The Iola register., 1901-05-03
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.
The mayor of Elk City has decided
not TO appoint city marshal, believ-
ing it useless extravaganza.
There is talk of starting a soda ash
factory at Hutchinson and if this is
done several glass plants may locate
in the gas belt.
The Hutchinson Bee, while admitting
it is glad Aguinaldo is now on our
side, serves notice on him that it is
not for him for any Office,
On April 10Th the Preston Plain
dealer gave timely notice that the ca
gle is going to holler to beat the band
there on the 4th of July.
On the anniversary of Shakespeare 5
birth, the club of that name at Arkan-
sas City had banquet on bacon at
the Santa Fe luncn room.
These epidemics are hard tomanage.
| Last year Kansas was lousy with
wheat and didn't take any precautions.
This year the wheat is lousy.
An Abilene merchant advertises that
! he will give pair of 25cent stockings
to every lady visitor who can whistle
two strains of "Goo-goo Eyes"
Two men were arrested in one week
in Argentine for trying to mash town
girls. Another case of "sour mash"
which is against the prohibition law.
Mrs Margaret Tarver, "aunt Peg
gy," died recently at Erie. She was
born a slave ia Georgia in 1904 and
drew her first free breath when6 81 years
old.
There is talk in Ottawa among mar
ried men of mobbing one of their num-
ber who is helping his wife cleanhouse
and goes about town advertising the
fact.
Ottawa has wisely gone to work thus
early to be "fit" when the president
comes. An old citizen was fined last
week for pasturing his COW in the
street.
X. G. Journal When the board of
lady managers of the Pan-American
exposition gets down to business, we
suppose there will be Pan-demonium,
as usual.
State penitentiary bin1ing twine will
be two cents less this year than last.
Had the capital punishment law been
passed this reduction could not have
been made.
Patrick Loob, Thad Whippo, Henry
Graveldinger and William Middlemiss
all manage to get around the streets
of Marysville without getting their
names tangled.
The Troy Chief noting that Breid-
enthal has bought a $1,000 bank at
Altamont, meanly asks about those
numerous offers of SlO,0 which he
has refused" lately.
Vic Murdock distinguishes between
riding in a Pullman and riding the
bumpers. In the first you get your
ticket punched; in the last you risk
having your face punched.
There is an audible straining about
the Leavenworth Times to report the
fact that Bob Ruggles, editor of the
Chronicle, has been arrested for libel,
without lauging out loud.
Funston's capture of Aguinaldo
decided the government that it could
DO without 24,000 of the new army.
The interest on the money thus saved
would pay several Brigadier-generals.
The Atchison Champion, noting
that the picture on the u. $. Sl0bill is
that of Mrs, Clara a-Biddle-Davis, for
merly of Emporia, remarks that steel
blue" was always becoming to her.
The Fusionsts in Crawford county
are so hard put that they have de eide
to run John Rabbit on the ticket has
fall. If man with that name cannot
win out then indeed is the case hope
less.
An Indiana youth recently wrot 2
the Topeka Capital that he has 5000
and asked advice how to spend it. The
Capital showed it to twelve good bus
mess men and they all advised him to
buy farm.
After reciting that Emporia is a bull
ly old town, the jail empty, the town
row dead, etc., the Gazette dolefully
recalls that the years spent there must
be counted off time in Heaven.
A Caney stockman visiting in Cha
mute loaned foot racer $ll0 to com
plete purse of $500 side. The bor-
rover ran and lost and now the stock
man is learning much lore about the
fixing up of foot races.
The Salt Creek correspondent of the
Neodesha Register contributes the fol-
lowing local marketreport: Young men
unsteady; girls, lively and in demand;
papas. firm but declining: mammas
unsettled, waiting for higher bids.
Just as the Cedarvale Commercial
went to press ii received letter stat
ing that young beau of the heneighbor-
hood had wife and children elsewhere
whom he had deserted. Knowing the
precipitancy of its female readers the
Commercial warns them In general to
refrain from matrimony until the letter
can be investigated.