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MeMM The Hutchinson News-Herald Western KMSM Stmt, Editorimls. CiMsifM. Marketa, Week's Review. VOL. I.

HUTCHINSON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1937 Rains Improve Wheat Pasture Seeding Resumed In Southwest After Moisture Falls; Inseiet Depredations Believed At An End Wheat, in the area itretching from McPherson, Harvey end Reno west as far as Kinsley and Greensburi Is promislnit be making pasture. Fields where wheat had not been sown, because of the ground being dry, or where is necessary, now being sown. Drills are: in operations all through the country. Rainfall, during the past of an inch or more in much of the territory as far west as La Crosse, Jetmore, Dodge City, and Meade, has given the growmg wheat a great The moisture has put an end to worm threat. Tlio cooler weather has checked the menace.

In the area where was less, it was welcome and helpful, and giving encouragement of more moisture to come. Coupled with the improved prospect for the wheat crop, a splendid crop is being harvested through the territory, much better than been expected. Reports "to the News-Herald from over! the district: halt-inch rain. with rain virtually ending worm threat Chance for wheat pasture half-inch of rainfall in Lane county. In southwest part of county three- fourths inch.

Only onereighth inch in Dighton. East part of county, quarterrinch. busy cutting feed and topping grain. More feed In county than expected. There is yet lot of feed to cut.

From quarter to three-fourths inch of rain over much of' In Tribune only .07 inch. Garden three- fourths of acreage of wheat in Finney county is sown. Dry weather had halted planting- Quarter-inch of rain this week. Southern and ivortheast portions of county driest! Sorghum yields far better' than expected. Dry land farmers in northwest part of county have the better sor- ghum i- 'Iiich Of of rain has started "'wheat drills throughout Hddgeman.

Seed loans now Ijelng released. Sain general, but heavier in east end of. will stop thisjvirevform; and cool weathcr.r is' checking grass- hojjpers. to inch of moisture in, Clark county. In vicinity of Acres, between Ashland and the Cimarron, more inch reported.

In north end less than half-inch. sown wheat in fine shape. Soon will be making good fall pasture. Rainfall during week a big boost to wheat. About three-fourths inch.

Good In Gray in south half of Gray county, and in northwest part up. and growing in good shape. Almost all of it seeded. Northeast of Cimarron 'little sown, practically no moisture, for fall seeding. Had three-fourths inch of rain general over county past week, Not much Little of sorghums malting seed.

Late! in planting, had to make second or third planting in spring: to get stand. where uPi looking pretty good. Needs moisture. Only quarter-inch of rsiih. Row crops look good.

St. wheat good. Moisture of week, although small, will be very helpfuL It All Soaked la of rain during week great for the wheat. Farmers talking about wheat pasture. Most of wheat already drilled; balance will now be sown.

Rains slow and drop went in; of wheat in Rush county is up, and promising to make pasture. Prom quarter- inch to inch of rain dui'ing week. LaCrosse, inch; McCracken, halt- inch; inch of rain has given Barber county wheat a splendid boost toward winter looking great. Recent moisture checked worm' and cool weather has put hoppers out of Prospect, splendid for wheat pasture. rain In Morton county, north of the Cimarron river.

Richfield, missed by sev- eral'of the rains, had heavy rain Tuesday night. Ford Conaty Soaked Dodge county wheat fields; are soaked from one half to two Inches. DriUs are starting getting balance of wheat acreage seeded. Rainfall is big boost to Dodge City, .68 inch: Bucklin, three-fourths; SpearvlUe, inches; Wright, about two inches; 1 near Windhorst, two inches. 1 of worm and hoppers in Pawnee county is checkedby rains and cooler weather.

Thousands of acres.not yet seeded because of dry weather are now, being drilled. Probably 80percent: of' Pawnee'. acreage. is Lamed, less than half inch; Garfieldj half inch; Roiel aiid Burdett, three-fourths; north of Rozel, inch; Ash Valley, inch: and Zook, half fields heed rain. Only about tenth of'Inch fell here.

trace of iture fell in gauge here of. 'i one third (of iMTMSs Is bs swra Is la iiiiling Goodwell, Dr. Thomas W. Butcher, president of Kansas State Teachers college, Emporia, addressing ttie Panhandle Teachers association here yesterday, said the teachers of today are having to be mothers to their pupils. "The old-fashioned mother of the old-fashioned home, who taught her children about her knee, is but of the picture, today.

