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

ination of the Rough Rider for Vice
President has almost placed Texas in
the doubtful column.
Kansas has enough soldiers yet
fighting in the Philippines who are
writing letters home to kill any anti
drivel this fall.
The Belgian hare is literally" TAX
ing this state. A Chanute man bought
two and within few days was adver-
Using % for sale at $l5 each.
The frequency with which "hy-
mental" notices appear in the papers
would indicate that lot of Kansas
cooks are becoming bosses of their
own homes.
A Garnett merchant jumps briskly
into the campaign that he will furnish
twelve bars of soap for twenty-five
cents as an inducement for the fusion
lists to use It.
Roy Plat, an otherwise highly re-
spected lad of Lyndon, has the plans
of an air ship in his brain he says.
The grief stricken relatives have the
sympathy of all their friends.
As soon as they learned that S945
had been taken in at the gate on the
first day of the Winfield Chautauqua,
Winfield people knew the assembly
was sure to do world of good.
Speaking of hot things, remarks
the editor of the Tribune Republican.
as he turns on the electric fan, they
have Mustard Club in Sterling, and
one of the members is Miss Pepper"
Miss Edna Parks. ofHutchinson, is Il
missionary in China and has not been
heard from for weeks. Her young
men friends are practising sparring to
instruct the ''boXers" if she fails to
return.
One of the county candidates in
Butler county was freed at a farm by
the watch dog and but for the good
offices of the farmers would not have
been down in time to vote for himself
this fall.
Reports from Galena have given
the world such an idea of the liveli-
ness of that town that considerable
surprise was felt when the news was
sent out that a policeman died from
contact with live wire.
Kansas City business firms are send
ing maps of the city to their Kansas
friends and on each map the most
prominent point marked is the city
calaboose, so everybody can get his
bearing next morning.
Abilene Reflector: 1t was probably
unintentional that the choir at the
Knights of Pythias services
Yesterday sang for the anthem,
There will be no night there" 1t
sounded rather odd, that's all.
Irwin Smith, a Parsons drug clerk,
had an arm shot off and sued the
Select Friends for payment of his
total disability insurance. but the
supreme court held that ne was not
totally disabled for his business.
The manager of the Coffeyville base
ball team will soon be at the head OF
team of Josephs. He has agreed ia
let each merchant who will furnish a
suit put his ad on it. We Gods
Think of the slang which such an ar
rangement will call forth
The Hutchinson News says the grass
hopper made fatal mistake when it
chose to do business in Dakota this
year instead of OF Kansas. and il is to
be hoped his long-legged nibs will be
too shame faced to ever dare look a
Kansas farmer in the face again.
Rev. James, who has gone to Scot
land to get his inheritance of twenty
million dollars. has not been heard OF
for weeks and all over the State PEG.
pie who have his promises are trying
TO hold silence and not queer them.
selves until their fear becomes Ger.
tainty.
Out of the ordinary local notice
from the Leavenworth Times: The
Horse Shoe" saloon, 327 Shawnee
street, formerly the Diamond" has
been purchased by "Dick" Little and
will be open for business Tuesday
noon. He will be pleased to see his
friends.
Mr.. Howe, of the Atchison Globe
describes a wonderful place in Paris
whire by dropping money in slot al
most anything-a sandwich, hot coffee
chocolate, lemonade, wine, a cocktail
or milk-will come out. And, naively,
| Mr.. Howe saves us the trouble OF
guessing, for he adds "a cocktail
costs cents"
The Emporia Gazette warns the
| pubic lnuS' 10 you ike green SCulu'
Well that is what you're drinking i
you drink hydrant water To prove
it let the water run half an hom
from your water faucet through q
cloth. The result will certainly gas
you. Boil your water or the devi
will be boiling you pretty soon.
The Salina Union (Fusion) which
sees ruination and perdition in a re
public unruled by Bryan and 10 to
inadvertently says; 81. 5. BOIL
tells one of the good wheat stories o
the year. He says that Milt Shields
who lives near Culver, last year pur
chased a quarter section of land foi
50, 400. He sowed 100 acres of it t
wheat, and rented another so acre
which he also put into wheat. Hi
crop from these two fields this yea
will easily net him enough to pay TO
the entire farm which he purchased (
year ago" Verify the poor man ha