The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-10
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

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Barton, Rice, Reno, Sedgwick and
Sumner counties are promising to
yield 1000 900 bushels Of. wheat this
year.
Assessors reports this spring all
over the State show thousands of
dollars of increase in property over
last year.
Gardeners along the eastern border
have read with alarm over the birth
of chicken in western Missouri with
four legs.
The temperance people would do
we'll to keep an eye on the town of
Shady Brook, recently established
north of Harrington.
Ed Little has bought an interest in
the Abilene Democrat and the Reflector
thinks it is because Bryan is said to
be making 100000 year.
The editor of the Chief thinks It Ia
great joke that Troy woman who is
color blind picked blue grass when
seeking a mess of greens.
A FIT. Scott man thinks he has found
copper bearing rock in Bourbon coun-
ty. And of course he will not tell q
soul where the rock is.
The United States Circuit Court has
decided that Abilene must pay the
So, 900 in bonds voted in 1888 and now
held by Cornell University.
The drouth has become so severe
at Lawrence that they have arrested
and placed under $1,000 bond a man
by the name of John Barley.
The editor of the Augusta Journal
sadly confesses he has found a dill
lemma with more horns than he can
manage, namely the town herd trouble
Mrs. Nation is credited with having
denied that she was arrested for
malicious destruction of property but
for the destruction of malicious prop
erty.
Galena has just learned that one of
her ambitious sons who went east to
stalk the boards in histrionics is real
ly in Buffalo, painting boards in
his overalls.
The Carrie Nation crusade has
reached that point where she is will
ing to share some of the results with
the Lord. In late Wichita inter-
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The fact that lightning struck the
Fit. Scottipost Office Friday will pro-
badly not have any effect in the mum
Der of men willing TO take chances of
living in the building.
William Allen Whites baby boy is
big enough to be called bill" by
Emporia's entire population, and he
ought to be able 10 dig up some new
Boyville stories soon.
A genuine recruit for the list Of
Kansas freaks is that Winfield man
who claims that he has never kissed
a girl or woman. He must have gone
blind before he moved to Kansas.
There is a man at Arkansas City
who has an idea of the value of adver-
Using as compared with the cost He
spent IS in erecting a sign board and
sued the man who destroyed it it for
$40, 065.50.
A Burlington liveryman learned
that q smart youth who hired one Of
his teams was driving it too hard,
and overtaking the rigmade the youth
get out and walk while he drove the
two girls with him home.
The Leroy merchant who adver-
tised that there would be very unusu-
al doings at his store because "we
are overloaded with castor-oil" didn't
have TO make affidavit toithe statement
to be believed.
The young men who recently started
the Republican at Baldwin made a
hit with the students by printing an
Extra with orange ink the day that
Loofbourrow won the inter- state ora
torical contest.
Neodesha Register: No, Daisy, the
terrible racket you heard Monday
evening was not two factions of the
boiler riveters' union on q strike con-
test. 1t was only the "Silent Few"
club whispering goodbye to depart
ing member.
A Philadelphia physician has been
advising people mot to go out on the
streets Immediately after taking off
their heavy underwear" and the Cliff
ton News says: awe don't know how
it is in Philadelphia, but if anyone at
tempted 1t in this town he would surely
be arrested"
One of the columns of the Ottawa Her.
aid which is oftenest full is the one
devoted to knockers, where the pub
lie may print its kicks. The colum is
headed "At the Sign Of the Hammer"
and opens with this standing stanza,
from 'He Kicks to Conquer:
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by lying down;
But they while all about them wept
Kicked constantly and won renown.
Since he has been treasurer at the
Leavenworth Soldiers Home Mai.
Shockley has disbursed over $1,000,
900 and the Chronicle says a good
part of it "has found it's way into
Leavenworth merchants" The paper
meant their pockets, but considering
the openess of the town the statement
is probably exactly correct.