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

jndl lfegO county EOld SnaIe prop
osition looks like full blood cousin
to the we'll known shell game.
The city treasury at Parsons was
enriched $50 Monday morning as u
result of the excursion into that town
Sunday.
The Leaveuworth Times says Kan
sas' only sensation now is the hot
weather and that she has superabun-
dance of that.
The people of Topeka were some
what surprised to find that the man
who had charge of the smallpox pest
house also sold milk.
There is general impression over
the state that the weather man is not
lighting fair and is guilty of hitting
below the belt--the corn belt.
Arkansas City Traveller. "All in
dications point to the fact that several
weeks may elapse before it is time to
publish that the frost is on the pump
kin vine?"
over in Japan when Il fire breaks
out on II mans premises he is sent to
the penitentiary. In Kansas he col
lects his insurance and lives happy
ever after.
one advantages of Il paper mill is
that IL makes a market for straw
Douglas county farmers are getting
81 an acre from their wheat land for
the straw alone.
An eastern paTor thinks that there
is not enough moisture in drouth
stricken Kansas to dampen postage
stamp and suggests an improved kind
with IA rivet fastener.
The Marion Iecord says that the
devil takes no vacations. But he is
probably the only party of note in
this state who hasn't had IA longing to
get away somewhere right now.
Attention has been called to two TT.
Scott ice dealers who are laid up with
sprained backs. There is probably
not another dealer in the state who
delivers chunks large enough to be
dangerous.
The Neosho Falls Post says that the
regular greeting the men of that town
receive when they return home is:
"Well, come in or stay out: you're
letting in million lies"
ID. O. McCray, Webb McNall and
Jerry Botkin all registered for claims
in the new Indian country. And while
Kansas don't wish the new land bad
luck she does hope these Populist
brothers will draw farms.
The paternal lullaby as affected by
the heat at Parsons:
oh my precious precious pet
Angels fit around you;
Nowny, nOwny, nowny, now,
Go TO sleep confound you
Produce men are experiencing CON
siderable difficulty now in shipping
eggs as the hen fruit matches out in
the heat. Not even u hardened COM
mission man can claim peeping
chick is fresh egg"
A Topeka bachelor informs the
Herald that he discredits the story
thai. love is blind. He says in long
experience he never knew man in
! love who couldn't see twice as much in
his girl as he, the bachelor, could.
a man who visited Kingman as
| solicitor for an agricultural paper,
not only offered the paper cheap but
gave the subscribers drink and a
chance to draw few dollars as wit
| nesses before the county attorney. He
was detective.
An Ottawa girl has been going with
IA fellow named Snow of that place for
some ten years, and they were married
last week. IL required temperature
of l03 in the shade to melt her heart
and convince her of the Joy of being
snow bound for the rest of her days.
Winfield is in dead earnest on the
beer question. policeman attempted
to capture dray load and the driver
refused to stop. The policeman fired
on the team twice, chased the outfit all
over town at a break neck rate, and
then had the man arrested for fast
driving.
Leavenworth Times: During the
Jessie Morrison trial q Kansas minis
ter preached from the text: GAS ye
sow, so shall We reap" Jessie has
now been placed in the tailor shop oil
the penitentiary, and a companion
sermon on "As We sew, so shall We
rip" might not be irreverently map
propriate.
Even society girls have yielded &c
the heat and dress cool at home now
A Wichita girl answered the door bel
recently and let her beau enter, ther
went to call herself. When she go
her pads, complexion and other ac
cessories in place she swept into the
room and he never recognized her as
the same girl who admitted him.
According to the Sentinel coloreG
porter on the Union Pacific reels of
the following "call" on running into
Solomon; "Solomon-change cars
for Minneapolis aud Beloit-don't
forget your umbrellas and small
MISREPRESENTATION is a town of l, l0(
population, and 1000 of the peopl,
! will meet you al the depot-Solomonn