The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09
JAYHAwKER JoTs.


Wellington has its light plant but no
lights.
They are still everlasting cannons at
Osawatomie.
White City INDUCES In ice cream
every Saturday.
Horned toads are still considered .
curiosity at Waterville.
Gray wolves are not an uncommon
sight on the Syracuse town site.
A once leading Fort Scott merchant
is dead. Alone. penniless, and q city
charge at the end.
Farmer ELAN, of Piqua, is an earnest
advocate OF irrigation. His well IL filed
with a blind horse.
A Jackson county bunch Of millet
has grown six feet and four inches since
Bailey was nominated.
Twenty-Five years ago July 80 water
melons were a drug on the Fredonia
market at nickel each.
The Lyon county poor farm has II
occupants and not a one OF them Is able
to feed the pigs or milk the cows.
A long supposed tropical cactus of .
Newton woman blossomed out the Other
evening into a night blooming cereus.
Mr.. Hay of Newton called in the doc
tor for a slight ailment and of course
the physician pronounced it hay fever.
A Concordia woman who tainted at
the sight of mouse killed a large
snake in her parlor without tremor.
A Dillon man who has served 81
years continuously on the school board
allowed himself to accept one more
term.
Two weak women were the first pris-
oners to break out OF the new Emporia
Jail. The contractor feels the stigma
deeply.
Just to see how 1t seems to be plu-
tocrat. farmers around Spring Hill have
formed an English bluegrass seed
trust.
Four Atchison colored persons recent
ly attended a dance in a rubber tired
hack Well. why not. II they had the
price.
Bale waggener understands the way
to voters heart. He will open his
campaign with a free barbecue and
girls band.
A swarm of bees tried to hive on
live electric light wire at Galena. Their
apparent indignant establishment was
worth the watching.
Hutchinson's proposed automobile
line should prove a success, save on
muddy DAYS, when the citizens could
walk or take hacks.
The Holton Recorder wants to know
what has become of the old fashioned
boy when asked his name would answer
"puddin' and tanner"
Four divorces were applied for ont
day in the Topeka courts this week.
the sea OF matrimony.
The worm has turned. An Allen coun-
ty farmer by a nervy bluff whipped out
some lightning rod sharks instead of
becoming the victim.
A Wichita man has dismissed a court
his canine unlawfully. The pup had
simply been away visiting.
An Uncle Toms Cabin company
with mountain pass by moonlight
and pair of Cuban bloodhounds" is
doing the short grass country.
A Coffeyville woman tried to hold
burglar until her husband came, but
handful of red pepper dashed in her
eyes gave her a different view.
An Abilene paper referring to newly
married man says: sMcInery-Sh Short"
If he isn't now he probably will be when
the grocery bills begin to come in.
On a bet of $500 a Norton blacksmith
ran six miles in Sc minutes without tir-
ing in the least. There seems to be no
limit to the recuperating powers of
Kansas ozone.
A Pleasanton man offers a suitable
reward for the return of a lost goat
AS the animal remains at large it is
presumed that there is no reward suit
able for such an act
Arkansas City grocers have q sugar
war on and the price per pound is re-
duced to a song. But the good house
wife laments not as she notices the
jelly grapes growing ripper every day.
The Arkansas Valley Spiritualist as
ISOLATION will meet at Cedarvale in Sep
TENDER. In the absence of Anna Eva
Fay from the state senatorial candi-
dates might journey to Chautauqua
county.
A Glasco man refused by dining
room girl tried to end his existence by
putting a bullet through his heart but
recalled after he became conscious that
he had given his heart to the waitress
before shooting.
At F>irebrand camp meeting in Dick
fnson county one enthusiastic brother
who thought the converts were not
marching up to the mourners' bench
fast enough yelled out: DO hurry up
Lord. you're SO SLOW"
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