The Iola register., 1900-04-27

Plttsburg thinks old Dame Nature
Is brick since the discovery near
town of valuable beds of clay suitable
for fine brick and tillng. Two plants
will be erected this summer and make
all kinds of things.
Convention hall promoters gave a
big ball to raise funds, but the Iri-
bune said it was too swell. The men
who had the 50 entrance fee had no
dress suits, and those who had SUITS
had not the dollars.
Billy Morgan opens diplomatic
dickering with the Sultan Of Turkey
by addressing him as "a thief and
liar.n That IS u mistake Tor what
will Morgan call him after the argu-
ment has continued awhile?
The Hutchinson News is running
voting contest to decide upon whom
to bestow fine organ and the race is
close between the town band and
woman's literary society, so a wind
society is sure TO get the wind in.
strument.
Arkansas city TraUeler: Within
week three bloodless duels have been
fought in France. We would rather
fight q duel with Frenchman than
to try to dodge mule on summit
street when he has his Fourth of July
clothes on.
John Trimble, young farmer near
Philipsburg, shot and killed his
brother James over dispute as to
which had farm leased. John told
the neighbors all along that he was a
bad man, but they never believed
it until now.
Nearly every issue of the Chanute
papers notes that "a dry hole has
been b1ough. in" That's nothinS,
The Joints are closed so tight i'm many
towns thai every man who comes to
town brings a dry hole--and takes it
away again.
An aggregation of scare-crows has
| been trying to make the public be-
lieve that they were "Cliff Dwellers. -
The genius who organized this troupe
had evidently heard of Kansas pros
perity and thought rags would be Il
drawing card.
w. :. Tough, the *. G. mule
market man, has bought Bismark
grove at Lawrence and will sell
mounts to aspiring youths who would
scale Mt. PArnassus on a Pegasus,
and ponies to the less ambitious who
merely desire to traverse Mt. Dread
easily. He will prosper.
Severance News: About the very
best cure tor laziness lone which we
can guarantee) is to try and make an
honest living by publishing IA paper
in town where number of business
men depend upon the others to do the
advertising that supports the paper
and brings the trade to town.
Minneapolis Essenger Now doth
the small boy delve IN tue moist earth
for the festive, early worm and
surrepttiously absent himself from
school to wrestle with the sluggish
mud cat; he is now due to make his
annual roar about going barefoot, all
of which hastens his mothers's trans
lation to the new Jerusalem.
Peobody NelUS: "D. \. Ellsworth
who used to herd cattle at Florence
hut who Is now teacher in the state
Normal, has written coon song
"May the Lord Take "a Likin' to You
Honey" which has made great hit
not with the Lord, but with the
singing, ragging Public One house
in Toledo, Ohio, ordered 5000 copies
We always supposed Gus Ellsworth
would strike the popular chord, but
not to rag time.
Times are good i'm Kansas. An
evidence of this is found in this quota.
ton from sermon of the Rev
Arthur Greasy, of Oswego: " l shal
no longer ride on railroads for hal
fare; what is good enough for you il
sufficient for me. Please do not dis
count goods to me because | am
, preacher. / ought to pay my taxes
and my church should not he exempt
Christ did not borrow, beg, beseech
ms bread; but bought his bread lik,
other men. ] am his follower, vii
pay my way as he did,