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MISS SCHOFIELD
Miss Schofield. teacher of voice, has proven her ability as an instructor. She received her training with the best vocal masters of this country. She possesses a beautiful soprano voice. highly cultivated and fully developed. Besides teaching in this college. she has a class in Wichita. and also held a fine church position in that city which she resigned to accept the position as soloist in the First Methodist church. Winfield.
W. H. CAMAN Photo by Dresser
Mr. W. H. Caman. band leader, teacher of cornet. orches- tral and band instruments, completes this faculty. He has had thorough training and many years of successful experience, his reputation being national in its character ..
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The subject of this sketch Penrose Hills WINFIELD'S MAYOR Albright. present mayor of Winfield. was born at Maytown, Laneaster county. Penn- sylvania. July 5. 1852. His father was Peter Albright. a native of that place. and his mother was formerly Miss Elizabeth M. Hills, a school teacher, of East Hampton. Connecticut. He was raised on a farm and lived at Maytown until the death of his father.at the age of 12, when his mother returned to her Connecticut home. Here he worked in a far- tory and on a farm. getting some little schooling and read law. and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-two. At the age of twenty-four he came to Kansas, and began the practice of law at Codlarvale. Chautauqua county in 1877. The next year he commenced the publication of a newspaper which was removed to Sedan. the county seat. and became the Sedan Times which he published for two years, and which is now the leading paper of that town. known as the "Times-Journal." In 1881 he came to Winfield as a senior partner of P. H. Al- bright & Co. He has been one of the enterprising citizens of Wintield ever since and as he expresses it, has always want- ed to see "the wheels go round." For a number of years he was president or treasurer of Winfield Chau- tauqua Assembly and held the same office in the Cowley County Fair association. He has been president of the school board and for a num- ber of years president of the Board of Trade.
He was first elected mayor in 1889: several years prior to that he was a member of the city council and during a large period of the time since has been a member of the council; a portion of the time president of the council and was again elected mayor in 1599. He is a 32d degree Mason, an Odd Fellow. a Knight of Phythias, a mem- ber of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Fraternal Aid and American Order of Annuity. He was married at Winfield in 1886 to Miss Emma C. Strong, formerly of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and is the father of a daughter and two sons.
In this age and generation of the world. all W.A. MURRAY classes of people go to form a community. The good, bad and indifferent. wise. un- wise and melancholy all are found intermingled in one locality. You study the faces of individuals and you can invaribly tell their disposition. At one glance at his countenance you will know the disposition of the individual whose name heads this article. He is a man with an unusually generous nature, al- ways jolly and kindly disposed toward every one. He is police judge of the city, having been elected in 1899 by a handsome majority. Mr. Murray has lived in Kansas twenty-four years and has been a resident of Winfield for twelve years. He was proprietor of the Olds House for seven years. In the hotel business he won a reputation that is above the average. His success was due to his hospitality, honorable dealings and
good judgment in serving his customers. It was regretted by his patrons when he gave up the boarding house business. Mr. Murray was born in Hart county. Kentucky. May 14. 1548, and spent the early part of his life in the same state. He was married to Mrs. Sallie E. Richardson in the year Is?l. They have three children. two girls and one boy. Mr. Murray is a member of the F. A. and R M. lodges of this city. and resides at 313 East sth avenue Ilis office is in the city hall located on East 9th avenue. As a citizen no man in Winfield is more highly respected During his long residence here he has con- tinued to make friends and win admiration because of his genial disposition. his cordiality and right living. All this proves his ability and shows why he is successful in his busi- ness enterprises His official acts as police judge is character- ized by a spirit of fairness which wins the approbation of mem- hers of all parties
MAYOR P. H. ALBRIGHT hoto DJ
HON. J. C. POLLOCK
The term law rep- resents a widely di-
vergent series of ideas. It is used to designate the infin- ite variety of observed pheno- mena, and also to describe the process where individual rights are conserved. To dis- charge the latter duty in an efficient manner requires a large fund of ability and a thorough course of specific training. The legal profes- sion is an excellent stepping stone to a reputation if used in a legitimate way. At once it commands the respect of the thinking public. but it rests with the man himself to become a stellar light in his profession or forever remain an obscure barrister.
