The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-09
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Jewell county is yelling for cars to
carry away the old corn on hand.
Republic county is to have corn
jubilee at Belleville the first week in
October.
Beloit has twenty miles of good stone
sidewalks good showing for a town
of its size.
The state university fossil hunters Sc
cured several car loads of old bones
and things up in Wyoming this sum-
mer.
The Lee Wholesale Grocery company
of Salina will expand by putting in a
branch house at Emporia.
FL once is out of the wild-and-wool-
1y-west class. A woman down there
washes dishes with her gloves on
The corn carnival committee over at
Atchison lost $6O7 which it had in the
defunct Atchison National bank.
E. w. Agnew, a cousin of Captain Ag-
new, of the Twentieth, has been nomin-
ated for sheriff by the Republicans of
Smith county.
Since Charley Lands has been made
census supervisor for the Sixth district
he has bought a bigger press for the
Osborne Farmer.
Up at Washington a young man
wanted to sing She was Bred in Old
Kentucky" as a solo in church one
Sunday night not long ago.
A mastodon's tusk has been located
down at wellington. At last accounts
several feet more to follow.
Two big circuses, Sells Brothers and
Ringlings', will be loose in northern
Kansas this month. Lemen Brothers
show is now touring the same territory.
Billy Deford thinks that John Steele
ought to get a position with the Uneeda
people when he gets home from the
Philippines on account of his abilities
in the advertising line.
The Smith Journal claims to have a
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melons instead of using a column rule.
The Journal seems to be getting pluto
cratic since Jim Morphy went up there.
The Conway Springs Truth has been
crushed to earth and will not rise
again, Notwithstanding Mr. Bryan to
the contrary, as its subscription list
has been sold to the Conway Springs
Star.
Since hearing that Webb McNan's
corn is a failure on account of a drouth
on his farm, Grant Shaw's faith in the
biblical text about the rain falling alike
on the just and the unjust has been
A Jewell City woman served ice
cream in cantaloupes at a party and
one of her guests was mean enough to
go away and say that she did so be-
cause she did not have dishes enough
to go around
Conner Davies is devoutly thankful
that the date of his service in the KAN
SaS legislature does not go back to the
year of ingalls, $500 episode, and it is
too far back to attach suspicion to his
purchase of a new press last week.
Mrs. CASTOR Boyd, of Newton, has
written song with the title when
Dewey Comes Again" 1t will have a
place alongside The Kansas Volun-
teer," the new song written by Mrs.
Maggie Ford Mcdaniel. of Miltonvale.
Drouth item from the Gaylord CORE
spondent of the Smith Center Pioneer:
Friday night some one wanted little
red eye and wanted it badly. so
broke into the joint east of the Miller
blacksmith shop and got what was left
on hand.
It took Grant Shaw a long time to
grind it out. but he did it at last, and
here it is-his latest joke: That Wich-
tia preacher that married the old wo-
man lin the eyes of God" and tied the
knot himself is what might be termed
a self-binder.