The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-23
in SIXTH DISTRICT
Sylvan Grove Making EXten-
sive improvements.
Crop Conditions in Graham
County Were Never Better.

Crop Conditions in Graham
County Were Never Better.
Sylvan Grove. April 23.-Improve-
ments aggregating about $67,O are
already in sight in this Lincoln coun-
ty town. Among the public buildings
in course of construction are the
! Lutheran school house, the State
bank building, and the garage of
Sierer & Dobratz. The State bank
! building is 25 by 20 feet, two stories.
1t will be built of pressed red brick
with Bedford rock trimmings. 1t Will
be modern and thoroughly equipped.
| Another is the B. F. Foster feed store,
! a stone building two stories high The
second floor will be fitted up for the
Masonic orders. Several residences
costing from $4,000 to $4,000 are I'M
der construction. Among them are
I H. C. Latto, Mrs. Ida S. Cross, F. c.
Larsen. w. F. Gardner, Joseph Stuive,
]. P. Lang, Clyde Harris, Henry
Thaete and W. F. Czasleba, and in the
| country nearby c. Gier, Geo. F'itzpat-
rick and Henry Dohl are erecting sub
stantial farm homes and barns.
The cleaning up and building spirit
is not only going forward in town but
! in the country as well.
Lincoln county holds her annual
fair in Sylvan Grove. So far they
have been a success, with money al
ways left in the treasury for the next
one. Like the Topeka State fair, the
Sylvan Grove fair promoters always
make the next one larger and more at
tractive.
The opinion is unanimous that the
prospects for crop of wheat this
year is the best ever known in this
section of the state.
GrainfieId, April 23.-There will be
something going on every day here |
this year. Charles F. Horne, who was
elected mayor, is a boosting young
business man, and is at the head of a |
large general mercantile house. The |
Horne family is popular in Grainfield |
His wife was deservedly honored by |
being elected secretary of the Rebekah |
grand lodge of Kansas and the head |
office for distributing supplies to the |
orders throughout the state is located |
here. She is one of the largest de-
positors in the State bank mere from
the proceeds of the sale of supplies,
besides the cancellation of stamps has
largely increased in the postoffice.
It is big thing for Grainfield that
it is the home of the secretary of Re
bekahs.
Hill City. April 23.-Not in the
knowledge of the old settlers for the
last Is years has winter wheat en-
tered into the spring months in Ora
ham county with more flattering pros
poets than at this time A small part
of the acreage has been hurt by I'M
favorable weather conditions, but
close observers estimate that 95 per
cent of the crop is in good condition
With favorable weather the estimat-
ed yield is more than two million
bushels. There will be a big acreage
of corn planted, while the kafir corn
acreage will be cut short because OF
lack of stock to consume the fodder.
Hill City, April 23.-Graham coun-
ty people don't look on the estab-
fishing of a state irrigation plant in
the county with as much favor as
some of the other counties. With the
exception of the year 1911, this coun-
ty has produced in dollars of farm
wealth, as much as rs per cent of
the counties in the eastern part of
sentative citizens and farmers object
to the statement going out that Ora
ham is an arid county, which upon
inspection of the state agricultural re-
ports of a dozen years will not verify
The people of Hill City who own
their residence properties can appre-
ciate the great good a system of wa
terworks can do for them. This
spring is the first time they have
used the city water and to see them
seeding blue grass and setting out
trees and shrubbery on account of the ]
of a water system is con- I
elusive that the city water plant is a
good investment. Even the county
they are seeding the court house lawn {
TO blue grass.
The new Hill City council COM
prises two bankers, one stock man,
one farmer and school and book
supply business man. With such a
business council as this {
one is, and with the aid of good :
crops, which the season now prom ,
ses, there is already a feeling that
the Hill City people will be up and :
all the time E
Some of the defeated office seek
srs in Graham county appear to dis I
ike Hill City. John L. Crank, de- $
'eated for county attorney, has moved
% Gentry, Ark. where he will engage
n the practice of law, and George
schearer, defeated for probate judge, s
mas moved to Kansas City. J. l..
Colvin, ex-county attorney, has moved
% Wichita. Miss Edna Sperry, eX-
register of deeds, is taking a law !
course at Washburn college. F. D. =
rurck, who was defeated for Ora j
lam county legislative honors, says Z
he will remain in Hill City, where he /
Mrs. Matte Turck, is spending the i
spring and summer months on the ;
Pacific coast. They own real estate v
n Oregon near Portland. Mrs. Lucy c
who has filled the office of f
school superintendent so faithfully t
md acceptably during the last four v
7ears, together with her husband, S. c
;. Wilson, will spend the summer in
heir old Massachusetts, home, and
7isit other points of interest in the
east. L
In the heart of Hill City there is
draw" more commonly known the
deadline." 1t is now suggested that @
he draw be so improved and filled 6
n and set aside for a town park. I
There is a stone arch bridge across