The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-04
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

Ill, 1872 Kansas peoplenowhave bank
accounts, that is that many had short
ly before Christmas.
An Eldorado man with seven daugh-
tiers always refers to the front parlor
as "the court room"
Three swallows may make summer
but three swallows in Kansas very
frequently closely precede fall.
We Gods What columns and col
umns Willie Bryan will write
when his first bill for print paper
comes in
An Alma man has invented ma
chine that will put load of manure
on wagon in five minutes. 1t is an
aesthetic boon.
The little town of Uniontown in
Bourbon county has a new paper, a
preacher having the requisite faith to
hitch his name to it.
One West Point official says he put
four drops of tobasco sauce on his
tongue and it didn't burn. He ought
to get new tongue.
The most common expression of
bride-grooms to be in Pawnee county
is that they "are looking lor Gore. -
Gore is probate Judge.
A Salina parent has two boys who
look SO deucedly alike that he was
really pleased when a horse kicked
one in the forehead and branded him.
In corn-husking contest for $25
side, beginning at a. m. and ending
at $50, with an hour off for dinner,
two men husked 1875 and 157 bushels
recently.
In the gizzard of a Galena duck was
found 40 cents worth of gold. The
only Kansas bird that hasn't proved
gold bearing up to date is the sedate
tailor's goose.
A church society at Ottawa handed
the Herald a notice which announced
some Xmas exercises, and thereupou
Mr.. Allen gravely suggested that it
ought to interest all 'Xtians."
The Belle Plain Defender says there
is new brand of cigarettes called the
musical" Every time you take one
from the box miniature music box
plays Nearer my God to Thee"
A Chanute man offers to trade his
watch for most any kind of an animal,
Il dog preferred. The theory is that
if he gets a dog he will get fair swap
of ticks.
Parsons is a railroad town and all
her people are so loyal to things rail
roady that none will tell girl who
wears her hat on Il 30 pound switch
that it looks frightful,
Il wish, a." said the girl in the rainy
day skirt, according to the Emporia
Gazette, "that you wouldn't keep
looking at my skirts all the time
"You've got another guess" said the
bad boy.
The Ottawa Herald predicts that the
outcome of the kidnapping graft will
be that certain fathers will pay 425, 900
to permanently get rid of eXtravagant
sons. There are those who could
afford it.
The Marshal County News correctly
figures tina. if all road tax was paid
in cash and the money spent for grad
ing machinery and steam shovels, the
day of good roads would bematerially
helped along.
1t was in meeting and each person
present was expected to quote verse
OF Scripture as he contributed, The
grabbed old bachelor dropped in a
nickle and recited: "A fool and his
money are soon parted"
The boys of Highland decided that
it was swagger to stag il to dances
but recently when eight showed up at
dance and not girl in sight they
decided thereafter to ha' few of the
fair, frail things present.
An old law has been found which
permits Kansas boys of 10 and girls
of ID to marry, and the Hutchinson
News cites this as an excellent case of
the unluckines of -, were the law
followed.
Smith Cooley of Hartford, one of
Lyon county's best known greyhound
fanciers and coursing sports welded
an lmporia girl Christmas day. The
time which he formerly spent in chas-
ing hares will henceforth be devoted
TO his heirs.