The Iola register., 1901-10-04
KANSAS CLlpS AND COMMENTS

KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS
Charles Yess lives at Benton. If
asked to have smile all he need say
is 'YOu know me-"
Henry Allen has bought farm in
Franklin county and now it is a cinch
he will be out for governor.
Judge Flannelly of Labette county
gave himself long sentence when he
married an Oswego girl last week.
The Burlington Independent gives
this short rule for fat people who de-
sire to lose nesh Shave yourself.
Wichita Eagle: For the first time
in long while, we have president
who will go cantering about Washing
ton on the back Of horse.
A middle aged widow of Russell
wants a husband. She specifies that
he must love me and call me honey"
Further deponent saith not.
Born at the home of Ben Thomp-
son, a 10 pound boy" says the Cher
ryvale Clarion. Wonder il there was
anyone at home at the time.
A telephone has been placed in the
Burlington school. How greatly do
modern methods hamper the kids le-
gitimate desire to play hockey
Down at Independence they haul the
fire engine to fires behind a cab. Yet
with all this style the So, 600 residence
of Mr.. Budd burned Saturday.
The X. C. Star says something got
wrong with the Last Days of Pompeii
show at the Salina street fair. The
machinery wouldn't work and so the
lava wouldn't flow.
Ottawa has quit prospecting for gas
and the tools will be sold and the
holes given to any one who will take
them outside of town. The hole in the
gas fund is sufficient.
A Chinese boy was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Low Sam, laundry keepers in
Kansas City, and that nervy burg is
all swelled up over the way she evaded
the Geary immigration law.
An Oskaloosa paper tells how a cit
izen put a revolver in the midst of
his forehead. Strange to relate this
did not kill him, and he had to insert
his fiager and fire the weapon.
The Clay Center Times wants its
readers to subscribe toward big pipe
organ. "A big organ is so much
nicer to be married by or buried BY"
concludes the editor, who knows his
flock.
VIII Hobson, formerly of Ft. Scott,
recently sold his interest in Cripple
Creek mine for 500, ,000 That ought
to enable him to hit the pace with the
swell set in Ft. Scott for at least six
months.
The Independence Reporter says
that Buffalo Bilfs wild west show
took more money out of that town
than from Wichita and jumps on the
commercial club for not securing more
circuses.
Henry Lifts has given up editing a
Democratic paper at Abilene and
joined show where he gets $l5 a week
playing the villain. This is rever-
sal of the old schedule from jest to
earnest"
A good many Kansas people wonder
what Ed Howe, who called Theodore
Roosevelt, vice-president, "a pictur-
esque ass" has TO say of Theodore
Roosevelt, president. From curiosity;
it is unimportant.
Employment agents in Toneka re
port that the hardest cii IS of laborers-
TO find is farm hanus. ror Rapid
Road to Wealth nothing bei Us ~ Job
on farm and diligent siege Of the
boss's daughter heart
Not many wives let their husbands
down easy when caught in some devil
ment, but Galena woman did. She
found her husband hanging himself in
the kitchen with some baling wire,
and let him down very easy.
A western Kansas man is said to
have mistaken the new Santa Fe trade
mark on a car to indicate that the car
contained red cross cough drops. He
anXiously asked a doctor if there was
an epidemic of colds in town.
An Indian Territory admirer of
Newton man sent him big centipede
as a token of esteem. The Newton
man has hbout decided to return the
compliment with a bottle of Kansas
whiskey, the most poisonous thi ng he
can find that is native.
1t is said Missouri parties have
lea sed land in Neosho county and will
start uiatillery and make whiskey
for 'medicin purposes, so Kansas
need not pay high prices to Missouri
dealers any longer. Dear old Mis-
souri, does love Kansas so.
John G. Smith was discharged from
the Leavenworth Soldiers Home Tues
day for cursing Mckinley. Smiths
pension had been stopped and for this
he got sore and accused the govern
ment of all manner OF things. BY
s rLnge coincidence the evening of the
day he was dishOnorably kicked out
he received news OF his reinstatement
on the pension rolls and that he wes
allowed $500 back pension.
Kansas has 5OS, 1854 children of
school age, 494, 1888 whites and 1854
blacks. There are IL ,5l3 teachers en-
ployed in S,927 school houses. The
teachers receive SO, 173, ,062 annually in
wages. The value OF the school build
ings is $40, All, ,O92. Kansas has per-
manent school fund Of So, 800 900, de-
rived from the sale of school lands.
The interest on the fund last year was
$448, 1856, ninety-nine cents per capita.
The interest goes toward the support
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