The Iola register., 1901-04-19
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+ KANSAS CLIPS and COMMENTS +


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*s*** OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
A $685. 900 fire burned the Newman
block in Holton Friday, the second
time the same block has burned.
Bronson has S475 left over in the
bank from her former gas fever and is
raising enough more to sink a gas
we'll.
The Holton Tribune says that Fred
Fuuston may mot be Westpointer,
and adds that neither is he disap-
pointer.
A few announcements for county
Offices are creeping into the papers,
some wise lads deciding to take no
chances.
The Wellsville Globe tells OF dog
shipped from that town to Oregon the
express on which was S22, while a
mans fare is but S25.
A New Yorker who has spent the
winter at Newton is stuck on the eli
mate. He got stuck on the soil too,
but only late this spring.
j. NJ. Whitaker, the cattle king of
Labette county, has gone to live with
Grant Gillette, leaving his creditors
to condole with Gillette's.
The "Kansas Utopia Association"
with headquarters at Topeka is a new
lodge, organized, tits said, to hasten
forgetfulness that Carrie is.
The LaCygne bank has been moved
from its old stand to u former barber
shop room and shaving has been re-
sumed, notes replacing mugs.
The Emporia Republican falls into
rhyme while it remarks,
Mrs. Nation makes Kansas notorious
While Fred Funstonma it glorious"
If the Kiowa reservation is opened
with a drawing for the claims, about
II, 900, 600 applications will be filed.
There is nothing to lose and $500 to
gain.
A New York travelling man suicided
recently, leaving this note: 81 go to
seek the hereafter. Tell Carrie Nation
that rum and cigarettes are a damna-
| tion."
A rural editor in writing of a new
addition to the village church choir
says: "Her voice is as soft as butter
in August and as tender as pair of
Sl.9S trousers"
Since Aggie has sworn allegiance
the Mail & Breeze has withdrawn all
opposition and consented for Annie
Diggs to call him her "little brown
brother" providing Aggie don't
mind.
A criminal in a Michigan jail has
just confessed that he helped rob a
Missouri bank of $4,000 and buried
it under a tree in Emporia. But ne
dug it up and spent it before he con-
fessed.
''If this town is to be wet this
year." remarks the prohibition phi
losopher of the Nortonville News, as
he contemplated the city election re-
turns, "then it will be good time to
plant trees"
The Lyons Republican of says a re-
cent dispatch in the Capital that said
oil had been found near that town
that same dispatch was printed two
years previously and no developing
has been done since.
A western Kansas male editor said
that he would rather kiss western
Kansas female editor on the cheek
than on the mouth. Naturally she is
hutfy and she comes back with the
statement that while she have any
say in the matter he will kiss neither.
Among the bona-fide headings of
marriage notices which are funny is
"Strain- Button" one in the Philipps-
burg Dispatch. Will o. Strain of
Philippsburg and Lille Button of
Pomona, and needless to say the
shingle nail will lose its Importance
with him.
Marion Record: Conner Davies, of
the Concordia Kansan, Is in favor of
law allowing a father to cast as
many votes as he has children? 1t was
in front of Gomer,s home, you remem-
Der that the book agent stopped and
inquired of the children playing in the
yard, 'Is the teacher in2''
A man who hides his identity under
abe name of Alvah Smith contributes
tale to the Emporia Gazette about
drilled water we'll that sucks in air
four hours and then blows it out.
Smith thinks thereis a deep cave and
when the air is heavy the pressure
forces 1t into the cave, and when light
the air rushes forth. 1t may be ex-
pected that the we'll will etsomething
crosswise In its breathing apparatus
and cough up endless mysteries for
other suckers to believe.