The Iola register., 1901-11-15

part of town and warns unsophisti- |
Gated youths to keep away.
A Lyndon man has gone crazy and |
has the idea that he is pursued by
skunks. There is some sense in los
ing ones mind under those circum-
stances.
Since the Elks branded sixty-five o {
Winfeld's business men the BEST
People on Earth" it would seem the
business at the big revival would
grow slack.
The tent which stood the strain of
oratory which saved sixty-6ve sinners
in one night at Winfield fell before
the blast of wind that passed over
Saturday night.
President Roosevelt was the recipi-
ent of tat possum recently and the
Lawrence Journal thinks it the mute
endorsement by some man of his en-
tertaining Booker Washington.
HAS Henry Allen begun knocking
on the President Monday he started
nu editorial thus: "a good portion
Of Poose resident II velt's message
Or has he suddenly begun to stutter
The Record say the "infant morality
is frightful" at Bronson and urges the
liberal use of a certain patent medi-
cine. Which indicate that the editor
believes morality is relative to mortal
ity.
A Newton lady travelling in Ger
many wrote letter home and the
classical editor of the Kansan headed
it From the Land of Tell" Which
caused the unwasned to enquire wat
& ell?'
At Coifeyville Halloween night The
kids took the Professors Jersey COW
TO the second floor of the building.
( The journal says that considerable
damage was done throughout the
building"
A tramp crawled on top OF walled
in boiler at Coffeyville's brick plant,
probably to sleep warm Sunday night,
and was found dead next morning,
undoubtedly asphyXiated by the fumes
of the gas burned beneath the boiler.
A farm journal says that in the
crop of one dead quail was found lOl
| potato bugs. Which fact ought to
assist in preserving the quail by show
| ing their usefulness ana reducing the
demand for dead ones.
An Ottawa woman says love is
something that makes angels of women
and devils OF men," Wherefore it is
strange that the angels want immedi-
ately 10 get the devil away from every
| body else all to herself.
Wichita Eagle: John Heating who
wrote; Just one Girl in this World
for Me- has been sued for breach of
| promise. Apparently the others he
knew made Pearl go way back and sit
down.
a man drove u peg in the middle Of
an EmpUria street the other day and
| i. took Two columns in the local pa
| pers to tell how active work of build
ing the North AMI South road which
is to make Emporia "a great city has
! begun"
a sixteen year old girl from near
| Lucan, Kansas, was allowed by her
mother To go to Denver to marry Tom
Sharkey the pugilist, The old lady
ought to have her ears bo xed, without
| gloves. Luckily the trip proved TO he
the result of joke.
There are few stories that gas or
oil town won't stand for if it is exag-
perated in favor of the town. Re-
Gently Chanute was credited with an
oil we'll that flowed "9, 900, 900 cubic
feet a day." and not a soul has ever
denied it. The well was gasser.
Conductor Beers on the Santa Fe
running south from Wichita found a
purse in a car that contained 81 900. He
! left the money at Winfield to be re-
turned to the owner. Which shows
that there are some good Beers, Mrs.
Nation to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
Frank WEIGH, a Ft Scott boy, rob-
bed IA bee tree while out hunting. Re
suming the hInt he fell to the ground,
eXclaiming that he was shot. His
startled companions ran to him.
opened his shirt and found u honey
bee had stung him at the moment the
gun went OIL,
A l5-year old girl under arrest at
| Wichita, was locked for the night in u
room at the top OF the court house. 1t
was spooky room and she didn't like
it, so she opened window and stood
on the ledge outside, eighty feet from
the ground. Passersby saw her and
she was quickly escorted TO II better
room.
Without apologizing to George AIDE,
Bent MurdOck breaks out thus; "a
Boss Buster is Clabber Faced Barn
acle who has lost his Job at the Pie
Counter and has to Go Away Back
and Sit Down. A Clabber Faced
Barnacle is a Boss Buster who is up
against the Pie Counter with both Feet
in the Trough"
G. H. Gates, for many years Rock
Island tlagman at Wichita, has just
returned from atrip around the world,
But the strange part Of the story is
that this man from Wichita proposed
this toast to his companions before
they left San Francisco, that none of
them Drink any liquor until they re-
turned TO America.
Ex-Governor Morrill, tells this:
asked by an old soldier OF the Civil
War what regiment | served in,
replied, in the only honest regiment
that fought in the War of the Rebel
lion, the Seventh Kansas cavalry.