The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-15

examination will be held there in Sep
/ TENDER. The three candidates are
worthy of the office. And when the
Examination is concluded, whoever the
! congressman is for the person will
| get his sheepskin. 1t was Col. Cy.
Leland who once said to the writer
! of these notes. and he was United
States penson agent at the time, that
he had no use for the civil service
| examination, because many of his
| friends wanted a c1erkship in the Of
| flee, and old soldiers too, and capable
! of performing the duties. but on ac-
| count OF their limited schooling which
! the war brought about they couldn't
answer the civil service questions. He
/ also said that he himself would fail
if he had to pass thru the examina-
| ton.
Way out in the .'shortgrass'' section
of northwest Kansas, the two national
banks of Oberiin show total deposits
the deposits in the third bank in that
| town.
w. E. Bush whom the labor people
| are running for congress in the First
| district, was a former Sixth district
| resident living in Jewell county. In
| Populist times the party elected him
secretary of state. He lives in Oak
land.
i Several Nebraska capitalists visited
| Goodland few days since. While these
visitors are more interested in their
| own state, they think northwest Kan
sas. has great future before her.
One of them made this remark: You
people living in western Kansas may
not believe it, but the next ten years
will see the greatest development in
| the western hundred miles of Kansas
and the eastern hundred miles of
f, Colorado that the country has ever
seen" Commenting on the above re-
mark the Goodland Republic says:
Eighty per cent of Sherman county
people believe this. and fully that
many inhabitants of the town believe
! that in the next five years the town
will have a population of 5000 to
| 10000.
| The First National bank of Ellis,
one of the strongest in western Kan
sas, and one of the chain of banks
| owned and operated by c. G. Cochran,
| has changed hands, the new manage
ment being J.. J. Svobado and A. w.
| Desmarteau, Rocks county men. who
have been associated with the Coch-
ran banks at Damar and Zurich for
several years. With one exception,
| that of J. r. Burrow, Cochran has
the second largest number of banks in
the north and west section of the
state.
The Sixth district is, usually all
right in most questions, and especially
! in raising crops and in political way.
Many of the Republican gubernatorial
| candidates have visited the district.
There are five Democrat candidates
| for congress, and three Republicans,
| besides a Socialist, who won't object
| to filling the shoes of the present in
cumbent, Hays B. White. But there
comes time when other matters are
spoken of. The Colby Tribune tells
of a church fight in Beloit, as fol-
lows: There is big church fight on
IL oIy To- -
Gazette is trying to pour oil on the
troubled waters by urging the COM
batants to remember the Gallilean's
admonition to Cast out the beam in
in politics for fifty or sixty years
without learning that neither party
in church fight was ever known to
acknowledge error, repent, or seek
forgiveness-nor ever to practice
brotherly charity" Nor is this all.
The Goodland Republic believes the
Sixth district is ahead in the state in
the fish line. It says: wv. c. Wolfe
drove over from st. Francis Sunday to
visit at the R G.. Wolfe home. He re-
ported that the rain Saturday raised
the Republican river higher than it
has been for over a quarter of a CEN
fury. Fish were stranded all over the
bottoms and the citizens for miles
getting some that weighed ten
pounds
And Russell county doesn't want to
take a back seat, and tells this one:
H. A. Frier, county treasurer, speak
ing about a fearful wind, hail and
rain. says he stepped out in the back
yard after the storm to see what dam
age it had done to him. He found
a hard shell turtle dead, with a hole
thru it, which he thinks was made by
the hail. At another time, in mid
winter, he tells this story, that he
saw a snake crawling along on top
of a snowdrift, and said snake ap-
peared to be lively as it could be in
the good old summertime. 1t is now
in order for the big Sixth counties
to come forward if they have any
thing to report.
The Presbyterians are building a
new church in Colby, said to be the
first brick one in the town built by
the Protestant faith.
Ellis has a barber named I. H. |
Ramsey, who has been continuous on
his job for thirty-eight years. retain
ing building and location. He says
he is old enough to give way to the
young fellow, and will visit the Pa
cific coast.
James H Eagan, of Cheyenne |
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