The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-19
Sixth District Ne1Us Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots,

made his race for congress he pre-
| scented the members with a white
suit and blue caps. and during the
campaign they were his guests in
1 many towns where he spoke. The
club was present at the convention
when he was nominated for congress.
Wherever the Seismic quartette ap-
peared from its organization in 1889
it was the big drawing card. After it
fscattered. Antrobus locating in JEFF
ferson City, Mo. where he was a
prominent physician, now dead;
Cloudy locating in Pocatello, Idaho,
and engaged in business; Wiley drifted
to Adrian, Wash, and Caldwell came
| to Topeka, and is now first assistant
! postmaster, a position he has held
for nearly : quarter of a century. A
strong rival for musical honors in Be-
lott was the two ladies' quartettes
composed of Grace Hicks. Ella Cald-
| well, Allie Casey and Cora Todd men,
bers of one. and Nettie Perry. Francis
Bull. Nellie Dodge and Grace Hicks
| composed the other club. At times
| there was big rivalry among the two
clubs, but so far as the Beloit people
know there never was any hair pull
| ing. Only one member of either club
| has passed way, Miss<Dodge. Several
OF the others are married.
The Sixth district is represented in
! congress by Hays B. White. Not only
! the farmers but the business inter-
| ests of Ahe district are carefully
watched by Congressman White, and
they are satisfied with his work. He
is now serving his second term. He
is practical farmer, and when at
| home he puts in his spare time on the
farm near Mankato, Jewell county.
AT the same time he keeps in close
| touch with affairs in district, state
| and national matters. He says that
! when man is serving his first term
| in congress he is anxious to keep in
! personal touch with his constituency
that he works day and night to serve
them. Later on after one has served
few terms he is SO busy serving his
district that it is a hustlers job ITO
keep in personal touch with as many
as he would like When it is the
wish OF his district to retire him, he
says, it will only be a retirement to
/ the farm. when he will again engage
in the raising of cattle, hogs. alfalfa
and corn His farm is well improved.
and only three miles from Mankato,
the county seat. When the writer of
these notes visited the White farm he
knew he was going to be pleasantly
entertained by the family He has
already signified his intention of be-
ing a candidate for a third term in
1922.
State Senator John NJ. Gray, of the
40th district, has taken charge of the
Phillipsburg Post, and is making a
fine paper of it. The senator lives
in Kirwin, having. resided in Phillips
county ever since pioneer times. He
was an influential. hard working
member of the last legislative session,
and he is doing hard work now to
publish and edit a readable journal
Senator Gray has made a success of
everything he ever took hold of.
The Russell Record has absorbed
the Informer, which leaves that busy
county seat with only one paper. 1t
has been regarded as a Democratic
organ. The retiring owner and editor
was j. W. Morphy, who will take an
active interest with H. A. Dawson in
the publication of the Record. They
are well known newspaper men,, and
1t is their aim to give, the people of
ltussell and adjoining Counties an up
tO-date first class paper This change
is the second Der-ocrat newspaper
that has passed on in the Sixth dis
trict this year.
Miss Gladys Green of Jewell City.
the popular clerk of court of Jewell
county, was married recently to ]. r.
White, one of Mankato's prominent alta
torneys and son of Congressman HAYS
B. White. They surprised their hosts>
or friends, by Slipping away, going
to Beloit where the ceremony was
performed. They spent their honey
moon in Colorado. The bride. is the
daughter of Mr.. and MrsAS. I. Green.
of Jewell City, who own and operates
an~elevator. Mr.. White has met with
success in his law practice, and while
the father, the congressman, is con-
siderable of a politician, the son is
satisfied to keep away from politics.
Donald I. Stanley. a former Wash
BURN student. who is making good as
a lawyer in Mankato, was a Topeka
visitor last week, while on his way
to appear before Judge Pollock to
present a petition in bankruptcy for
one of the prominent Jewell county
farmers, who had met with reverses
on account of the decrease in live
stock values, and other farm products.
1t IS said this case is only one of
many others who have suffered big
losses, and it will not be surprising if
many OF them will be compelled to
take the bankruptcy way out of it.
or the many good counties in the
Sixth district few have made greater
progress in agriculture and stock than
Philips. The county has three lines
or railroads. When your corresuon-
dent first visited that county it didn't
nave a mile of railroad. On one of
the early trips he got acquainted with
four of her pioneers, Frank Dixson.
Del" Champlin. Harry Sims and Ir-
win Mcdowell The first three have
passed on, and only the last named is
left. He was a terror to the buffalo
ana antelope, having killed MANY of
them. In the pioneer days the In
dams were troublesome at times ana
being a good shot and a tvBicaI
bronco buster" he never lost his
scalp. He has shipped and driven
into the county thousands of head of
cattle. besides has bought and Skinned
to other markets hundreds of car
loads of horses and mules. He is an
active good roads advocate. He has
lived in the county for half a century.
ne nkeS the western climate, and
claims Phillips is among the hast
counties in the northwest. He was
postmaster of Phil1ipsburg for eight
years, and is a member of the board
of commissioners