republf-
can. It didn't take the commissioners
of Decatur county long to decide the
printing matter, and they gave it to
the Herald with whoop and hurrah
The Times, Republican, said: THE
only difference between us and the of
ficiaP paper is, they get pay for the
printing and we WON'T
Chas NJ. Sawyer of Norton. one of
the veteran Democrats of the Sixth dis
trict and favorably acquainted all over
the state, has a strong following for
delegate to the national Democratic
has been for the last dozen years mem
Der of the Sixth district congressional
committee and has continuously served
on the state committee for the past
eighteen years. He is president of
the First National bank of Norton.
RuppenthaI for Congress.
Friends of ]. c. Ruppenthal. Judge
of the twenty-third judicial district,
have been urging him to get into the
race for congress in the Sixth district.
He lives in Russell
In Cawker SO Years.
The Cawker City Record is in it's
thirty-ninth year. That is a great rec
ord for a newspapers in northwest
Kansas. Thirty nine years ago people
in that section subsisted on buffalo
meat to great extent Every now
and then some one tries to buy the
Record or consolidate it with some
other paper. Levi L. Alrich, editor
and publisher, and Mrs Emma B. AL
rich, associate editor. say no; they like
Cawker City and they are there to stay.
Esbon and Burr Oak are Sixth dis
trict towns to have Chautauquas next
summer. This will make more than
dozen towns in the district going to
hold Chautauquas this year.
The commissioners of Decatur coun-
ty have lined up with those OF neigh
boring counties and nave put bounty
of five cents on jackrabbits-
The editor of the Hays City Repub-
Iican isn't afraid to put in extra time.
He is taking orders for nursery stock
The sylvan Grove News is working
hard to resurrect their comm rcial
club.
third district was in open session com
mencing January 3, 1911, and ending
January 4 1912. as follows: Russell
county, So days; Ellis, 45; Trego, 10;
Cove, 9; Logan. 3, and Wallace, 8,
The Norton Daily Telegram has
been q paving investment to such an
extent that the owner IS going to put
in a linotype machine
1fcTvor Gets a Job.
Everything comes to him who
waits has partly come true in the
case of Frank McIvor, editor and pub
Usher of the Hoxie Sentinel Cover
nor Stubs has landed him job as
regent of the Emporia State Normal
The weather has been unusually cold
for a longer period in the Solomon
valley than has been known for many
years. The cold weather doesn't keep
the Beloit Gazette from making two
important announcements. one of
which Is that the ReIotf Chautaudua