The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-01
JAYHA WKER JOTS

According to the News. Osborne soci-
ETY. is planning for a wading party, and
a large attendance is expected.
Ellinwood refers to Great Bend as
our suburb on the west" but Great
Bend has been too busy with the wheat
crop to notice it.
Leavenworth county, which is famous
for its big orchards, reports the apple
crop at As per cent of a full crop this
year, but still 1t is unusually good.
A Smith county farmer has his barn
filed with so tons Of well-cured alfalfa,
and he has two more crops coming on
which must be put away somewhere.
A big bull snake dropped off of d
nigh shelf in Minneapolis the other day,
yet the Messenger asserts that there
has not been a liquor permit issued in
Ottawa county for several years.
According to the Lindsborg News a
palnist and a fortune teller did Nc
Pherson county last week and hosts OF
iovelorn maidens are scanning every
strange masculine face in the hope OF
discovering the prince they were
promised.
Nothing like getting something loca-
ted exactly, especially when 1t has a
stinger. This Is probably why a Kir-
win paper says: "A hive of bees have
taken possession of the east side of
Jerome Lewis building on the north
west corner of the square"
Something will have to be done to
suppress the punster. Think of this be-
ing perpetrated at Hill City: &C. Foun-
tain, of Millbrook township, captured
a swarm of bees just north of town
Tuesday. Now, when Charley's neigh
bors run shy on honey, all they will
have to do Is to c. Fountain"
An Anthony woman tells the Anthony
Republican that q little -four of sui
phur sprinkIed inside stockings or
socks or rubbed on the forearms when
working among vines or bushes will en-
tirely ward of the chiggers. You will
appreciate the value Of this informa
gers have made a meal off Of you.
They are telling this story on a STAFF
ford man: His wife was spending a
vacation in Colorado. She wrote to
her husband telling him her address.
When he received a letter the husband
concluded he needed q vacation and
left on the next train. In his hurry he
forgot the letter that had his wife's adj
dress and he was forced to telegraph
to a friend to break into his house. get
the letter and wire him the address.
The rival business men of Cottonwood
Falls appear to dwell together in peace
and harmony, according to the Leader.
The two leading grocery stores are sit
uated side by side. The two butcher
shops are side by side. The two bar
Der shops are side by side. The two
bowling alleys and billiard halls are
side by side. The four blacksmith
shops, two in one block and two in the
next. are side by side and the two real
estate Offices are side by side and the
friendliest possible relation seems to
exist all around.
Corn story from the Mankato Moni-
tor. NJ. H. McCammon of Otego,
brought to the Monitor office Wednes-
day a stalk of corn mea surfing nearly
eleven feet high and bearing five ears
of corn. Mr.. McCammon says it was
only an average stalk from a ten acre
field that has been in alfalfa about if
teen years. Other stalks in the same
field are fully fourteen feet high. This
field is an eloquent testimonial to the
value of rotating crops. A field that
has been in alfalfa for a few years is
restored to its pristine fertility.
AS an indication of what may be ex-
pected in the way of corn lies pretty
soon, the Gaylord Sentinel prints this:
Julie Gabbett is a very truthful young
man, never having told 10 in his life
to our knowledge and belief. There
fore, we place implicit confidence in his
statement that the sunhowers in his
corn field are as large as trees. He IS
cutting them with an ak and in order
to keep from breaking down the corn
he uses a block and tackle and pulls
them down between the rows. When
the sunf1owers grow big It is a sure in
dication that the corn crop will be q
good one.