The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-12

Ruppenthal of Rue ell county. CteVe-
land was president when Freeman
was the candidate. Among many APP
pIfcants for postmasters in the district
was one from Osborne, who had
large petition for the office, and he
wanted the endorsement of Freeman,
the defeated Democrat Tor congress.
He made his visit to Beloit, the home
Of Freeman, and showing his petition.
asked the defeated candidate for his
endorsements The applicant for the
office said he had worked hard, and
voted for him together with several
hundred other Democrats in Osborne
county. After he got thru talking
Freeman pulled from his pocket the
state canVassing boards result of the
election, and running down the list
Of counties he cane to Osborne and
looking over the list of candidates
voted for he was surprised that he
hadn't received a vote in Osborne
county. Freeman didn't endorse him,
but he is still hale and hearty. and
lives in Osborne. Freeman died, sew
eral years ago.
Kenneth was the first county seat
of Sheridan county. 1t was the home
of Congressman Turner the town be-
ing named in honor of his son Ken
meth. who was born there. Along in
1856 a colony of boomers came in
and located a town about two miles
away, and named it HoXie, after the
big railroad magnate, H. NJ. HoxieS of
the Missouri Pacific railroad. In the
pioneer days one often heard the ex-
preston that the country was so
healthy that someone had to die be-
fore locating a cemetery. This was
true to a certain extent in Sheridan
county, whose first occupant of the
Kenneth cemetery was killed. The
first visit your correspondent made to
Kenneth he saw several buildings on
wheels" moving to the new town of
Hoxie The Missouri Pacific has
never built west CT Stockton, so the
first boomers worked and secured
the Union Pacific Kenneth passed
out of existence, and the toWnsite re-
turned to the former The town com
pany, the congressman, nor his news
paper, had a strong enough pull to
hold the county seat at Kenneth.
Hoxie is also the home of Senator
Frank McIvor, also first assistant state
auditor Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Crosby
have returned to their old home after
spending several weeks in the old
home town in Ohio. These people
are among the early settlers to Chey
enne county, where Mr.. Crosby is do
ing a successful business in st. Francis,
the county seat, where he has seen
every business house and residence
erected. He was one of the early
sheriffs of the county, was elected to
the legislature and has served as post
his old home, where he finds more
sunshine and business. Too much
rain for him in Ohio, he says
st. Francis has just right to be
on the maps. Out in the northwest
corner Of the state is Cheyenne coun-
ty, and the county seat is st. Francis,
a town which received the last week 4
in October Is carloads freight, the
railroad bills running from $85 to over
no
loads of grain was Shipped out.
Congressman Hays B. White has
made the patrons of the Herndon
pOstOfffce happy in the selection and
appointment of Miss Gladys w. Dull
postmistress of that thriving Rawlins
county town. She was born in the
town. She is the daughter of Geo. W.
Dull, one Of the pioneer merchants of
HerndOn.
W. B. Ham, Of Stockton. has retired
from his law profession after a prac-
tice of over 35 years. He is one of
the pioneer settlers of Rocks county.
he has served the county in the leg
lsIatEre. At one time he was a strong
candidate for congress against Con-
gresham Reeder. The line for the
nomination was drawn so tightly it
took several days to determine the re-
suit. Mr.. and Mrs. Ham are spending
the winter in Tennessee,
The Beloit Call is the pioneer daily
paper in the Sixth district 1t was
Il years old October %. There are
only TWO daily papers in the district, 1
the other being the Norton Telegram.
There was a daily paper in Osborne
Tor few months, and another in Leb-
anon. Both of them closed out before
they got far in debt. Beloit has had
three daily papers, and the Call is the |
only one now. Several towns tried
the experiment of issuing twice a !
week. so far only one is now published
the Lebanon Times, Adamson & |
Houghton, editors and publishers of |
the Call, have succeeded in building
up a good line of advertising and a
heaIthy subscription circulation. It is |
delivered about town by carriers. It'll
mas come to stay, and Beloit people |
are proud enough to keep the daily
Call awe. When Congressman White |
concludes to make q change in the |
Beloit postoffice the friends of Harry |
K. Houghton, of the firm, wishes his |
name to be taken under advisement |
FOR postmaster.
Deroy Danielson is one of the pio-
neer business men of st. Francis. In |
one of the front windows of his store /
ne has display of pioneer life in |
cheyenne county, which is great |
scene of the early times in Cheyenne |
county. Among the displays is a pile |
OF buffalo chips which kept many of |
the old pioneers from freezing. a com |
plete OK team yoke which was used |
IN those early days, a pile of sods |
which were used to build the first |
homes of many of the settlers. logs /
and axes. The scene excites much |
interest to the newer class of people |
who have gone there since the changes |
from what it was in the pioneer times. /
1t has been unusually dry in Mitch |
ell county this year, according to the /
statement of one of the women who /
has been holding down" the farm
ever since the death of her husband /
several years ago, and alone. The /
woman had been visiting relatives and
friends in Indiana and Ohio. Return /
ing to her farm home near BeIeit,
ana learning that no rain had fallen
IN that county while she was visiting.