The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-14
JAYHAWKER JoTs

! District court gave way to the street
/ fair down at Fort Scott.
! That court of visitation decision is
/ still due from Judge Hook.
/ The COffeyvilIe Journal has a brand
| new dress with trimmings
| Wellington is Dragging now because
/ she hoated bonds at 4 per cent
| The Turner'S have decided to hold no
/ state funniest in Kansas next year
Chanute has a mantle factory which
| works 3 men, and still is away behind
| with its orders.
| Lawrence is going to prove again that
| she is the Athens of Kansas She is
! going to build new school house
Leavenworth has a new ''pantorium"
| "PantOrtum, it might be explained. is
LeavenwOrth dialect for tailor shop.
You can shoot prairie chickens in
kansas now, that is if you can find the
| chickens and can shoot straight
enough.
A Montgomery county man was re-
Gently granted a big increase of pen
sion, but when the notification came he
was dead.
Crawford county will enjoy the lux
ury of a grand jury next month and a
good many people are going away on
vacations.
A short grass editor talks about" wed
ding bells pealing' in a marriage no
tiee, when, as a matter Of fact, there
isn't bell in the town.
The Christian Endeavorers. of Ottawa
held an old-fashioned huskin' bee the
other night, and, of course, plenty of
red ears were provided.
Now that the street fairs are over
out in the corn belt, the farmers have
got out their step-ladders and hand
saws and are gathering their corn.
1t is expected that the University of
Pennsylvania football team will walk
over Princeton this year. There are
three Kansas men on the y. of P. team
70Tf
for $500 because the farmer sold the
mans son some hard cider. The boy
got drunk. fell from his horse, and
broke his arm
subscription the same as some editors
take potatoes and wood. It tells the
farmers, Bring in your coal while the
roads are good"
Sells Brothers show got several
thousand dollars worth of free adver-
Using simply by changing the route of
their parade at BelIeville so that two
sick boys could see it
Kansas City has worked Kansas
again. During the carnival down there
a large number of counterfeit quarters
were put in circulation. 1t is claimed
that they were given out in change by
several of the shows" down there, and
a good many Kansas people got taken
in by them.
Ottawa Herald: The Fort Scott wo-
men who sent 100 chest protectors to
San Francisco for the boys of the
Twentieth seem to be Iaboring under
the delusiOn that the girls of that me-
trOpOhS are all armleSs. What the SOL
diers stand most in need of is rib pro-
tectOrs-
Soldering in the Philippines just at
present isn't so bad as it might be-
judging from the following extract
from a letter written to the Girard
Press by James G. Corning, who is now
at Jaro, near IloiIo: You probably
think I am having a hard time of it,
but at present am having a snap
and it will probably last until Novem-
Der. We are quartered in the old
priests residence, and it is fixed up i'm
mense- We sleep in the upper story and
eat in the lower one. We have the
finest kind of grub fresh beef, pota-
toes, tomatoes, chicken, gravy. pud-
dlngs, pie, salmon, and other things too
numerous to mention. We have tea and
coffee, with sugar and condensed milk
in it. We have as fine a cook as Won
viii ever find in a. hotel, and eat better
victuals than you do in most hotels We
have piano, and hanging lamps made
out OF cut glass, and mirror that
would sell for $500 in the states. The
quarters are simply elegant"