The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
Sixth District NerUs Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.


in the Sixth district, and received
more votes in the primary than his
Republican opponent and the Demo-
cratic candidate combined. The Demo-
cratic campaign slogan of that year
"Vote for Wilson, and a Democratic
congress, and keep us out of war" not
only defeated Benton in the Sixth dis
trict but defeated six other Repubh-
can candidates in the state, and en-
abled Wilson to carry Kansas by near
ly 10000, altho the state went Re-
publican for governor and other state
officers. Benton made one of the most
active campaigns ever made in this
district, visiting the twenty-five coun-
ties several times. No one had been
more active in building up northwest
Kansas and he was ambitious to 90
some real good for his constituents
Benton is undoubtedly one of the rich
men of Kansas, having been success
full in every financial undertaking
from his boyhood days. He has had
many flattering opportunities to leave
Oberlin for city life, but has always
preferred to live in Oberlin amongst
the friends and neighbors and bust
ness associates of his boyhood days
He now lives in one of the most beau
tiful homes in the state, surrounded by
flowers and trees. His two sons anu
son-in-law were each first heutenants
in the late war and his youngest son.
ord in his military service.
In the death of Mrs. Elizabeth For
rest Jewell county loses another OF her
, early pioneers. The family came to
Kansas in 1872 and settled in Jewell
county. They came from Illinois in q
prairie schooner, and took up a home
stead near Jewell City. The box
shanty erected on the homestead was
one of the pioneer Methodist parson-
~,
the husband being a minister, and
later joining the Kansas conference.
Mr. Forrest was a Civil war veteran,
wounded while in the service, and
passed on in 1875, his death occurring
from attacks of sickness brought on
from his army wound. Mrs. Forrest
was a charter member of the w. R. G.
of Jewell City, besides an active men,
Der of the Methodist church. She was
much esteemed by her large circle OF
friends, who did everything in thelr
power to prolong her life. She could
see good in everything, and found fault
with no one. Two of the children
survive her. Frank r. Forrest, of lola,
and Miss Lillian Forrest, of Jewell
City, who has been correspondent
of The State Journal for e maas99y years
J. NJ. Hall is a candidate for the
legislature in Sheridan county. Frank
McIvor, the present member, Will
gladly give way to some other man, as
he is a candidate for senator in the
Thirty ninth district.
The Oakley Graphic says of the
country and wheat prospects in Logan
county: western Kansas is about
the finest looking place imaginable
these days. The past week it has been
cloudy all week with little rain every
day. The wheat is looking fine and
the ground is in fine condition There
is no use talking, this is about the
finest country that lays out of doors"
Mrs. Emma B. Alrich. Of Cawker
City, was enthusiastically endorsed
for National Senior vice president of
| the w R. G. at the department en-
campment held in Hutchinson. The
national encampment will be held1in
Atlantic City in September. Mrs. AL
rich is one of the prominent women
in the Sixth district She has served
as department president of the w.
r. c. and was associate editor of the
Cawker City Record for S5 years.
Frank Simmonds. a Smith county
| boy, and a graduate of the Smith
| Center schools, who has been at the
| head of the schools in Lewiston, Idaho,
several years, has been appointed field
secretary for the United States Cham
Der of Commerce, with headquarters
| in Washington, D. c. AS teacher in
his home county as well as Mankato.
Jewell county, his transfer to one of
the prominent schools of Idaho, he
has made good. His new position is
a recognition of his valuable services
as an educator. His friends will be
pleased with his deserved promotion.
Prosperity items-W. A. Sealock, of
Osborne county, sold "a head of sheep,
l and years old, for SS07.75.
A A. Gillespie, of the Rexford News,
has stemmed the tide of the high cost
of living by selling some real estate
which has made him $4,000 in the
last six weeks
DR.. I. E. Larrick, of Oberlin, paid
| s10,650 for a half section of land in
| Decatur county.