The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-09-27
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

u. Gilroy has moved from Eureka
to Toronto. OF course he flew his kite.
Vic Murdoch moves to have the
Roosevelt Club recently organized in
Topeka disorganized.
The Eldorado Republicans idea OF
feast this time of year is pawpaws,
persimmons and possum.
Down in Cowley county where every
body is rich from wheat they still
afford the luxury OF hay rides.
The Wichita Jail was empty FOR sew
eral hours the other day, thing
which never happened before.
Thanksgiving Day is coming again.
| Someone stole twenty-one turkeys
from Blue Rspids man last week.
Cherryvale has signed up a con-
tract with the Welsbach people for
fifty gas lamps ut $50 each per year,
including care.
a Galena man left his stove on the
back porch over night and "a thief
took it. 1t is astonishing how strong
some light fingers" are
Chas. Elliot, who lives near Win
| field, believes he cleared 50, 600 Oft 60
acres of alfalfa this year. He lives
across town from the asylum, too.
These are mournful days for the ex.
change readers. Telegraph, editorial
and local columns are all fearful, and
after the dailies come the weeklies.
The Arkansas City Traveller is slow
to blame the mosquito for spreading
malaria but unnesitatingly thunders
and condemns him for spreading his
kind.
'All anarchists look alike to us, "
shouts the editor of the Sterling
Journal, as he looks around for "a
chester.
The ancient and modern is cleverly
blended at the Salina Fair. The last
days of Pompeii and bunch of Mex
lean hooche-cooche girls share the
honors.
Greeley, Kansas, from December 10,
1899 to December -, 1900, did not
have a single death. Greeleyites may
not be particularly wealthy or wise
but they surely are healthy.
For five minutes it showed preceding
a rain in Arkansas City on the 10th of
the month. The next tale the new
Dave Leahy will be circulating will be
of man drowning in the Arkansas
river.
One of the REGISTERS county COR
respondents writes that Mr.. Chicken
went across Owl creek for seed wheat
Tuesday" Which is simply further
evidence of the enterprise of the Help
full Hen and her spouse.
The Irvine trust has gone and cor
nered all the sisal on earth and the
penitentiary plant will have to pay
eight instead of five cents pound for
it. For this outrage the trust will
sizzal in the Over There.
That Indiana preacher who was
tarred and feathered for anarchistic
staten ents probably thought of the
text about Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of us" as he
picked feathers of his legs with his
sticky fingers.
The sheriff of Mitchell county cap
tured a stolen team and started home
with it. On the way he passed through
Scandal and was arrested by the town
marshal who had just received a card
describing the stolen rig and thought
J he had the thief.
The papers tell that bolt of light
ming killed cat in a Leavenworth
yard. But the fact remains that the
bolt was so worn out when it got
through finishing the cat it didn't
shock the people in the house, although
but a few feet away.
While a crowd of young men were
watching performance on the Street
Fair midway in the Idols of Art"
tent, II crowd of girls rushed in.
"There's Bert" Hello Charlie!"
and similar greetings quickly sent the
boys blushing from the tent.
In its long history the Republican
party has elected six presidents; three
of these have been assassinated; be-
fore it the Wing party in its long his
tory elected but two presidents, each
dying shortly after Inauguration. No
democratic president ever died in
office.
While an attorney of Concordia
was drawing up divorce papers for a
woman of that town the husband came
home and ran him of the premises
with gun and the next day the lady
phoned that she didn't need him any
more. Lawyers do get their dues,
sometimes.
A Chanute man in Buffalo found a
picture in the Chile exhibit of O. scene
In Paris opera house. A hilarious
party in a box is smoking cigarette 8
and have finished several bottles. An
elderly beau with flushed.face holds a
girl against his shoulder and the girl
looks to the Chanute man like we'll
known Chanute girl. Maybe it was.
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