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

KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.
DR.. finder, city health officer Of
Pittsburg, ought TO make very iuflam-
mable material for the tlirls.
Mcpherson ladies are not slow and
when a new hairdfesser opened up
they took their cues instantly.
Topeka opens the season with the
report of one small boy breaking his
arm while playing circus in the back
yard.
Five hundred dollars worth OF
poultry WAS marketed at Westphalia
in one day, and the yellow was not all
in the birds crops but on their legs.
Inquiry has revealed that the
bodies of none of the soldiers who
died of contagious diseases ia the
Philippines have been sent home.
The temperature i'm the Garnett
Eagle office went TO the boiling point
the minute il was learned that some
one had swiped the Office thermOme-
ter.
Emporia papers boast that there
hasn't been death In the towns lead
ing hotel Tor ten years. What "A par
adise it must he for the festive bed
bug and cockroacb
Ottawa people are all achuckle be-
cause well known young man went
to call on his steady ana, mistaking
the young lady's married sister for
her, kissed her when che opened the
door.
The Marshall County NeoDs in tell
ing of the early experiences of the first
settlers says that "they found need of
all their tact to preserve their scalps
from the Indians" Thus does the
poetic instinct lead the historian as
tray. There wasn't a tack IN the
state forty years ago.
Old Kansas story worked over:
Hotel in small town and dog in front
OF it. Proprietor comes out and rings
the dinner bell, and the dog yelps.
"What are you bowling about?n ask
ed the travelling man of the dog.
"You don't have to 90 in there and
eat.n
A cores pendent Of the Oswego
IHdependent advertises that he has
found IA copy of The "Seven Con-
spiracies," which "some shackled son
of serfdOm can have by calling at the
postoffice" 1t will never 60 to
farmhouse but may be taken in by
curio dealer.
The county officials of Summer
county who have been drawing salar-
les based on population of $4,000 by
the last census, are having chills and
fever over this years report of the
census takers. Every township re-
ported shows decrease of 80 on an
average aud the fret cut in salaries
under the law will be from 5000 to
$500
The gold bearing turkey has broken
out again in western Kansas. A Hill
City man sold a turkey which was
shipped to Denver and the man who
ate it swears his wife found a nugget
in the turkeys crop which contained
$40 worth of gold. The price of Hill
City poultry il consequently elevated,
and the turkey "crop" ranks in public
favor with the wheat and corn crop
From the Soldiers Home notes in
the worth Times: During the
first ten days in this month there were
fourteen deaths among the embers
of the Home, and with the exception
OF one, who drowned himself in the
lake, all died in the hospital Last
year i'm the same time there were only
three deaths, while for the month of
April, 1899, the total deaths only
numbered twelve. Thus far this year
1874 collins have been used locally i'm
burying the Home dead.
Mrs. Horton, of OakwOOd, Kansas
who for several years had been affect
ed with stomach and nerve troubles
writes: II had consulted the most
eminent physicians east and west;
they pronounced my case hopeless. /
could not sleep, pain in my head and
back, lost flesh, no appetite, consti.
pated, weak and nervous. tried
many remedies with no success until
/ took Gatlln's Sarsaparllla Celery
Tonic. Commenced to improve at
once, pain all gone, sleep well, gain
ing i'm flesh, good appetite, fee last
we'll as l ever did. Recommend 1t TO