.ludge J. C. Pollock. the subject of this sketch. is one of those men who is not con- tent to grope in the valleys. but who has by industry and ambition climbed the heights. Enriched by nature with a natural aptitude for law and by careful study and training. is thoroughly versed in techni- calities of law and is a valued member of the Cowley county har. An eloquent speaker, logical, forceful and magnetic, he sways a jury as few men can. and his success as a barrister has won for him the reputation of being one among the most efficient lawyers in the state. He is highly esteemed by his fellow members. while in private life he enjoys and is worthy of the respect of his fellow citizens. Judge Pollock came to Winfield thirteen years ago from Springfield. Mo .. as the attorney for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Co. He soon took a leading position at the bar. Few lawyers in the state have enjoyed a larger clientage. or a wider range of practice. He is a member of the bar of the supreme court of many of the states and territories and of the federal. circuit and district courts. the circuit court of appeals of the I'nited States and the supreme court of the United States and has personally conducted in these courts successfully. many of the most important and hotly contested cases which have arisen in Southern Kansas, and the Territory in the last dozen years
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His reputation as a lawyer became known all over the state. and when the eonstituional amendment increasing the supreme court to seven members was adopted his name was at once associated with one of the places. and accepted everywhere as being in every way acceptable. Following this general view of his legal ability. Governor Stanley on January 15, 1901. appointed him to the otHee of associate justice of the supreme court of the state and he entered on the duties of that high office on January 16. Judge Pollock is an illustration of what pluck. perseverance and hard work will accomplish. llis
career has been of his own making and has not been fostered by favoring influences nor dependent upon "soft snaps." lle made his own way and by hard work and close application. surmounting all obstaeles. Judge Pollock is a native of the "Buckeye State." He was born on a farm in Belmont county. November 5. 1857. After finishing the common schools. he attended and graduated in elassie course from Franklin col- lege. Ohio. in class of 15-2. In 1956 he was married to Miss Louise Lafferty of Belmont county. Ohio. They are the parents of one child. Lucile and live at 120 East Tenth avenue.
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The nomination and election HON. ARTHUR C. BANGS of Mr. Arthur C. Bangs for representative of the legisla- ture from the sith legislative distriet seems to be one of the most popular and satisfactory moves that the republican party has made for some time. Mr. Bangs' good sense and business experience make him one of the most capable men in the country for the position. He has always been a stalwart re- publican accepting the results of the deliberatlons of republi- ean conventions and supporting the tiekets named earnestly and freely. In view of a well recognized demand for an equitable distribution of county offieers, Mr. Bang's geograph- ieal position and the fact that he had filled the office of mayor of the city of Winfield so acceptably. combining as he does life long republicanism and an unexcelled business record made him the logical candidate before the voters. Mr. Bangs is a gentleman of well balaneed mind, of ability and unostent. atious intelligence. never found lagging behind but always in the front line for the advancement of education. moral worth and material development. He has never wavered from sound republican principles, but has always stood firm for those party characteristics that has made our country peaceful and prosperous at home as well as honored and respected abroad. He is quick to grasp a truth or fact and understands how to present it for the good of his fellowmen. Having been a resi
dent of Cowley eounty for more than twenty years he is fully identified with the county's interests. He knows well our needs and has the ability to present them to our legislative body and to maintain the eredit and good name of our beloved Kansas. This we say without disparagement to other men. lle takes great interest in the local affairs of the eity of Win- field. He has served as councilman about ten years at differ- ent times and is at present a member of that body. In 1894 he was elected to the mayor's chair and served a term of two years. Here he showed executive ability rarely found in the smaller cities of our country, by his keen perception and local pride he rendered to the city a prosperous and healthy ad- ministration. We feel assured that in this election to the legislature the people could not have made a wiser choice, and we predict for him a successful eareer and a faithful discharge of the important duties as a member of that august body.
Mr. Bangs is a native of Massachusetts. born in Boston Dee. 20. 1460. He was educated in that eity, being a graduate of the Boston high school. His father Mr. F. A. Bangs was a soldier during the eivil war and served in a Boston regiment in the eastern army. He died in this city about two years ago.
Mr. Arthur Bangs was married in this eity in 1882 to Miss ( L. Crapster of Hampton. Illinois. Of fraternal societies he is a 32d degree Mason. a member of Wichita Consistory No. 2. A. F & A. M. Adelphi 110. Winfield Chapter 31 R. A. M .. Winfield Commandery No. 15 K. T., Winfield Chapter 138 ( E. S . A. O U. W .. 1 O. O. F. and R. M.
