The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-04-13
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

ONbI bn0 COlhlnk W y bhOW WhlCh ldb
an expert whistler.
A Cawker City mans first born
was twin girls, born April /, and he
is dead sore on April fool JOKES.
A new moon in the shape of q fifteen
pound daughter is affecting the tide
in the affairs of Joe Moon of Nicker-
son.
Caney went "wet" by majority of
four. 1t must have been al ded agony
TO be submerged 30 near the dry
lana.
Wonder if Don't Worry Club
button would protect man from be-
ing tormenIed by the devil, over
beyant?
Cherryyale is to have new Catho-
lie church. Az by 80 feet with 80 foot
steeple, at "a cost of Sl5,000 according
to the Clarion.
OF course it was tough on Demo-
crAcY to have the convention hall
Durn at Kansas City, but ashes will
come handy next November.
Ottawa points with bride to the fact
that today the city shows no effects of
the cyclone which cracked Its tail in
that neigh Dorhood twenty years ago.
The ates Center high school has a
piano aud enjoys rafting good music.
The reason was learned recently when
a mouse made u sortie form its home IN
the piano.
The worm has turned and the men
of Beattie, Kansas, have taken the
70 ~ 4 hn N nd of
the women who were elected last
year.
Secretary Coburn estimates the
value OF the zoe, 1865 horses in Kansas
at $32, zoo, 900, although the taxes are
only paid on $5,0O0,000 worth OF
horses.
1t remained for the Pittsburg
Tribune to let the cat out of the bag
that by means of the iniquitous gold
standard America is paying for Eng
lands war with the Transvaal.
Garden sass" is receiving deal
of attention from the country press
and the cheerful tone of the papers
indicate that it is having that usual
excellent effect on the editorial liver.
There is talk now of discarding the
Australian ballot rs too slow anu pvt
ting in voting machines. And all the
time the masses were being led to be-
lieve that 1.-The slot machine must
go.n
Erie lie much pleased over a new,
two-story. brick county jail. A town
which has the county jail is sure to
gradually draw to it a certain part of
the population of the county, and
keep IL.
A number of Cotfeyville people.
says the Journal, are in favor of the
city voting eight to ten thousand dol
lars la bonds to build city hall, the
upper floor Of which shall be an
auditorium.
A man appeared in Montgomery
county who claimed To be returned
soldier and that he sought relatives
OF u courtmartialed soldier. The good
folks of the county set him down as
crazy at once.
Lawrence has had tough time
with the closed mill ind fires and
now w. 3. Tough, the Kansas City
horse market man, is negotiating for
the famous Bismark grove to be used
as feed lot.
one year ago Hutchinson gave a
valuable franchise TO man who
wanted TO pipe gas to town from his
wells out in Harvey county. He
went after the gas and HAS not been
heard OF since.
A Wichita poet who was quarsn-
tined wants $40 from the city because
circumstances over which he had no
control prevented him from sending "a
poem to ShelGon's capital. The
Cdpitdt ought to pay for IL without IA
murmur.
The great soft hearted Kansas
public forgives anything. A boy
near Concordia stole 5000 and was
caught. He didn't relent but be-
cause his family grieved all the peo-
pie in the DeighborhoOd petitioned
MIN out of Jail.
The reward of bravery sometimes
comes quickly. Note, u Paola girl
saw IA tobacco sack on the sidewalk,
picked it up and found $ll in it,.
PROBABLY half the women in town had
walked around "the vile thing"
Seven Olathe young men recently
scattered over the country to advertise
the merits of yeast foam. Probably
not one of them knows the difference
bet ween salt-rising bread and soda
biscuit, so far az the process is con-
ceTned.
Galena was recently pretty well
billed with posters of man hugging
girl tightly to his bosom. The
Times say & that the girls of that town
have occurred all of these because "a
picture of man hugging woman
appeals to them.
Ninety Atchison yeung men have
sworn not TO even recognize any girl
who wears bird on her hat. The
boys evidently believe that in view of
the strong competition "we bipeds
ought to stand together.
Since the dispatches in Fridays pa
pers told Of the young woman in
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