The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-30
WHEAT IN RAWuNS.


Mcdonald, July 2s-If one win visit
this part OF northwest Kansas at this
time the visitors will see that Raw
Inns county has harvested q big crop
Of wheat. So Tar as the eye can reach.
and the country Is level as floor. hum
dre0s of wheat stacks which will yield
thousands Of bushels when threshed.
are seen in any direction one may
look Such q sight has seldom II ever
before been seen In the memory OF the
earliest pioneers. The same Is true IN
the Bird City country, which town IS
station. lew years ago. shipped OUT
about 300 car loads. The elevators IN
Mcdonald are preparing to do record
breaking business in carload shipments
Of wheat this year. Edwin Lyman Is
building 15.00O-bushel capacity ele-
vatOr. He expects to handle from 5O,OOO
to $4,000 blu, hels Of grain alone that he
is directly Interested in. Some OF
this will be barley which is yielding
well. Conservative estimates place the
number of bushels Of wheat tributary
to Mcdonald close to 100000 bushels.
The general merchandise store Of E.
L. Dobbs Is one Of the busiest places
In northwest Kansas. He has been q
resident of Cheyenne and Rawltns
counties since 1887. He came to NC
Donald in 1899 and has engaged In bus
mess ever since His trade aggregates
$35, 900 and 900 annually. He is one
of the pushing business men and cit1-
zens of the town.
The State bank is now one Of the
business fixtures of Mcdonald. 1t was
reorganized in 1905 with Edwin Lyman
president, and Allah Green cashier. the
bank has a capital stock of $4,000. It's
business is increasing and satisfactory
Mr.. Lyman located on the sunny plains
surrounding Mcdonald in 1900. before
the town found its name on the map
He has made it. He likes northwest
Kansas and Rawlins county. He has
a wife and a family Of seven children.
four boys and three girls. and not one
to spare. Six of his children were born
in Kansas.
Mcdonald has a high school which
next term will have four teachers. The
town congratulates itself on the choice
of teachers the coming term. The
choice of .~chers are: Miss Minnie
Kline, Samuel Gish Miss Mertie As
kins and Miss Amy Smith.
The Mcdonald merchants are help
1000 to $1,000 monthly for the sur
plus cream and other produce.
The Mcdonald Mercantile company,
incorporated for $4,000, with ]. 8.
Lovelace, manager, and G. e. Howard,
president, has been so successful the
about $1,000. It has a membership of
fifty farmers already and expects to
double its membership this year.
The pleasant homes of E. L. Dobbs
and Edwin Lyman. surrounded as they
are with forest and fruit trees. and
shrubbery Of all kinds, will convince
the visitors that the treeless plain on
| which Mcdonald is situated. can and
will raise most everything the east
can. No prettier lawns are more at
tractive than will be seen here.
| Mcdonald was never an aspirant Tor
county seat honors, but it is progress
sive what there IL Of 1t. Several i'm
provements are contemplated of ad-
vantage to the place. The y: c. TT
never pass the town without stopping
and they get good orders to pay them
It has a fine section of country trfbu-
tary both north. east and. south. 1t II
one of the several towns in Rawlini
county where people are glad they are
here. With these advantages and
more Mcdonald will continue to mer-
It the prosperity she has met with n
| the past.