The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-07
IAYHAwKER LoTs.

The editor of the jamestown Opti-
mist says it's time to plant turnip
seed.
Mcpherson county floods have swept
out three separate planted crops of
broomcorn.
Very naturally most of the coal
beavers working for the Frisco at Ne
odesha are colored.
Twenty-Five years ago at Fredonia
potatoes were SO cents a bushel and
ice four cents a pound.
New potatoes. fried chicken and
spring water is the daily diet of
Ulysses folks these times.
An auto-hack is the latest Great
Bend wonder Like the electric car
it runs, no pushee, no pullee.
A Wilson county youth complains
because his girl wears hoops. He says
he can't get near enough to her.
Now that dog days are approaching
the sheriff of Graham county would
like to buy a pair of bloodhounds.
An umbrella was left untouched in
an hour, and a storm coming up, too
AS few of the Esbon inhabitants are
afflicted with poor eyeSight acetylene
lights are considered good enough for
the town
Hays City doesn't boast of it but
simply admits the town has twenty
three joints and perhaps as many
bootleggers.
The race for fame is nip and tuck
at Cherokee between "the boy orator"
and the man who caught "a rats with
out the aid of cat.
Three sets of horse traders reached
Lebanon the same day. A good horse
man declares the combined lot wasn't
worth stable room.
An FL Dorado man takes a philo-
sophical view of the flood. He says
while it killed so acres of his alfalfa
it drowned all the gopherS.
Not all red headed girls have fiery
tempers. One of the sunniest, best
natured maidens in Topeka has hair
that would put poppy to blush.
There is nothing selfish about the
Lucas people. They not only filled the
tent of a Ten Nights in a Bar-room"
show but remained for the concert.
They have nimble animals out at st.
Francis One prominent citizen is
nursing an injured hip and black eve
resulting from the kick of a horse
Hays City man who has no oil
stock is heavily interested in a Colo
RADIO gold mine that has uncovered a
body of ore assaying $500 to the ton.
In the majority of the Missouri Val
ley league towns it must be admitted
that the umpire contributes largely
towards making the games a bowling
success.
The Eureka Herald claims to be one
of the Oldest papers in Kansas. AS
in July, 1868, the word lone" would
seem superfiuous.
An Erie man signed up seventeen
times at a local drug store for liquor
during the last half of June. and dis
covered that he had a new disease
each time.
In the darkness of the night at a
Morrill, smokehouse a thief was able
to discriminate He carried away
three large hams and left the sidemeat
and pigs feet untouched.
The editor of the Graham Recorder
has discovered a pair of mules in his
county 16 Z and II feet high. 1t is
barely possible, however. that the typo
inserted feet where hands was written.
A very ungallant trick of lightning
at Downs was to drive a steel hairpin
in a lady's head the full length 1t
will make combing the hair the figure
eight fashion for a fortnight, an i'm
possibility.
According to the Colby Tribune the
groom was sober. The paper saws:
The BRIDE Miss Alfaretta Trombley
appeared smiling and winsome. Mr.
George Brinton Mcclellan Brown, the
groom. was more sober. but perfectly
composed