The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-03

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fifty-ninef old soldier comrades pres
ent the writer of these notes was
elected junior vice commander OF
Lincoln Post No. 1, G. A. r., for the
year 1920. He wasn't candidate for
the honor nor for any office in the
tered in" he can truthfully say that it
is the first office of any kind he has
ever held. Thanks to the comrades
OF Lincoln post
An official honor has come to your
itemizer for which thanks are due to
the honorable judges of the state su-
preme court. 1t was the first office
he has ever aspired for appointment,
political or otherwise. Application
was made for supreme court bailiff,
made vacant by the death OF Col. w
W. Smith. There were several de-
serving applicants. The judges Sc
Iected the writer of these notes.
Thanks, honorable judges. n
Only two frame court houses re-
main in the Sixth district. OF the
twenty-five counties in the district,
twenty of them have stone and brick
structures, while Cheyenne and Sher-
man counties do business in their old
| frame and now dilapidated buildings
These two counties have raised won
derful crops for several years, ana IL
begins to look like the time Is near
| for the building OF more Coii1iiiooAo1o'
modern court houses.
| One of the most notable Landmarks
| in Smith Center was boxelder tree
planted in front of the sherman hotel
as early as 1878. During the scarcity
az coal it was cut down and chopped
| into fire wood, and several famliies
were furnished fuel for warmth.
While more people have enjoyed It's
shade than from under any other tree
ION the townsite, many political JOBS
have been put up under its limbs. All
cIosses of politicians from United
states senator and governor, and down
the list of state officers, have enooyeu
| a cool rest in the shade or TINS nam
moth tree. If all informauoh %as
obtainable OF what has occurred unu1t
| this old shade tree an Interesting Voi
uune could be written.
Otis L. Benton, of Oberlin, has been
selected by Chairman Hays OF INC
national committee. as regional oFec-
! tor, whose duties VIII be 70 help ues
ways and means for raising campaign
funds. The field, covers the states Oh
kansas Miss ,uri, Oklahoma, Colo
rado. wyoming, Texas, Arkansas ana
/ 7 louisiana. He is tireless worker>as
| the people of the Sixth olstricl Wen
know. In the selection OF Benton Ma
tional Chairman Hays made a good
IChOlcG. u
senator from the Jewell-Mitchell
county district. is the Sixth district
chairman of this committee.
Fred w. Knapp. state auditor, and
N s. Turner, assistant auditor, nave
recently engaged in the banking busi-
nesa Knapp is director and stock
holder in a new Salina bank, ana
Turner is stakeholder and director IN
fine Home State bank recently organ
lied and doing business in Russell.
They have made good in the auo1tor s
office. There is good support rom
the state to make Turner a Candidate
for state auditor in 1920.
| Charles w. Smith, Of Rocks county
uarole officer in the office of the gov
ernor. held the office of district judge
for twenty-sixy years. This rear All the
records of judges in the state for con-
| tinuoas service. He was appointed
Judge of the Thirty-fourth district in
March. 1889, and served until January,
I1915. The district comprises the
| counties of Graham, Rocks, Sheridan,
Sherman and Thomas.
The Sixth district has a grand rep
lresentation in the state house John
S. Dawson. Graham county, is a mem
Iber of the state supreme court;
Charles w. Smith, of Rocks county.
is parole officer; J. S. Hart, Jewell
county, grain inspector, also state
senator from the Jew ell Mitchell
county district; n. A. Turner. Russell,
Resistant state auditor; E. t. 1homp-
i son, of Smith county, assistant state
treasurer; H. w. Penney, of Ellis
county, member of board of admins
tration; E. A. Cornell, of Smith county,
head of automobile department in the
office of secretary of state; Frank Nc
Ivor, of Sheridan county, assistant
| state fire marshal; c.. d. Yetter. of
'rrego county, assistant, chief clerk in
the office of secretary of state; and
Miss Mayme Conroy, of Beloit, special
assistant in the auditors office. Fred
4 w. Knapp was elected state auditor
from the Sixth district. He has
recently moved to the Fifth district.
John R. Connolly, of Colby, retired
from congress with honors. He served
three terms from the Sixth district.
He wanted to serve a fourth term
but was defeated by Hays, B. White, of
Jewell county, in a Republican land
slide. Connolly purchased a big mer-
camille stock in Colby and put his SONS
in charge. While he is living in COM
fort in his modern home he is doing
a successful real estate business on the
side. He is. too, a director. in one of
| the Colby banks For years he edited
and published the Free Press. He
print paper in time, SO he let the paper
go. He hasn't an apology to make
for his congressional record.
! The town of Cedar, the first county
seat of Smith county on it's organiza-
| ton, has been so long without a doctor
that one saw fit to go there and hang
out his shingle. As many a. three
doctors have been there at one time.
Judge r. NJ. Picker, of the Fiji