The Iola register., 1901-06-07
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS


ate snake all winter.
Wonder If MIR. Rochelle of Sabetha
is not related to the famous family of
old salts of that name.
A Sabetha girl is fiddling in a
Georgia college for twice the sa larry
of the Kansas governor.
A non-advertising dog and pony
show is referred to by the Alma Enter
prise as ''hoss and pup show" 4
Humboldt and Chanute both claim
to be in the heart of the Kansas oil
field and both are doubtless correct.
With laundering cannon and dress
parades st. Johns Military acad-
emy at Salina graduated one boy this
week.
According to the Courier Winfield
| girl made the excuse when she was
discovered with rouge on her face
that it was decoration day.
BY typographical error Kansas
paper printed paragraph about
bleeding Kansas and it read "lead-
ing Kansas" Which is correct?
Burlington Republicans: Octopus,
|
boy after listening to the remarks OF
"a Populist agitator, Fred Funston
eats them things"
An Ottawa man kicks in the Herald
that ii is a waste of time and money
to compel people to clean up their
back yards SO long as people are per-
mitted to eat onions.
Speaking of the great American
desert and Kansas's alleged connec-
tiOn with the same, "a Brown county
man has just coldly refused Sl2 900
for his quarter section.
Nine Wichita policemen took q peo-
pie from hotel in that town and put
them all in the pest house, because
one had smallpox and the rest refused
To observe the quarantine regulations.
Noting that not single Kansas
newspaper man got caught in the
Hurry of stocks on Wall street, the
Osborne Farmer declares that hnan-
ciers might profit by initiating the av-
erage GATOR.
The Republicans have been notified
by Uncle sam that they cannot use
the eagle as the motto at the head OF
the State ticket. How would it do TO
print picture of Fred Funston eat
ing an octopus.
The Lawrence World has started an
agitation as to whether most OF the
pretty girls are married or single
The truth is that married men think
e they are single, and single men that
they are married.
An Arkansas City expert predicts a
! dry summer because the tadpoles have
tails like palm leaf fan. And it is
: reasonable to suspose that when the
: pollywogs have to fan themselves
) mortals will suffer.
w. c. Spangler, acting Chancellor
and Prof. V. l.. Kellogg, X. U. boy
= mentioned as possible successors ot
I Chancellor Snow who has resigned
$ from the State University.
In the same issue of the Holton Re-
corder appear two lost ads, one seek
D ing the return of a stray goat and the
= other of lost lace-point handker
n chief. 1t might save trouble to secure
. the goat and question him.
= j. L. Brady, of the Lawrence World
: affirms his statement that he will sup
J, port Charlie Finch, editor of th'
r Journal, for Secretary of State if the
V latter is nominated. Heaven must b'
e hanging low over Lawrence. l4.A4. .... .--.p
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e The Ft. Scott Monitor for man!
y years morning paper has changed Il
d an evening issue. So little happen
o in small citythat it is hard to fill al
|, evening paper, and a morning pape
: is awfully hard on the imagination.
o A Lyndon man recently returne,
Z from Beaumont says he walked OF
i some of the million dollar land. III
" doubtless had the impression that If a
Z much stuck to his feet as he could col
q lect at home he could cash in for sew
eral thousands.
3 The Neosho Falls Post says u Yate
l. Center father asked his son what tn
c teacher said when he didn't have hi
n lesson. The pert kid answered "Sh
q says / must be chip off the oil
= block head" and then the fathe
y and son adjourned to the woodshed.
It The recent appearance of Mar
It Ellen Lease in the bankruptcy cour
l. seems to be pertinent comment on he
Y theory as to the relative value O
q crops Kansas farmers who stuck t.
. corn are loaning money-Ellen didn'
. raise corn and went broke.
e After Oswego walloped Joplin a
= base ball recently acolored girl of tn
latter place who formerly lived Il
Oswego stepped before the gran
stand and did an elaborate cake-wal
n and the crowd from Oswego went wild
= In response to telephone messag
= stating that "Morg Wright's bao
u drowned in the we'll today" anOttaw
Is Republican reporter did double tim
II across town only to find Morg's bab
4 is a young man of 2l years and wa
n sound and we'll.
% Exchanges: The newspaper sta
~ works fifty-two weeks per year; that
y labor. Now and then some one pay
'e for the paper; that's capital. An
3 once in while some son-of-a-gun of
y dead beat runs up bill and vanishe
it without paying it; that's anarchy
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