The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS
The Yates Center Advocate has
correspondent who puts up a yell
from HAPPY Holer" each week.
All Kansas will vote "aye" on the
bill recently introduced into Congress
to give Mrs. Lawton a $1,000 year
pension.
The Garnett Plaindealer may he
right about its taking little principle
to run joint, but the interest is
simply destructive.
Olathe is sure she is to have can
merry and the can can is the only dance
allowed in town since the good news
came.
are more girls born in the State than
boys, which seems to be the most
modern improvement on the boycott.
Somehow the country which sneers
at ss','prohibitory law falls into
line on the cigarette law and thinks
people can be compelled to keep same.
A Leavenworth mau is planning to
cemetery. 1t will be of aolid masonry
as near fire proof as possible.
One of the most remark able hap
penings of the year was the hOld-up
of an A bilene man by robbers who
found that he had only 81 on his
person.
AS a sOace for the closing of the
u I .
pect of having the brewery at Wes-
ton, just across the river, again in
operation.
The Arkansas City Traveller alleges
that woman who sits in "A rocking
chair and rocks all the time will
drive man down town quicker than
anything else.
The lady editor of the Linsborg
News says that she thinks the girls
with pretty ankles crossed the streets
in the mud little oftener than was
necessary.
Chas. Curtis, who has nice job at
Washington, is finding the thorn that
accompanies the rose, in the same
way the boil was attached to Job, of
Biblical fame.
All the men in the state who have
become expert at cracking rock while
doing time in the calabooses can get
job at about 81 20 day helping
pave the streets of Lawrence.
II. b. Murdoch, of the EldoradO Re-
publican, fathered the expression
"clabber faced barnacles," and the
Yates Center NeWS was unkind
enough to apply the name to its papa.
A young couple called at Hutchin-
son grocery and asked for lemons.
While the clerk was wrapping them
up he inquired II the girl had a
confused and left without paying for
the fruit or answering the question.
Tribute to departing subscriber
from the Cimarron JRcksOnian: "JOn-
athan Lees shook the dust of Gray
county from his feet and left for Pratt
last week Goodbye, three dollars,
goodbye
The Kansas City journal Gays:
When the contribution box was re-
turned in an Emporia church the
other day 1t was found to contain two
plugged nickels and a slot machine
chip. Empnria has more than once
worked u flim-flam on Fourth district
politicians, but she ought to know
that she can't fool the Lord.
The Eldorado Republican offers up a
sort of prayer that when then the AL
mighty gets into the mood which re-
suited in the death of the first born in
Egypt and the destruction OF Sodom
and Gomorrah and in the flood, He
will remove the slanderers and hypo-
critics. "Then," says Mr.. Murdoch,
"this will be a nice world to live in"
Observation-Disclosures item from
the Lawrence Journal "Let me leok
at your vaccination mark and see
how 1t is getting along" said a West
Lawrence young man to his best girl
last night. And he couldn't think
why she said "Sir?' In such an indiR-
nant voice, and slammed the door az
she fiounced out of the room until the
old family doctor told him that the
girls are not vaccinated on their arms
any more.
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