The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-07
JAYHAWKER JoTs

Ellis sidewalks need repairing.
Lyon county cattle are dying from
plague of black leg.
Strange to say the Bucklin Free Metho-
dist church is in debt
Harvey county will need 49, 900 ballots for
the November election.
Two Humboldt beets weigh 20 pounds
with the tops and loose dirt off.
Ten hills to a bushel are the kind of
potatoes they have in Smith county.
Soon two banks will be doing business
in Latham where now there are none.
An Abilene man who has a SIS Panama
hat is contemplating trading it off for
ton of coal.
Floods so injured Cawker City that the
Ledger required a supplement to tell of
the damage.
A superstitious Topeka woman doesn't
object to ''13' when one of the dozen eggs
is a double yolk.
Smith Center band girls will give a
shadow social. 1t should be no trouble to
drum up a crowd.
Just afterFarmer Shuey of Dickinson re-
fused 1925 for his big bay team one of the
horses laid down and died.
Out of 1873 guesses on a prize loaf of
bread at FL Dorado two women figured
the exact weight-11A pounds.
The biggest pumpkin at an Abilene prize
show weighed 1862 pounds and the small
est 69lA Could this happen in any other
state?
This mornings Capital sees Craddock
easily demolished in the joint debate with
Bailey. But wait till the Wichita Beacon
comes out
Dr. Wright of Emporia was thrown
from his buggy and his shoulder dislo-
Gated He says it's a case of the wrong
Mr.. Wright.
A Stockton man wants information of a
large white tank the high water carried
off. He might do well to advertise in the
New Orleans papers.
Business seems fairly good for the Con-
cordia man who has two criminal suits
and breach of promise case on hands be-
sides a 1000 acre farm.
An ottawa man of seventy years con-
tinues to rise daily at o'clock although he
hasn't thing on earth to do save sit
around and wait for breakfast.
Up at Abilene the janitor forgot to turn
off the water and the city hall and con-
tents were ruined And as if that wasn't
enough the plumber was sent for
Among Galena's visitors is a real live
prince He is a direct descendant of Mon
tezuma and staggers along through life
under the title of Prince Nanzeta de
Velasco Montezuma-"
A Beloit party doing the Smoky and
Solomon rivers in a steamer would have
reached their journeys end sooner if fall
ing waters had not left them stranded on
the dam at Minneapolis.
A Herington woman who married Il
week after divorce rather than waiting the
regulation six months has had the divorce
set aside. The first husband appeared just
as surprised and just as mad as the wo-
man.
colored resident of Pawnee can put a
nickel pie in his mouth without leaving
any of it on his lips. This can be readily
believed when it is known that his mouth
measures nine inches from to ear
when open.
Instead of Father, dear father, come
home with me now" a small boy entered
a Coffeyville joint the other night, grab
bed his father by the coat-tail and angrily
exclaimed: you come home with me,
you old fool
Editor Eckert of the Arkansas City
Traveller owns an oil portrait of Lincoln,
two-thirds life size, which he bought in
1865 for SIT. a shotgun and revolver. He
has since been offered $500 but the picture
| is not for sale.
Topeka pastors continue to see all the
citizens of the capital city route to the
| demnitfon bOw-wows at automobile
gait. The world Will never be quite as bad
as they think it is, probably, nor so good
as they think it ought to be-