The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-20

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Egan is q might good fellow, prom
inent business man in St. Francis and
a pusher and puller for the towns
good.
| Oberlin, county seat of Decatur
county, has two national banks, one of
which is. the Oberlin National, which
| shows deposits the last statement of
/ $606, 437.29, The other is the Farm
| ers' National with deposits totaling
| $3.50, 37S.S7. These statements show
a healthy business, besides the peo-
pie of Decatur county are in a healthy.
prosperous condition.
Judge A. S. Peacock, of Wakeeney.
was in Topeka this week on Masonic
matters. He is probate judge of Trego
county, having hefd the office sixteen
years. The first official act he did up
on taking the office was issuing a
marriage license, and the pair care
| living there yet. and happy and con-
| tented with their growing family of
voters. Since then the probate judge
has issued more than 500 marriage
| licenses, and performed about $50
weddings. Mr.. and Mrs. Peacock have
| a lovely home in Wakeeney, known
near and FIR as ''Warnook," the place
| being covered with fruit bloom and
flowers in bloom. They also have a
| Towering crab tree, great on bloom
but no apples. They also have a wild
crab tree, now losing its foliage, which
/ bore fruit last season.
Schuyler Stevens of Smith Center,
| has been a believer that Smith county
/ is good fruit country. This season
| he expects to market more than 2,400
quarts of cherries of his own raising,
not to say a word about the young
boys what they viii help themselves
| to. He says he will sell his crop at
| 10 cents a quart J. B. Polca, an
apple raiser in the same county, says
| his trees are full of bloom. He looks
| for the largest crop in the history OF
! the county.
The Lyle, Bros State bank. of Glen
| Elder, one of the oldest in northwest
| selling to- men from Downs and Jewell
| City.
1t was 20 years ago May so, when
F. L. Plat came in possession of the
Kirwin kansan, printing the paper
then on an old Washington hand press.
Since then the paper is printed on a
power press, and the type is set on a
has progressed with the growth of the
town. 1t is a neat clean journal, and
has fine patronage.
Mrs. Clara ColwelI. of smith Cen
| ter. has Matched and sold over 3d.
| 600 chicks this spring. In the years
| she has followed this business she
has cleaned up a tidy little fortune.
at ease and free from hard work.
], w. Morphy. of Russell a val
liable newspaper man, and retired
fromSth work of publishing a news
paper having printed them in Atwood,
Smith Center and Russell, is co,npil-
ing a local history of the officials of
the county for the last fifty years.
The OberNn Times has been printed
! in the 'ba sement" so many years that
Lee Meadows, the new owner and edi-
tor. wants to know what is going on
above ground that he IS moving the
office to more commodious quarters
on the ground floor, and is fitting up
one of the neatest, all round printing
offices in that section of the state.
Mrs. Clarence Beardslee. of Leb-
anon, has declined to become a candi-
date for the legislature from Smith
county. She was strongly urged to
get in the race. She sure would have
been nicely taken care of by the lady
members who are now serving, and all
of them candidates for reelection.
Henry W. Herren, member from
Lincoln county, has announced for a
second term. He is one of the old
timers, made a good record his first |
term. and deserves the office as long
Chas. E. McFadden, of Morland, was
so well pleased with legislative work |
he put thru in the last legislature, that |
MS 6FdnaIn county 1rlenOS are gong
to push him for the second term.
The many friends of DIR. J. E. Haw-
ley. of Burr Oak, will be pleased to |
learn that Jewell county will return
him again to the legislature next win |
ter His courageous fight for the best |
interests of his county. and the eff !
Gent work he did to secure the good |
things he favored, gave him a. strong
hold on the committees he served. |
He was at his desk all the time. His ]
majority will be larger thain in 1920. !
One of the old pioneer landmarks |
of 1878 in Norton, has changed hands. |
1t is the old hotel, of late years known |
as Bowers Tavern, having passed into |