The children now are being over to the schools for training," he said. "It is to be deplored that so many women witli children are not mothers in the greater sense." i Or. Butcher remarked ttiat he was reared in a dugout on the Kansas prairie. "It was at my mother's knee I learned the common virtuM of lUe," he added. has been deferred by many because of dry ground.

Expebt 186,000 acres will be seeded. Feed crop good. Bobbins Bros, near Belvidere have 3,000 acres of fine feed. inch of rain. Wheat drilling is the'order of the day.

About half the farmers had not planted, awaiting rain. Some loss from whre worm among early sown wheat. Farmers replanting now. H. Belpre, lost nearly a section of wheat from hoppers.

Ness inch of rain, first moisture since Sept. 4. More rain needed'. More subsoil moisture, than could be expected. Troepeot Better Great inch rain Improving prospect for wheat.

Only few fields wore green in central portion, where rainfall was deficient. This rain makes .65 of inch so far this month, compared with 6(fo'ear average of 1.79 "inches for October. Rebukes Mothers Hard Work As A Rule For Heahh White, pioneer of Ellsworth and veteran contractor, celebrated his 95th birthday this week. He came here from England 55 years ago. Many of the older buildings in Ellsworth were built by him, as a contractor, Inthe 9S years he does not recall ever being sick.

work, and lots of, open air keeps a man well," he contends, "I have worked hard all my life, and had plenty of exercise. never have used tobacco or liquor. I think that helped." AND NOW HE CAN VOTE Of lAraed Chunber Of Commerce Waa "Foreltaer" Nlckerson. Larned's No. 1 Town Booster as secretary of the of Commerce, has been active in community work here for seven years all the time a "foreigner." But effective this week ho came: a citizen of the United States, securing his naturalization papersiv and renouncing alle- gience to the British king.

'Nickerson, bom in Canada, has lived in the United States since but never-had become a citizen. He served in the Canadian army, during world, war. Nobody knew; he was not a citizen, lUntil'he filed his request for naturalization. "Many a candidate for office has wasted valuable time trying to get my vote." he Congress May Act On Valley Flood Program Norris BiU Would Create Utile'TVA" For Arkansas River Basin Big Oklahoma Dam Plan To Check Floods, Conserve Moisture And Aid Navigation Washington, (iP) congressional action on long-time regional conservation and waterpower development program for Nebraska, Kansas and Oldahoma appeared probable last night following President Roosevelt's address', citing regional planning as one the pressing problems ofj the nation. The, president mentioned development of regional resources as outlined needs for legislation at Sispecial session of congress called to meet November 15.

Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska if the author of a bill, pending in the senate, to create seven regional authorities in the nation similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority to develop ural'resources, provide flood and soil erosion control fad furnish water power where practical. Hearings on the Norris bill have been completed before a senate agriculture and forestry sub-committee. Partial.hearinct have been held before the house riven and harbors bill introduced by Representative Joseph J. Mansfield of Texas which would set up agencies to coordinate regional plans, but does not propose federal, authorities such as TV A.

To Control impetus is expected to be given flood control, navigation and'water power projects in Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas in event either the house or senate bill becomes a law. Government assistance probably would given for projects along the Platte, Missouri, Arkansas, Cimarron, Red and other major In-Nebraska' three major, public power districts.have been started with government assistance or central Nebraska public power district, Loup river district and Platte vaUey pubUc power and irrigation district. An injunction action is pending in the federal district court for the District of Columbia, brought by the Iowa, Nebraska Power company against the public works administration and the three dis-! tricts. But'some i work is per-; mltted In Nebraska by.the;court| until the suit Is Oklahoma Approved In Oklahoma the PWA recently authorizeda.loan andgrant of $20,000,000 for a Grand Rlveri dam and hydro electric project near Pensacola, for flood control and power purposes. No other major power project is being discussed now for that state.

