The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-02
Sixth District Netus Notes
Items and "Reminiscences. by An Old Timer With Hi.
Ear to the Grass Roots.

has two saloons, three drug stores,
two breweries and a distillery. In an
editor says he will furnish his paper
to anyone who will bring him four
bushels of corn, or half a cord of
wood, or two bushels of potatoes, OF
one and one-half bushels of wheat, or
six bushels of oats. The paper was
Eess was started in Kirwin in January.
1877, by E. F. Robinson, and is
claimed to be the first paper printed
in Phillips county.
Some of the early pioneers of north
west Kansas had miraculous escapes
from death, and some of them were
in the presence of your correspondent.
A camp meeting was being held In a
grove on the Solomon river, west OF
Bull City (now Atom, in the early
eighties. T. M. Walker, the leading
merchant of the town, was escorting
Miss Carrie Nixon, of Smith county,
to the meeting, and when the horses
and buggy were fording the stream
they stopped suddenly, and laid down
in the water. remaining there for sew
eral minutes, and until the horses
cared to get up and resume the jour
ney, The lady was so frightened
thinking every minute that the visitors
as well as the horses were doomed TO
meet death by drowning. that she al
most tainted herself. The Solomon
river at the place where the camp
meeting was held, is very shallow, nor
was there enough water running IN
the stream drown a person if they
wanted to end their life this way. The
screams of the lady drew a crowd to
the river crossing, and seeing no dam
ger. all of them enjoyed hearty
laugh. A few years later Miss Nixon
married Mr.. Walker. who is now the
president of the wholesale McPike
Drug company of Kansas City. Be
sides he is interested in banking there
as well as in Atchison, Hoxie ana
other towns in the state TO Mr;
Walker is due the remaining of hun
City to Alton, after the town of the
some name in Illinois.
LATE H Thompson, of Norton, one
of the most widely known attorneys OF
the Sixth district, has pleaded ms last
case, he is dead from cancer. In the
last primary election he was chosen
by the largest majority of the several
candidates for presidential elertors. He
came to Norton nearly half century
ago, when the town had a few stray
lygling buildings, and there he has re-
NAMED to see it grow up to pepu-
lation of more than 2,500. In one
of his first visits to the town the
writer was pleased to report hiSwed-
ding for the Atchison Champion HIS
devoted wife and helpmate in all these
for the presidency he supported
Bryan. Later he came back to the
Republicans where he has remained
ever since. eNhas worked for Nor
ton and literally contributed money
and time for the upbuilding of the
town. He will be missed by his-aarge
circle of acquaintance.
Judge John S. Dawson has returned
from his vacation out in Graham
county. 1T wasn't much of yaca-
ton" he said to your correspondent,
"as it was all mork and little idleness.
My crop of wheat was fine. and in a
few days more the threshers will be
thru with their work" he says. He re-
ports his county will raise the best and
largest crops in it's history. The judge
made a full team himself in the har-
vest field. He came to Topeka to be
on hand at the opening of the supreme
court, October 4, to which place he
was chosen in the primary election
for a second term by fine majority
There are rumors floating around
that Mrs. Emma E. Alrieh is going to
leave the Sixth district and locate in
the Fifth, perhaps in Junction City.
She is a~well known journalist. hav-
ing been associated with her husband,
Levi L. Alrich. in editing and publish
ing the Cawker City Record for IS
years, he having passed on a few
years ago She has a wide acquain-
tance, whose friendship will wish her
success wherever she locates.