J. E. TORRANCE
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T. E. Torrance was born in Wyan- dotte county, Ohio, on the 1st day of J. E. TORRANCE COUNTY ATTORNEY April, 1851, and two years later was taken by his parents via covered wagon, to Shelby county, Illinois, where his parents settled in an old log cabin in the untouched forest skirting the Kaskaskia river. There he received a common school education supple- mented by a few terms in Westfield college. but did not graduate. At the age of is he began to teach school and a year or two later took up the study of medicine. This he abandoned later and began the study of law and after three years hard study. part of the time in the law office of Mouser & Kelly of Shelbyville. Illinois, he was admitted to the bar in that state. lle practiced law in Shelby county. Illinois, from 1481 to 1887. when he moved to Winfield, Kansas. where he has resided and followed his practice up to this day.
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Mr. Torrance was nominated county attorney of Shelby county. Illinois, in 1882. without asking for it. He was, of course defeated. it being a democratie stronghold. He was again nominated on the republican ticket for state senator of his distriet in 1886. The first intimation he had that he was thought of for that position was the announcement of his nomination in the papers. Although he redneed his opponent's majority nearly one-half. he was defeated, In 1892 he was elected a member of the Board of Education at Winfield. which position he held most of the time until Isos. lle was a candi- date for the nomination for county attorney in 1896. but was defeated by Chas. W. Roberts of Winfield. who in turn was defeated in the election by the democratic nominee. In 1900 he was nominated county attorney by the republican conven- tion, spontaneously. not having been a candidate before the day of the convention and was elected over his democratic opponent by a small majority.
In 1sst he was married to Miss Mary (. Hott of Shelby- ville, Illinois, and they have two childen. Frederick Emerson. age 18 years and Oba W., age 16 years. Although Mr. Tor- rance has never been a lodge enthusiast he belongs to No. 5- A. F. & A. M. of Winfield. the A. O. U. W. lodge and K. of P.
C. W. BAILEY
We are proud to say that all political parties. in REGISTER OF DEEDS their nominating conventions. frequently nom- inate for office. pure men, men of upright honest principles. men of untarnished reputa- tion. men upon whom the politieal chicanery has never rested . men who are deserving and in whom the public have conti- dence. This is what the republican party did when they nom- inated and elected Mr. C. W. Bailey. register of deeds. In such responsible offices. only men of the above described character are deserving and Mr. Bailey answers in full to such a descrip- tion. As most people in the county are aware, he was a " hust- ling" farmer and a man who has made life a success and worth living. and thoroughly wide awake to all the surroundings. Ile is fully as competent in the position he how holds. His office is kept in the most perfect order. The books are neat and clean and only the best penmanship is found on their pages. It is in fact an up-to-date office. Deeds are always filed upon presentation and immediately recorded. Nothing lags in this office and no objections can be found in the dis- charge of the official duties. Ile has in his employe two clerks, his son and daughter. who adhere readily to their father's well devised plans of doing business. Mr. Bailey was born in Ohio, May 18, 1840. He left that state in 1860 and came west locating in Illinois. where he lived for several
years. He was married Dee 95 Ist .. to Miss Eleanor Davis at Springfield, Il. To this union have been born nine child- ren. five girls and four boys.
Mr. Bailey came to Kansas in 1979, locating on a farm of 160 arces in Spring Creek township which is in the southeast part of the county. He remained on this farm until he was elected to office in 1499. He is a veteran of the civil war. hav ing enlisted in Co. A., 3d Ill. cavalry. He served two years and seven months, was then discharged on account of disabil- ity. He is a member of the First M. E. church and of the G. A. R. and A. F. & A. M. Ile lives with his family in the cast part of the city.
The multiplied interests of a
HON. R. S. STROTHER community. the complications arising out of commercial and other Transactions, the necessity for expedition in the settle- ment of neighborhood suits, as well as minor misdemeanors. make it necessary to have from one to two justices of the peace to each township. The position is one of honor and fairly liberal fees, yet one finds it difficult to settle a neighborhood quarrel to the satisfaction of both litigants. In all of onr travels we have met none who seems to stand higher in the estimation of the people over whom he weilds a judicial in- fluence than does Judge R. S. Strother of Winfield. The judge is an old farmer and a good judge of human nature and these are the two perqusites in handling the class of cases that usually fall to the lot of the justice of the peace. His deci- sions are all carefully weighed before being rendered. there- fore just and satisfactory. there is little dissent and few ap- peals. Judge Strother is also a notary public and has quite an extensive business in that line. The judge is not only a pop- ular judge but a highly esteemed citizen of Cowley county. A gentleman who has sufficient dignity in every position of life to command the respect of all. Judge Strother has been a resident of Cowley county for thirty years. during that period he has spent fifteen years on his farm of 320 acres located twenty miles northeast of this city. In 1-91 he was elected register of deeds of Cowley county. and re-elected in 1893. At the expiration of his term 1895 he was elected justice of the peace which position he has since filled with credit to himself and constituents.
