The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-13

I is one of the sons of the late Sen L NJ.
Mahin, and a member of the well
known law firm, Mahin & Mahin, of
Smith Center.
A. W. Re1ihan, of Smith Center, was
recent visitor to Topeka, having i'm
portant work before the supreme court
as attorney for several litigants. He
is a native son of Smith county and
Kansas. He has practiced law in the
courts OF the Fifteenth judicial dis
trict for the last fifteen years. He is
associated with his brother T. d. Rel
Than, and the firm is enjoying a fine
practice. The firm is also noted in
the farm industry. Last year they
put out 400 acres Of wheat, and this
year they have sown about the same
number. of acres, and it is looking fine,
he says.
The writer of these notes visited
Jewell county before a mile of rail-
road was built. In the pioneer days
Mankato, the county seat, was named
Jewell Center. There being another
town named Jewell City, this created
confusion in mail matters, hence the
postoffice department changed the
name of Jewell Center to Mankato.
The Missouri Pacific and the Rock Is
land reach the town. 1t has grown to
be a town of about 1000 inhabitants,
and has as good a business foundation
as any town in the Sixth district with
a like population. In the days OF Pop
ulsm every officer in the court house
was a. Populist. At the time of the
| doubleEheaded legislature the county
attorney sent a dispatch to Governor
Leedy saying, Call on Jewell county
| for men and money; both ready.
| Those were exciting political times in
Jewell county. A political rally was
| ing the speaker for the Populists, and
| Webb McNan. candidate for congress.
addressed the Republicans.
| Both parties had parades thru the
| streets. The Populists seems to have
| the big number out, ten to one. Nc
Nall was speaking from q wagon on
| the main business street When the
other procession came along the street
was damned with Republicans and
before they opened the way for the
were so excited, many of them carry
| ing guns in their pockets, that it
looked like a fight to the finish, and
lots of blood spilled. All that was
needed to bring 1t about were cap
taius on both sides. Only cooler heads
prevented ebIoodshed, and the Populist
parade was carried out. 1t was one
! of the most exciting political rallies
your itemizer ever witnessed. Several
| families living in Oakland, former res
idents of Jewell county. were living
! there at the time and took part in this
| political meeting.
e. A. Cornell, head clerk in the auto
department of the secretary of state,
| is a Sixth District man. having located
| in Smith county. near Kensington be-
| fore the. town started. and long before
| the building of the Rock Island thru
his county. He has served several
years in various yocations in this Of
flee, and at times has been favora bly,
spoken of for head man in the office
! f4tA &c frio g
from all over the state tell him that
they viii help put him there when
ever he says the word. He has been
Loosely identified with the develop
ment Of his county and northwest
Kansas since pioneer times.
There are three brothers named
! Dykes, in the Sixth district, and they
are doctors and surgeons. One of
| them. J. 5. is practicing his profess
sion in Mankato. Spence is doing the
same work in Esbon, and III. A, while
secretary of the state board of medi-
! cal registration, a position . he has
filled creditably for several years,
lives in Lebanon, Smith county. They
own and operate a sanitarium and
hospital, and have built up fine prac-
tice. The brothers live so near to-
gether that they are called in many
cases in consultation. The brothers
were among the first to locate in Leb-
anon, having moved to this place from
Salem when the Rock Island built
/ here.