The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-24
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

1t costs dollar to clip your neighbours
geraniums in Reno county
Mr.; Gadd of Smith Center has just taken
a spin on his wheel to Stockton.
Pratt has a Jack the Peeper." notwfto-
standing they pay a bounty on coyote
scalps.
One of the sights near Thayer is a $1,000
bushel corn pile which will fatten 600 KAN
sas steers.
A Cofey county farmer set a trap to
catch a rat, but a large hawk beat the
rodent to it.
The one feature that makes Winfield
seem like village is its hundreds of
wooden awnings
The past week has been great weather
for ducks Over 1900 were Shipped out of
Ellinwood in one day
Seven Kirwin boys husked ten bushels
OF corn each and donated the proceeds to
their Sunday school library.
Church disturbers in Reno county are
given SIS and court costs. A Jail sentence
would be more to the point
Mr.. Pringle. the gentleman from Osage-
And yet at one time it looked as if there
might be a contest for speaker.
Some of these days when Ell Dorado
gets through with her murder trials an
electric light plant will be put in
Winfield street crossings are so muddy
that woman lost her oversnOss the other
night trying to make the passage.
The humiliation of an Ottawa boy who
broke his arm falling from a burro can
better be imagined than described.
One of the inmates of the Coffeyville
hospital was sent there by a clOd fraC-
turing the tarsal bone of the instep.
The automatic phone system at La
Crosse is to be changed to the Bell. PROP
ably so central can ring off occasionally.
Great is Kansas Violets are. blooming
in Cherokee county and the second crop
Of wild onions are ripe in Ness county
Mr.. Green is bright enough to secure
81. 900 damages from Ottawa for accidcn-
tally finding broken sidewalk after dark
A Rush county boy brought two large
wild geese down at one shot and went out
the same evening and caught two pos
sums.
A Decatur county man who doesn't
know the difference between Dixie and
Yankee Doodle" drew a mandolin at a
rattle.
A Sterling family has a dog that does
large portion of the shopping. even to car
rying home safely a porterhouse or d ross-
for dinner.
A pleasing and annual affair in the New
ton Congregational church is the prepara-
ton of a supper for the women by The
men members
Mr.. Calender of Neodesha found a wee
little baby on his front doorstep the other
morning He considers it a red letter day
in his calendar.
One Pottawatomie apple orchard bore
its owner $500 barrels this season for ship
ment and 1000 bushels for cider. Spring
spraying did it.
There are so many splendid weekly pa
Pers in Kansas that it is impossible to
discriminate. but wei up in the baldhead-
ed row is the Rice County Bulletin.
A Ford county farmer raised a I2-Dound
turnip of the blood variety. This lays on
the back shelf the old proverb about not
being able TO squeeze blood from a Sur-
nio.
A homesick man isn't always the one
that is away from home. A royal good
horsewhipping from the hand of two girls
accounts for the absence of a Dodge City
man.
charitable Wamego woman for many
years Fast has entertained annually the
pioneer settlers OF the town with a din
ner- This year the youngest present was
20 and the eldest SIS years
The Missouri Pacific is said to have pull
ed the longest train on record out of LeaV-
enworth last week. But there was a swell
wedding in town with some wonderful ere
atoms of gowns which must have been
overlooked