The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-29
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS
Fredonia has solved the problem of
getting the chicken awenforced by Civ
ing all stray chickens to the town
marshal.
| A regular mares nest was discov-
cred by Mr.. Wadson on his farm near
Paola. The animal had given birth to
three colts, all dead.
And have you noticed that King
| Edward hasn't apologised to any 9TH
er community on earth since being
crowned. Ed knows who's who.
1t is told that a tramp when ordered
out of the station at Nermilion by the
| agent replied: "I'm an empty east
bound and sidetracked; III go"
That strike at the renitentiary was
over corn bread served aU imeals.
What Internal Epicureans men
are when boarding at someone else's
eXpense.i
Mr.. Pigg is being tried in Topeka
| for maintaining nuisance. The
| mere presence in some cities after
April first of a Pigg is declared a
nuisance.
OF all sad words of pung or ten,
ruminates the Hutchinson News, the
saddest are this: amt registered and
can't vote. Surely this is true when
prices get to booming.
a young lady clerk in a Racket
store at Erie, miscalculated the give
in her anatomy the other day, reach
ing for goods on a high shelf, and
falling through the show case.
Robbers at Hutchinson entered the
Standard Oil Company's office and in
that repository of wealth untold found
only few leadpencis that they de-
sired to appropriate, and no more.
The forty barrels of prize winning
| apples collected by the state horticul-
tural society to show at Buffalo are
being I sold at Topeka. 1t is pro-
nounced sure bread winner by ex-
perts.
Winfield Courier: "Woman, unlike
man, doesn't worship the almighty
dollar" said the scornful miss. NO."
admitted the cynical individual, cher
divinity is the almighty ninety-nine
cents"
One Arkansas City negro chopped
several limbs off another because he
said Hello Battleax" to his wife
when she passed. Is the razor TO join
the bow and arrow as a fighting
antiquity
A Kansas City woman suffered Il
peculiar accident, her finger being
punctured by the needle of her rapid
| ly flying sewing machine. The needle
curved without breaking and held her
/ mi conan for como tipna
Emil Goes of Pittsburg has just
been notified that he has large share
of S25, 100000 estate in Holland
coming to him. He is planning to go
after it, but may find it has van
ished. But that's the way the money,
Goes.
There is hardly town of any size
in the state that has not an organiza-
ton which proposes to grab the best
of the Kiowa lands ahead of anybody
else on earth. 1t looks reasonable to
suppose somebody will be disap-
pointed.
Fort Scott has yearned for college
for years, and whenever the gnawing
gets troublesome she let's the two high
school societies get out on Main street
anu gOli uIu ONOl a nag AllSl
such outbursts the citizens feel glad
they have no colleges.
A peculiar divorce story comes from
Maryville. A man was injured by an
accident, his wife deserted him, he got
a divorce and died. The law says u
divorce is not operative till after six
months, so when he died the divorced
wife stepped in and claims the estate.
From It's issue of 1881 the Independ-
ence Reporter reprints an item about
some society girls who romped about
town in male attire. And now a lot
of sedate married women are scared
stiff for fear some one will remember
names and their children learn some
thing.