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

| "a Rlrl cuJ nef corn WIN pocket knlte
and has mighty sore toe.
The Usage City Press prints long
poem in Scotch dialect, which required
a key longer than a corkscrew.
The Neodesha Register has discov-
cred that the months are like birds,
the first that appears of either being
the bills.
The Fin de Steele club Of Chanute is
planning To 20 en- masse to a watering
resort. This weather is pretty trying
on fins anyway.
Jas. a Dow, an old merchant of
| Olathe, formerly rich but reduced to
comparative poverty by i'll health
suicided Wednesday,.
Bank deposits are said to be in
creasing on account of the drouth and
hard times. Farmers have been forced
to sell stock and bank the cash.
The agents of two breweries in To-
peka have agreed to pay each drug
gist selling only their goods $50. How
is that for IA town where no liquor is
sold?
For years it has been unlawful to
shoot squirrels in Forest Park
| dl OJIuWu DuJ lD6 IONIl DOYS nave
kept up their practice by shooting
craps.
From Wichita comes the story Of q
man who bit piece off neighbours
ear during "a fight The Judge
put him under bond to keep the
| piece"
The Arkansas Oil Company, COM
posed of Parsons men, has received a
New Jersey charter to develop Indian
Territory oil tracts, How is that for
pot shot?
For the third time lightning has
struck the steeple of the Methodist
church at Olathe, riddling it and the
theory about it never hitting twice in
the same place.
An ElDorado druggists advertising
a nostrum that will give business men
snap and vigor and the Republican is
running it free in the hope advertising
will pick up.
George Woodland, of Parsons, who
drew n fine Kiowa claim. is in Jail for
selling booze under 80 day sentence
so he cannot file ON his claim unless
he files out of Jail.
There was a little cyclone near To-
peka the other day that unroofed sew.
eral dwellings,, but the owners are not
complaining as they can sleep COM
fortably indoors now.
When that Leavenworth girl sent
out invitations for a twilight musi-
Gale" she certainly left off the list
those persons whom she has been won't
to regard as ''old cats"
Will johnson of Erie chaperoned
five girls from that place to Lawton to
! file for claims. He won a fine chance
and the girls got nothing, but of
course the story isn't finished
yet.
DR.. Little of Alma must be an
honest man. A man called on him TO
inquire about some alment and re-
ceived so dreadful a diagnosis he coll
lapsed from heart failure and nearly
died.
a Leavenworth small boy. accord
ing to the Westhrn Life, requested his
grandmother to take. of her spec
tacles when cutting his piece of pie,
after learning that they magnifed
things.
Among the marriage proposals that
| Il
eleven from Chicago Eks. The
Benevolence and Protection is evil
IDENTIFY not restricted to the order in
Chicago.
lowing to an alflction of the optic
nerve, as the editor states, the Pres
ton Plaindealer is for sale. The
aflliction probably prevents the editor
from seeing his way to making both
ends meet.
When reorganizing the Leavenworth
Coal Company issued prospectus
clearly showing that it had personal
property worth over million.
When the assessor called it
had difficulty in discovering Sl5,-
000
The Spring Hill New Era tells how
the town marshal gathered in some
''deciples of Bacchaes" and had them
fined. 1t is not surprising that time
honored Bacchus refuses to stand
sponsor for the Spring Hill brand OF
poison.
A Colorado Springs paper requested
pictures of several Eldorado girls
planning to go there The editor
wrote that he understood many beauti-
full girls lived in Eldorado. doubtless
having reached that conclusion from
studying pictures of Jessie Morrison
and Mrs. Castle.
Grace Bremen, working in a Tope
ka laundry, has been informed that
she is heiress to million left by
Mrs, Brunswick of Chicago. How
those guys who have announced their
love for Miss Beals of Wichita will
regret their preclpitancy.
A Valley Falls paper stated that if
,he saloons were run out of Atchison
half the stores would close. The
Atcbison Champion retorts that If all
the bootleggers We're run out of Valley
Falls too few people would be left to
properly set a hen. What material
for the Law and Order League!
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