The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-13
ty papers. He is one of the active
men of Wakeeney.

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The Atwood Square Deal says the
| Burlington railroad has started pro-
| ceedings to enjoin that town from
levying and collecting city taxes on
their property in that town. Atwood
| people have at all times given this
road a good share of her business,
yet the depot is three quarters OF a
/ mile away. That company wildly
| remembers the county seat struggle OF
| Rawlins county in pioneer times be-
| tween Atwood and Brakeman, in which
! the railroad took an active hand in
| favor of the latter town, and lost out
| There are many who believe this &C
/ ton of the railroad will result In the
people getting together and with the
/ aid of the state boards. compel the
| Burlington railroad to relocate their
/ line and depot for the good OF the
/ business men and travelling public A
little expense the road would have an
| easier grade, and the depot could be
moved from its present location half
| a mile nearer the center of business
Robert Good, editor and owner of
the Cawker City Ledger was given
short life by some when he bought
/ the paper. He has hung on for four
| teen years, is making money, and
prints a fine paper. He says he has
no intention of quitting the field until
he is physically incapacitated for the
| strenuous life of country editor.
Lambert Darland. one of the early
pioneers to Rocks county locating
| there in the early seventies, died
/ few days ago. He located there be
| fore there was any Plainville and
| hunted and killed buffaloes on the
site of where the town is built He
also had the honor of being the first
! settler to suggest the name of Plain
Vile. 1t is a town now of 1850. show
/ ing an increase of 100 over the re-
| turns of a year ago. 1t wasn't much
| of a town when your correspondent
/ made his first visit in a democrat
| wagon, and owned and driven by one
of the Rocks county commissioners,
A. NJ. King. now dead. There was an
attraction there in the pioneer times
! the Soddy hotel, built entirely of sods
but the meals drew the crowds.
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The story is printed in several Big
| Sixth District papers about some fell
/ low who bought several dozen eggs
| at a grocery store. on time. and then
! traded them at the local garage for
gasoline for his car. The st1ry led the
| Cawker City editor to take a trip
/ around town and see if there were
any people in his town so mean as to
do such a trick. He wasn't long in
hunting up one, and he says of his
find that his town has a man who
| frequently takes his eggs to the pro-
duce man and sells them for cash,
buys his gasoline. and then runs in
debt for his groceries.
Politicians will die as do others in
their chosen occupations. OF the
twelve delegates elected in Cawker
City and the township to attend the
Mitchell county convention in 1892
only two are living, c. NJ. Higley, law
yer and member of the legislature
and J. c. McClun. now a successful
banker.
The late government crop reports
n11Cp the counties nf Chexrannn
Inns. Sherman and Thomas as the best
prospects for wheat this year over all
others in the Sixth district.
The bandits have got to robbing
/ doctors and dental offices. They broke
| into the dental office of DIR. Joe Lutz
| of Smith Center. They helped them
| selves generally to over 500 worth
| OF truck DR.. Lutz was supervisor of
/ census OF the Big Sixth. 1t may be
! they thought the doctor hadn't hid the
I salary away he received from govern
ment while filling the office.
John r. Parsons, of Wakeeney. has
| tossed his hat in the ring for judge
of the 23rd judicial district Judge
/ I. T. Purcell is serving his first term
and his announcement appears in the
papers of his district as wanting a re-
1 election. These men live in the same
! town. and this may bring on lively
tilt for the honor. The only Democrat
4 who has Come out is ex-Judge J C
! Ruppenthal. who filled the position
1 for several terms He will watch the
! battle between the two Republicans