Note: With the election of ’78 looming in Plum Grove, ”Num Skull” is abuzz, stumping from his highly cultured literary niche, emenating alacrity for his pet candidate from Marion County, the oft-cited (if you follow the diaphanous thread of his submissions to this column) Frank Doster. So, from my similarly diaphanous view (separated by 150 years, or so.) I ask, ”Num Skull,” ”who was this Frank Doster??”
”Starting in Kansas as a Marion attorney, Doster served as the Populist chief justice of the Kansas supreme court, 1897-1903. Although in his lifetime he was variously accused of having communistic, socialistic, anarchistic, atheistic, and free-love leanings, he may have been only a turn-of-the-century liberal, “more a radical in theory than in practice.”
https://www.kshs.org/p/a-populist-survival-judge-frank-doster-in-the-1920s/13189
ED. GAZZETTE.—Once again, I come to the front with another small batch of news.
-A. Kenedy of Fairmount township has been quite ill but is convalescent again.
-A new boarder has put in an appearance at the home of Mr. Guinty, he has come to stay till he is 21.
—The new business house at the Grove is growing under the skilful management of Worline & Patterson.
—Mr. James Long has lately taken the paternal degree, its a boy too.
—Harvey Montgomery is on his way from Pennsylvania, bound for Plum Grove: he left here about a year ago, but like the rest that leave he couldn’t stay away.
– ”A Star Cuss” looks supremely happy since he came back from Illinois, but he doesn’t like to hear anything said about that “Palace Sleeper”
-We have got a full Greenback ticket in the field and we are going to make it warm In old Butler this fall, and we are going to elect Frank Doster, (one of the few nice men of Marion Centre) to Congress.
NUM SKULL.
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