The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-12-14
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS


Lyndon, but despite his name he is a
whole team for work.
Oswego is the latest town to find a
bed OF the finest grade of fire clay in
inexhaustible quantities.
U. |. Need is sheriff at Clay Center
and all he has to do to make an arrest |
is to show his star and hand out his |
card.
The Emporia Republican knocks on
that restless spirit of change which |
leads Emporia women to experiment |
with turkey dressing.
The Morrison Witnesses Club has
been organized among the young lady |
clerks of ElDorado with a charter |
membership of of 224.
A swell party of Topeka politicians
and sports left 80 dozen quails at the
state line which they killed in Okla |
homa and tried to bring home.
Salina people have habit OF eros
sing their fingers when beggars strike
them, but beggar with his legs
crossed recently touched 'em all.
The Eldorado papers say that "inter-
est still exists in the Christian re-
vival," but skeptical world will
doubt it until after the jury comes in.
Now doth the festive Kansas Kid
Forget what evil he has did,
Attend devotions like cherib
But after Christmas he'll backslid.
While standing in the yards at Clay
Center the car of the Nashville
Students troupe was burned, the fire
catching in the kitchen.
\ Halstead paper urges the city
council to keep shelled corn in the
public park, thus securing squirrels
from the river timber to locate in the
park trees.
At Usage City theelite dined Thanks
giving on l4t pound coon served up
at the leading hotel with sweet pota
toes on the side, la an old southern
nanny of the town,
S. s. Kirkpatrick, the well known
third district politician, was caught
playing Old Dan Tucker on IA fiddle at
Fredonia social. 1t is lucky for
him the campaign is over.
Salina has boosted long and well of
| her extreme culture, but it is noted
| that Iii XII, the wild mau who came
| there to the street fair, got stuck on
the town and its people and stayed.
Mrs Hans Holt recently lectured to
! the students at Bethany college, Lin
burg, on Wealth" He probably
tried to make the students believe that
they should keep their Glands hotf.
When Clay Center society wants to
turn on the red lights and have a hot
time that is sizzling they get the
fire boys to give dance and rely
on their skill to prevent confla-
gratlons.
An Anderson county man claims
he raised 100 bushels to the acre of
peanuts last year, and an Abilene
man claims he cleared $4,000 on
roasted peanuts. The Lord loveth
cheerful liar.
An Ottawa woman refused to let her
son arrested for stealing come to her
home, for he had served one term in
the reformatory. An uncle took him
in for day and was touched for a 80
revolver.
Ottawa, not content with the Bap-
! fist University, has looked over to
| Baldwin, noted the Methodist Uni
versity, and it looked good to her.
| She wants it but rather shrinks at the
cost, SlOO 600.
A Reno county man with 100 acres
of alfalfa took measurements and kept
records of the output of IA of those
acres. In hay and seed the II av-
eraged $50. %, which is at the rate of
s., 02j for 100 acres.
~, ,.,..,,- Ia,a1,rn1 tbat Non,
Scott has 3g7 more women than men,
which explains the haste of the city
council to establish IA rock pile and
detan all able bodied tramps with
ball and chain.
\ Galena man asked farmer on IA
load of corn If he wanted to sell it,.
The farmer did and the man offered a
price was accepted and left. The
Galena man promptly resold the corn
without putting up any money, col
lected and skipped.
Mrs. Brubaker of Lyons, took her
husband word that rats and mice are
not dangerous and refused to climb
on chair when a rat appeared. The
rat bit her and she ia threatened with
blood poisoning. If she dies hen
husband ought to be arrested for
murder.
Eldorado Republicans; An Eldorado
woman gets up in the morning, puts
on her husbands trousers, builds the
fires, milks the COWS and does up the
chores all before the old man wakens
from his morning slumber. There
would not be so many broken down
husbands who believe that marriage
is failure if more wives would fol-
low her example.
Eldorado Times; Here's something
to wonder over by superstitious peo'
pie. Olin Castle was married to Clara
Wiley on June l3; the docket number
of Jessie Morrison's case is ID; she was
born on Friday; the deed of which sht
is charged was committed on Friday
the taking of evidence began on Fri
} day and ended on Friday-curiou:
, ! non, bino ti,n nf t,p1uplyv ~ and nm.