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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

Journal; c. T. Davies, Republic City
News: NJ. H. Hoyt, Ports Patriot; w.
H. Whitmore, Downs Chief, and ]. H.
Wright. Lebanon Leader. There
ought to have been not less than fifty
present. The good people of Norton
were worked up over the failure of the
editors to. attend the meeting. And
this was the last meeting of the edi-
tors.
1t was in January. 1897, the Atwood
people believed they were going to get
the Rock Island road. The Citizen
newspaper said at that time: --latest
reliable intelligence is to the effect
that this road will positively reach At
wood within a year. possibly next
summer. The surveyors have been
here, and our people treated them to
a bonfire, music, feasting and a gen.
eral good time" The Rock Island was
built, the nearest point to Atwood be-
ing Colby, thirty miles south. The
loss of this road hasn't hurt the town
No railroad bonds to pay and growing
at a lively pace. Every year it shows
q steady increase in population. Now
let the B. & NJ. road do a good turn
for the town by building her depot
three-quarters of a mile nearer the
business center. The town has three
banks, two newspapers, and lot of
enterprising business men.
Two towns in Decatur county in
1886, Stephan and Shibboleth, couldn't
see any chance of getting the county
seat, and they went back to the farm.
n. w. Strong. of the former, was
postmaster, also probate judge. Ger
tain there must have been a supply
of poisonous snakes and other rep
tiles in Decatur county in the pioneer
days. The prohibition law was in
force, and the drug stores were han
ding the booze. Your correspondent
asked the probate judge If there were
many applicants for the stuff, and he
said: II file in my office from 1900
to 1900 applications monthly for in
toxicating liquors"
1t has been several years since
Smith county had a Democrat in the
legislature. And they are going to
try and elect Joe Housed to represent
THE country next winter. The Demo-
Gratis turned out in force, nominated a
full set of officers, and will work to
elect them.
Rocks county is advertising for
1900 harvest hands to help harvest
the biggest crop the county ever had
Cutting grain will begin about the
25th of this month. Every able
bodied man who will work will be
paid top prices. Harvest will last
three weeks. followed by two and
three months of threshing,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
Sixth District Ne1Us Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.

the name came from. The postoffice
department ordered an office estab-
lished in February, 1886, and it was
opened on the land owned by J. w.
Ellsworth, he being appointed post
master, and the name given to the
office was Gem. Here is the home of
P. S. Houston, who went there in
pioneer days, and hired out on a farm.
He is now one of the large land own
ers, wheat raisers, and stock feeders
in Thomas county. He is also the
head of the Gem State bank. He is
a workers for his town and county.
If he had listened to his friends, who
wanted him to get into the race for
state senator of the Thirty-ninth dis
trict, he would have saved the sew
eral aspirants a lot of worry. Hous-
ton is young. Whenever a political
office turns up in the Sixth district
worth going after watch "Sherm"
Houston.
Cora, Smith county, was a good
trading center in pioneer days, sew
eral years before the county got a
railroad. Cora looked for two rail-
roads, the B. & NJ. and Missouri Pa
cific. 1t got neither. Your CORE
spondent visited the town on his first
trip in March, 1887. At the time the
Parker & Isom, G. w. Buckley & Co,
general merchants; Bates Brothers,
hardware and implements; B. P.
Markham, drugs; c. s. Haseltine.
flour and feed, also postmaster; S. S.
Howard, hotel and livery; A. Ken
nedy. blacksmith: John Crandan, con-
tractor and carpenter; J. A. Wright.
editor and publisher of the Union, and
DR.. c. E. Nelson. Near the town was
a sod school house where w. Fl. Mel
son, of Smith Center. taught school
when he first came to the county. In
the building of the Rock Island road
the town went out of business, and
moved to Lebanon. and the townsite
went back to the farm. In Populist
days the party nominated Joe Wright
for lieutenant governor. He was the
only newspaper man in the Sixth dis
trict ever nominated for a state of
flee. He died in his home in Lebanon
years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
Tremendous Increase Personal
Property Valuation Here.
In 1919 Total Was $50, S64,173
and This Year S6S,5S7,847.
DECREASE IN THE COUNTRY
Despite Value of Farm Prod
uctS, Little Gain Shown.
Actual Reductions in Four of
the Twelve Townships.

