The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-21
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| Gerry house.
The bankers of the state will meet at
Abilene next year.
Franklin county farmers are having
to haul water for their stock.
The Dodge City broom factory is en-
ploying seven hands and wants five
more.
The Arkansas city Traveller refers to
| the South African trouble as the al
| legged war"
/ A lot of Kansas papers are Dragging
! this week because Helen Gould visited
| their towns.
Argentine boys will have plenty of
amusement this winter. Two circuses
! will winter there.
Ewing Herbert is in favor of sending
| Fred Funston back to the Philippines
| to take Otis place.
| Horton is puffed UP over the fact that
a citizen of that town has just had an
/ attack of appendicitis.
| Billy DeFord will make speech at
| Ottawa when the reception is given to
| the soldiers down there.
States have been abolished from the
] Salina schools except in the primary
/ departments and pencils and paper are
/ used in their place
| The hatchet which SaIina and Abilene
| buried a few weeks ago will soon be
! dug up. They are going to play foot
! ball against one another.
| The Wellington Journal is making a
| fuss because some one is shipping quail
! from that point 1t is against the law
| to ship quail at any time.
| BilIey Morgan says the Lawrence
| girls are already taking long afternoon
/ maps so as to be in good shape when
the Twentieth boys get home
/ A Scandal jointist thought he would
I try the effectiveness of the reward for
I evidence plan. He is now working on
( the Republic county rock pile.
| An Atchison boy is in a fair way to
! be spoiled. He was the star in an am
/ ateur show recently. and a local paper
| says he "betrays rare histrionic tai
| ent."
The Hfawatha World says that Judge
| Emery. who comes from Congressman
| Bailey's county, is a candidate for Cy
| Leland's place on the national Republi-
/ can committee.
| There was a high-toned wedding in
| Emporia the other night and the Ga
| zette says all the "Old cOdgers'' who
/ attended could be told the next day by
| the red ring around their necks, caused
| by the high collars they wore.
| In writing up Town Topics. the
! lola Register says the audience was
| made up largely of country people ''who
/ like to go to the city, and in a. wicked
/ frame of mind, witness a good kicking
! show, and then come home and whis-
| per about it
| The Seventh district editor who said
| he had "a natural aversion to office
! holding" has been ostracised by the
rest of the brethren down there, and
i a movement is on foot to inquire into
( his sanity The Seventh district mind
/ can not conceive how a man can refuse
/ an office and still be sane.
| Kansas people will learn more about
| Hong Kong and Japan this week than
| they have ever learned before in all
! their lives, simply by reading their To-
I cal papers. AS soon as the Twentieth
| Kansas reached San Francisco many of
/ ha letters homo
! of their experience in China and Yoke
! hama.
Ed Howe: Emporia and Topeka,
/ which will get W. D. Howells in lecture
| course entertainments during the com
| ing winter, are claiming that they are
| the only towns in Kansas with money
! and brains enough to get the distin-
! guished literary man. Now if he hap
| pens to stop in Atchison, we suppose it
| will be on account of our brewery.
/ Rev. James Kerr, the Scandal preach
| er who started the reward for evil
/ dence' plan of stopping the sale of Ii
! quOr, received a letter the other day on
! which at the top was a skull and cross
/ bones, following this was a picture of a
| coffin and underneath the inscription
/ Remember Geo. G. Haddick." At the
| bottom was a snake. The envelope bore
! the Kansas City, Mo, postmark. Geo.
/ 9. Haddick is the minister who was
! murdered by the saloon element at
1 Sioux City, Iowa, a few years agO while
| engaged in a temperance movement.
Corn husking stories are now due
! and the Belleville Freeman comes to
| the front with this one about a Repub-
| lie county young man: IAN ear of corn
| that he was rolling into the wagon, got
! the best of him and fell to the ground.
| Striking point first it buried itself in
I the soft earth. In attempting to get the
| ear out, the cob slipped out leaving the
/ corn around the edge of the hole like a
| wall in a well, and when he came to
| look down the hole he found that it was
| partly full of water. The young man
| thinks this is a great country, but Mr.
| Suits isn't altogether recOnciled to
| having his cornfield punched full of
| drive wells of this character"
The romance editor of the Parsons
| Eclipse digs up this nice little story:
! "A romantic wedding took place in the
| woods near the little hamlet of Wilbur
| ton on Tuesday last at 5 o'clock in the
| evening. The knot was tied under the
/ blue canopy of heaven, with boughs of
| carpet of dust about II inches deep I'M
| der foot. About five years ago this same
| knot was tied in another state, but in
sailing down the troubled sea of matri-
/ mony their craft struck a snag SO hard
that the bark snapped asunder and our
| Uncle Samuel last July granted the
| groom an absolute divorce with custo-
| dy of the child and last Saturday the
i bride came to Wilburton to deliver the
boy to his father in accordance with the
/ law. The meeting was touchingly pa
thetic and the mother was frantic at
the thought of giving up her child, a
/ bright boy of four. so they did the SEN
sible thing-made up DR.. Cox and the
Rev. H. r. Shermerhorn met them in
the forest near town and once again
Mr.. and Mrs. John Poe were man and
wife"