The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-18
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Ottawa's new Methodist church is to
cost SEE, 900.
Coyotes are destroying watermelons
in Ford county.
Horse thieves made Burton a sue
cessful visit. No cards.
Right in the face of the ping pong
craze Gueda Springs has taken up golf.
Mr.. Wing candidate for county attor-
ney of Ford. should simply fly n
office.
Two nine months-old porkers at Ell
Dorado brought their owner $44 in the
pen
The last work a Galva man did was
to open a hive to watch the bees make
honey.
A Horton man wears a gold dollar
watch charm that has been In the fam
lily since 1852.
Stafford seems to be gathering itself
together for a bolt on the st. John end
of the ticket.
Toe highly colored socks are RESPONSE
BILE for a severe case Of blood poisoning
at Greensburg.
Wellington is nA so slow. They have
secured the Banda Rosa for their Sep
TENDER carnival.
The Rush Center town attractions
this week are a ferret, and a beet WI
feet in circumference.
Atchison has a real miser who al
though worth 500, 900 makes most OF
his meals on parched corn.
Lawrence girls rave an epidemic Of
sore lips. This seems a queer happen
ing during K. U. vacation.
Hazelnuts and walnuts are plentiful
in Atchison county which means a
hard winter, says the Globe
An Everest man is preparing to join
Santos Dumont. He made a flying trip
to Leonardville last Sunday.
A Labette county man has lost a
Grain IF foifh ar fuvo C5noa kn ho1 10
fat chickens stolen while at church.
Mr.. Craddock is abusing Mr.. Stanley.
This should be as good as several in
structed delegates for the governor.
Ottawa folks are hoping that the tele-
phone war will make talk cheaper. But
they are deluded for its going in to the
courts.
A Chase county man raised 25 BUSH
els of potatoes on 5000 feet of land.
These are cheering days for the tillers
of the soil.
What sublime faith that Mcpherson
citizen must have in his fellow men
that offers a reward for the return of a
lost 500 gold piece.
Lightning tossed a Concordia girl
from her bed at midnight CHANGING at
the clock she saw it was too early for
starting breakfast and retired again.
Senator Burton should remember to
keep his back pedaling machine in Or
der. The state committee may an
nounce those dates some Of these days.
Weeds are taking Chetopa. In many
spots they are over twelve feet high and
h council has issued a prayerful ap-
peal for the citizens to get out their
scythes.
It is announced that T.. T. Kelly has
been successfully operated upon. This
refers to a physical ailment of the
Mama county statesman and not a
political one.
Burton's friends announce with g1ee
that he will be allowe to make speech
es. But a you remember any former
senator that had to beg Of the commit
tee to be assigned in the campaign.
The Usage City Free Press has two
girls dresses, found July 4, awaiting
the owners claim. Happily it will soon
be so the little maids can dig up their
autumn gowns and give the sanctum
q call.
A Prairie View citizen at the age
of 10 years is to marry his brothers
widow. It would seem that a man at
that stage of life would have about as
much use for a marriage license as a
negro for a safety razor at a cake walk.