He was born in Kentucky. Sept. 10. 1840. and received his education there and was married to Miss Jennie Crawford Feb. 15. 1570. There has been born to this union three child- ren. one son and two daughters. Mr. Strother enlisted in Co. 11. 22nd Kentucky Infantry. Oct. 12. 1-61. While in the ser- vice he was slightly wounded twice and fought in 13 general engagements among which were the battle of Vicksburg. Champion Hill, Black River and Chickasaw Byou. Besides the general engagements he was in many skirmishes. The first engagement he was in was on the 10th of Jan. 18 2. He was discharged Feb. 20. 1865. Mr Strother is a member of the First M. E. church and is one of the class leaders. He is also a member of the A. F. & A. M. No. 5% Winfield. A O. 1. W. and G. A. R. of which he is a Past Commander. His office is located in the Hague block. room 11. and his residence is at 303 West Riverside avenne.
J. P. BADEN ROLLER MILLS
"Laves of great mien all remind u- We should make our lives sublime. And departing Leave behind us. Foot prints on The sands of time "
In a land where almost every village has its self made men. it requires an individual of more ability and energy. greater will power. mental and physical strength. eternal vigilance hon- esty and perseverance. than the average American. who is con- ceded to be a creature of inexhaustible enterprise and re- sources. to rise above the ranks and obtain prominence beyond
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his fellow,, attracting the attention of those proud of our national Imonwement and the progress of deserving individ- uals. For The past twenty years there has been a name familiar to the public of the entire state, as one of the most successful and enterprising men in this part of the country. He operated within the corporate limits of Winfield one of the best mills in the state. He built the ice plant and packing house as well as having interest in many other enterprises. Owned and operated them, giving his personal supervision to each branch of his business, until claimed by the grim hand of death, on the 3rd of March, 1900. We refer to the late and lamented J. P. Baden. Immediately after Mr. Baden's death.
ing of two extra special Leffel water wheels 35 inches in diam- eter, under an eight-foot head of water, delivering 110 horse power each. The mill is also supplied with three scalpers and graders. one rotary. two Barnard and Leas plansifters, seven purifiers, one Great Western air belt purifier, eight flour dressers. two hexicon reels for scalping bran, one centrifugal Jonathan Mills flour dresser, one bran, one short duster, one ware house separator, three Eureka close seourers. one corn. one wheat dump, track scales and a large elevator with a capacity of 110,000 bushels which is in direet connection with the mill, while the minimum amount of wheat carried at any season of the year is not less than 75.000 bushels, while in their improved corn eribs are to be found at all times from 1.000 to 6.000 bushels of corn. while their storerrooms have a capacity of 20.000 barrels of flour. A first class machine shop not only for reparing but for making almost anything pertaining to the mill or other plants.
