The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-23
JAYHAwKER Jors.

The Pecos Valley fruit car exhibit has
reached Chanute
Diptheria is causing more trouble in
Atchison than politics.
A Parsons man settled plain drunk
with the city for sixty cents.
An Atchison girl feels passing rich be-
cause she has coal black eyes.
An Ellsworth cherry tree is bearing its
second crop of fruit and blossoms
Bonnacord has had a Whit of prospect
tvs wave. The Mount Pleasant church
has a new roof
Emporia has banished John the Coat
to rural pastures His crime was han
ding too much Book beer.
Not caring to be the iceman in Kansas
this winter a, Gypsum citizen has gone to
Louisiana to be the riceman.
Topeka had a swell wedding and going
away event last evening and best of all
no rice buildings in embryo were wasted.
MY kingdom for a street sprinkler is
the agonized wall from Abilene And yet
politicians are spouting around town daily.
It hardly seems possible that a man
should die from poverty this year in Kan
sas but that's what happened a Burling-
ton.
Fresh ripe strawberries. That's what a
Leavenworth county farmer is enjoying
on his table these hazy Indian summer
days.
&diQWtll CltlZ6nS O0SlflIlS up-lO-Qdle p1C-
lures of the flood and garden of Eden can
probably find them at Noahs ark art
store.
A number of Concordia men are taking
| the tobacco cure To one who doesn'
chew, quitting the weed would seem the
easier.
Talk about the industrious ant-A Sum-
ner county man by much practice can
write the Lords prayer in circle the size
of a nickel.
1t has been so long since they had a
good corn crop in Reno county that many
farmers have forgotten how to use a
husking peg
Twenty-four beautiful ladies are to be
used in a church social checker game at
Wellington. None but those with small
feet need apply.
A Cloud county woman while away Wis
iting caught the smallpox. Husbands who
care for warm dinners should push this
item to the front.
Insane over religion" is the sorrowful
charge entered opposite once prom
inent citizens name on the Franklin coun-
ty probate court ledger
Scientists should hold an inquest over the
Parsons atmosphere. A deaf and dumb
man for four years began talking immed-
lately upon reaching town
Thirteen cases of beer, nine boxes OF
| bottled whisky and a barrel of booze was
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sons turned out to the funeral.
It is said that rolling stone gathers
no moss. But the continuous How tc
Mark Your Ballot serials are accumu-
lating a fair winters supply.
Ottawa merchants have been worked
| by an alleged rat exterminator. They
think the agent took his own medicine
He thoughtfully collected in advance.
Lyon county farmer swinging hi:
scythe cutting cane nearly whacked on'
of his sons legs off. The doctor sug
/ gested that he had evidently been raising
/ cain.
It's a simple matter to forecast a LAM
slide prior to election but those betting
on the straight Republican ticket in Shaw
| nee county have decided not to pay thei
| wagers until after the votes are counted
Once more we hear of how the wicked
saloon men of Shawnee county have i'm
ported hundreds of Illegal voters to stuf
the ballot boxes. Topeka mothers ar
sending their children to bed early witt
bogie tales of a similar character.