The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-21


The ozawkie ball diamond is in a
corn field
Taxes were collected on 8,os2 dogs in
Washington county and not a single
sheep.
Cabbage for dinner just 81 days after
planting is the record of Rice county
woman.
A pest of book agents have worried
Jewell City, business men the past
fortnight.
Russell claims to need a curfew for
their married men. Make home more
attractive.
Sedan is protesting strongly on a ten
cent fee for the delivery of Western
Union messag es.
An Alden pullet born February 49,
cackled over it's first egg June Is. This
is progressive age.
Jewell is the banner cherry county of
Kansas. A Al, eco busheI crop is a con-
sentative estimate.
The Valley Falls brass band meets
all outgoing and incoming trains car
rying bridal parties
Speaking of hustlers a Scandal wo-
man has ffty-nine different varieties
of roses in her yard
A number of Smith county men
will make a run at the opening of the
Rosebud Indian agency.
An Atchison county girl did herself
and family proud by picking 170 boxes
of Strawberries in ten hours.
Larned is to have. a commercial club
where the men can loaf This idea fol-
lows the rest room" for the women.
Ia a storm at Glen Elder the hail
stones were as large as crab apples.
In most sections they are hen egg size.
A Peabody editor has returned from
a trip to California. Even the poor
newspaper men can do a little gadding
this year.
Whether the Fourth of July shall be
held Ion the north or south side" is
furnishing fireworks at Hanover ahead
of time.
Providence moves in a mysterious
way its wonder to perform. Lightning
struck the county poor house at Hays
the other day.
About the best ball tosser in north
ern Kansas is a, Methodist minister at
Osborne. He could properly join the
Topeka Saints.
A branch some ten inches long con-
tanned 200 currants, If the lady who
carried them to the Ottawa Herald
Office counted correctly.
pocketbook picked up near Hor-
ton contained two passes only. That
it belonged to an editor or politician
goes without saying.
A Hiawatha Democrat has gone to
Kentucky for visit. But he will be
back for the fall election as his vote
isn't needed down there.
am going TO nowhere, wrote an
Ottawa man and disappeared. How
many of us can answer differently
when the final summons comes.
Seven horses burned in a livery fire
It Sabetha- With the philosophy of
Mrs. Wigs the owner thanked God it
was them instid of the baby"
A Clyde colt ate three umbrellas
stacked up in the pasture by a picnic
party. Animals that know enough to
come in out of the wet are few.
Thirty years ago, June a. shower
fell in Chautauqua county then not an
other drop of rain until September 3.
That was grasshopper year also.
There wasn't breeze enough at
Barnes Sunday and Monday to run the
city windmill. Kansas motto is get
ting to be less wind and more gas
An Oskaloosa barber advertises free
shaves and hair cuts. The town is
not wondering how long he will keep
it up but is simply going early to
avoid the rush.
Newton and Hutchinson was as a.
summer zephyr beside the struggle
which will be pulled off when the op-
posing golf clubs meet.
The girl who sells the most merry
go-round tickets at Parsons July is
to be presented with gold watch.
The young man who isn't out of town
that week isn't onto his job.
A rooster belonging to a Gypsum
family attacked the little girl and be-
fore driven away pecked holes in each
ear 'And in addition to the doctor s
bills added the father, in telling the
story, II had to buy g. pair of ear
rings"