The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-31

Cove City, the county seat, is twelve
miles frcm a railroad. In contentious
of this kind Cove City always votes
straight. If the combined vote of
Grainfield, Park, Quinter and Grinnell
on the Union Pacific, in Cove county,
would be cast for any Of these four
railroad towns, there might be some
chance for Cove City to lose her court
house. Will they ever do it, seems to
be the question.
The Sixth district has twenty-five
i, counties. and all except Cheyenne and
Sherman have stone and brick court
houses.
In the remaining counties of
Thomas, Decatur, Norton. Russell, Ell
lis, Rocks. Wallace, Mitchell, Osborne,
Trego, Lincoln, Logan and Ellsworth,
there has been little, if any, contention
in county seat broiIs. Be it to the good
of the Sixth district, few serious en-
tanglements occurred in the organiza-
ton of the counties.
Mitchell was one of the counties
whose fair left a few dollars in the
treasury for 1922. After paying the
premiums in full and a $500 note given
in 1920, the association has a clear
balance of $17o.65.
The Sixth district IS good enough
spot to live in, but so far as discover
ing oil by digging for it, it appears it
is no good. This is the case in the
Bellaire, Smith county, oil well, which
has been abandoned. Many times the
news has been heralded from that
town that the indications for oil was
first class. The drill would go a few
feet farther down in the bowels of the
earth, more leases were easy to Sc
cure, and now comes the announce
ment of the well drilling being aban-
to- ]
| town. State Treasurer Tom Thomp-
son was once a resident of the town
and he made it good. Now he is max
ing it good in his office. He is one
of the kind who makes it good in ev-
erything he takes hold of.
In the year now closing Oberlin lost
| three of her prominent citizens and
bankers, Otis L. Benton and H. o.
Douglass, both dead, and John
O,Grady. who moved to Cincinnati,
where he is engaged in business.
These three men were a power in
successful business matters and poll
tics not only in Decatur county but
the Sixth district. Their places will
be hard to fill.
There is one thing all of Cawker
City is proud of, and that is her pub
lie library. This library association
IS in the hands Of her women. It is
one OF the W or the 1874 libraries in
the state that is maintained by a, wo-
mans club It is also the first in
Kansas history to own their own
ground and building, and who pur-
chased their own books, now number
ing several thousand volumes. At the
annual meeting of the club more than
thirty new names were added to the
membership.
Downs is already planning for her
annual outing and good time ceIebra-
ton, July 81, next. These outings
have been kept up annually ever since
the town started. The people go to
the town that day by the train loads
and they visit and sight-see from early
/ dawn until the night fireworks are
| shot off. In some of these annual
! blowouts the people of Downs put on
| the writer has seen state officers, gov
! errors, congressman and United States
senators present And the people OF
/ the town promise the best ever in the
! 1922 celebration.
| Plans are under way for establish.
ing a truck line between st. Francis
and Denver, about ESQ miles in length
| Geo. Biggs has the matter in hand
He plans to start with eight trucks
which will be increased if it pays
They will be equipped to carry pas
sengers, express and freight. Chey
enne county is in the northwest corner
of the state, and ST. Francis is tbs
county seat.
Thomas county takes the bounty of
rabbit sealT.s on and after the first o
1.-THE New Year. Many people hav'