The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-25
BY HARRY ROOT.

The Sixth district has three towns
whose names are sure jewels, Gem, in
Thomas, county, Jewell City in Jewell
county, and Paradise in Russell
county. Nor is this all; Rocks county
has a tract of land of several thou
sand acres named Paradise Flats, and
every acre is under production. The
farm houses are jewels in architec-
turaI design and finish. Not a sod
house remains on Paradise Flats In
pioneer days one could count them by
the, dozens. The flats" are one of
the big wheat raising centers in north
west Kansas. Many of her farmers
have bought the second and third
quarters" of land from the surplus
crops they raised off of their $50 acres.
1t is good to own land on Paradise
Flats in Rocks county.
DR.. and Mrs. J./E. Hawley of Burr
Oak were Topeka visitors last week,
and attended the big state fair, the
largest one ever held here. Doctor
Hawley located in Jewell county in
1877, at Burr Oak; commenced the
practice of medicine. opened a drug
store, and has remained. He has been
a great promoter for all that is good.
He has been a booster for schools, and
his visit to Topeka was also in the
interest of getting a teacher for one
of the departments in the high school.
It is said that with the aid of the state
uperintendent the board of education
of his town has secured a Topeka lady,
Miss Grace Parks, to conduct the de-
partment. Doctor Hawley has served
his town as mayor and councilman for
many years. He thinks he ought to
serve Jewell county in the state legis-
lature next winter, and for that rea-
son the Republicans gave him the pri-
mary nomination. If elected Doctor
Hawley will be a valuable member and
a hard worker.
The Goodland Republic~ prints a
department pertaining to old timers in
Sherman county. 1t is of great inter
est and quite historical. Some of the
writer's are having trouble to locate the
first white person born in the county.
there being two or three claimants
already.
What is the matter with Mitchell
county? The writer of these notes
was a resident of BeIoit for fourteen
harmony then. Now the September
docket of district court claims there
are twenty divorce cases to be tried.
The friends of AzeI F. Cochran, of
Hays, will be pleased to learn that he
United States government for the pur-
pose of locating, assembling and dis
posing of SIPS, 100000 worth of sur
plus harness, saddles, blankets and
leather goods and everything that en-
tered into the war service for horses,
he having been associated with others
in handling this transaction for the
government during the war period.
He expects it will take not less than
two years to complete the contract
Young Cochran is a Sixth district man
and was born in Plainville, Rocks
county. He is qualified to perform
the duties of the job. His father is c.
G. Cochran, of Hays president of the
Citizens State bank of that place.
At one time wano was the second
town in population and commercial
Importance in Cheyenne county. 1t
was chartered in January, 1887, and
the capital stock was $2,150. The in
corporators were: A NJ. Brennaman,
J. T. McCarty. J. F. Maxson, Henry
Bower, Peter J. Pander, Vim. W. Nc
While Bird City was the county seat
Wano got a good start and held it
until the B. & M railroad came along
and laid out another town Is miles
west and named it St Francis A few
months later the railroad company
and the Lincoln, Neb.. Land company.
two an-powerful corporations, said to
the Bird City and Wano people that
the place for the county seat was St.
Francis. This settled it and in the
| election it was chosen by q decisive
ma ority. Your correspondent re-
members his first trip to Wano. when
| it was a thrifty town OF a few hun
! dred inhabitants and the last time he
passed the townsite there wasn't q