The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-13
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Junction City points with pride to her
jail. It is empty.
Meadow larlzs have not yet ceased to
sing in Rush county.
Out in Cloud county they sprain their
ankles shucking corn.
Syracuse could be made happy with
more soft water wells.
Mcpherson privately admits to having
several vacant buildings.
Pratt has a coal famine all right, but
what they really want is COAL
North Topeka is ''fggurin'' on a joinE
revival. There should be no lack of ma
te-ial.
Liberal is missing several good shows
on account Of not having an appropriate
building.
The Concordia police have two bicyc-
les which they picked up, without
The present st. Francis jury tempers
its verdiets with mercy. An Angel is
the foreman.
Small boys at Wichita who play
hockey are arrested and placed in the
great big Jail.
A Tyler street Topeka young lady
who plays too aggressively declare ping
pong is punk.
One of the finest farms in Sedgwick
county has Just been sold for trifie
over 500 per acre.
At the Salina poultry show ducks are
a prominent feature But then this is
their Kind of weather.
The Atchison Globe has passed its
twenty fifth year and like wine i'm
proves, if possible, with age.
Leavenworth Democrats will confuse
their opponents by nominating Mr..
Prbyziylowitz (correct) for mayor.
A Burden citizen expects the man who
stole his hog to bring it back and get the
reward-about five years at Lansing.
A young lady sank so deep in the
mud at Fort Scott crossing that it re-
quired steam derrick to extract her.
At Usage City there's complaint of
the meat trust, yet the booksellers have
not raised the price of Lamb and Bacon.
"Oh We Of little faith" wasn't in
tended to apply to the Mcpherson man
who advertises for the return of n lost
$5 bill.
The editor of the Hill City Republican
has evidently made his peace with all
of his readers, as he offers his shotgun
for sale.
Hutchinson is doing considerable cleo
| trio road talk But to successfully build
lire the current must be turned in
another channel
A Wichita man charged with picking
pockets promptly waived examination.
OF course; he shouldn't be expected to
miss his Christmas egg nogg.
Sumner county points with pride to
a farmer over go years of age who has
! BteNANC.t >Vo dN1OS VI MAlSdA ny bAi4SCil
this fall.
Just prior to Christmas exercises the
hot air furnace in the Westmoreland
church has been tried and found not
wanting.
Arkansas City has a water witch who
has found that in order to keep in the
swim he must add gas and coal to his
itinerary.
Two Italians at Atchison have quit
the fruit business and gone to shining
shoes. There is less capital invested and
more profit
association advertise: ITO help enlarge
the graveyard come to the social and eat
our wafdes."
A quintette of Hoyt young ladies who
went for days squirrel hunting. adj
mitted to catching only only colds ard
killing nothing but time.
Farmer Mason near Westmorelaud is
the latest tos claim TO have planted the
| first alfalfa seed in Kansas He put in
a piece of ground in 1862
A Great Bend couple who did stunt
with Ringiings this season will poke
their heads in the lions mouth for-Bar-
mum & Bailey during 1903.
A Iayetta man is figuring on starting
a creamery at Eskridge. Now there :
nothing unlawful about the dairy bu,
still the milkman always does business
| on the ct.
Souvenir spoons of the new Newton
Presbyterian church can be gotten by
seeing" the committee The item fails
to state how strong the committee has
to tbe SEEM
For 30 cents an Ottawa boy waded in
a pond UP to his neck and stood in the
icy water Is minutes. VIII the girl that
gets the Christmas present bought with
that money appreciate it?
A farmer near Doniohan had sixteen
turkeys Grated the other night prepara-
tory to marketing, but found them miss
ing in the morning. Some people want
| to gobble up everything.
Hope supplied Solomon section hand
with parachute to let himself down
easy Working at 81 per day he had
saved s400 but made temporary loan
to his bride-to-be. Now she is MISSING
and he is following the handcar along
the old grade again.