The Iola register., 1901-04-26
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

hANOAO OhlI . AMI CODl EN 10.
A car of matches caught fire at New
ton the other day and for a little while
1t was hot town.
Noble Prentis first called Kansas
weed but men can get rich where it
grows.
'Love's Labor Lost" will be put on
at Chanute this week. There are q
lot of lola boys who labored for love
in Chanute and lost.
Prof. Haworth has said again for
the 'steenth time that there is no gold
in the Trego county shales. 1t was
settled the first time he said it.
Last Saturdays lola REGISTER contained
about thirty colums OF local advertising. lola
Is good city and the merchants are reaching
out for trade.-Arkansas City Traveller.
And they are getting it to.
A farmer out in Sedgwick county
who had two cents change coming to
him elevated his chin and told the
store keeper to keep it. Talk about
prosperity.
A Peabody boy advertises that he
has a wash board and offers it to the
girl who will marry him, with the in
junction, "here's fortune for you if
you will rub it out"
"She Stoops to Conquer" will be
put on at Cimarron in few days.
But the audience will probably rise up
to conquer if it is like the average
home talent show.
1t is current Topeka gossip that b.
II. Tracey is to succeed |. h. Lambert
as U. $. District Attorney and that
Ed. McKeever is to displace Harry
Bone, Mr.. Lambert's assistant.
Newton recently shipped train
load, twelve cars, of eggs to Califor-
mia. There were nearly 1000, 900 eggs
on board, and they were worth about
SO, 900, which shows that "many
mickle makes u muckle."
A Butler county farmer advertises
thus; Wanted-Some farm hands.
| will give dollar day, three meals
and custard pie and milk lunch at
bed time-feather beds-Sundays Off
and permission to kiss the hired girl,
for som efarm hands"
If the doctors are right about the
recurrence of smallpox being virulent
and deadly Kansas will be scourged
next winter. Never in the history of
the State has the disease been so wide
spread. Hardly county in the State
has been free from it this winter.
The Kansas G. a. II. changed the
date of their encampment so asto make
it possible for the President to visit
them on his western trip, and nowthey
are very properly veXed to find that
he is scheduled to spend but three
quarters of an hour with them. The
schedule will be changed.
Upon the request of Superintendent
Atkinson, of Manila, President Taylor,
of the State Normal, has appointed
David Carson, p. M. b. Novel; and
d. G. Fisher, as teachers in the Phil
ippines. They will go on a three yea
contract at salary of 5000 year anr
with expenses paid both ways.
The Howard Courant suggests this
problem in finance: A man with a
dollar thirst had only seventy-five
cents. He pawned his seventy-five
cents for half dollar and then sold
his pawn ticket at par, thus raising
enough to meet the demand. Did he
Chanute's Globe-Democrat Beauty
contest resulted in tie, and the
Tribune which conducted 1t proposes
to enter both the candidates. 1t is
easy to appreciate the Tribune's en-
barrassment; but if Chanute can have
two candidates why cannotevery other
town have the same number?
Fredonia Herald: One of our citi-
zens lost a dog and received a letter
stating that it would be returned if
fifty cents was deposited in a certain
place. He marked the coin, left it and
the dog was returned. The next morn
ing his S-year-old son appeared with
the marked coin. The boy and his
father went into executive session in
the wood shed.
A Greenwood county teacher thought
it was the proper thing to ask his pu-
pills in recent examination to answer
the following questions: "What is
meant by free trade? Imperialism?
Protection? Expansion? Write briefly
on the following topics; Missouri com
promise, Dred- Scott decision, Kansas
| Nebraska act