The Iola register., 1901-11-08
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS


Wednesday the Catholics of Cherry
vale dedicated II Sl2 900 church
o. 5. Snow of st. Paul is preparing
TO harvest his sixth crop OF alfalfa oil
~ acres. 1t has already brought him
In $43 an acre.
Hutchinson Is he home of fifty
lodges and the only possible way a
man can JON 'em all and attend meet
ing Is to be twins.
Abilene Reflector: A Missouri
epitaph reads: John Smith Fell
asleep April 10 from interrupting
mule at dinner time.
Ottawa's ice plant shut down for the
winter but had To reopen. The sea-
sons in Ottawa are regulated by the
calendar not by the temperature.
A correspondent Of the Lindsburg
Record says that on Halloween night
lone of the gOblius tore his pants on
our back fence. The piece is still
there"
An immoral midway show was al
lowed to stay in Lawrence long enough
tor the city officials to see it and then
ordered away. Not a single Official
missed it.
The Wichita Eagle calls attention
to the fact that Czolgosz cursed the
priests who wished to pray with him
before death; whereas his victim died
with words OF faith on his lips.
The per capita deposits in McPher-
son county banks is SOL. II looks as
If the people out there had domesticat-
ed the octopus and were getting good
rich milk out of the old fright.
The attempt of the county commits
siOners to empty sewer in a gully in
the heart OF Burlington raised an aw-
full stink. 1t would seem that even
talk about some sewers smells bad.
The Neodesha Register has one of
Mrs. Roosevelt's calling cards ON the
back of which she wrote her receipt
for spice cake and sent to the cook
ing department of that paper in 1900.
Ft. Scott has a policeman who con-
tinually sings Jerusalem. as he
walks his beat He probably use :
that same beat in keeping time. for
those who have heard him say it is
awful.
A test case brought iE Iowa by
liquor men has brought out u ruling
that the Original Package law is un-
constitutional. Kansas decided other.
wise so Iowa has another guess
coming.
James A. Garfield, who left the
State University because he was ac-
cused of political atheism, is being
men Toned for President of Williams
College, one of the most conservative
in the country.
The Rev. Peter Anderson, a young
Swede from near Abilene, is home
from the Klondike with $500 He
bought his parents II farm, fixed ut
their house and chased of to Europe
with his wife.
"Show us town of a thousand in,
| habitants that doesn't have joints,
, demands an exchange and the Jewell
+ city Republican points with pride "a
the principal prairie dog town in th,
, WhiteRock valley.
/ Buffalo Bill lost 40 of his ring
, horses in a wreck in North Caroline
, Tuesday. "Old Pap" Cody's favor
ite saddle horse, and "Old Eagle,
, the star ring horse perished. The loss
Is estimated AT SOU,UOU.
| Will White says the trusts mus
| either submit to control and publicity
under Republican administration ol
, confiscation and ruin under a Demo
cratic one. He adds that they arr
foolish and wish to do neither.
An Indiana man has taken kis
. into court to determine whether kiss
. ing an unwilling maiden is assault
!, felony or just plain highway robbery
In Kansas the maiden would be takel
into court and her sanity tested.
, So many OF the convicts in the pen
. iten'iary are seeking to get ont by the
pardon route that a witty exchang
y declares that the regular address o
- convicts to the governor when he visit
. the pen is to bow and then say; "Bel
I pardon"
P The Mcpherson Republican in
D double column editorial warns tn
: mothers of that town To quit smoking
i cigarettes and drinking whisky. Thei
+ sous are inheriting tendencies to crime
- Later: That editorial turns out tC
5 be plate matter, so the Mcpherson
mothers are alrigh' We Ferhaps