The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
Kansas Clips and Comments

turned out 40, 600, 600 brick last year.
A Garnett citizen breaks out in the
local paper with denial that he has
broken out with smallpox.
The same people who run the Balti-
more hotel IN Kansas City have bought
the hotel Stilwell in Pittsburg.
The Winfield Courier says that L.
G.. Doyle was the guest of DR.. Pitcher
while on his way home from Texas.
Kansas iointists are hoping that
Mrs. Nation will be moved to go to
Utah to smash the intemperent mar
riage system.
Moody Couch, who is visiting in
Phillipsburg, expected to have a good
time at his old home but all the girls
sit down on him.
And now incorporation papers have
| been filed for another new railroad to
run from Hutchinson southeast to
Fort Smith, Ark.
Pupils who now desire admission to
the State Normal at Emporia must
show among their other credentials Il
vaccination mark.
An Abilene mother rubbed vaseline
on her daughters vaccination mark,
and then put some on IA spot on her
own cheek. 1t took.
A mover wagon went through Con-
cordia the other day, hanging out this
sign: ITO hell with Nebraska, w'roe
| off for Oklahoma"
Because Weir City refused to quar-
antine her smallpox cases the State
! health officer has shut the town of
! rom the rest of the world.
An enterprising Clay Center man has
| gotten rid of loafers in front of his
place by connecting the mat on the
porch with an electric current.
Spring time dawneth," sings one
embryonic Kansas poet, land the
possum and the polecat roameth in
quest of whom they may devour."
\ smart man at Erie has invented a
hat pin that ought to make him rich.
| 1t is of a fashion that cannot be pul led
out and stuck into the nearest man.
Chicago Tribune: rheumatism is
said to be remarkably prevalent in
Kansas. Certainly the state has had
a great deal of trouble lately with the
joints.
The Atchison Globe said something
about the 'genitan" apple: the Law
renee journal questioned the spelling
and now nobody knows the correct
spelling.
A Clay Center boy standing on q
stump to fix his shoe was brushed
against by his dog, fell and broke his
leg. Such a boy certainly can not be
"A native Kansan.
A man who thinks that Topeka peo-
pie are mostly Office grabbing THE We
suggests that Weltmer should Cos
there, where his laying on of hands
would be appreciated.
NJ. ID. Williams and c. NJ. Alex
ander, the evangelists who converted
Hiawatha, are booked to tackle Fort
Scott March "a. Then comes the tug
of war, sure enough.
Carrie the news to Mrs. Nation. The
Neodesha Register says a man of that
town who has drank and chewed for
forty years quit suddenly last week
He isn't dead, either.
While the school children were lined
| up BlNDdl dAOlN W NllltIllE Out Vi
Chanute' S schools the wind blew off a
chimney and the brick seriously in
iured several of them.
Winfield crap shooters escape the
wind and the cops by shooting under
the lam in "a nearby stream. Most
gambling places are supposed to be
more or less dammen.
The Coffeyville journal says that
town has cared for its $50 cases of small
poX. That town is so used to super
latives in all she has that she carries
it even in her troubles.
\ Leavenworth man advertises for
! twenty-five girls to cut potatoes for
seed. SO desperate cutting ARRAY
with numerous eye witnesses may
be expected from that burg.
Mr.. Jelly is sheriff of Miami county,
which proved fortunate last week when
two prisoners tried to escape Jail. AS
soon as Jelly was on their tracks,
they were naturally easily traced
A Spanish proverb says kiss is
the cheese of the rats of love. SO it
was that Galena man, disappointed
in love and with a heart gnawing like
! loIVy IOuthtSi lOOh rough On fdlS.
The Sterling Bulletin after trying
the small size paper for two years has
given up and returned to the six column
quarto, and the housewives are calling
in swarms and thanking the editors.
Wichita Beacon; Two carloads of
coal arrived in Cimarron the other
day just in time to save the kids of the
town from being obliged to rack out
on the prairie and hustle COW chips.
The Concordia Kansan, noting the
coming coursing meet at Mankato,
AYERS that none of the racing dogs
will equal the time made by brindle
pup of Concordia which recently
raced with tin can.
In game Of seven-up in Topeka a
fellow named Manley got his Jack
caught and in a quarrel with man
named Francis over the play, which
the latter had recommended, was shot
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