The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-12
Dr.. Ayers
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

county.
Ft. Scott Is kicking because the
council have voted the Mayor of that
city salary of $500.
1t has been figured out that it will
require 80, 600 cars to haul off the Kan.
sas wheat this year.
The Sedan corn-cob pipe factory,
with plant that cost $500, is making
a clear profit of $50 day.
A new novel by q Kansas woman,
Miss Frank Cheney, of Sumner coun-
ty, is announced for this fall.
Linn county Republicans have
adopted the Crawford county primary
system. They will get around to the
Allen county plan about next year.
The Salina Republican is convinced
that for practical purposes a land of
wheat, bread and COW butter beats a
land flowing with milk anil honey all
hollow.
If the bakery had been up as a pre-.
MUM for the shortest Fourth of July
editorial, the Fl. Scott Monitor would
have taken it with the following:
"Today is great day."
The only thing the X. C. Star sees
in the way Of holding convention of
resubmission editors In Kansas, is the
difficulty of finding hall small e.
nough to hold them.
Col. w. A. johnson has been ap.
pointed deputy attorney general at
Garnet and is using his authority to
wade into the joint keepers. The Col.
onel can make 1t about as hot for them
as anybody can.
The Humboldt Union returns
thanks to one of its appreciative read
ers for "a liberal supply of cucumbers."
McElroy always was a grateful cuss,"
as the fellow said of the man who
thanked the vigilantes who came to
hang him.
That little baby of J .Leeford Brady g
(Salina Republican, is dividing the
honors in the way of newspaper NEIL
aon just now in Kansas, with Baby
Mckee. Babies must be scarce in edi-
torial circles, that SO much noise is
made about one.
II the business men of Erie appre.
ciated the Republican-Record as much
as its exchanges do they would give
it about ten columns more of advertis-
ing. 1t is a disgrace to the town to
send out paper. edited as ably as
that is, with only five columns of ad-
vertising.
Is John Jones hanging around Kan
sas anywhere? If he is some good
friend ought to call his attention to
this advertisement which appears in a
Salem, OAK, paper: "If John Jones,
who twenty years ago deserted his
poor wife and babe, will return, said
babe will lick the stuffin out of him.
They evidently know how to appre-
ciate printers ink in Oklahoma City.
The Daily Journal of that place "a. c..
and w. w. Scott proprietary has re-
Gently been obliged to enlarge to an
S-column folio in order to make room
for its II columns of advertisement.
No daily paper in kansas has any
thing like such patronage.
Patents granted to citizens of Kansas
during the past week and reported for
this paper by c. A. Snow, patent
lawyers, opposite U. S. Patent Office,
Washington. d. c.
Eliza P. Ellis, Oak Hall, flour bin;
J. w. Fugate, Lawrence, dehorning
cattle; w. d. Lindsey, Huntsville,
plow seeder; L. A. Sabin, Kalvesta,
churn dasher; F. G.. Winnek, Leaven-
worth, copy holder.
The ElDorado Republican has dis
covered that smoke from a piece of
gum camphor about the size of hens
egg, slowly evaporated by holding it
in shovel or tin vessel over lamp,
will expel mosquitoes from the room
and give them such large sized dis
gust that they will not come back
again even though the windows should
be left open all night.
The Clay Center Times sends out
the following pretty and timely little
jingle without the name of the author.
Did it originate in the Times office?
rhythm of reapers, flashing
of steels in the meadows: q lashing
OF sheaves in the wheatiand: glitter
OF grain builded streets; and a twitter
Or birds in o mOtiOnless sky
And that Ia July!
rustic Of corn leaves; tinkle
or bells on the hills; q twinkle
of sheep In the lOwlanas; bevy
OF bees where the clover Is heavy;
A butterfly laundering BY
And that Is July,
Ed. Lane thinks one man ought to
be allowed to go crazy against Can
field considering that SO many old Uni
versity students are over the danger
line on the other side. But is there
not more method in a madness which
grows out oftbe high esteem taught by
intimate personal acquaintance. than
there is in that which comes from pure
bull-headed prejudice, founded upon
heresay only, without any personal
knowledge or acquaintance?
tits suspected that Henry NJ Greene