The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-14
JAYHAWKER JoTS.

Choke cherries are ripe in Rawlins
county.
The society diversion at Coffeyvi1le at
present is hay rides.
Rocks county infants are troubled
with the whooping cough
A Howard expert can kill, pick and
pack a chicken in 80 seconds.
A Baldwin church remains unfinished
owing to a scarcity of carpenters.
Lightning is accommodating at Sa-
lima. flash struck the fire alarm box.
Wellington owns the electric light
plant but Eliminates the city building
with gas.
This far in advance of Thanksgiving
Ottawa is complaining of scarcity OF
young turkeys.
One Jewell City man has caught five
stray swarms of bees this summer
without sting.
Paradise (Jewell county, has a miss
ing saint. but he writes from Iowa that
he is awfully homesick.
If Stockton mans tape line is cor
rect a cottonwood tree on his place is
10 1-3 feet in circumference.
Fifty Lindsborg college students laid
aside their coats and pencils this week
for broom corn harvest exercise.
Carbonate small boys digging where
a barber shop once stood reSurrected a
couple of dollars in nickels and dimes.
The Atwood Citizen notes that Farmer
Glad was in town jollying up the boys
giving them the Glad hand, as it were.
of a winter wedding has put up twenty
five gallons of kraut for bridal pres
ent.
A Macedonian cry comes up from
Cloud county for a cane mill that will
grind out good old-fashioned country
sorghum.
Baxter is willing to pay for band in
strurnents if the members will bind
themselves to practice away from the
town site.
simultaneously with the announce
ment of a merry go-round tourney at
Hoxie the MetEodists announce the
building Of a brick church.
The old settlers of Jewell county hold
reunion August q. Won't the pio-
neers of the crowd have a time locating
a summer the equal of this.
Buckskin Bills aggregation was shy
one pappoose in the parade at Ottawa
The dusky child of the forest dined off
of a can of paint at breakfast.
A Conway Springs banker has 40
acres of locust trees which he is grow
ing FOR posts. That number ought to
fence in pretty good bank account.
Two Hiattville Republicans in a politi-
cal quarrel stabbed each other perhaps
fatally. Majofities in Bourbon county
being small, the Democrats should take
heart.
1HcSG are StItuuOuS OdyS LOT Tie ldDOT-
ing man at Independence. One who
was impudent enough to ask for wages
due him was shot at a couple of times
by the boss.
A small Topeka politician was kicked
out of an AtchiSon candidates Office re-
Gently for trying to hold him up" Did
the Shawnee county man ask too much
or too little.
On Frog creek, Coffee county. a grove
of seventy-five acres is a mighty roost
for millions of crows. AS a crow has
81 different cries life must be one per-
petual ragtime concert for the neighbor-
ing inhabitants.
Some persons are so sensitive A
Shawnee county woman objects to her
husband beating her; threatening to cut
ner throat; clubbing her to death; strik-
ing her with a hammer and chasing the
children away from home.
Instead of going away to the noun
tains for pleasure COncordia people
take excursions to the new channel of
the river. 1t appears to be as much fun
and has the merit of being decidedly
cheaper.