The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-23
Sixth District NesUs Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.

ford many years He passed on sew
eral years ago. Mr.. Patterson says the
town is surrounded by one of the best
farming communities anywhere to be
found, and is built up by many happy
homes, good business firms, and has
place on the maps. The town was
named for Eben E. Rexford. a noted
poet, and author of the poem, Baby
May" who married a cousin and who
at one time lived on the quarter sec
ton where the town Is now located.
Rexford is the home of Alton A Gil
lispie. editor and publisher OF the
News, and member of the legislature
from Thomas county. When the
shipments of grain the elevators of
Rexford don't take a back seat with
any Of them in shipments.
Judge l. c. Uhl. ST., of Smith Cen
ter, has a record he is proud of. He
went there in the early seventies. He
helped to form and organize the
school district of which Smith Center
is a part in the fall of 1872. He has
only been absent twice from the annual
school meetings. being away on legal
business at the time. He has held all
the school board offices, serving as q
member of that board for an unlucky
number of years, which is thirteen.
Another enthusiastic meeting of the
Cove City people has been held. An
effort is being made to get the Santa
Fe interested in the extension of their
branch from Galatia, ninety miles
southeast of Cove City. A committee
was appointed. Charles c. Spiher and
Elmo Tustin, to go to Topeka and in
teryiew the Santa Fe officials. Cove
City is twelve miles from the Union
Pacific, and the nearest railroad point
is Grainfield.
Will the Sixth district land any of
the political plums now being given
away by the new administration IN
former years Capt. Firth Charles
worth, OF Beloit, served as consul to
F'unchal, Madeira: R. W. Turner, of
Mankato, served a like position to
Cadiz, Spain; Fred Robertson, of At
wood. is serving his second term as
United States attorney for Kansas,
and Joseph A Gill, of Colby, was ap-
pointed federal judge of the Indian
territory In the early settlement of
lands in northwest Kansas Cawker
City was the first site for a United
States land office. Afterwards it was
ment OF that section necessitated the
moving of the office farther west in
the homestead area. when the office
was moved to Oberlin. Later years
the office was divided. and Colby and
Wakeeney both held forth as sites for
"
Sixth district registers and receivers
have filled these positions as follows:
Cyrus Anderson, of Raw1ins county:
DIR. A. J. Harris. Osborne: J. B. Nc
Gonigal, Decatur: John Bfsse1l, Phil
lips: Thomas McCue, Norton; L. C..
Smith and A. L. Patchin. Rocks: Webb
McNall and T. NJ. Helm. Smith; [. ].
Best, W. H. Caldwell and H. A
Yonge, Mitchell; Charles E. Chandler,
Decatur; J. A Fike- Thomas; Otis L.
Atherton, Russell, all now dead. and
W. z. Ward, Wallace county; A. H.
Blair. Trego: Isaac Purcell, Cove: Lee
Monroe, Ellis: Tully Scott. Decatur;
K E. Wilcoxon, Logan, and C. E
Evans, Sheridan. are the only ones
now living who filled land office posi-
lions IN the district when the land was
thrown open to the hemestea ders.
Your correspondent was personally ac-
| Quainted with all of them. but does
not remember the officials who served
| in the Cawker City office before he
visited northwest Kansas in the inter-
est of the Atehison Champion and To-
peka State Journal.
Beloit IS the only town in the Sixth
/ district that has a postoffice built by
the government The salary of the
postmaster is the largest paid in any
| office in the twenty-five counties In
been mentioned" who would make
| splendid successors of the Democrat
now holding the job, and they
wouldn't nave It. Why don't the Re-
/ pubIicans as well as all the patrons
of that office tell Congressman White
to name Harry K. Houghton, who was
born there and is one of the owners
an office seeker, but only a justice of
the peace. His friends know he would