The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-24
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

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If Dewey is as warm lover as the
twentieth Kansas boys he Will fiuj
II rather embarrassing TO have 1.-The |
eyes of the world" upon him dining |
his honey moon.
Ont in the western part of the state |
u man is elected To Office because he |
is good mixeru In the cities a
man who Is a good mixer Is much !
sought after as a bar tender.
The editor of the Topeka Mail and
Breeze has been appointed official
Uapper for Mics Gould's little lack of
confidence game against the would
be-Congressman Roberts.
A Newton and Leavenworth girl,
50 1t pow appears, were the Turkish
dancers at the Wichita midway.
Which shows that many of the fair
attractions were stuff m nonsense.
After December the Santa fe will
operate steamship line to south
America and the pass tiends are los
ing sleep over the question of how to
work the road for pass over the
whole works.
A man who gave his name as Prof
Brick, of Texas, swindled the Peep e
of Olathe on The streets lately aud the
News. Herald refers to him as guy
1t Is possible that the editor bit at the
old Brick swindle.
The star shower failed to appear
this tar west. 1t il just possible that
the astral Leo, seeing the drubbing
which the British Leo is getting in
South Africa, had his tail tucked he
tween his legs in fright.
An Eldorado candidate owned
small dog which barked at the heels
of boy. and the boys father refused
to vote for the man. The wise poll
tician il he who confines his me-
nagerie propensities to "having hen
on.n
At recent fire in Troy Cy Leland's
opera house block worth $4,000 ana
insured for 81 900, was destroyed. 1t
IL now up TO the politicians who think
Cy has u cloven hoof to explain why
be didn't exert his satanic power to
control the flames.
Walnut Valley Times: Charley
Hicks found failing star" last
night. 1t weighs eight pounds aud is
a girl, God bless her. Mr. Hicks re-
marks, incidently, that he is some
what of "a "staru himself He was
born during the metoric shower of
1865.
Allie Massey ran away from her
home i'm Wichita and walked twenty
miles to TOwanda. She says her
aunt mistreated and struck her. The
old lady is probably descendent of
his royal nibs, Lord a Massy,n
whom the negroes apostrophize so
frequently.
Chris. Kerr rises in the Cawker
City Republican and explains that
whereas he has never locked his
house for twenty years, and whereas
robbers last week took two silver
watches and over 500 in silver, re.
solved that if they Will come back
they can have all the lead in his gun.
SO far the advertisement hasn't been
answered.
The little town of Emerald in An.
dersun county celebrated the COM
pIetion of a $4,000 Catholic church
The building IL Of brick and stoue,
5Ox1hO feet inside measure, So feet
clear from floor to ceiling. The dome
is 81 feet, with two turrets. one on
either corner, 40 feet high, the walls
are finished in white plaster with
frescoing. The windows are nearly
all Memorial. 5Xl4 feet with varie-
gated cOlOrs of stained glass.
A reporter on the Eldorado Times
was recently married and the bride is
described az "a lovely woman. en-
dowed with that nobility of soul and
mind truly qualifying her for true
help meet Aud now the soothing
world will wonder where she is going
to get any exercise for her nobility of
soul in such company.
ropeka's public institutions are
built on the 'multum in parvo' plan.
A new fence will be built around the
Jail and in the yard 1t Is proposed to
build "A shed over a rock pile, flower
beds, a patrol wagon barn, pens for
stray dogs, a prisoners wash house.
The prisoners will squeeze themselves
into the remaining space.
Ex-Governor Click has sold his
famous shannon Hill stock farm west
OF Atchison for 100000. 1t was
stocked with a hundred fiue Here
fords. His cause for selling was the
mental strain of looking after the big
enterprise. Time WAS when people
thought brains not necessary on
farm, but the man who tried it on
this theory has long since sold out to
man who mixed brain with muscle.
The editor of the Cimarron Jack
sOnian advertised for Bible and the
Methodist preacher of that place gave
him one. II he reads 1t he will doubt
less quote literally and thus breed
trouble with the wicked subscriber; if
he does not quote it his good friends
will declare he didn't read 1t. Verify
there is hot pot eimmerin' for the
said editor.
Four generations ofpeople are visit
ing the head of the family at FIT
Scott. They are: Mrs. Catherine
Eads, aged 80; Mrs. l.. A. Wright,
aged 50; Mrs. Catherine Stevens, aged
38. Mrs. Maude Wilkerson, aged 10;
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