The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-18
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

A well known citizen of Galena who
who IL noted for mis- believing IL
Whispering" Jim.
The mean man at Council Grove
steals ornamental things placed on
the graves in the cemetery.
A hen az Pratt recently Matched out
a chick with four legs, and she starved
to death cackling over the feat.
Several exchanges over the State
note the temperance of that rapid
reproducing pest called the mormon
mic sionary"
Old timers will be pleased to learn
that the popular old ice cream social
still flourishes at Colony, one re.
Gently netting Sll.
Harvey James, negro lad OF
Hutchinson leaped in to tame recently
by covering 81 feet and 10 inches In u
hop, ekip and jump.
Among the recent additions to tb
State agricultural college Is $25, 900
agricultural hall, hand. ome b"ild-
ing that fills long fell want.
A Cherryvale laundryman adver-
tises to "do collars for 2 cents" but
the chances are they will not stay
"doedn 10 suit the dudes long.
The packers at the Hutchinson salt
works have been given voluntary
raise of 20 per cent wages. This will
not make them any more Bryany.
Topeka Capital: so little has been
heard from Mildred Dewey the last
days that it must be the Admiral has
concluded to play her on the bench.
The Burlington Repu blican sits
back and grins while 1t darkly hints
that the brethren are running a medi-
cine ad. for which they will get no
pay.
Abilene gained 1873 in population
last year. But wait till the gas
towns begin reporting, and then re-
member that "ths fret liar stands no
show"
Mr.. Popkies managed to hold down
a job as night operator at the La
Harpe depot until the girls IN town
learned his name. He has been
moved to Eureka.
The ottawa Herald charges that
the POpulist county commissioners
have offered the county clerk So, 200
to get holG of and refund $50, 900 OF
the county's bonds.
Grant Gillette, the ex-cattle king
of this State, is said to be selling
shirt waists which his wife makes,
for living i'm Mexico. His former
wasteful habits are coming home to
roost.
A bright man opened up a saloon
Mt Cottonwood Falls, not i'm AN alley
but on the creek banks, and they are
still talking about the number Of
fisherman who turned out while it
lasted.
Now that Rev. Sheldon has the
starving in India out of the way. he
has taken up the servant girl ques-
ton, and Will write novel with the
servant girl Ms "a heroine. Its success
is assured.
A train of twenty car loads of corn
for the India famine sufferers, each
containing about 1000 bushels. was
started on it's long journey from
Topeka this week.
That man Winner who ls Lawrcnce's
one hone of an electric car line Is as
deliberate as a messenger boy and the
papers Of the the town keep repeat
ing "give him every chance" as If
mobs were threatening.
\ Banker Calvin Hood, of Emporia, is
said to be often mistaken for the
sarsaparila G. l. Hood, and an EN-
pOria woman recently buttonholed
him long enough to testify in favor of
his medicine.
Belgian hares are tax ing the State,
and 1t Is only mater of time until
some careless grower gets them mixed
with the old jack rabbit and the meat
eating public will be down with an
epidemic of the jumps.
"This,n remarked Will White to
his wife as he stopped to blow be.
tween heats at sweeping out the
water that ran in under his kitchen
T door during a big rain, sis a dick ems
of a way old Probs has of humilating
a fellow who has been predicting dry
weather"
The supreme court has now ruled
that Parsons hasn't even the right to
sell the State site for an asylum
The reason Clay Center and Parsons
are fighting 80 hard is that it Is adj
mitted the losing town will go crazy
and have to be moved bodily to the
winning town.
According to the Index a bachelor
: dove belonging to a Robinson man
was siezed with an uncomfortable de-
sire for a family, and he did not seem
to be very particular about the quality
or kind he was given o hen egg as q
starter, and last week he became the
parent OF Shanghai chicken.
= The Wilson County Sun says that
, an India relief fun collector called at
, a Fredonia huuse and said: MADAM,
we have thousands Of poor, hungry,
ragged children like those at your
gate, and" "Sir, those children
are mine!" and the slamming of the
door could be heard in the next