The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-06

enrolled. some of whom were close to
21 wears of age, and of excellent ad-
vancement. They were not all resi-
dents of the school district, and one
of the pupils resided in Decatur, and
another in Cheyenne county J. H.
simmons. who had been elected coun-
I ~ clerk, was the teacher, not having
much work in the office In those pio-
neer times. In many years of active
! school work, he said, he never faced
brighter bunch of pupils than the
! earnest youth who worked so heartily
that early winter. amid the discour-
| agements they met owing to lack or
| equipment The only one of that falth-
| full band still living in Norton Is Mrs
2. NJ. Duvall, the bright wife of the
( editor of the Norton Courier. Your
! correspondent has seen her many
4 times setting type on the hnotype.
/ Simmons is living in Topeka, and Is on
/ the retired list of the Santa Fe, hav-
| ing worked in the general offices of
/ that road long enough to be on the
pension list
/ II was a day or two after the Re
publican army had gone to their
/ homes from the last Kansas day fes-
] Invites that one of the stalwart Re-
I publicans of the state, and one OF
| the most successful business men in
Topeka, said: Some day in the near
! future 1 expect to see HARDWOOD ..
Benton, of Oberlin, congressman from
the Sixth district" AT the same time
he had been elected trustee OF WASH
burn college, which had been made
vacant by the death of his father,
Otis L. Benton. Young Benton grad
uated from this college in 1917.
Among the improvements now going
on at the college is the erection OF
dormitory at a cost of $15O,OOO to be
known as the Benton dormitory' IN
honor of his father and former trus-
tee who had contributed $5O,OOO TO-
ward it Before the death of his
father he was vice president of the
Oberlin National bank, and after MS
death young Benton, now u years
old, was elected president He en-
listed in the overseas war, and was
Commissioned second lieutenant. He
took part in several noted engage
uents and received a serious wound
in action. Il would rather make gooo
the task have been chosen for than
to boast of any of my former accom-
plishments." he says. The writer OF
these notes heard him make his first
nubIic talk It was in the Benton
home, before a house full OF invited
company, and he told of his trip to
Honolulu. He gave general view
of that country, pleasing to the guests
present. He has made good IN ali ne
has undertaken, and he VIII make |
good as trustee OF w ASH III III Il ~
and as president of the Oberlin Ma |
tionaI bank Watch him grow.
Along in the early days travelling
picture makers who had their WORK
shops on wheels, and in one corner
were a few quilts to lie down on, tur-
nished about the only opportunity the
people of the then sparsely settlea
towns of the western END OF the SlAtil
district to have their pictures taken
Along in the nineties r. n Long, a
Young fellow. landed in Hoxie. good I
field for a real photographer. and ne |
started a real gallery 1t WASH [ long
until the travelling picture artists
were forced to quit. not only in HoXie,
but a large portion of that section or /
the district. 1t soon spread that the
town had a good artist in Long, ana
the country people came from Sne1-
dan and Cove counties and gave him
their work. and he has prospered.
He was in Topeka attending the Ma
sonic grand lodge in the capa city OF
D. d. G. NJ. of the saith district, a po-
sition he has held several years.
All. Busse of Cheyenne county has
been a success in gardening. He be-
lieves the best way to economic these
when we buy potatoes, canned
goods, etc. the railroads have to be
paid a big share of the money for
hauling these things to market which
ought to be produced at home, ne
saws. He has met with great success
raising a garden for the last thirty
TWO years He claims the gardener, II
he himself engages in that occupa-
ton, can and will do away with the
credit system. even if one has no cred
It at the bank or with the merchants
Mr.. Busse says Cheyenne county has
the soil. the climate and enough mois-
-ure. and il the people adjust them
selves to these conditions all can raise
Buses in the st. Francis Herald
ought to awaken the people in Chey-
anne county to go more extensively to
gardening.
1t was IN the early eighties when
your correspondent first met Amer
w. Burnett at Oberlin, having made
mis- first visit there in 1879, the year
after the murderous Indian raid,
which occurred in September, 1878.
odge. In all these years the writer
md Burnett have been firm friends.
He was there at the opening of the
United States land office there. and
when Oberlin was the Mecca of thou
iands of homesteaders. The streets
we're lined with prairie schooners, and
he tide of immigration was drifting '
o other counties, including Rawlins, 7
cheyenne and Sherman. Atwood and ]
oberlin We're the principal contestants
or the land office, the former win !
ling easily. Burnett began attending {
Masonic grand lodge in 1885, and has
'een a regular attendant since. In
SOS he was chosen grand tyler, which &
position he has held continuously for c
fifteen sessions. which probably en- !
tiles him to the distinction Of being S
he Oldest grand officer from the l
ia ndpoint OF service in the jurisdic- c
ion In speaking of his long service q
lie said at the recent meeting of the a
rand lodge that he has had thou 6
ands OF passwords whispered in his
arss and occasionally had some anus
ww-rr ION f,ar-e rf1f@I u
to other organizations who :
ad gotten their passwords mixed
nd the chances are that If Burnett
ould connect them up with the prop
r orders he could gain admission to
many other lodges where he had no
light Of admission for he had never
idden their goats.