Of the seven, authorities proposed in the Norris biU; the fifth would be' the Arkansas. VaUey Authority for drainage basing of the Arkansas, Red and Rio.Grande rivers and rivers flowing: into the Mississippi below Cairo, and into the Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi river. "The real object ol the bUI," Senator Noiris: told'the committee," is to improve navigation and control the flood waters of all the streams of the United States asj near as they can be. con trolled by the act of man. improve rivers or hold-back flood waters anywhere without improving navigation and perhaps make some rivers navigable that are not now Norris told the committM the bill: also contemplates "going intoj questionsViofsoil erosion; reforesr tation, dust; storms and ment hydro -electric power inl connection with control where pracitcal.

i. Not All Swedes! Bethany college is regarded as exclusively a Swedish Lutheran school, with all the students Swedes and Lutherans, that is not -the case Of 323 students enrolled at Bethany, a religious survey shows less than half are Lutherans. One hundred fifty-six students, or less than 90 percent, gave Lutheran as church preference. There are 52 Methodists; 28 members of the Christian church; IS Presbyterians; 12 Congregationalists among the students. There were eleven expressing preference for the Evangelical Mlssbn; four Baptists; five Episcopalian; three Evangelical; two Catholics, one Christian Scientist, and 22 giving no church preference.

Hungry Women Fight For Foo One Of The Perils Of Shanghai From Desperate Women, Marine Says other perils et the fighting front at Shanghai, Sergeant Arthur A. Compton, of the Marines, writes home, it the women. "Conditions are deplorable here in Shanghai," he writes. "An American must have a club to keep tlie beggars off. The women are the worst." "Three thousand Russian women came here from Chefoo'this week," he writes his: sister, Mrs.

Leo Reld. "They have no money, no homes, nothing to eat, and It Is terrible. They almost drag men off the street trying to get money or food. I was riding in a ricksha yesterday with my buddy and two of them jumped in Talk about a couple of embarrassed, marines. We had a devil of a time getting rid of I gave them a dollar (Mex.) and they finally got out and left us." Sgt.

Compton is -with the Fourth Marines. He explained they go to the front line, as guards, for a week at a hitch, then back Into Shanghai for week's rest far none of the marlnst have been explains, but stray shell' dropped near their barracks the day before he wrote, killing five Chiness. MakeOwnTools Haskell County Farmers vent Tillage Implements Haskell county farmers art hot only adopting new and better methods of tillage, but are making their own tillage tools, inventing new devices. G. O.

Lower has secured patent on a damming attachment, for conserving moisture In tilling. Julius Franx, of northeast Haskell, has built a basin attachment to fit a lister which ha is using on his Emit Schnellbacher, southwest of here, also built his own basin attachment for a plow, which chisels the soil, making furrow dams. Lester Alexander, in northwest Haskell, made an attachment that operates behind "one-way" and Richard Dewell has been lading grasshopper poison on farm north of Satanta with a machine he from the end of an old motor ear, operating an agitator from the gear. It works the poison out of the barrel evenly and more efficiently than by hand. DHOVB INTO CATTLB Robert Barr and home from coming down off they drove into a herd of about 25 cattle, breaking light and doing other slight damages.

Nobody was hurt. Greensburg Proud Of New School Buildings NO. 7 Farmers Learn Terracing Pays On Flat Fields Seward Countian Makes Experimented And Gets Wheat Crop As Reward Doubtful At First Discovers Contours Hold Moisture From Pelting Western Kansas Rains of the farm land in Seward county is as a pancake. So, when Fred Sykes, manager of the Soil Conservation Service here started to talk to the fanners about terracing their wheat land to conserve moisture they politely smiled. Some of them probably muttered something about "braintrust- ers" and "college farmers." Terracing was all right back in Pennsylvania, or Indiana, in hilly country, but it was foolish to talk of terracing on flat Kansas prairies.

Just another scheme to give surveyors or other brass collar engineers jobs. But Some Tried But there were a number who were willing to give It a trial, anyway. Sykes showed them how to build the wide, low terraces, running on a level, following contour lines, and with the ends dammed. The big idea, of course, was to catch all rainfall that might come, keep It from running off, washing the land, and holding it back to conserve the moisture. Well, here is what happened on these terraced acres in Seward county: Terracing Doubles Yield Dan L.

Jantzen terraced a quater section in July, Seventy-eight acres was fallowed In strips. It was seeded last fall. It yielded 18,8 bushels per acre in the recent harvest. Just across the road similar quarter section, same kind of soil was also fallowed, but not terraced. It produced an average of 8 bushels per acre.

In other words by terracing, Farmer Jantzen produced more than un buslicls extra; wheat to the acre. It was difteiencc in conserved mols- Jantzen found the terraced land hadfive feet of subsoil molsturs at seeding time. The unterraced land, feet. Both had the same amount of rslnfaU. Oontourlnc Saved Crop H.