The mill employs annually 35 men. Mr. J. W. Arrowsmith is head book-keeper. Mr 11. T. Vandercook. head miller: Mr. John Paul. chief engineer: Mr. Frank Ballien. shipping clerk. Mr. Fred Ballien. city buyer and collector. with three traveling men con- tinnally on the road. Twenty-seven others are engaged in different capacities A small but ample electric light plant of 100 inean- descent lamps. furnishes an abundance of . light for all the buildings and rooms of this plant. Steam heat is used throughout this plant: in every place where heat would give comfort to an employee. can be found a steam radiator. The cooper shop is another point of interest. Here are manufactured all the barrels used by this great plant: 24.000 barrels per annum is but a small output for this shop. The shipping facili- ties are also worthy of mention. The Santa
J. P. BADEN ROLLER MILLS
his wife. Mrs. A. E. Baden, assumed charge of the mammoth business, assisted by her sons, Martin aged 22,and Ernest aged 19 years, retaining all of her hus- band's former employees and adhering strictly to the methodical manner in which he had formerly con- dueted the business. The large flouring mill has of itself been of great help to the development of Win- field, by giving employment to numerous people The annual pay roll aggregating $27,000, besides the enor- mous sum of $445,000 expended annually for grain. The mill was built in 1982, bought and remodeled in 1889, by Mr. Baden. The building proper 40x56 feet. four stories high, with basement, all of stone. The engine rooms also of stone 32×40 feet, and contains a Hamilton and Corliss engine 20x48 inches. 300 horse power, two Wheatherall, Chester, Pa,, boilers of 300 horse power. The smoke stack is an enormous brick structure. 21 fect in diameterat the base four foot flue-92 feet highi. The base is founded upon the solid roek at the base of the Walnut river, the first 20 feet being of stone. the remainder of brick, and required 25,000 brick to build. There are two frame ware houses, one 24x135 and one 25x100 feet, one stone ware house 50x50 feet. The mill has twenty-one stands of double rolls, fifteen stands 9x18 and six 9x30 inches. Also three double stands for corn meal 9x18. one twenty-inch French burr for graham and rye flour, one pair of stands, three high of six rolls, three pair for grinding feed stuff The capacity of the mill is 600 barrels of flour and 100 barrels of meal per day. Besides the steam power there is also a water power. consist-
J. P. BADEN ICE PLANT AND COLD STORAGE WAREHOUSE
Fe railroad has a switch along theentire west side of the plant with all the conveniences for loading from any one of the differ- ent buildings. While the Frisco has a similar switch with equal facilities for loading on the east side. the plant is also reached by a switch from the Missouri Pacifie. The scale track which connects with all the railroads is a part and parcel of the plant.
THE PACKING HOUSE, STORAGE AND ICE PLANT The Paeking House was estab- lished by Mr. Baden iu an early day to facilitate handling ,but- ter, eggs and poultry. A large iee house and ice cold storage were construeted, and these were supplemented by ware rooms,
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store rooms, poultry yards and sheds, and later by a large and commodious creamery. The growing volume of business con- stantly required new and increased facilities, and in 1895 Mr. Baden purchased the ice plant which had been erected the preceding year. Cold storage rooms for preservation of eggs. all mechanically cooled by the ice plant machinery, were at once added and the success of the new storage house was so marked that its capacity was trebeled in 1897-8. The whole ice and storage plant being extended and increased to the pres- entcapacity. all of which has been operated to the utmost limit of capacity, while the original ice house and storage rooms are utilized in poultry dressing and as ware houses. Car load shipments of dressed poultry. butter and eggs are now made from this institution to all parts of the United States, from New York to San Francisco and from Seattle to New Orleans. These buildings aggregate over 60,000 square feet of floor space, all of which is utilized. The cold storage rooms have a capacity of 20.000 cases of eggs (30 dozen to the case). 200,000 pounds of butter and 100,000 pounds of dressed poultry.
The aggregate business through.the packing and storage house for the current year is expected to reach the following figures. viz. 1.500,000 pounds of poultry. 1.000,000 pounds of butter. and 60,000 cases of eggs. approximating a half a mil- hon dollars in value. The egg cases, poultry boxes and butter tubs used each year requires more than forty car loads of Ium- ber and box material. The ice plant is an unusually attract- ive and efficient plant of the compression type. with a capae ity of about 12.000 tons per annum of clear distilled water ice. the power plant for the ice and storage plant consists of five tubular boilers aggregating 350 horse power. "One 17x42 Cor- Iiss engine. one 15x36 Corliss engine, one 13x26 compression, one 11x22 compression, one 10 horse power Westinghouse engine. five duplex pumps. one single direct pump, over eight miles of pipe of different sizes are utilized in the apparatus and connections of this plant. Seperate and additional boilers are used for the creamery and poultry dressing house. All build- ings are lighted by incandescent electric lights from the du- plex system in the main engine room, installed by M. W. Baden. From 60 to 100 men are constantly employed in the various departments, making a heavy pay roll. This institu- tion which is composed of the several departments and build- ings under one head is probably the largest of its kind in the country, and its steady and wonderful growth and uniform success is a matter for congratulation not only to Mrs. Baden, but to the whole city of Winfield and of which they may well be proud. S. L. Maxwell is manager of the institu- tion. and C. T. Wells. head book-keeper.
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