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

Wichita is all swelled up again.
Mrs. Dewey owns lots there.
An Abilene man lost two fingers IN
the buzz saw al the Merry go-Round
factory.
Police judges over the State are
very aesthetic. They fine plain DRINKS
Twice as often as handsome ones.
Herbert >. Hadley, an old Lawrence
boy and graduate OF X. IT,, now a
rising lawyer in Kansas City, is
mentioned for Congress.
If Dewey had only had the sense to
invest his gift money in farm near
Abilene wuat trouble he would have
escaped. Look at Ed Little.
A CoHey lawyer wants $4,000
damages from the city for an injury
Inflicted by "a loose ard IN the SIDE
walk which laid MIN up three weeks.
a girl by the name of Reasoner is
wIlung stories Tor the A bilene papers.
They certainly ought TO be al right
especially II sue leasoner them out.
The STATE Undertakers' Association
after considering the claims of
numerous towns decided that A Oilene
is good town in when to hold their
meeting next year.
Fort Scott has a man who goes
crazy periodically. His delusion is
that HeleH Gould wants 10 marry
him and that her relatives are hang
ing round to Kill him.
The Marion Record hopes that when
knnalt,n B.,
HObsou and Dewey. His marriage
projects him rom the latter'e faux pas
and his beard effectively prevents the
other.
An Ottawa woman wrote an
orchestral piece and the Rohrbaugh
orchestra agreeded to play il, but
their courage uoZed out until they
were INSPIRED to infllct 1t on the Y. Nj.
{. A. meeting.
Abilene has got her eye on man
who wants TO starr business college
there, He Only asks the free use of
four rooms for year He must
certainly expect to have pretty hard
time of it inc irst year.
a Hutchinson man who went to the
klpudike with the gOld itch writes
home that he has suffered several
troubles this winter which taxed his
scratching ability to such an extent
that he had to lee the gold go.
There is man travelling arourd
over the State 10y the name of DR.
Mayhem. He may be all right and
he may not, but this Office and the
other Office IL this town duesn't think
so TO the tune of several dollars.
A man by the name of Busenbark
has bought the Eskrldge Star and
will proceed to do little barking to
the people of that community. Here's
to Mr.. Busenbsrk. may he bark loud
and long, and leave the Busen to the
other fellow.
Here is new story: A school girl
asked her father how to punctuate
the sentence, "a five dollar bill flew
around the Corner" After studying
it he said he.would put period after
It. That's wrong" said the girl,
81 would make dash after it.n
Chanute burned down her only ice
house the other night. II that town
thinks that ii is so warm that il can
get along without ice this summer II
Is going to get badly left. The
REGISTER has tip from its weather
clerk that this is going to be a hot
summer.
"rhe battle Of the spring is won
And winters put TO rout,
without the firing OF gun
When the buds begging to shoot"
Gleeiully sang the sweet singer of
the Arkansas City TraUeier, ana the
next day it showed.
Two Kansas postmasteTs, G.. h.
Reed, of ST. Clair, and j. M. Carna.
han, of Long Island, are in trouble,
not because they have committed any
crime but because they have not ob
served the postal laws closely. The
law provides that postmasters must
nave all moneys on hand at the Office.
They are not even allowed to keep il
in bank unless special permission is
granted. An inspector dropped into
the st. Clair Office recently and found
Reed $50 short in his accounts. He
got the money within an hour. Not.
withdrawing this, he was removed
and hia bOndsmen took charge of the |
office. Reed ran store in connect
with the office. His creditors were
informed that he was an embeZzler !
and, without waiting to find out the !
iacts, pounced upon him with at
tachment suits. As result he has
lost the post-ofiice, his store and
everything else. And, besides, he
must now stand trial in the federal
court for violating the post-ofiice
laws. j. H. Carnahan, of Long
leland, was afraid to keep the money
in the post Office so he took It home
and let his wife put it i'm her stocking.
One day while she was out in the
country four miles, visiting her par
ents, the inspector dropped i'm and
found earn ahan short. He was re-
moved and his case Is now being in
vestigated by the grand jury.
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re- |
ward for any case of Catarrah that |
can not be cured by Halrs Catarrh |
Cure