E. Lewis, near Kismet, contour listed a field on May 15, 1936. All cultivating was done along contour lines. He drilled wiieat In by Sept. IS.

Another field, nearby, was summer-fallowed, but not worked on contour. The same tools and operations were used, and the time as in Field No. 1. Field I averaged IS bushels per acre. Field 2, not contoured, averaged 6 bushels.

Held BMk The B. H. Lemert, near Liberal, sowed wheat in the fall at 1935. He had to list it up the next March, to keep the soil from blowing all away. But when be did the Usting he did it on the contour.

Although the ridges were partly, covered with dust by late May, inch rain soaked to nearly three-feet below the surface, instead-, of -ruimlng off and being lost, thanks to the contouring. One round of the grader, the next month, terraced the field. One. third of the fleis was seeded to sorghums in. strips along the terrace lines.

jCrope FaUed In September, when wheat was drilled there was five feet of moist; soil on the fallow line, and still four feet of it the next April. The wheat': yielded. 15.4 bushels' per acre. all around, not so terraced and contoured had a complete crop failure. Recently Tudor Charles, assistant editor of-the Kansas Farmer, visited Seward county, and inspected the results of the terracing program.

"Tliere are many concrere amples of big yields due to the terraces which captured, the water," he reports. "When it rains in Kansas it usually falls in a hurry. Rains of this kind hit the land gather But if held on the soil that earth will take the rainfall to and hold the moisture for months and years." Oil Has Smoothed Way To Friendship Between Two Rival Stafford County Towns Oil For Both And MhFor Oil For more than half a century, Stafford and ist. John were enemies, burning with a hatred i which had its origin in a county seat war in ithe '80's, li Today a change has come. Oil has been poured on the troubled oil of 69 producing wells with a potential of almost 66,000 barrels a day.

We're too busy to be fighting each other," declares Mayor Harvey Blake of St. John, who In-private life runs a filling station, "Of course there used to be a lot of rivalry between the towns, and there still is, but it's a friendly rivalry. Mayor Blake remembers when a football game between StnHord and St, John was a signal fistflght royal. "We're still flghUng he says, "but we're fighting side by side foi a bigger and better Stafford county." "Stafford and St. John still are rivals, bi we're friends," declares Mayor Ben Evans of Stafford, a real estate dealer.

"We have a of things In common. We are interested in boo t-j tng Stafford county. We're having a big oili ploy here and there is more development sight. We must all pull together." Not only in oil are the two towns co-operat; Ing, but also in agriculture, through the Farm Bureau, the 4-H clubs and other organizations. Ben Evans Ilsrvey Blake St.

John 'And Stafford get SO-YearOld Fend In Mutual Progress Pratt Boasts State Museum Hatchery 11 ction. lu- eludes Many Items Besides Its Fish Specimens good start is being made on a state museum at the state fish hatchery here, including not only an aquarium but also a natural history display. One valuable addition is a case of Indian arrowheads and artifacts gathered by Chester Yowell, of Marquette, mostly from Rice and McPherson counties. Three Pratt county collectors of artifacts, Harold, Edward and Fred Brehm, near Pratt, have added an interesting display of Indian relics gathered mostly in Pratt and Stafford cbunties. Big Game Shown One entire room in the hatchery building, is devoted to native bhrds of Kansas.

Most of these are birds collected, by. P. Cammack, formerly of Lyonis; now located in southeast Kansas, a contractor by profession, but a naturalist asahobby and wlio at one time: was Tstatergame There Is one case of wild diicks, cranes', geese, and such, mostly from the salt marsh region in Stafford and Barton counties. Another case contains small wild game, beaver, muskrats, and other fur-bearing animals, natives of There are larger animals, too, deer, antelope, wolves, bobcats and such formerly, found native on the prairies and along the streams of Kansas. All Kanna Birds One collection, especially interesting to 'visitors, contains; about everyklnd of bird native In Kansas, from the tiny bluebirds to the biggest hawks, eagles and owls.

While these fowls and animals are dead, of course, clever taxidermy, and natural settings make them appear, lifelike. In the aquarium, however, the exhibit of Kansas fish is a live one. Among the fish In the various "tanks" are gar, drum, black bass, green sunlish, i ring perch, channel: cats, crappie, flatheads, bullheads, buffalo, and a. great variety of goldfish. School Absence, Costs 15 Cts.

