The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-25
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Miss Ethel Getman is Jewell county
school ma'am. and it is believed the
prospects are good that she will.
Jewell county man has an ear of
corn containing 1900 kernels. That is
almost as many as there are in a Ken
lucky township.
Roy Tapley has a theory that the sea-
gulls in Barton county followed Dave
Bla1ne's ship canal in from the sea- Like
as not now somebody will bob up and
say this theory won't hold water
"A great many of the farmers of kan
sas, says the Lindsborg News, ARE
now running their automobiles over the
same highways along which they drove
their oxomobiles thirty years ago."
Due provocation item in the Osborne
Farmer: When a woman is nursing a
secret that she thinks no one else in
town knows 1t makes her feel like
smashing things when she reads all
about it in her home paper.
Truthful observation by the Osborne
News: It is strange that whenever it
rains hard if you are at home your UNI
brella and rubbers have been left IN
town. but if you are up town when it is
raining you win usually find that they
have been left at home.
A Pennsylvania woman has sued a rail-
road company for SIS damages claiming
that an engine soiled her dress. Anna
Carlson thinks that if the dress had
been soiled at a fashionable ball by
some young man getting tangled up in
the train and stepping all over it, the
young lady would only have smiled
sweetly and said it didn't matter Maybe
she would, but that is point on which
skepticism is warranted.
Speaking of the advance in Kansas
land values, the Burton Grit tells this
one: An old-timer was heard to recite
the following IN regard to the change in
7r1,1 ~rsaIr IL, I, o
years: 7 remember he said, VIXEN the
right to the quarter adjoining me on the
north was relinquished for a A bulldog
revolver. The quarter was sold the other
day for IS, 000.A The land spoken of lies
near st. John.
From the rush that is being made to
take out final naturalization papers he
fore the new law on the subject goes
into effect on September 27, it is evident
that there have been a good may for
eigners in the SunfloWer state who have
been looked up as Kansans and full
hedged citizens of the United States for
many years. It is said that fully one
thousand persons from Reno, McPher~
son and Harvey counties took out nat
uralization papers at Hutchinson on
Tuesday.
For the whole Of i've seconds on Mon
day night Mcpherson revelled in more
light than it has ever experienced De-
fore. According to the Daily Republi-
can, a meteor passed over the town to
the westward during the course - a
storm It seemed to explode in the
northwest in a shower of fire" and al
though it caused the town to be almost
as bright as day the paper adds that
it did not attract very much attention.
No one has yet reported finding any
pieces of the meteor in the vicinity
where it exploded
Holton Recorder: George Wa-Wasuck.
attired in his gorgeous Indian clothes,
| left last Saturday on a visit to Wash
| ington, D. C, where he goes to confer
with the commissioner of Indian affairs
regarding the interests of the Pottawa-
tonnes. He is sent by some of the lead
/ ing Indians, who made up pony purse
of $3.50 to defray Georges expenses.
George says there is something wrong,
and he is going to get in touch with
/ the powers that be and lay some infor-
nation before them. Wa-Wasuck is one
of the chief counci1Tnen of the tribe It
was he who recently wrote to the Indian
commissioner protesting against the
building of telephones and extending
rural mail delivery across the reserva-
/ ton