Despite the fact that everyone
knows land values have increased and
the value of improvements on proper
ty Is higher than ever and farmers
are buying automobiles by the dozens
and produce prices are increasing,
there is no marked increase in the
valuation of personal property in the
farming communities of Shawnee
county under the 1920 assessment now
in the hands of the state tax commits
sion.
The figures on the abstract pre-
sor. show that in the twelve town
ships in Shawnee county. which rep
resent the country districts, the
valuations on personal property in
creased only 1921, 233 in 1920 over the
valuations of 1919.
to pay out hard cash for milk, cream,
butter. eggs, meat and vegetables,
must pay taxes on $5,S06,652 more
personal property in 1920 than they
did in 1919. This increase is for the
five cities and towns in Shawnee coun-
ty, Topeka, Oakland, Rossville, Silver
Lake and Willard. The personal
property valuation in 1920 on the
town people was $70.507.979. while
the valuation in 1919 was $64,701,327.
Five Million Jump in Topeka.
In the city of Topeka alone the
valuation jumped from $62.S64,173 in
1919 to $6s, 537,S47 in 1920, an in
crease of, $5,773,774. In everyone of
the other towns an increase OF thou
sands of dollars in valuation is indi-
Gated on the abstract.
In the same abstract it shows that
in four of the twelve townships in the
county an actual decrease in valuation
was tabulated by the assessors. In
Dover township the 1919 valuation
was $2.475,34S against a valuation of
$2.391,330, a decrease of $S4,013.
In Grove township the 1919 valua-
ton was $1.293.9S3 against a valua-
ton of s1,276,5O1 in 1920, a decrease
of $7.4S2. In Monmouth township the
1919 valuation was $2.4O7,131 against
a valuation of $2,S97,921 in 1920, a
decrease of $9.210. The 1919 valua-
ton for Rossville township was s3,-
145.205 against a valuation of So
144,sO7 for 1920, a decrease of 1895.
Two-Tear Valuations.
The 1920 and the 1919 valuations
on personal property in the townships
and cities and towns of Shawnee coun-
ty as placed on the abstract by the
assessor follow:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
rs YEARS AGO IN Topeka
Prom the Columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
june 10. 1895.

june 10. 1895.
Immediately following the re-establish-
meut ~ the Shorey pOstoffice with J. j.
Coffman as postmaster, comes the abolish
mcnt of the postoffice at QuintOn Heights.
The reason Of its discontinuance is that
l. Il Hendricks, the postmaster, did not
want the honor any longer and no one
could be found to take It. Hereafter, peO-
PIE who live Mt Qniuton Heights can come
10 Topeka for their mail as the carrier
system Will not be extended there. The
force Of carriers Is twenty-One, and is en-
tirely inadequate to any more work.
Twentieth street is the limit on the south.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Holiday and chill
drcu. little Frances and Master Ted Mr..
NJ. Eosworth, Mr. and Mrs. Fassler and
daughter Hazel, Mr.. Dan Crosby. Mrs.
IIammatt and son Don. Mr.. Griswold and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold T. Chase left today
for few days fishing at Maple Hill.
Mrs. IIill z. Wilson went to the Ottawa
Chaut1uqua yesterday, after a visit with the
family Of her brother, Frank MOntgom-
cry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

1t looked at one time as if Stock
ton was going to be a large railroad
center. Everything was coming that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
SCRIPTURE


JOD 80 ;22-3O.
Behold, God exalteth by his power; who
teachcth like him.
Who hath enjoined him his way? or
who can say. Thou hast wrought fniduity ?
Remember that thou magnify his work,
which men behold.
Every man may see It; man may behold
It nfar off.
BEHOLD. God Is great. and we know him
not neither can the number of his years
be searched out
For lie maketh small the drops of water
they pour down rain according to the
vapor thereof.
Which the cloudy do drop and distfl
upon man nbundautly.
Also can any understand the spreading
OF the clouds, or the noise OF his taber.
melee
and coyereth the bottom OF the sea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

will replace some thirty-six other vol
umes which now caRtain all the law
of the nation.
The compilation OF the federal stat
utes will cost when completed some
where in the neighborhood of 81 5, coo.
according to Little. The same job was
attempted twice before in the last
forty-six years ard one committee
spent 100000. The greater part of
the real work of codifying the federal
laws is being done in Lawrence by
Professor Burdick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
Representatve G al codfyng

and he is also the chairman of the
committee appointed by congress to
codify the federal statutes. He in turn
has appointed Professor Burdick to
supervise the job. which was started
last July and which it is expected will
be completed by Christmas.
The new law book. the work of
those two men. will then be published
by the federal government and no law
yer's library Will be complete without
it It is estimated that the new work
will comprise some II, 900 pages. II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

