The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-06
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Topeka is to have a midwinter exposition
but there will be no midway.
Brick walks are the one thing needed to
make Cherryvale's park perfect.
Hutchinson had more marriages than di-
vorces this week which is unusual
Owing to a lack of financial support
Burlington will lose its weather bureau
Ripe raspberries on branch with
blossoms is an October vegetation freak
at Onaga.
Every dog has his day but Yates
Center man found one in his cistern the
other night.
The Burden Eagle editor refuses to
take sweet potatoes less than IT inches
on subscription.
A Leavenworth apple weighed X
pounds and measured Is inches. OF course
it was pippin.
A Parsons bowler made the high score
of 215 last week OF course this doesn't
refer to Cocktails
The location of a library site at Newton
is still moving along under the head OF
unfinished business
A party of five whose combined ages
were Ala years composed a little Chanute
party the other evening.
The Beloit Daily Call has started on the
second year of its existence The paper is
a newsy, well edited sheet
Having nothing else to quarrel about
Wichita promoters are in a row over the
location of the Orient depot
Winfield is one Kansas town where
Uncle Toms Cabin companies always
draw full houses. Why is it?
Two Atchison men guessed within a half
cent of the contents of the corn carnival
money jar. They will get $44 each.
An .Emporia druggist sells such fierce
whisky that one of the boys saw 5nakes
before he got away from the building
The highest point of land in Allen coun-
ty. according to the government surveyors
now at work, is 1870 feet above sea level
Prayer meeting night was changed
last week at Humboldt on account of a
good many wanting to go to the circus
While the boys around White Pigeon.
PottaW2 tonne county, spend their nights
coon hunting, wolves raid their geese
pens.
An Ell Dorado man who had been away
from home for 27 years had to be intro
duced to the family upon his return this
week.
Salinas phone central has resigned af-
ter eighteen years constant service. Even
woman has to draw line on talking
sometimes
An intoxicated man at Galena fell
over a bank and nearly broke his neck
He can now see the folly of taking
drop too much.
Dad CASTOR" confesses to being
easy. But then how can a bachelor
on his buttons.
A Topeka pastor pulled off" a three
column sermon Sunday But then it
isn't always the long winded preacher
that is the broad minded man.
A Topeka man has q corner on all
the hard coal in the city which means
that the thermometers will measure
heat less carefully this winter
A new kind of grass has been discov-
cred by Lakin citizen with q heads
On. Now il thar TAD only been pig
or colt, what fortune he would have
Dodge City seems to be coming in to
it's own again. A man died there re-
Gently with his boots on, and the past
week several antelope came within sight
Of town.
One of the noisiest offenders the To-
peka iailers have had to contend with
for weeks was a drunk who howled all
night. It was clear case of high
bawls
neighbors' felines disturbing his SUM
bers Most cats have some good quail
ties. but as vocalists they are certainly
rank failures.
A Fort Scott man has a 30-shilling
piece issued in 1915 that has been a
family heirloom for over 100 years. Now
if that were only a family tree he could
chop It uD for wood.
An Emporia small boy who stole a
normal girls pocketbook after a severe
sweating acknowledged the corn. AL
of which shows that to err is human
but to lie about it is more so.
Leavenworth woman has applied
for a divorce because her spouse gets
drunk and fails to support her 1t
doesn't follow that because a man in
dulges that he will prove an indulgent
husband.
A Pratt enthusiast styled the football
game with Lindsborg, where the score
stood SO to 0, a hot one The only