Daily to excellent. wheat renewed-by recent rains, the Greensburg community is'proud of new grade school buildlm and auditorium,) just now in To tks north ths high south is ths ntw grade school. Bstwssn ths twol extends the, auditorium, a 2S-foot one story brick crossover connecting the grade school with ths auditorium. arate main entfancs from the front. It makes thu block on South Main street an Imposing one.

The building is faced with mingled brick and Bedford, Indiana, Ume- auditorium wUl ssst pcoBls. has a tms, and equipped for pubUc gatbwlnis. The classrooms whavs. floors; of patternediasphalt tUs, whUs corridors and wash rooms have tile floors. Interior, finish of all rtMOU crsamTcolorad glased brick; Both high" Hutchinson, the architect, said is one of the latest systems for school use.

Another building of which Greensburg it proud is the new community building, erected jointly by the city; farm bureau fair association. The auditorium has a hard maple floor.with steel piUaca supporting, the; balcony. There is-a 20x40 stage, with oak dressing, rooms, office In the basement is, a dining hail for community The building is 60x110, feet, of dark gray stucco: exterior. The esnununity building, was ssesBlljr THR OLBBK rORGOT IT costs the Great public school system 15 cents for; each day a grade school pupil misses school. Superintendent H.

C. Scarborough explained that the share of sales the schools here is ijased on average attendance of pupils. Great Bend will receive approximately $5,000 from this source and Hois- Ington is expected to receive about $7,000. CfeRled reUtten In Vntil Too Lsle To TSke Action the city clerk stuck'a petition in his pocket, and forgot about it, a street will be paved with brick. Instead of concrete.

City Clerk Krug found the petition after the council had taken action: Every property owner' on the street except one had.signed asking for concrete. But it was too late. The council already had ordered brick paving, costing 80 cents per yard mora- SKIN INFBCnON FATAL Schwartz, .19, son of Mr, and Mrs, Wm. Schwartz, of St. Leo, is dead at the hospital here; from a skin' infec- 1 trom hoUs; Hs was liU about dwi.

Redskin Show Pays Expenses Medicine Lodge Out Of Rains Curtailing Performances Medicine that it's all over except figuring up the expenses, and paying the bills, officials of the Indian Pence Pageant association announce; with relief, that despite the untimely rain which forced the abandonment of the third day's perfdnhance, the third nial pageant was a financial success! The redskin pageant is not in the red, "We took In enough the first two days to pay air bills, and although the rain the third day thoroughly dampened ail hope for a profit, and came near putting the association in debt, we came out all right," reports Riley MacGregor, president and general manager. But all that saved the association from facing a huge deficit was the fact that the first two days were fine weather, and the 10,000 paying customers of Wednesday, plus 13,000 more on 'Thursday, kept the budget balanced. Once In 5 Years Enough The pageant will not be given again for another five years. Once every five years Is enough, all members of the official staff agree. Many have wondered whether other entertainment spectacles will be staged on this huge natural or other open air performances.

"Off-hand, we'd say tlie grounds will not be used again until the next, pageant is presented, in 1942," replied Joe HInshaw, editor of the Barber County Index, who is a member of the general committee. 'The ampitheatre is so big It swallows up any ordinary gathering. It takes a pageant bring out all the magnificence Mormon "stake" or temple on T. M. Bennett farm, Stafford county (three and a half miles east of St.

John; three and a halt miles of was Stafford's meat was St. John's poison. Twin cities, seven miles apart, they fought as Cain and Abel. St. John got the court house, Stafford the county fair.

Stafford got two railroads, St. John two highway junctions. St. John got the daily newspaper, Stafford the hospital. Stafford boasted 1,916 tahabi- tants, 196 more than St.

John. St. John boasted a $1,518,000 valuation, $89,000 more than Stafford, Today, all that is history. The civil war has been ended by petroleum developments which have united the two towns In a common cause. When tlie first well coma In near Hudson nine years ago, no one saw It as a harbinger of peace.

Yet it was the. start of the Richardson field, with its 42 producers. Today, every part of the county has its towering derricks, chugging oil pumps. The two towns each have a pool and share in the earth's riches. Fourteen new tests are underway, nine of them Both Stafford and St.

