The Iola register., 1901-04-12
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I KANSAS CLIPS and COMMENTS !
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One of the poor people whom Con-
cordia is caring for recently sent for
some angel food cake among other
things asked for
There is now deposited in Kansas
banks, according to Bank Commits
sioner Albaugh, $33, 1857, S9S, an in
crease of over two million since last
December.
The Sterling Bulletin says there are
las dogs to the 1000 population in
that town, but hints that unless the
majority humps itself the minority
will soon rule.
Rev. Tootheacher is being tried by
a congregation at Columbus and If
they can stand him he will be called.
And, judging by his name, he don't
give cuss what they call him.
One of the chief charges against
Col. Hughes, just elected mayor of
Topeka, Was that he smokes cigar
cites, and now there will probably be
a fight on the ''smoke nuisance"
During March 1858. engines we're
handled in the Emporia round house,
or one on the turntable every Is min
utes. OF course Emporia's head is
completely and hopelessly turned.
During the recent blizzard a Colby
farmer, digging the snow out of his
pig hen, uncovered a rooster buried
under two feet of snow and the bird
was all right save for frozen toe.
The Chief says Troy barber
throws in free bath with every sham
poo. Most people have met BARRIERS
who seemed uncertain by their actions
whether it was shampoo or bath
that had been called for.
The Garnett Journal prints a poem
beginning: Mother, dear mother,
come home with me now, the after
Moons slipping by fast; you said you
were coming right home from the
joint, as soon as the bottles were
smashed"
Last Friday train of II cars, con-
tanning nearly two million eggs went
out of Newton for California. Doubt
less every tramp on the road is pray
ing for wreck and months free
scr ambled eggs.
The Atchison Globe has "figgered"
I it out that if Adam had lived until
today and received an annual salary
| of $4,000 year, and saved every
cent of it, he would not be as wealthy
as Andrew Carnegie.
The Quenemo Tribune varied the
rule of running Funston's and Agui-
naldo's pictures together in the big
capture story, and inserted that of
Ed. Little in Aggie's place. 1t is not
known at this writing just what the
editor meant by il.
The Atchison Globe has recalled
that the three most HEROIC things of
the war-the carrying the message to
Garcia, scaling the walls of Peking
and capturing Aguinaldo-were all
done by Kansans. And yet they call
this an agricultural state.
Holton Recorder: "Honest Ingin, I"
now Mr.. Bryan do you think that if
the British had taken George Wash
ington prisoner, he would have taken
the oath of allegiance to Great Britain
before he had been prisoner week?
Right on the heels of fierce and
bitter election comes the announce
ment from Leavenworth that a town
doctor has bought a powerful X-ray
machine. Itmay prove useful in look
ing into some of the political methods
of the town.
The Holton Tribune poa, in a
spasm about March weather, which
came in like lamb, makes the follow
ing lines end in slam, ram, lam, am.
calm, and closes with $50 | don't
give continental" Which anyone
can readily see isn't good poetry.
The unselfshness of Pratt people to
please the dead was illustrated recent
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frozen to death. A local paper says:
new stallion to Dan Jones' funeral
Tuesday. That was appropriate, for
Dan was lover of a fine horse and
could tell one at glance"
The Marion Record and Emporia
Gazette are jawing about the value of
truth in newspaper. The former
says the latter has the advantage, be-
, ing daily, of saying more, but White
answers that Hoch has the advantage
of speaking from experience while he
(White) is talking theoretically.
Concordia Empire. A scientist has
} discovered that a streak of lightning
is exactly one-fifth of an inch wide
All the same if a fellow gets in the
way of a good healthy fragment O
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D will fix him as completely as if it were
q yard square.
Winfeld's sheriff, after one of thu
raids, locked a lovely assortment o
rye, bourbon, wines and so forth il
q vault in the court house. A late
examination discovered that ever!
bottle was filled with water. And o
course nobody understands the re
J markable phenomenon, the sheriff
openly calling it miracle"
Leavenworth Times: One of tn,
latest organizations is called tn,
boosters. 1t was organized in Chi
cago and none but business men ar,
: eligible to join. The sole object o
, the Boosters is to make optisisn
practical in business life, to put /;
check on the tendency to make free
. mention of a mans faults than of hi
I virtues. IL tries to create an atmos
q phere which shall make man thinl
twice before speaking i'll of another