The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-06
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

A "hold your wheat circular" is be-
ing sent out to the Kansa farmers.
The "Never Sweat" clubs over the
state have disbanded for the season.
A wind storm made clean sweep at
Fort Scott, even blowing the peach
| down.
Hen pecked Democrats will rejoice
to learn that Mark Hanna has taken
to himself a wife. This Mark is a
clerk at Fort Scott.
The Abilene Reflector wants TO know
| If Bryan's title to being a "matchless
| leader has any other foundation
than the fact that he does not smoke
The Lawrence Journal felicitates the
| Kansas Democrats ON the fact that
| early all the information bureaus in
Kansas City are located at drug
stores.
After Congressman Curtis had
! listened to the speeches of welcome
and shaken hands with his Topeka
constituents, he went home and
tainted.
| With BOO 900 pounds of Irvine stack
ed in the ware-room the Kansas peni-
! Tertiary Irvine plant has closed. The
wheat failure in the northwest short
ened the demand.
Bill White, who is the original
| drouth man of the summer, is proba
! bly, the only man in the State who gets
the slightest satisfaction out OF the
| present weather.
Fred Wellhouse, the Leavenworth
! apple expert, predicts a four million
| bushel crop In the state this year and
| If the state is hesitatug about lami-
| ~ this ought to de-cider.
Secretary Coburn is being doomed
for president of the Scm-C entenuial
association. After all. his steering
/ experience he should be able to sue
cessiulIy guide the exposition.
The editor of the Lyndon Remark
was recently married and he stated in
his write up that he had known the
groom for about thirty wears. and
then hastily dropped the subject
Miss Marion Mybe, Il San Francisco
! girl recently found wandering bare
/ looted and demented i'm Iowa, is
heiress to a fortune of 500. 600. She
is sister OF Mrs. Hollis, OF Fredonia.
Kansas.
Before the Fusion delegates take
| charge OF Fort Scott new convention
hall, it will be warmed by the Elks'
ball. 1t i, believed that the bic hug
| gings will occur at the convention.
! however.
According to the Chanute papers
Chanute is getting her sucker in work
ing order by taking Ottawa's railroad
men away from her SO as to be able to
draw the big prize, the Santa Fe
shops, later.
While jess Ford was rromaturely
celebrating the 4th AT Bronson by
| firing crackers, a cannon cracker went
! of ia ms hand, rrematurely. Friends
/ helped collect his hand the thumb of
which was forty feet away.
Pittsburg policemen must be hard
| proposition TO run up against. I'm
| recent wind storm a Frontenac street
car was started in spite of set brakes.
/ and ran away. but the Headlight
grayely states that it was "caught by
a policeman and stopped
The BARRIERS in an Olathe shop never
stop ,n1>ing while their shop was
! being ApNCd several blocks to new
site. The only thing stopped was the
bath ,Lu~, a city ordinance Orbiddiug
"batl.u- ia the public streets"
The vibrations of the wheat market
has started the foolish Kansas gamb-
Ter to playing the market hundreds of
miles away. An independence man is
credited with $4,000 loss aud COT
ieyvil.e man 9ljGO loss last week.
How well the name was chosen. A
Kansas soldier boy writes from Luzon
that he has a dog named BRYAN.
When first found the dog" said
he, - he was barking like h-ll and
had chased sixteen monkeys up one
tree.
a man who considered himself
among the "sorely afflicted and
needy" for whom the minister was
praying that the congregation at
Navarro last Sunday should donate.
touched G.. b. Herr for S62, for fear
he would not respond.
According to the Capital the Ornery
Boys literary society of Topeka at its
last meeting passed the following res
olution: "Resolved. That dealer who
will sell fire crackers, or fire works of
any description, held over from Il pre-
ceding year, is rascal of the third
degree, with no more idea of patriotism
than plant louise.
Arkansas City Traveller: Kansas
City hotels have been advertising
'rooms with baths at So day dur
ing the convention and now the Demo-
cratic leaders are sending out notices
that the baths are not compulsory, in
order that the hoped for attendance at
the convention may not be cut down.
An exchange notes that Luke Short
was a good pistol shot, and backs up
the statement that once while at break |
fast in Chicago hotel, a fly lit in his |
glass of milk, whereupon he tossed |
the milk in the air, shot the fly out of |
it with his A, caught the fluid again |
in the glass, drank it, and then quiet
ly resumed his conversation with re-
porter to whom he was relating how