The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-23
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

| hhNOAD NI1IS AND yum EMS
Cnerryvale's marshal is named
Shade and people naturally pick ut
him continually.
At Pratt lovers rendezvous At .,
bridge beneath which brook eurgles
exactly as they talk. ......
Down at Neodesha the young people
dance in the office of the oil company
probably to cave floor wax.
The social swing promises well in
Marysville THE summer. A man has
just started hammock factory.
A sheriff looking FIR negro at
Centralia thinks the celored folks
"are helping him keep shady"
A Hays City editor claims to speak
authoritatively to the effect that
there is no heaven for dead beats.
PaOla is soon to have rural free
delivery route which will serve 700
people, scattered over 25 square miles.
State auditor Cole says the dehn-
quent taxes in the State In 80 were
$50 600, whereas they were $242 900 In
| 1896
Independence has so straight a
chicken ordinance that 1t is said to
have nsticably curtailed the lay Of
hens.
Wichita Star: The Hutchinson
Neaos advertises for good clean cotton
rags. Morgan is chewing 1t q good
deal Of late. .......
McPhereon has wet or dry spring
campaign, which means whether the
people shall have sidewalks or trudge
through the mud
At recent soldier funeral at Sallna
tho band played r'ree by local
composer, ann it probably had moth
ing joyous about 1t. t..
A Galena man has been arrested
for swearing over the telephone, but
not town in the stare tries to prevent
swearing at a telephone.
Jessie Lewelling of Wichita is now
in Costa Rica studying a-to her new
phase of matrimony, where the hush
ands boss around the wives.
One Kansas ed tor thinks that the
owner of those 5000 Angora goats In
on them az "abutting property"
One Ksnsa editor thinks the silver
questio will be finally settled for
good by the substitution of that metal
Tor iron, a. coon as the latter nd.
vances a few times more.
A double row of elm trees has been
set ont around the Independen =
high scool building. The abolition of
corporal punishment has made shade
trees popular even with the bad little
boys.
Mrs. Belle Harhaugh OF the Erie
Republican brought home from the
gulf states live alligator as a souve-
mir. She evidently thought the rep.
tiles were the chief feature OF lilo
south.
A western Kansas boy whose par
ents had talked over him by spelling
Objectionable words is dead next. as
he proved recently. The minister
dined with the family and when he
took the last piece of chicken, the lad
asked his mother if she didn't think
the minister was pig"
w. Y. Morgan visited the Capital
ohiOo III AOpohd OulS Wb6k ana wrote |
home to his paper, the Hutchinson
Mus, that even the printers in the
office felt impressed with the novel
tasks OF the paper A linotype man. |
accidentally bruisinR his finger, said |
the things which printers usual y say
however.
A Doniphan county man stopped
the Severance NetOs after he had re-
ceived 1t about three months by mott. |
Tying the postmaster that he no lon
ger wanted 1t and the great, liberal
hearted editor instead of becoming
angry at him for beating him out OF
three months subscription, publicly |
thanked him for not waiting six |
months. Verify poll of those with !
In the pearly gates in years to come |
will find the Kansas editor very |
much In evidence.
Next weeks paper will probably |
contain the obituary of the editor of |
the Sen. ca Tribune. This week he
said: Olga Nethersole was arrested |
for playing "Sapho" in New York.
The story of the play is true TO life |
and was written by an immortal |
Daudet. Three or four Seneca men
have had "SaphO' to contend with. |
They would do well to tell their sons
the story. What is the use of keep |
ing these things secret unless YOU
have straight tip that your boy is
not human?