Do you know how many laws our
federal government has on its statute
books? Neither does the federal gov
eminent itself and it is now employing
two Kansans to tell the answer. The
two Kansans are Col. Edward C. Little
of Kansas City. Kan, and Prof. W. H.
Burdick of the Kansas university law
school.
Colonel Little is the member of con-
gress from the Second Kansas district
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
SHE'S MOTHER TO BABY SISTER.
Mabel Fosburg, IS. and "Her Family
at Detention Home Here.

No mother could care more tender
ly for a child than 13-year-old Mabel
Fosburg cares for her 2-year-old baby
sister. Flora May.
Mabel and Flora May and their
brothers-Johnny age and Albert. 6.
are among the children now in the
detention home. They are from a
family of seven children. whose father
died last winter from influenza, and
whose mother has since disappeared.
The juvenile court is finding homes
for the children. All of them are at
tractive light-haired. blue-eyed and
exceptionally intelligent, well-behaved
Children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.


No men hip their times so much as
the men Of hOpe.-W. r. Huntington.
1t Is not enough that we sit together
in heavenly places" we must stand to-
gether in unheavenly places.-Charles NJ.
Lamson.
When I sought happiness,
She fled from me constantly;
Weary, turned TO duty's path,
And happiness sought me,
Saying, I take this path today
I'll keep thee company.
Anon.
Live In n thankful spirit and you will
find more to be thankful for.-Brooke Her
ford.
Whose offsreth the sacrifice OF thanks
giving glorifieth me; and to him that or
dereth his way Alright will / show the saliva
ton Of God.-Ps. so :23.
Do the work that's nearest
Tho it's dull at whites,
Helping, when we meet them
Lame dog over stiles;
See in every hedgerow
Marks Of angels feet
Epics In every pebble
Underneath our feet.
Charles Kingsley.
Every promise Is built upon four pillars
Gods Justice and holiness, which will not
suffer Him to deceive: His grace and holt
ness, which will not suffer Him to forget
His truth, which will not suffer Him to
change; His power which makes Him
able to accomplish.-H. G. Salter.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
Locals Lose Another

The Mt. Sterling Baseball Team
met defeat Sunday afternoon at the
hands of the United Clothing Store
team of Lexington by the score of
D to 1. The locals presented an al
most entirely new lineup and were
outplayed in every department of
the game. James Greene, who went
in to pitch in the fifth inning, showed
that che had something" and with
little practice should develop into
winning twirler. The local team, as
made up Sunday. had a number Of
weak spots, but the management de-
slres to state that neither time nor
expense will be spared in securing
new talent and everything possible
done to assure Mt. Sterling a win
ming team.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
VISIT GRAVES OF ANCESTORS

Descendants of Martha Chandler
Prewitt and Betsy Smith visited their
graves yesterday to pay tribute to
their memory. The kinsfolk spent
the afternoon in the quiet grave
yard, which is near Walnut Hills. the
surrounding farm being owned by
Overton Chenault.
Among those who attended the re-
union were Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Me-
Cord and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tandy Chenault and son, Tandy
Chenault, Jr., Will Prewitt, Edwin
Prewitt and family, Cliff Prewitt,
Sr., Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Prewitt,
OF this county; Mrs. Alice Jones, of
Clark county; Mrs. F. Fl. Jackson,
Winchester, and Joe A. Jackson, of
and New York.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08

