The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-01
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

| A Solomon boy has been admitted to
| the hospital corps of the Brooklyn navy
yard, and left for there last week
/ Billy Morgan places his o. K. on the
| automobile because it has no tail to get
/ over the lines when you are driving it
Chanute wants to know why it can
| not have a canning factory. If it can
/ can Kansas corn and other things it
/ can.
Mack Stevenson, an amateur sports
man OF Salina, won highest honOrs at
a big gun shoot at Abilene this week.
He made Ill points out of a possible 40.
Hutchinson girls are so anxious for
| leap year privileges that they recently
/ got up a picnic, hired rigs-single ones
took their young men, and footed all
1 the bills.
This is the time OF year that the coun-
| try school teachers hieth himself or Of
tener herself over the country in search
( of a better job than the one he or she
/ held down last year.
Central Kansas papers are complain
/ ing of a swindler VINO is fleeing real
/ estate agents. A man who can fleece
/ a Kansas real estate agent must be
| fOrty-third degree sWindler.
A Hutchinson woman will have a
painting at the Omaha show this sum-
rner along with those of the great mas
/ tiers. Kansas is coming right to the
! front in art as well as in some other
lines.
Already the farmers are bringing
/ prize corn stalks into every town in
/ Kansas and tying them up in front of
| the postOfice or in the local newspaper
/ Office. and then daring everybody to
/ beat it.
! A photographer taking pictures for
/ Golfers Weekly visited Mcpherson this
! week and shot all the dilapidated
! buildings there, and now the town is
! wondering why he didn't take" some OF
! its good buildings too.
No matter if the wheat was "all kill
! ed by the cold weather" last winter,
| the demand for harvest hands shows no
! decrease from that of other years But
/ then. Kansas wheat has a habit of be-
1 ing killed off and resurrected several
| times during the season.
The first man to draw the festive
quarter from the Kansas pocket with a
/ lecture on the Philippines is a Montana
man. Hasn't Kansas any home talent
for this purpose? If it hasn't now, there
will be plenty when the Twentieth
comes marching home
"A Filipino come up to me-" writes
home a Kansas volunteer, land made
himself known as a Mason He invited
me to visit San Geronimo lodge No. IS.
Y GU run across MaSOns in all countries
and among all nationalities. This is
one of its virtues. Aguinaldo is a Mas
on, understand
J. Mack Love gives it as his profess
siOnal opinion that the waters at Geuda
( Springs are good for everything on
earth except to drink. but there are
those who might insinuate that Mr..
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tent to give an expert opinion on water
as a beverage.
Warren Swayze, a Dickinson county
boy, got an idea that he was a natural
born snake charmer. because bull
snakes and garter snakes had never
killed him. He tried his charms on
RATHER and the result was that the
doctors had hard work saving his life.
He has given up snake charming as a
profession.
A few grains of prehistoric corn from
Egypt We're planted down at Medicine
Lodge this spring and it is not only
growing. but is giving indications of a
good yield If a mummy Of one of the
PharOahs were planted in Kansas and
the Kansas sunshine and Kansas ozone
were given a chance at it, it would pro-
duce another Egyptian dynasty in a
single season.
There was a big gathering of Masons
down at Cottonwood Falls the other
day. The debt on the Masonic temple
was paid. and the mortgage was burned
with appropriate ceremonies. After tn s
there was a spread" and among the
good things consumed were AZ cakes. 125
roasts, Sc OK tongues, 81 chickens and
| there were six courses to the affair OF
course "a good time was had