The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-04-20
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

ders why "cold facts make people
hot"
Recognized at last Two Boston
beIn eaters are in the Lindsb borg
chorus this year.
The world is invited by the Osca-
loosa Independent to Call at The Office
and see "Lwo shoats for sale cheap"
The evils OF drink are forcibly
shown at Nickerson where fifty
barrel tank has been placed in the
cemetery.
John G.. Cannon, OF Mound City, is
primed for the Fusion convention at
FIT. Scott, to make them shell out the
nomination for associate justice.
The Ksnsss hog, feeling lonesome
since the rise of the hen, the horse
and the COW, has started upward. At
a certain value they all will "meRt."
A small Eldorado boy dropped a
match in half bottle Of powder. The
strangest part OF the affair Is the boy
was able to tell the family exactly
how he did it.
A Scandal restaurant man named
Eggs offered q prize for the man who
ats the most Easter eggs. He didn't
say, but the prize, should have been
of the "little early riser" variety.
The sad news comes from Wichita
that Vic Murdock's Jersey COW went
out on the college campus aud died.
She had PROBABLY been initiating the
students and "crammingn
One man shot six times at another
at Galena and missed and the gunner
will be FUN out of town, not for at
tempted murder, but for vagrancy,
j. g., leading such an Aimless career.
Wish is father OF the thought item
from the Newton Kdnsan: A dead
line has been drawn Al the depot
where the "tongue-tied" aud "weak-
voiced" hack drivers solicit pat
ronage.
The opening mum Der of the Kansas
Cyclone Company at Newton was .
medley. Half dozen farm houses
were destroyed but no lives lost. Tho
people reported killed were killed by
the Wichita reporter.
A Linn county boy who went west
o few years ago and took mining
claim, married and made other invest
ments, sold out the other day for
OU,OUU plunho
of retaining the wife.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal
has revoked the charters OF forty
State and private banks which failed
to comply with the law aud hold
regular directors meetings, report
the same and publish statements.
G. Hoffman and son of Enterprise
will plant so 900 catalpas and expect
to make good money from the wood
for posts and railway ties. 1t would
be worth millions to the State If half
the barren land was similarly treated.
The Galena Lever, Vol. |, No. l.,
buy one, Is out and 1t starts off with
both feet kicking for Galena. Every
paper in the State will envy it its
privilege of using superlatives until
it has touched on every topic in town.
The beer guzzlers of Wichita are
rejoicing over the receipt by the bold
PackinR Co., of q car load, 16, 900 cans.
1t is suspected that the packer bust
ness is but blind and that the rush
is imminent.
The Eagle proudly Gale attention to
the fact that q man who got his start
in Wichita during the boom is max
He ought to profit by his former ex-
perience and close out his holdings
before the collapse comes.
Hu tchinsOn Neaos: 1t may have
been wicked, but when it commenced
to rain Sunday just in time to pre-.
vent the Easter display of millinery
the majority Of mankind felt warm,
eXultant thrill, but he didn't dare
give any visible signs OF his inward
JOY.
The editor of the Sabetba Com
n1erci0l says he feels as if he were in
the midst of bunch of unweaned
calves when he comes out of church
and finds lot of boys hanging around
the door. He advises the girls to i'm.
pale such boys on hat pins two feet
long.
Readers of the Elsmore Enterprise
had to readjust their nerves when
they picked up last weeks paper and
under the caption "Joseph f.. John
son." read "This Young Jack was
raised in Tennessee" 1t proved to be
half column extract from a mules
pedigree.
The cyclone is getting in its deadly
work. The Newton Ran8an says
Mart Covert makes the solemn state
ment that Ten Travis told him last
night that twelve setting hens in the
barn were shorn of their feathers, al
clean as bald head, and the eggs
were not disturbed.
Thanks to his having a reputati OF
to sustain, VIII White did not print
this poem which he started when the
bug was o Ia mode until he haC
polished 1t off thus: A kissing hue
flew, as often they do, to the lips of /
Normal maid. She didn't cry out o.
Jump much about, or seem the leas
bit afraid. She dropped just tea
(but not one of fear) as she sobbed
"Law! wish he'd q stayed"