The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
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Vic Murdock: Ralph Easley's trust
conference is going to be very swell.
Some day universal peace will be ac-
complished, and it will be done through
some Kansas mans conference.
Here is another corn story: An
Abilene farmer brought three ears of
corn to town that were raised on one
stalk After he had rolled them out Of
the wagon he went to haul in the stalk
they grew on.
Fort Scott girls have an s. o. G.
club, and the men are getting bald
headed trying to think what the letters
stand for The girls have kept it
secret this far, but some of them are on
the eve of telling.
Ewing Herbert offers a free circus
ticket to every boy who brings him a
new subscriber for the Brown County
World accompanied by the cash in ad
vance for a year. He may have to put
in a swifter press before circus day.
1t is suspected that some Wichita
newspaper correspondent has located
at Rio JaneirO since that story about
young girl being chosen by an an
archist society to blow up the Paris
exposition with dynamite was sent out
from Brazil the other day.
Dave Leahy tells about a Wichita
young man who went out to Colorado
to die with consumption. The doctors
told him he had only one lung and
could not live. He insisted on living
anyway and now he has three lungs.
He married the other two.
Atchison has a real live bibliomanlac.
He has a book printed in Rome in 1889,
three years before Columbus discovered
America He owns Bible printed in
Paris in 1910, another printed in Eng
land in 1865, and still another German
Bible that dates away back to 1888. He
also has a collection of manuscripts
written in the seventh and eighth CEN
turtles. A book that is only 200 years
old fc loot ion 1T
Here is a new swindle which is novel
and is said to have been successful up
in POttawatOmie county. 1t takes
three persons to work 1.-TWO men and
a woman. One of the men, dressed to
represent a clergyman, drives up to
farm house and requests the privilege
of remaining over night. Before the
hour of retiring comes. a man and wo-
man drive up and request to be direct
ed to the nearest minister as they de-
sire to be married. The pretended
clergyman volunteers his services, joins
the couple in the bonds OF wedlOck and
the farmer is asked to sign his name as
a witness. Shortly after the signature
Of Mr.. Farmer turns up on the heavy
end of a prOmissOry note.
Bent Murdoch has another claim to
fame which he tells about in this way:
This world is not so awful big. T.
Letter, of Chicago, married a girl by
the name of Mamie Scott. Miss Nan
ME was brought up at an iron fur
mace, in Lawrence county, Ohio. Their
daughter is now Lady Curzon, of India;
and is about the SWEETEST woman in the
British empire. Miss Mamie Scott
was handsome girl and very bright
We attended the sa me public school
with her along about 1851 or 1852. Mr..
Field, of the former firm of Field,
Letter & Co. dry goods, of Chicago,
married MOllie Garrett. another iron
furnace girl; and also a schoolmate.
The first real evening party we ever at
tended was at A. o. Wizards. Miss
Mollie Garrett was present and she and
the writer were picked out as prin-
cipals in a mock marriage ceremony.
She had brown hair and brown eyes
and we recall that We were desperate
ly in love with hers at the time; and
embraced the first opportunity to kiss
the bride" We can taste that kiss yet.