The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-22
Sixth District Ne1Us Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.
nv uARRV ROOTS
BY HARRY ROOT.

! A letter from J. H. Egan of st
Francis. Democrat candidate for con-
Gress. to the writer of Sixth District
Notes in State j Journal, says: II en-
Joy campaigning in northwest Kan
sas. which IS settled by a fine class
of people. the best in the world You
wouldn't know this country now, it
has made such wonderful growth In
the years you have been gone. St
| Francis is going to put in a sewerage
street pavement. We expect state
and federal aid, and we are going to
| have good roads," Speaking OF
/ Goodland, the county seat of Sher-
the south. he says: THAT town is
now the third largest in the district.
They have paved their streets, have
sewers, and are enjoying building
boom. 1t is a real metropolis out on
| the rich and inviting prairies of north
west Kansas" Colby has gone thru
the paving period, and Oberlin has
let the contract for her street pave
ment." Egan notes in general that
the towns he visited show prosperity.
these general improvements in his
visits. He says Cheyenne county is
raising bumper crops not only wheat,
but corn, alfalfa and other farm crops.
The only politics in his newsy letter
was that in travelling thru the district
he talked with numbers Of people who
are willing to have man from the
northwest corner of the state to repre-
sent them in congress, and Egan
hopes they will see fit to elect him.
The sheriff Of Mitchell county. and
his deputy were out sightseeing and
inhaling the fresh country air, when
suddenly the wind changed its course
and they got a whiff of something
they knew not what, but on exami-
nation and a thoro search of ones
premises they fpund several gallons Of
what is known as "hootch." The Of
ficers opened one of the kegs, touched
a match to it and it burned freely. They
visited the house, and not a soul to be
found. And they hauled it to Beloit,
and stored it in the basement of the
hauled out where the law officers
found it for the purpose of quenchfng
che thirst and relieving the tired farm
laborers in their daily work, or it may
have been counter visitant to kill
stings and bites of poisonous snakes
and other reptiles.
There won't be any "scrapping" be-
tween Thomas and Cheyenne counties
as to which of them has the Oldest
minister in years. The former has a
Methodist pastor who is 83 years old,
and still active and filling the pulpit.
while the latter county has one aged
80 years, and holding a pastorate.
The st. Francis Commercial club
have been a power in the substantial
enterprises which they have secured
for their town. The members are
never asleep when there is a good
thing headed the st. Francis way.
The club elected the following Off
GERS: President. ]. E. Uplinger, ex-
member of the legislature from Chey-
enne county; vice president. Robert
Cram, present member and candidate
for reelection; treasurer, A. c. Han
cock.
1t has been so long since a new
buggy or surrey has been sold in Cav
ker City the Ledger don't remember
The horse is holding his own pretty
well against tractor, but the automo-
bile has almost displaced the horse
drawn pleasure Tehicles.
Marriage is not such failure in
Mitchell county as some people think.
During the month of June, just
passed, the probate Judge issued four
eight ceremonies. In 1921, same
month. only eight licenses were issued,
and -FOUR weddings performed.
Owen F. Hopes, Republican, wants
a seat in the next legislature from
Russell county. That county, as well
as regiments OF friends all over the
state, will miss the genial Bob Fowler
IN the next legislative DOQys no
served several terms in the lower
house, then in the state senate, then,
again in the legislature, being the
present member from Russell county.
Miss Mary H williams of Beloit.
who recently passed a successful state
bar examination, was admitted to
practice law before the courts. She
was also a former Washburn college
student She is Beloit lady for
nj n ar nd
the people of her home are proud that
she has met with deserved success
For the present she will be associated
with Ed. Rooney of Topeka in his
law office, as his time is taken UP in
his campaign for attorney general.
The high cost of print paper this
year was generously met by the poll
ticians. If the newspapers IN other
sections Jared well as the Sixth dis
trict papers have the paper bills have
been met when due. Most of the Sixth
district journals are carrying a col
umn or more of political announce
ments of few lines each, while the
gubernatorial candidates use from
to a column space. This
year the high cost of living, and for
print stock as well. has been met by
the ambitious politicians. This re
minds the Sixth district correspondent
what a Populist candidate for con-
gress once said to him, that his jour-
nails were pulling on his pocketbook |
SO hard, that If he met all their de- |
mands he wouldn't have a cent left |
from his salary as congressman.
Ex-Judge J. c. Ruppenthal of Rus
sell county furnishes the following /
reminiscent item: For more than SO |
years people living in Russell, on |
gazing a little in the northwest have |
noticed a hill in Ellis county, rising /
4 few degrees toward the zenith This
IS the only natural object of any de-
gree from Russell. Such a hill ought /
10 have a name. yet 1 have never |
heard of any applied. Were it a little
higher we might fancy it a mountain
put of which emerged the several
traffic storms we have seen from