The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-26
KANSAS CLIPS ANDCoMMENrs

crowd a list of the men who want open |
saloons there into three columns.
Jessie Morrison is number 1851 at |
the penitentiary and will remain so
until August 26, 1905, unless pardoned |
out.
General Prosperity, who has resided |
in Kansas for three years, has prob |
ably gone to the mountains for the |
summer.
A Leavenworth saloon keeper cred
its the drouth to Carrie Nation. She
said she would make Kansas dry
state and has done II.
Ed Little is now drawing $50 a month
pension from the government for the
wounds which he received when Fred
Funston rose to fame.
When DIR. Casebeer, Of Chicago,
took up his residence in Cherryvale
the other day the Clarion ran the item
top of column under the weather head.
The Star says Colby woman baked
fresh bread for supper left it on the
window sill where the sun got at 1t
and the family ate toast for their even
ing meal.
Amos Martin, aged l0i of Prince
ton, Pa, has started to walk the ITO
miles to Deavenworth. Luckily for
him Kansas believes in death bed
repentance.
All the water ran out of the creek at
Burlington and left foot of green
skum and the street commissioner had
to blast out channel below to skim
the stink hole.
The Newton Kansan says that while
many things go without saying, the
young man on the front porch with the
daughter OF the family generally says
without going.
There are worse things than marry
ing an Atchison boy as was proven
the other day when a girl enroute to
the reform school evaded her father
and married one.
Since the days of Solomon there has
been no smarter man than Evelyn
Baldwin, of Kansas. 1t was a stroke
of true genious to seek the north pole
this kind of weather.
The Galena Times wants the genius
who invented the stocking without an
ankle to devise pants without legs.
The editor thinks they would be com
lOfldDle JneSe udyS.
1t 10 so dusty at Spring Hill the
editor of the New Era asks all the
young fellows who do their sparkling
while driving about town to please
desist until after rain.
The Santa Fe is not only substitute
ing oil for fuel on its engines but has
splinkled over 1900 miles of road with
oil which keeps down the dust and
makes the travel much more pleasant.
If Andrew Carnegie were but a
young man, lived In Kansas now and
e let the Kansas girl inveigle him into a
soda water shop he could quickly
cease worrying over those awful
riches.
The Lindsborg Record notes that
Hialmar Wetterstrom has big new
J horn. That accounts for the western
r Kansas rain: Wetterstrom' breath
t exploding in that horn did the precip-
? itating.
Last Saturday Hutchinson baker
put Il S. gold piece in loaf of bread,
81 IL was found Sunday in the loaf a
p party of Sunday picknickers took With
{ them to the woods. Is it better TO be
a good or lucky?
r Bent Murdoch notes that there is a
p drouth in Jerusalem and water is be-
ing piped from Sloan Springs for
domestic use. People who don't like
to mention the other place above a
whisper might put it; Hotter thar
, Jerusalem"
There is general grin over the
western part of Kansas where they
had rain and the eastern part OF the
D State need not be surprised if offers o
= 'relief" should be made this fall 10y
, the short grass country.
Further evidence of how rich MAJ
V feels when full comes from Abilen,
. where man sued the city for SO, 00I
q for fall down cellar way. He wa
! sober, but had he been drunk he would
= never have asked for cent.
{ The influence of the press was again
l. brought in evidence last week. Tn,
Hoisington Dispatch has been fighting
= for a new depot for five years and nov
the Missouri Pacific has decided t.
; build one. The old one burned dow
Z last week.
:, The Kansas State Medical BoarC
insists on all practicing physicians
;, showing their certificates or gfadua
ton to them, but they got a jolt wher
DR.. All Sam OF Lawrence submitted {
e parchment covered with Chimes,
characters.
y Ottawa is financially embarrasseC
n and schemer now plans to use tn,
q ammonia tainted water from the ic,
plant for sprinklin" the streets
" Clothes pins will be furnished for tn,
nose of all citizens at less cost than t,
secure clean water for sprinkling.
n A belated 4th of July story come
9 from Cotfeyvile of small boy who
= was told by his mother not to go GU
u shooting fire crackers with the boy
" but to stay and rock the baby. AS HI
X went through the door his mothe
- heard him say something about "let
lie ting the skyrocket."