The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-08
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Horton is agitating a tree planting re-
vival.
A rather odd combine at Oskaloosa is
pool room and confectionery parlor.
An active flash of lightning in McPher-
son county killed seven head of cattle.
4 swell Chanute wedding was held IN
a tent 1t was a cool and breezy happen
inS.
THOSE were discriminating highwaymen
who held up five Sumner county harvest
Atchison has dined on its first roasting
ears of the season. No casualties are re-
ported.
The Sunshine scatterers'' are a group Of
Wellington girls whose work should be
easy these days.
There's always room at the top. for
mer Emporia pastor is now chaplain Oh ire
Colorado penitentiary.
Every night at 9 o'clock the Wellington
marshal rings the curfew, but the chlldreh
fail to ring Off from play.
A nervous Beloit woman decapttating
the head of the first spring chicken added
her thumb to the collection.
A swell colored wedding at Emporia has
been POSTPONED owing to the prospective
groom's poor judgment in exploding dyna-
mite.
most prolific blOomer. Several clusters
adorn the vine. and each cluster contains
at least 90 blossoms
A Cowley county father of Is children
has been divorced and ordered to turn
over $40 acres of land. Again does Is prove
a he odoo."
Fourth of July victim was the man VINO
attempted to ride the unwilling mule IN
the slow race
The most notable feature of the Conway
Springs Fourth was the closing of the sa,
looms Celebra tons there, hereafter, VIII
be under the auspices OF shipped IN
goods.
The sheriff was asked by the proprietor
of a Gueda Springs joint what he woulc
have" upon entering the door. me OIL "a.
cial must have been pretty lhirsIS' DIS HS
took AZ cases of beer.
A Dickinson county tourist writes from
Ireland that he has discovered Masonic
anron 2fO Years old AS rule one season
in a kitchen in this country makes an
apron a rare old relic
A sabetha chicken with four wings
and four legs was given only one neck
to crow its triumph forth.
The Wellington Town Row" started
wears ago when one family refused to
loan another parlor set
Brown county has family OF SIX
travelling men not one of whom uses
tobacco or liquor in any FORM
Kansas labor and Kansas capital are
at peace. There is not a strike worthy
OF mention on in the state today
A citizen of Sterling has accumulated
enough money in p years to return to
AustI ALA, his birthplace, for visit
The marshal of Sedan is known to
all as the "shucking peg. Rrobao9
because he keeps his territory so free
of husks.
A young Marion pastor leaped into
local fame at a single bound by catch
ing pair of runaway mules and quick
~ bringing them to a stop.
1t means a year in the county jail
for the Horton man who beats his
wife. providing, of course, he keeps
within the bounds of moderation.
A fourteen year-old Marion boy spent
the Fourth in the harvest field instead
of exploding crackers. But that lad
to n =
/ to come
Despite the shifts and changes of
railroad life a Hiawatha Missouri Pa
cifc engineer has been buying his but
ter for the last fifteen years from the
same place.
One Erie citizen raised an acre of po-
| tatoes which averaged a half bushel to
the hill, another is without a bible in
the house while the third married a
bride who wore a $500 wedding gown.