BY defeating the Lexington Higl
School baseball team on the loca
grounds Saturday afternoon Mt
Sterling has an undisputed claim tc
the championship Of Central Ken
lucky. The local boys have played
eight games and won all but the first,
which was with Cynthiana. However,
later in the season, on a return en-
gagement the Harrison county lads
were defeated to the tune Of to 4.
The team this year is one of the best
that has represented the local school
in many years and due to the fact
that not single man will be lost
oy graduation, they should have even
a better team next year.
The game Saturday, resulting in a
a to 0 victory, was one of the pref
test exhibitions of the National
game seen in Mt. Sterling in a long
time, all of the boys playing giltedge
ball. The features Of the game were
the alright pitching of Davis, the
clever catching Of Kirk, beautiful
stop by Blevins, which resulted in a
double play, and the all around play
ing of Jones. Cisco did his part
toward the victory when he got
three-bagger with two on bases. The
Lexington twirler was knocked out
in the first inning, the locals scoring
three runs, but after the eventful first
they were held scoreless until the
eighth, when they managed to get
one more man across the plate. The
game was fast and snappy from start
to finish and the best team won.
This is the first time Mt. Sterling
has boosted of championship team
in long time and the boys are de-
serving Of much credit for the SPLEEN
lid showing made, and all Mt. Ster-
ing feels proud Of its High School
;eam-the 1920 champions of Cen
raj Kentucky
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
State Road
Commission Named

Ben Weille, Paducah; Eft. s. Mono.
han, Jefferson county; ii. Greer
Garrett, Winchester, and II. II. Asher
Pneville, are members Of the State
Highway Commission appointed by
Governor Edwin P. Morrow. The first
two are Democrats and the other two
Republicans.
Weille is a merchant at Paducah
and president Of the West Kentucky
Good Roads Association. Monohan is
farmer of Jefferson county, and
president of the Farmers and Gard
eners' Association. Asher is a lum-
Der man of Pineville. Garrett is a
former member Of the State Railroad
Commission.
Governor Morrow selected two
Democrats from the Western part
of the State and two Republicans
from the Eastern part, feeling, he
said, that they would cooperate
better than if he selected Demo-
crat and a Republican from each
section.
The commissioners will go into of
flee June 18th. They will select the
State Highway Engineer.
The appointment of the commits
sion was made under the Smith Moss
Good Roads Bill passed by the last
session of the General Assembly,
which designates a system of State
Highways of approximately 5000
niles, extending into every county,
% be built and maintained by State
and federal funds under the super
vision of the State Highway engineer |
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08

both the Federal prohibition and
the enforcement act passed by Con-
gress were held constitutional yester-
day by the Supreme Court.
The court DISMISSED petitions fled
by the State Of Rhode Island to have
Federal officials enjoined from en-
forcing prohibition in that State.
The court also dismissed injunc-
ton proceedings brought by the State
Of Ney Jersey to prevent enforcement
of prohibition within that State.
Fhe opinion was rendered by As
sccAate Justice vandevanter.
Iniunctions restraining prohibition
officials from interfering with the
Manitowoc Products Company,
Wisconsin corporation in the manu-
facture Of beer containing more than
half Of one per cent. Of alcohol were
dissolved by the court.
The court upheld Federal Court
DEGREES Diminishing the proceedings
brought to enjoin the prohibition
amendment from being enforced
against Christian Feigenspan, a
brewer of Newark, N. J.
Federal Court DEGREES denying in
functions sought by the st. Louis
Brewing Association likewise were
affirmed.
Federal Court decisions dismiss
ing injunction proceedings instituted
by the Kentucky Distillers and Ware |
house Owners of Louisville, KY, to
enjoin enforcement of the act against
it were sustained by the Court. In
functions sought by George c. Demp-
sey, a Boston, Mass, wholesale
liquor dealer to restrain enforce
ment of the enforcement act against
him also were denied by the Court.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
Democratic Governor
For This Week

Kentucky has Democratic Gov
erner this week. AS both Governor
Morrow and Lieutenant Governor
Ballard are in Chicago, attending the
Republican National Convention,
Senator Charles M. Harris, Yer
sailles, president pro tenn of the SEN
ate will be executive head of the
State.
This will not be the first time Sen
ator Harris has been acting Governor
as he served in that capacity during
the term of Governor James D. Black
who was absent from the State for a
week or ten days.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
SEND FOR ONE

