The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-27

are very beautiful these days Many
of the yards are adorned with bounti-
full supplies of early spring flowers.
After the citys water system is put
into operation, it will be- hard to find
a prettier place to live in than our
own home town. Yet the Kansas City
Booster club which recently visited
the town, missed a generous treat
which the Hoxie people had prepared
for them. 1t was unfortunate, the
depot being three-quarterS of a mile
away
The 1911 year in Cheyenne county
was a poor crop season The St.
Francis Herald tells the experience of
a farmer named Bracelin. Crops
were as near a total failure as that
county ever experienced. In his sec
ton he was the only one who raised
anything. and his crop was about
400 bushels of wheat, for which It
cost him $500 for the threshing and
the neighborS did the work free be-
cause they wanted to see one machine
at work that year. He was hard run
financially, but the business men knew
him, and he was trusted to coal and
groceries. Good crops followed that
year of drouth, the bills were paid
and Bracelin is on easy street. The
winter of 1911 there wasn't much for
the stock to eat He and his. neigh
bors made a V-shaped sled and
hitching four horses to it they plowed
thru the deep snow on the prairie,
clearing it off the grass so the stock
could subsist. He never wants to see
another year like it.
Looks as if there is going to be
some good wheat in Mitchell county,
A correspondent writes to the Beloit
Gazette as follows: "All roads lead
to Eureka township these days. On
Sundays cars from many directions
drive out to feast their eyes on the
7aT- rr~f1 !, sATl til
rank and thrifty. Also, many are in
quest of seed of small grains which
failed in most of Mitchell county with
the exception of Eureka township"
The editor of the Oakley Graphic is
delighted because there will be a crop
of wild plumS raised in Logan county
His weakness is for wild plum butter
and biscuits He says: THE first
kiss tastes like a eovey of white
winged doves flying out of both ears,
or a swarm of angels pouring q
stream of golden nolasses down your
back" so Editor Young hasn't found
anything that takes the place of wild
plum jelly.
Representative men have been in
Mankato with the object of putting in
a FIGURING mill in that town.
The Pagett's of Beloit, who are in
the list OF pioneer settlers in Mitchell
county, are DONG good things for the
town and country One of the sons
has been shipping in carloads of fruits
from Arkansas, the last being a car
of strawberries, which he is disposing
of at prices all her people can afford.
Another son wasn't afraid to buy and
ship to the county 1000 head of live
stock. The berry man is o. L. Pagett
and the stock man is P. H. Pagett.
The former wants to get even with
his brother. and says: You stock
men gamble on hogs and cattle, and
don't know for six months or more
whether you are going broke or will
make a killing. With my berries, if
I am going broke, I know it in four
or five days in time to start over
again." The boys have grown to man
hood in Beloit and Mitchell county,
and they have farmed and raised live
stock.
Cawker City was fifty years old
May IL, 1922. On that day there was