The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-17
Sixth District NelUs Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.

as often declined them. His law IL
brary is as large any in the district. |
He owns a fine modern home in Be-
lott
The Athol, Smith county, people |
don't believe they had a good chance |
at finding oil in that part of the |
county. New people have come in, |
claiming to be representatives of the
Standard Oil company, who are buy
ing leases with big success. and prom |
ises are made that they will soon COM |
mence on a new trial to find oil in
that vicinity. For years there have
: been indications of gas and oil in |
Athol and vicinity.
H. r. Tillotson, of Norton county.
a prominent attorney. whose home is
| in Lenora, was a Topeka visitor, hav
! ing business before the supreme court
! tending Washburn college. He says
| fully one-half of the crop of wheat
raised in his section last year is yet in
| the stack. The new crop is looking
fine. he says. and if anything better
! than the prospects a year ago.
/ r. C. Postlethwaite of Jewell City
was supreme court visitor on bust
ness. and called on the legislature.
His name is among the favored ones
!
| delegate to Chicago. He is a thoro
Kansan and has lived all his life in
| Jewell county. He has grown to man
hood in his town of Jewell City, re-
! spected by all, and an attorney OF
wide acquaintance.
Geo. w. Shook, of Jennings, is
again holding down his old place in
| the legislature, that of doorkeeper,
the position he has filled for three
terms. Speaking of last years wheat
crop in Decatur county, he says,
there are, thousands of stacks of
wheat yet to be threshed. and big
piles of the crop piled on the ground
here and there which can't be mar
/ keted on account of the scarcity of
grain cars. Decatur county raised
| one of the banner wheat and corn
crops of 1919.
L. H. Thompson, of Norton, lawyer,
and one of the Oldest in, the profession
| in northwest Kansas, and one of the
pioneer Republican war horses in the
Sixth district, has announced his can
didacy for presidential elector. So far
no other candidate has been mention
ed. 1t looks as If he will win if recog-
milton of his long service in behalf of
his party is taken into consideration.
Among the Topeka legislative WISH
tors this week are E. E. Wallace and
his brother. Walter, of Rawlins
county. They are large farmers and
| stock feeders, and own between them
about 1000 acres of well improved
land. They are early pioneers, having
located there in 1888. They say fully
SO per cent of last years wheat is not
yet threshed. New crop prospects are
/ good, promising better than for sew
eral years. The 1919 crop year in
Rawlins county was one of the largest
ever known.
W. R. Cunningham, of Graham
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sas City board of trade. He has been
buying grain in Morland, where he
owns an elevator, for many years. At
one time, few years ago, during
shortage of grain cars and his elevator
full of wheat, he built bins and sheds
on one of the residence street and
stored 100000 bushels.
Il W. L. Chambers, of the Stockton
Record, is the pioneer editor in con-
tinuous service in the Sixth district
He has recently celebrated his forty
years in the newspaper harness in the
publication of the Record. This an
niversary issue is full of interesting
"reminiscences of Stockton and Rocks
county. The early settlers came to
the county in the latter part of the
II '70s. The editor of the Record came
on Thanksgiving day, 1879, driving
across the country from Bloomington,
Neb., to Stockton. Among the inter-
number of the Record is one from
Judge S. N. Hawkes., former resident
of Stockton. and later assistant attor-
ney general Forty years printing
paper in northwest Kansas hasn't put
Chambers ON Easy street financially,
but he owns a splendid modern plant,
out of debt, has a good home, and a
few dollars laid aside for a rainy day.
The Record has been a clean news
paper, and politically Republican.
c. G. Page, of Norton. is a Topeka
visitor. He is a member of the execu-
tive committee of the State Livestock
association. He feeds 500 head and
more of stock every year. He is one
of the largest. shippers of livestock on
the Rock Island road between Denver
| and Chicago. He reached Norton in
1873, at a. time when there were more
buffalo than white people in Norton
4 county. He hunted the buffalo and
sold their hides for one and two dol
lars apiece. He hauled the bones to
4 Wakeeney, the nearest railroad sta
ton, and sold them for $3.50 a ton.
He broke the first ground turned I'M
der the sod in Trego county, near Wa
i keeney. in 1878. at the time he was
hauling buffalo bones to market. Page
says one half the corn crop hasn't
been husked, and only 65 per cent OF
the wheat has been threshed. Norton
county is full of feed. and the crop
pAospeStS Aor 19-o are 4ooh1nS LINZ
B he says
The writer of these notes visited
Stockton in the interest of the Atchi-
4 son Champion several times during the
pioneer days, and long before that
town had railroad Stages made
regular daily trips. AN incident OF
4 one of the visits was trip to Osborne
1 Bull City and Stockton, south Solo,
Z mon towns. A day had been spent in
Osborne. Bloomington. five miles
west, wanted the county seat of Os-
borne COUNTY. Here the stage stopped
for dinner. and on learning there was
a newspaper fellow among the pas
/ sengers he was waited on by one OF
the citizens who had a nice wad oil