Swinebroad, the real estate man Of
Lancaster, has gotten out an at
tractive catalogue Of number of
auction sales of land, which he will
place on the market this month. 1t
also contains a description of about
thirty farms he has for sale private
Sly. Anyone wanting to buy or sell
farms, or other real estate, should
write to Swinebroad for one of these
catalogues. Swinebroad is known as
the "Sale Wizard" Everyone likes
to transact real estate business with
him and his assistants, W. E. Moss
and r. H. Dever.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
PICNIC AT HIGH BRIDGE

Mr.. and Mrs. W. c. Henry enter
tanned a picnic party at High Bridge
yesterday, complimentary to their
guests, Misses Signe Hesler, of Lon
don, Eng, and Alberta and Beulah
Thompson, of Tampa, Fla. The
guests went over in motors in the
morning and at noon luncheon was
served picnic style. Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry's guests were: Misses Hesler
and Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Willis
Henry, Mrs. S. d. Hall, Miss Ada
Henry, Miss Alice Young, Miss Liz
zie Prewitt Coleman, DIR. o. P. Hen
ny, Chiles Henry and French Ander-
son.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
Court Of Appeals Up
holds Restraining Order

Court OF app upholds restra order
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ON
yesterday rendered a decision in IA
vor of Rex Hall, ct AL, vs.. E. w.
Senff, County Judge, restraining him
from calling an election for a $780,
ooo bond issue, said money to be
used In permanently constructing
TWO main thoroughfares in Montgom-
cry county, under the provisions of
the new State Road Law. The Judges
sitting in the case were Carroll.
Hurt, Settle, Thomas and Samnson.
and their opinion was based on the
fact that the petition specified that
the roads should be constructed
with more durable and better ma
teral than has heretofore been used
upon said roads," which the court
ruled was a request not authorized
by the Statute and so different from
the provisions of the Statute as not
to confer on the County Judge the
power to call the election. The opin-
ion in full will be reproduced in our
next issue.
The language of the petition found
defective is the same as the petition
used in calling a similar bond cleo
ton in Bourbon county, on which an
election was held, the bonds author
lied, and one hundred thousand dol
lars of which bonds have already
been sold. The Bourbon county ne
tition was obtained from Judge Bat
terton, of Bourbon, by Judge Senff,
who says he wrote for copy of it on
request of the Mt. Sterling's Bush
ness Mems Club at the time meetings
were being held discussing the uues-
lion of submitting the bond issue to
he voters.
The procedure now will be to file
IN amended petition covering the OBJ
ections raised, and asking that the
County Judge call an election based
IN said petition. The only effect of all
his is to set forward the date of the
election for few days.
In other words, the Court deci-
ion has no bearing on the right Of
he people to have an opportunity
o vote on the question of a bond
ssue for obtaining good roadside
ecision merely declares that the
orm of the petition was incorrect.
In the preparation of the new pc
tion and in all further steps to OBJ
ain for the people of Montgomery
n opportunity to vote on this cues
on, those in favor of Goods Roads
ill of course be guided only bv
lose known to be in favor of such
step.
The Advocate again says to the \
eople of Montgomery that they
lall have an opportunity to vote on
lis question
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
LAST OF UNIVERSITY LECTURES

The History Club announces that
the last of the series of University
lectures will be delivered at the club
rooms Friday evening beginning at
s o'clock.
DIR. Paul Boyd, of Lexington, will
be the speaker upon this occasion,
and his subject will be "The Social
Function of Religion"
The club cordially invites the Sun
day school teachers of the various
denominations to be present as their
guests.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-06-08
DR.. !. A. Shirley
Dies in Winchester

DIR. Isaac Allen Shirley, one of the
best known and most highly esteemed
physicians in the State, died sud-
denly at his home in Winchester Sat-
urday morning.
DIR. Shirley was II years old, was
the Clark county health officer, men,
Der of the State Board Of Health. and
councillor and sanitary Inspector Tor
this district. He was formerly pres
ident Of the Kentucky Medical AS
ISOLATION. He is survived bv his
widow and one daughter, Mrs. Mae
Shirley Johnson, of Winchester, and
one brother, DR.. J. A. Shirley, of this
city.
Funeral services and burial took
place in Winchester Sunday.