The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-30
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

ownership of the city council"
The ballots at the State election
this year will have seven columne.
Hiawatha 10 talking of leasing clay
land and burning brick to pave the
town.
People who wish to lead fast lives
should profit by the example of Maud
s., the famous trotter. she lett no
progeny.
The Jewell Leader gives this spe.
cific for insomnia: Burn elm wood
and cut 1t yourself.
A bout three sure cures for email
pox have appeared in the State to
one case OF the disease
Twenty men in Butler county are
swearing at 1.-THE senseless law which
authorizes the grand juries."
The Monitor says that boy has
been born to "a dry goods clerk named
A. ). Dzialynski Bet two bits the
kids cross eyed
While J. Il. Burqon was doing poll
tics in Colorado u New Hampshire
loan company got service on him for
an ancient liability to the tune OF
$4,000.
The way harmony has been
brought out of the Friction lately ex-
hibited in the Carnegie steel COM
pany might 10 initiated in Kansas
politics.
The Emporia blacksmith WIN was
carried into the air by the leap
horse took which he was shuetng
probably thought he had tackled d
Pegasus unawHres.
A Newton undertaken got a hand
some four-seated rig to be used at
funerals, but nobody would die and
he couldn't wait, so he made up
pleasure party and showed the rig.
The Cherryvale and Independent ce
gun clubs meet and shoot in the after
noon, and in the evening they bowl.
So many people make the mistake of
doing their shooting while still und er
the effect of their bowling
| A Wichita man solved the question
of the pronunciation of Janice Meri.
deth by calling it Jenny" alleging
that she was another of those fool
girls who have been padding their
| names.
Cupid got off good one on Mars
when he persuaded Eft. Riley SOL
der to wed al Emporia girl, con-
trary to the army regulations, but it
is two TO one that the war god mars
the honeymoon.
The Rock Island road has recently
issued u new map which by the shad-
ing of the line which indicates the
road shows the country passed by
day time and that ut night. The
idea netted the inventor 81 600.
The Hiawatha World announces
that it has a $4,000 Mergenthaler
type. setting machine coming. When
it comes to pushing the World along
Herbert regards none of the laws of
astronomy.
The Journal says that the TopeA
| Capital 10 so busy calling attention to
the needs of the starving in India
that 1t forgets to announce the dona-
ton of the sos 600 profit on the Shell.
don Issue to that cause.
The Joplin NeWs says that Jerry
Botkin preached at Carthage last
Sunday and is thinking of making
his home at Joplin. 1t is really re.
markable that Jerry can subscribe
permanently to any creed.
The Santa Fe wants TO erect more
shops, preferably i'm Topeka, but she
playing Off Newton's claim to re-
duce the cost of a site. And of course
Newton is In the ioke and is making
Topeka dig good aud plenty.
Lawrence ought to call a grand
jury and locate the local Jonah. First
the wire mill shut down, then the
Barteldes seed house burned and now
the Pierson mill. A bout the only in
dustries remaining are the Univer-
sity and the dam.
Douglas county has "innovated. 4"
For several mouths force at clerks
has been taking the mortgages from
the county records and in this way
$3.50, 900 of personal property was dis
covered. very little of which has ever
heen given in. Lists were furnished
the township assessors.
The Ottawa Herald says that a
man i'm another stale ordered an OF
tawa confectiOner to send a Williams
burg girl weekly box of his own
make of bOnbOns. The Herald Is
proud of it, but note! the man trying
this experiment lives outside the
State.
1t II fitting that reforms in farming
should come from the States metrop-
oils. The X. G. Gazette says: Sub
soilng and alfalfa will soon add
many millions to Kansas products
No grass equals alfalfa for hay, nor
for pasture for horses, cattle and
hogs. Next to corn, alfalfa will be
the principal crop of Kansas. Wheat
isn't in 1t with either. Subsoiling
will save the never-failing spring
rains on the hardpan under a foot OF