The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-12-07
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

Old Mark Hanna doesn't know the |
elections over.
The Atchison Champion SAYS that |
the Barber who shaved Bryan Novem- |
Der 18th charged him 81, the regular
rate for corpses.
The Scandal journal gets cores
pondence from Cackley, but strange
as 1t may seem, the helpful hen is
seldom mentioned.
On one street car making the trip
from Pittsburg to Frontenac the other !
night eight men were engaged at the
same time in fight.
A thoughtful and tender hearted
Hutchinson paper says that "since its
opening over 700 student have enroll |
ed at the reformatory.
The old unused fax tow factory of
FIT. Scott is to be repaired and again
operated, which means a market for
lot of valueless fax straw.
A wild deer was recently seen near
Kickapoo in Leavenworth county, but
despite numerous gunners no venison
will grace the dinner tables.
Ottawa society is stirred to the con-
crete foundations because all the boys
broke engagements for dance to take
in Little Egypt" show.
Oklahoma sucks much of the life
from border towns and when starry
Indian comes over the line and tanks
up it costs him S15 at Winfield.
Burglars who blew safe at Burns
and found not cent will sue for false
.,t,N. InN
with a safe If he hasn't money?
The Preston Plaindealer says
Kingman county cattleman was in town
seeking pasturage for 500 cattle. He
succeeded and put up atthe main hotel.
William Allen White Indignantly
denies the report that he has sold to
the Emporia Gazette and will go to
New York to write for McClure's mag
a2ine.
The appearance of bowling maniac
| in Governor Stanley's Office at Topeka
the other day, reminds the Denver
Times of the administration Of LEVEL
| ing ct al.
a young man recently married a
/ Moran girl ana knew the minister was
giving him Jolly and that the girl
was up TO the same caper. Her name
was Belle Jolly.
Ottawa has an ordinance requiring
bakers to tag their loaves with the
/ exact weight and a baker was recently
fined 50 for selling Il loaf weighing Is
ounces which bore l6 ounce tag.
The Troy Chief sent out a spider in
each issue last week, just to explain
this week that the spider was there list
| ing the non-advertising business
houses so as to find the fly resort.
The Newton Republican thinks that
town is getting an enviable reputation
for sobriety because the travelling
public never sees aqy full barrels and
kegs in the regular pile at the depot.
Ottawa Herald: The fame of Wichita
as wet town has extended to the islse
of the sea. A deep sea fowl, which /,
supposed to have flown from the coasts
was shot in the suburbs of that town
this week.
BY Offering fifty cents for the best
item handed in during the day the
Galena Times manages to receive
about half a column. And yet re-
porters are without honor in and out
of their own country.
a Hutchinson boy at a school rattle
paid 50 for pie that he thought his
sweetheart had brought, only to find
that it was brought by an old lady.
The pie was probably better but he
wanted to eat with the girl.
A returned Dawson miner isvisiting
his parents in Parsons and is dis
tributing gold nuggets among his
friends. Although the Sun says he is
welded to his northern home, several
Parsons girls would riskbigamy.
The Sterling Democrat notes sadly
that "all the necessities of life have
advanced fifty per cent" and in an
other column says that the price of the
paper will advance from 81 to Sl.5O,
Which is pretty cute for Democrat.
Fred Vandergrift of the Kansas City
Star lays the blame for the suit for
divorce on the part of Molly Lease at
the door of an umbrella. She and
her husband quarrelled concerning the
ownership.
The Democratic FIT, Scott Lantern is
inviting destruction when it hurls the
charge against Il recent Republican
president of the city council that he
wrote "Thecommitty reckymend prares
of petitions be granted" ON Il public
documents
Bill Hackney has finally disposed Of
his three story block in Winfield which
he erected with his financial bust some
years ago. The expression "a hack
neyed phrase" arose from the persis'
tency with which Bill informed visitors
that the initials "W. u. H." over the
door meant William played hell.