The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-06
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

steers 10 sneO, prepare I'd sueu thehi
now"
Last weeks junction City Union
had 80 columns of home advertise
meuts. No wonder Junction City
booms.
It must be mighty lonesome around
the State treasurer's Office now since
"Rory O'Moore" has resigned and
gone away.
Rev. E. II. Kellar, of Lawrence, is
the author of an historical drama call
ed "Arnold the Traitor" which is now
in the hands of the printers.
In Atchison the white horses pull
the red street cars. (There is joke
carefully concealed about this inno-
cent appearing announcemept.)
Empor,a Republican: The Presi-
dent is very slow about appointing
new collector of revenue for Kansas.
But Mr.. Nelson F. Acers is bearing
10 under the DELAY with great forth
tude.
One of the thing. that no mau can
find out is why woman will get up in
the night and burn up fifteen dollars
worth of coal to keep alive through the
winter about $3.50 worth of ecraggy
geraniums.
An article entitled "Wanted. an idea
of fur reminds Jake Stottler that
people can get some very good ideas of
fur next year in Kansas If ingalls, and
Foster should engage in a canvass of
the State on Resubmission.
Vile insinuation from the Strong
City Republican: "Mrs. Congress
man Tarsney of Kansas City, kissed
every member of the Hale Zouaves.
This was the first time the young
soldiers ever faced powder"
Charlie Scott of the lola REGISTER
"cribbed" most of the editorial para.
graphs in his Thanksgiving edition
from the Bible; but very few of his
readers got onto it.-Ransds CITY Star.
Well, was there any law compelling
you to "give the snap awavP"
Billy White, who has lived in
Lawrence so long that he has found
out nearly everything, says: There
are two kinds of girls-one kind that
like to be leased about their best fel.
lows, and another kind that pretend
they don't like it,"
Samuel n. johnson, of Topeka, has
| declared his intention to become a
| candidate for State Treasurer. He is
at present County Treasurer OF
Shawnee county.-Salina Republican
All right, except that Mr.. johnson
lives in Troy and is treasurer of DOni-
phan county.
The Americana hinaman, Tank
Kee," who was through these parts
two years ago is again lecturing in the
State. The biggest audience he had
anywhere was at Leavenworth where
the newspapers accidentally spelled
his name Tank Up
The Kansas City papers are gather
ing together an elegant set of boys,
when one stops to think of il. Rose
Field and Alex Butts and Clarence
Finch, on the Star, Charlie Finch, on
the Globe, and half dozen others on
| the Journal and Times. Pretty near
Iy a straight Kansas crowd too. by the
way.
Charlie Finch, who for a year past
has made the Lawrence Tribune the
brightest evening paper in tn. State,
has accepted an offer from the Kansas
City Globe and will go to work on it's
editorial page Sunday, the Sth. We
regret to lose Finch from Kansas but
we are glad his talents have been rec.
ognized by a metropolitan paper. He
will have larger field now than he
ever had before and he will fill it well.
Villa Range. The Ladies' Home
journal. is the name of a new month
~ publication just issued at Topeka
with Mrs. Emma Park as ,di,or. Its
platform, at least its leading editorial.
is as follows:
'.Love rules the camp,
The court, the bower.'
That NAV be true. But love doesn't
rule the printing Office and it can't be
counted on to meet the Saturday
night pay roll, "a truth we trust the
Villa Range, etc., ETC., will learn be-
fore it is too late.
Charlie Finch gives the business
men of Lawrence parting blast for
their parsimonious treatment of the
new spapers of the town that is mighty
well deserved. One might travel far
before finding kindlier or more
courteous set of men than those in bug
mess at Lawrence but they are as
heartles as savages when it comes to
giving a news paper decent treatment.
They appreciate a good newspaper and
on one day they will tell the editor
what splendid work he is doing and
how much such a paper is worth to
the town, and the next day when he
strikes them for an advertisement they
will shrug their shoulders and say, 81
don't believe it pays me to advertise.
[ have been in business here 80 years