The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-25
Sixth District NetUs Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.
MONDAY.

had a chance to save themselves they
held on to 1t for a higher price" And
the prospects for another big crop next
year is fully as good in Mitchell county
as this last crop. Beloit and the county
Will pull thru in good shape.
Some of the Sixth district editors are
easy to please. One of them is r. G.
Walker of the Goodland Republic. He
don't want the postoffice, for he says a
successful man can't fill two jobs at
one time. And then he goes on and
says: I'VE don't want it for the money
there is in it; we don't want it for the
work there is in it, and we don't want
BIT for the honor
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w Smith, of
Topeka, met with many thrilling ex-
periences on their arrival in Rocks
county in June, 1880, driving thru the
country from Hays City to Stockton.
RAISING over the most exciting ones,
Mrs. Smith remembers one which is
more pleasant to relate. She was a
school teacher when she was married,
and finished the term before starting
alone on her honeymoon trip, her hus-
| band having preceded her looking up
location, and the new bride was be-
ing entertained at the home of the
family of W. P. Montgomery, of Hays.
Locating in Stockton, he returned for
his bride. The morning they started
the wind was blowing furiously, and
it was cold enough for an overcoat.
The bridegroom had left his coat at
stockton. thinking that he wouldn't
need heavy coat in the month. of
June, so he borrowed an overcoat and
other heavy wraps from Mr.. Mont
gomery. The new bride ana BRIDE
groom stopped at the farm home OF a
| family named Delay on the Saline
river. Mrs. Smith now delights to tell
this story: - 1.-The warm fire in the
comfortable kitchen was a delightful
change from the cold wind outside.
Sitting by the fire while the men folks
put up the team of horses and fed
them, Mrs Delay ands I engaged In
conversation mutually entertaining. L
was interested in everything pertain
ing to the new country to which I had
come to make my home. I admired
the comfortable home; the new quilt
ON the frames in the large room: her
flock of poultry. and the general APP
pearance of prosperity in that western
home. During our conversation
asked-have you no children? NO
child en-. 1t is too poor country to
raise children" she replied. After
eating a dinner OF fried ham and eggs,
good bread, coffee, vegetables and pie
and almost everything a country wo-
man can provide on short notice. the
team was hitched to the spring wagon
and we set out on our journey toward
dered what Mrs. Delay would think
if she knew that on the hill overlook
, ing Stockton there were six robust
children enjoying life as only children
| can, born to the woman whom she
had told the country was to poor to
have children" Since this incident
the husband served twenty-six years as
Judge of the 18th judicial district. He
| is now serving as executive clerk and
pardon attorney in the governors Of
flee. He was married in March, 1880.
Six children have been born to them,
ing. and all of them have raduate
diplomas from the state university at
Lawrence.
The Eureka itemizer of the Beloit
Gazette tells this high cost of living
experience in Mitchell county: I'VE
went into store in town to price wall
paper. The cheapest oatmeal paper
| is now 81 roll. Ordinary kitchen
paper, formerly sold for 10 cents a roll
family and a medium sized house. To
paper that house with the cheapest
stock now would cost 20 bushels of
wheat. 65 bushels of corn, 100 bushels
| of oats. a fair team. mules. a good
COW and q frunt pig. We shall con-
tinue to belong to the great unwashed
and our walls may go dirty" Sure
this Eureka correspondent. whoever 1t
I may be, will be thanked for the man.
/ ner the itemizer exposed the high cost
OF living. even IL 1t did occur in so
good a town as Beloit.
The PhilIipsburg Post has changed
ownership, F. W. Boyd retiring after
a service of seventeen years as editor
and publisher. The plant has been
sold to Harold c. Whitehead. Hereto
: fore the paper has been q stalwart