The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-29

vania. Old Tioga county was good
enough in those days. Wellsboro was
the town, and it was there I attended
the first and only school. 1t was from
this school that five in one class, all
under the age of Is years. left school
and Joined the same company in tho
Civil war Two of us were born the
same year, in 1S4S the writer being
small in weight and scarcely up to
the limit in height, the other heavier
and taller. The next move was to
get consent of mother and father. To
this they answered, mo" So the only
way out of it was to run away, go to
| Harrisburg with the company, take
the examination, and swear I was
| Is when only 16 years. The examina-
| ton was successful, and Camp Curtin
| a vote of thanks" The next move
was to fall il" with company and
march to the state capital and be
sworn into the United States service
| for three years or during the war.
1t looked to the officer who swore in
the company that some of the boys
| looked too young to be there, and
| was the only one of the five in the
\ school class who was ordered to step
three PAGES to the front, and be sworn
| in separately. With uplifted hand,
| sure 1 was IS years. The officer
| didn't believe it, and this story teller
knew better, Our regiment served 10
| months, and was mustered out of
service in August, 1865, before I was
Is years old.
The "Old Home Town don't look to
me like it did in my boyhood times.
Hills surround the town, and many a
time have 1 romped over them and
never tired. Now it looks if they had
grown so much taller there was no
desire to climb them. They were COW
cred with pine and hemlock then,
which later years gave way to the
numbering interests and was cut down
and sawed into lumber, so that much
] of the hills were cleared and now used
for orchards ard farms. The crooked
rail fence is here yet, and in some
cases there are yet to be seen farm
fences built of the stumps of trees.
In those early days the Wellsboro
people to go anywhere by railroad had
to drive Is miles to the nearest road,
and "a miles to another line. In the
early sixties your correspondent has
seen the wild pigeons flying SO thick
as to darken the sun, and they seemed
to disappear in one season. In those
early days 1 knew most of the people
in Wellsboro. Nearly all are strangers
now. 1t was good to visit the "Old
Home Town. and get acquainted with
the newer people.
The northeast Pennsylvanians who
live in Topeka and other sections of
Kansas, know how to enjoy themselves
back in the "Old Home Town of
! their boyhood and girlhood days. So
|lthey can imagine your correspondent
pure buckwheat cakes with maple
syrup, gathering butternuts and beech
nuts, eating pumpkin pies a. mother
used to make" drinking pure apple
fider from the press, picking buckle
berries by the tub full, and eating
meals of the Finest brook trout, which
every stream furnishes, and the best
fish grown. But after all a residence
in Kansas since 1865 has made him a
thoro Kansan. After a few weeks
visit he will be glad to return home
to Kansas, where he expects to re-
side the remainder of his days.
The King brothers of Hays. who
own the Golden Belt Creamery & Ice
Plant in that town, are making finan-
ciaI investments in Colby. and will
paying investment at Hays. In the
month of June they paid out $500
to the farmers for milk. An ice
plant, cold storage and creamery in
connection is not only a big industry
for Colby, but for the farmers Of
Thomas county as well.
A lawsuit has been started in Smith
Center where a brother sues a brother
for SIT, which is claimed for work. |
Not much brotherly love in a case of
this kind.
A farm Of a quarter section of
Smith county land was sold at public
auction, near Cedar, and brought SIS
an acre. That town was the first
county seat of Smith county. The first
visit your correspondent made in the
north Solomon river valley by stage,
government homesteads could be TAX
en- up away from the valley, on the
upland. Another real estate sale was
made in Mitchell county. near Hunter,
by order Of court, one tract OF 80
acres bringing $4,000, and the 240
acres sold for $500.
Kansas correspondent was pleased to
receive a call from Bert Kesselring
of Atwood, whom he has known ever
since his settlement in Rawlins county.
He was born in that county. He is
candidate for state school superin-
tendent on the Democrat ticket. He
has been an active worker in rural
and graded school work for many
years, and is now serving his third
term as school superintendent of
Rawlins county. He and his scores OF
friends believe he is fitted for state
superintendent if the voters choose
him. He has made an active canvass
of his own district. the Big Sixth,
which he will carry by a rousing ma
jority in the primary election. He
has visited other sections of the state
as well. and has received much en-
enlargement.
The editor of the Norcatur Dis
patch is fond of good things when it
comes to eating time. He treated his
table to a meal of French peas and
German sausage, and he claims that
a few hours later they were respor
sible for putting up a fight over his
whole front. He won the battle, and
the next day he was at work in his
office.
The little town of Densmore. in
Phillips county. gave northwest Kan
sas big boost a few days ago. The
Voss Brothers, cattle raisers and feed
ers, topped the high price for this
year in the Kansas City market They |
sold eighty Hereford steers for SO
per hundred, the average weight being |
1 2nQ mounds They were carried thru |