The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-06
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

BdSJrlc juice begins 10 annoy tneOyStef
| iiend.
Henry Allen was barber before he
was an editor. Circumstances over
which he had no control caused his
downfall.
OF the million allowed by Congress
to the militia Kansas got $2l ,240. 81.
II Leedy was right the 81 cents is for
uniforms.
1t is better to- have kissed and kissed
the wrong one than never to have
kissed at all, says the pen of the Man
haitian Nationalist.
In Barney Sheridan's copy of the
| Bible the devil is mentioned 178 times.
| But it takes considerable birthstone to
hold Barney down.
Carrie Nation is now in New York
and waiting world is expecting news
of the lovely mixup when she meets the
Tammany tiger in his lair.
All the independent telephone lines
in north-central Kansas have com
bined with 800, 900 capital. Here it is
finally! A trust on talking.
The Wellsville Globe gives a help
full hint to teachers. For fifteen years
Franklin county teacher ruled the
big boys by making love to them.
A returning farm hand jumped off a
freight train in motion west of Abilene
to prevent being robbed of 5000 by
tramps. He saved the coin but may
lose his life.
That Marshall county girl who has
a sofa pillow stuffed with old love
letters, should think of the courts and
burn them before they are read to a
gaping audience.
The Neosho Falls Postmentions that
Grandfather Trout was a pleasant
caller. The idea that the Nimrods of
the Falls would let a trout live to be-
come grandfather.
one of the chief attractions at the
Salina street fair will be the spectacu-
lar Last Days of Pompeii,. and the
as the Last Days of July.
The Salina Union advertises new
and popular feature, short scientific
articles. The first one is entitled:
-Four More Hot Summers" Watch
for announcement of paper for
sale.
Garnett Eagle: j. Frank Smith. of
the Pleasanton Observer, got out II
special edition last week-a boy.
Here's hoping the child will have all
his mothers beauty and his fathers
smile.
Postage stamps at cost, " reads the
ad. of an independence man with his
picture attached in the Reporter.
Selling stamps being a strenuous life
it is not surprising to find him large
athlete.
Abilene Reflector: The bursting of a
siege gun at Fort Riley was attended
win more fatalities than were oc-
casioned to American armies by the
naval fights of Manila bay and Santi-
ago harbor.
The wife of spectacle peddler at
tempted suicide at Blue Mound 10y
shooting herself. Fortunately her
eyesight was SO poor she missed a
vital part. Her husband Immediately
reiitled her glasses.
Brother Jeltz sounds funny" says
. Dad o liver of the Preston PlLindeal-
er. seeing the expression in an eX-
change. "But it's matter of taste. -
he adds. las the old woman said when
she kissed the cow
When woman is left a widow i'm
Sumatra she raises a flag at her door
and so long as the wind does not tear
it etiquette forbids her TO wed again.
. The Newton Kansan wonders how this
would work in Kansas.
b. +. Coombs. of Kansas City, who
owns $40 acres at Parker, 400 acres at
, Lane and 400 acres at Willow Springs,
all planted to apples, has been offered
$50, 900 for his crop estimated at 30
600 barrels. He refused,
Fort SCOTS mayor is in a peck of
trouble over the joints and there was
talk of impeaching him. This led a
small girl who had heard the talk to
hint that rotten eggs would be better
than peaches for the work.
Along in 1862 Leavenworth refused
to give 100 acres to the Union Pacific
and the promoters founded Kansas
City. That was the opportunity John
j. Ingalls, wrote about, and it never
came back to Leavenworth.
Annie Diggs has sold her Topeka
home for some 81, 800, and has moved
to a garden plot near town. Think of
gentle Annie hoeing the onions. pail
ing the COW and feeding the hens. She
must be farming Republican.
Word comes from Bourbon county
OF farmer who let the spring days go
by trying to sell his farm for oil land.
Failing in this he put in late crop
and has fifty bushels 10 the acre corn.
The early farmer bird catches the
drouth.
A Concordia father was fined in
police court forknocking down young
man who kept his daughter out late.
The moral of this is that fathers
should hit to kill in such cases, says
the Mail & Breeze.
Lieut.. +. II. Agnew, U. S. A.. form
erly of Co. M" Twentieth Kansas.
was married at Minneapolis Saturday
to Miss May Sexton. He left the same
day. accompanied by his bride. for
the Philippines to join his regiment,
A new building and loan firm of
Wichita has been refused charter be-
cause its papers showed that it only
asked 40 cents for caring for each 81