The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01
JAYHA WKER JOTS

When IS lola InQ1BIldl1OIl HicSt4AiS
to be pulled off?
Neils Torgensen of Downs threshed
47o bushels of wheat from ten acres.
The shortage in the crop of June
brides at lola is being made up by an
over-supply of the July variety
Clay Center. Beloit and Cawker pa
pers are all vieing with each other 10
see which can boom its Chautauqua
assembly the hardest.
Out of 400 voters in Jackson coun-
ty only 1919 voted for Tom Kelly last
fall. This is just called to mind by
Father Beck as a matter of county
pride.
"A Clay county farmer thought that
his wheat would make fifty bushels to
the acre. and when it measured only
forty-two he got mad and thought
something was the matter.
An Emporia man was working out
another mans road tax the other DAY
when he found a five-dollar gold piece.
Now ought the money to belong to the
finder or the man for whom he was
working?
The Lindsborg News tells of a girl
who makes two bites of a carame
when her beau is around. but when
hanging out the family washing. in the
back yard she can take thirteen
clothespins in her mouth at once.
Editor Rupe of the Clyde Herald,
who has been in the newspaper BUSH
ness ever since shortly after the Gar
den of Eden episode, objects to being
called Father" Rupe- So Del VaIen-
tine refers to him as son. and offers
to call him johnnie" in the future.
The millennium must be loaffing
around in the neighbOrhood of Holton-
The Recorder records that a man up
there thoughtlessly hung his umbrella
another man and then went off and lerr
it there. An hour later another man
who found 1t went to the trouble of
hunting up the owner to give it to him.
A Missouri man wrote to County
Clerk Mize of Osborne county offering
800 a quarter for all the good land
he could buy in that county. and also
offering the county clerk ten dollars
commission for buying it for him. The
county clerk declined, explaining that
he would have to spend from $4,000
to $4,000 extra to earn each ten dol
lar bill.
Charlie Scott is in Toxic going to
see the geisha girls and hobnobbing
with the mikado, while Henry Allen is
going around talking to- the farmers
down in Anderson county. Henry will
probab concede Mr.. Scott the solid
delegations from the First and Second
and all the other wards in Toxic. if
Scott will concede him the same thing
in Garnett.
The Howard Courant tells this story:
"A husky young CHAP Win d EOOQ IOOk-
ing girl on his arm dropped into the
county clerks office the other day and
asked what was the charge for a Ii
cense. "a hunters license will cost
you one dollar" said Clerk Logsdon.
Hunters license, nothing!" scoffed
the farmer. what do I want of a
hunters license? I've already found
her. What I want is a license to mar
ry her! Seer" Then he was directed
to the probate judges office.
The Concordia Empire has just is
sued what is very likely the largest
issue of country paper ever printed
| in the state. 1t was made I'D of six
sections of eight pages each, and it
contains a generous amount of adver-
Using. There are five fu1l-page adver-
tisements, two of three-fourths pages
each, "a half-pages, Is quarter
pages. and a multitude of smaller ones
making total of 155 columns.
Here is lession in practical farm
| ing from the Jewell Republican:
Peter Leinberger, as an. experiment
summer fallowed three acres OF
ground, blowing it twice and conserv-
| ing the moisture. He threshed and
weighed the crop and it made fifty
/ five bushels per acre. Fred Bere
plowed his land shallow In June and
kept it narrowed after rains. Then he
plowed it again, narrowed and seeded
| 1t made forty bushels per acre. There
| is always plenty of rain in Jewell
county to raise good crop, and here
| and there you find a man who is learn
| ing how to utilize it.