The Iola register., 1901-08-09
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS


Post.
The man wac can afford to wear
hayseed in his hair is a full tledged
plutocrat these days, remarks an ex-
cEage.
Turnip seed has jumped from 5000
to $400 a ton. Now is the time for the |
man with sack of mustard seed toget
in his work.
Cherryvale men talk of new rail-
road from that place to Oklahoma City |
via Bartlesville to connect with the
Choctaw line.
Ed Little is said to have bought a |
Kansas City residence with the money
he got on his pension and contemplates
moving there.
'This is the time it pays to leave
your name in the paper" remarked
the Emporia Gazette in the days of the
Kiowa drawing.
A woman's faith in her husband,
says the Atchison Globe, has to be
patched as often as the seat OF an
active's boys trousers.
Some man is stealing boats on the
river near Emporia. He Is doubtless
collecting souvenirs Of the days when
water ran in the channel.
The Ottawa Herald was dumb
during the drouth but now II is over,
shakes itself and demands as OF yore;
''How about that new hotel?"
A Newton boy, an interested specta-
tor while a neighbor milked a COW,
finally asked: mister how do you
know when the cows emptyP"
During the rush into ElReno one
Rock Island passenger conductor
says he collected 241 fares on the top
of his coaches on one train.
State Auditor Cole has scheme to
encourage new factories in Kansas
He plans to exempt from taxation for
| five years every new industry.
A Chanute cigar manufacturer ad-
vertises that If you smoke his brand
you will soon get over the tobacco
habit. This is true benevolence.
A Lindsborg man is reported by the
Record as asking to have his letters
postponed" to Inman and afterwards
waited till the mail vas disturbed y
An Independence man nearly won a
Kiowa home. He has the same name
as the winner even to .he initials, but
was compelled to give his full first
name.
one woman suicided and another at
tempted it in Leavenworth Sunday.
Cause. that any town on earth per-
mitted women TO live the lives they
lived there.
The Wichita Eaglepredicts a strong
advance in Kansas and Oklahoma
land values in the next few years.
The agricultural ability of this section
will appeal to investors.
Shaifer. the billiard expert, has an
nounced his intention of revisiting his
old home, Leavenworth. The local
sports are planning to celebrate the
event with game of high balls.
Ringings circus is billed for Tope-
ka and when word came that the show
was threatened by the Exposition
building fire in Kansas City there
was almost riot in the capital city
The Lindsborg Record has its ear to
the ground trying TO hear some of the
Pops near Junction City where the
government is going to spend q mil
lion in improving TT. Riley complain.
ing about encrauching militarism.
#, A Kansas City merchant gives away
case of beer with every suit he sells
and the Hutchinson News says in thai
town the reverse is true man getting
a suit every time he sells a case o
beer
The Daltons don't seem to be popu
lar in southern Kansas, CotfeyvillC
at the time the boys made their raiC
killed several and now independence
has locked Alice Dalton in jail fol
"enjoyin'" herself.
|, A party of Emporia men in Colora
do, men who went out for high ole
,, time when away from home, has jus
been Joined by an Emporia preacher
and the wise ones at home are chuck
ling for some reason.
Will Shotwell of Ottawa got himsel
Kiowa farm and drew one for tn,
man whose soldier papers he carried
William is one of those fellows who
would have had his land all in whea
had he been farmer this year.
A Parsons couple quarreled and {
, second plfl came IOfWdru 10 pdJcn ul
the engagement. She hung about tn
man and sang praises of his forme
sweetheart until he proposed and wa
accepted by this go-between. Nov
there is a row.
A page ad. one day in the Kansa
, City Star costs 5000, in the Youth
Companion $5, 600, in the Ladies Hom
Journal $4,000, in the Greeley Count.
Republican $40. You pay your none.
and take your choice, says the las
named paper.
, The Sedgwick Paragraph says /
, the calf chews your shirt tail OFF ant
you throw away your suspenders ant
use safety pins TO hold up your pant
you are lionized by society. If yol
wear full grown shirt with suspen
I ders you INST flock by yourself.
Recently while the sheriff of Harve,
county was seeking a prisoner in Kan
sas City he went out with policeman
who drank beer at e 2ery saloon, tn
! sheriff was tetotaller and started Il
; drink pop every time the officer dram
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