John are looking for a big increase in oil development'. Ninety per cent of the land outside the cities Is under lease. "A good many of these leases will expire soon," reports R. Mater, St, John real estate man. "It means that the companlet will speed up development," Both Stafford and St.

John are experiencing acute housing Oil men are driving 40 to 60 miles to work, some living in Hutchinson, Great Bend, or Pratt and driving to the Stafford county fields because they cannot find houses in either St. John or Stafford. More Supply Houaes Oil companies are opening supply houses and In both cities. The Cities. Servlca company has leased a tract at St.

John, east of the mill elevator, and it building two warehouses and an office building, and moving houses from El- Dorado for employes. The Parker Drilling and the Larlo company are moving men to the Stafford county field. The nine oil pools already In operation are scattered over the county. Four of them are In the west half of the county, in St, John territory; five in the east half, in Stafford territory. A Blesaed Locality The Mormons have a saying that where the Mormon church, inspired by God, "sets a stake," that is builds a temple, the ground Is forever blessed.

He- member what happened in Utah, when the' Mormons built their temple In the dosertT Salt Lake City grew there. Well, 62 years ago last spring a Mormon colony located in Stafford county In what was then, April, 1875, considerable of 8 desert, certainly a treeless wU- dcmess. Forty families of the Latter Day Saints located four miles north of the present site of St. John, and established what they called Zion Valley. William Bickerton, leader of the Mormon colony, established splendor of the natural scenery, blending its red walls Into the colorful attire of thousands of people around the sides of the bowl and on Its ledges and rim." LONG IN SERVICE BKOOMCOKN CHEAPER The Crop And Price Far Below Normal In broomcom crop in Stevens county is light' this yeor, and what there is of it Is cheap, the price, far below normal.

The however, is of fair quality, The price is running $40rto $80 par ton. The county will produce possibly .25 cart of corn; this normal crop of mora than a hundred cars. They Do Not Change Officials Often At Dighton Diglvlon-Nine city officials of Dighton have been on their jobs more than ten years. City Attorney J. Mowery.has held that position for nearly 17 years.

William Reipe has been superintendent of water and light plant for about 15 years, and Harold Reipe, his assistant for 13 years. --A. E. Bradstreet has been mayor of the city years; H. Munstedt.

city marshal about twelve years; E. P. Crandell. police judge for 10V4 years; D. Smeltzer, assistant city clerk for more than 11 years, and Guy Brctz and S.

Church, on the council for. years. HAD EXCITEMENT PLUS BVYB SERVICE STATION Halstead-T-Claude bulk agent for the corporation, haa' purchased the service: station busineia oa Mals'steMi fross As The DrUI Bit The Gaa Sand A Dog Bit oil Man was an exciting time at the Adams test when it came in as a gasser. Just about the time the drill bit the gas sand a mad dog bit Floyd Kent, district production chief for the Skelly Oil; a spectatorat the welL Kent was as a precaution, dog was given a shot, with; pistol. YOUNG FARMER DIES Hodrlok, 28, a young Kingman county farmer, is dead at his home near here.

He bad hssA sn Invalid for taveral what is now the townsite of St. John. Tlie temple, a frame building, 40x70 feet, was erected on the hill just back of the present location of the Ford garage. The old saying was that because tills was a hallowed spot, blessed by divine favor, "the desert would blossom as tha rose." It has done just that. Stafford county now is ona of the moit fertile spots in the Arkatuas valley, a bumper wheat county, a section of fine live stock, and now rich in oil production.

Zion VaUer and Sodlown With the organization of the county in 1879, and the starting of the town company, which platted St, John, the Mormon colony moved away, William Bickerton moved his home and the posloffice of Zion VaUey to the new, town, which was named St. John, not after the Apostle, but in honor of Governor John St. John. At the same time, what was Itnown as Sod town, seven miles to the east, changed name to tha more inviting name of Stafford. Thus was started, about the same time, the twin cities.

Charles Johnson, who had the first postoftice In the locality, moved his posloffice to the new town of Stafford, and then went to Topeka to urge Governor St. John to designate Stafford as county Johnson returned with the report that the governor had promised Stafford should ba chosen. But In July, 1879, the rival town ditched tha nama of Zion City, and took the; nama of the Gov. St, John proclaimed his namesake as tem-; porary county, Stafford' people to tliit; point out that naming the' new.