The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-29
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS
Chanute intends to shoot couple
of oil wells on the 4th of July.
When the council cut down the
salaries of FIT. Scott officials the Off
cials felt cut up about it.
Olathe News-Herald: The fusionists
out in the sixth and seventh districts
are very, very Harmonious.
OF course Parsons and Clay Center
have thrown lots of mud at each other,
but at a glance the Clay town ought to
stick Parsons.
Scarcely a day passes that the dis
! patches fail to note something about
Wheat Sores" The sores are
found on calamity statesmen.
Longton has considered it a feather
in her hat that no vacant houses eX-
listed in town, but feather renovator
had to move for that very fact.
Smartness is hereditary. About the
| time that the fact leaked out that win
White would visit the Paris eXposi-
ton, VIII White, ir., appeared on the
scene.
After fighting the Daily Lever teeth
and toe nail during its whole life the
Galena Times said nice things about it
the day after it died, just like other
human beings do.
The best evidence that Wichita is
about fully recovered from her coll
| lapse is that she now has the courage
to destroy the evidences of her former
too hasty expansion.
The Severance News says news is
scarce now because people are too
busy to marry, die or get born. 1--WE
| hope for rush of news, however, says
the honest editor, ''as soon as the
crops are in"
Outburst from a railroad town ex-
change:
THE lightning bug is brilliant
But IL hasn't any mind;
1t stumbles through existence
| with its headlight on behind"
c. b. Lemon, who recently bought
handsome residence in Pratt and
later a thriving livery which he will
improve. is considered anything but
squeezy by his fellow citizens.
Slang is sometimes misleading. For
instance the Parsons man who gave
no more than a rabbit to the Conven-
ton Hall fund.- The rabbit was a
Belgian hare which he valued at $50.
Many things have been said about
Kansas booze, but western town
takes the cake with brand which
will make a jack rabbit stand on its
hind legs and make faces at a bull
dog"
y hard luck story comes from
Salina. \ lodge man of that town in
variably mistakes knot hole in the
gate post for the key hole when com
ing home and loses half an hours
sleep.
An Olathe girls club calls itself
"Uni Voci Girls Now before go
ing farther mere male men will want
to know whether those words mean
lone everlasting talk" or lone word,
the last"
Wednesday with Marshall's band
playing America" twenty big cars
left Topeka with ZOO bushels of corn
for starving India. Kansas is east
ing her bread upon the waters" and
has surplus left.
Frank Hurrah, of Arkansas City, is
trying to sell privileges to sell
lemonade and pop" at the Rough
Riders reunion at Arkansas City. A
man with that name selling "pop.
The Reunion is go.
Miss Lizzie Wooster who formerly
! taught school at Solomon has been
| offered $50, 600 for her interest in Il
series of text books which she com
piled and which the government has
adopted in the Indian schools.
DR.. DeMoss, of Thayer, recently
had a long article in the Live Stock
Indicator about the study of children.
1t is not unusual to refer to infants
as kids but to find them mixed with
plain Give stock" is surprising.
Forgetting that it was Ii Hung
Chang, the editor of the Arkansas
City Traveller says; If it really comes
to fight in China we are in no dam
ger of more "embalmed beef" Our
troops can subsist on Chow Chow
Use?
August Luck of Solomon was swept
from the top of his wind mill by one
of the arms of the wheel, but a nail
caught his clothes and saved him.
| The agricultural editor of the Wichita
Eagle notes that ga neat farmer would
have had no nails sticking out like
that" 1t was case of pure Luck.
A teacher in one of the Chanute
schools, says the Blade, had lot of
trouble in getting one small boy to
say "Double-e," and so on, but the
other day she gave the little chap
special attention and completely gain
ed the point, 1t so happened that in
his next reading lesson the words "Up,
up, Lucy, the birds are singing" oc-
Cured. When he came to the sem
tence there was a tone of victory in his
voice as he almost shouted Double
up, Lucy the birds are singing"