The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-06
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There we're very few July brides in
! Lincoln county The probate judge
issued only one marriage license dur
| ing the month.
A jackrabbit ran the length of Main
street in Wichita the other day. Just
think of that happening in the domain
of the Peerless Princessi
Wellington is trying to discover
whether the baseball grounds are In
side or outside the city. On the de-
cision rests the important question Of
Sunday baseball.
Note of information by Frank Jar
rell: Topeka has a denomination of
the Holy Rollers. It has nothing in
common with Topeka's society of High
Rollers you hear so much about"
The Mcpherson "windjammers'
have challenged the head mowers
and face scrapers" to a game of ball.
In other words the band has chal-
lenged the BARRIERS.
Eddie Ryman, a Perth boy only
seven years old. got on a train and
went to Wellington the other day. did
some trading for his mother, and then
returned home, making the trip all
alone. How is that for getting on in
the world?
Bent Murdoch comes forward with
this one 1T is said that Clearwater
old, six feet high and weighing 300
pounds, who is we'll proportioned, grace
full and good looking and yet she has
to get onto a step ladder to pick the
roasting ears for dinner, the corn
stalks in that particular locality being
II feet high and still growing
Discussing important news, the
Pratt Republican says: 1t may be true
that Evelyn has kissed and made up
with Mamma Thaw. but what do we
care? The rise or fall of the wheat
market is vastly more important and
the race between Hutchinson and
Wichita for the last place in the West
ern association of baseball teams over
shadows the doings of the dirty dress
circles of New York.
The editor of the Altamont Journal
says it pays to have a good wife, and
he backs up his assertion with this
story: 1t pays TO have q good wife.
Sunday while raining. married man
of this city happened to put on a win
ter coat that he wore Christmas week
On examining the pockets he discover
ed a letter directed to his wife, con-
tanning a nice Christmas present that
pocket since holidays. He kindly hand
ed it to his wife"
Atchison Globe: Coolidge is a little
town of three hundred people, but it
has a row big enough for a town of
hundred thousand. The row came
about in this way: DR.. Wolfe had
been in Coolidge many years, without
opposition, when DR.. Lion located
Inere- MIS-. w ole would not speak TO
Mrs. Lion, and gradually the row be-
tween these two women spread to
nearly everyone in the town. It is
estimated that the Coolidge men have
had thirty fights over the row between
the doctors wives. and the row now
enters into everything that comes up:
c. A. R. meetings, literary entertain
ments church socials, funerals, and
everything else.
Speaking of how smoothly every
thing runs in a well-regulated printing
office, the Lfndsborg Records says:
''All is peace and harmony in print
ing office. Last week there was Moth
ing much doing except that the spark
er in the gasoline engine refused to
work, the folder clogged UP every
other time. the mailer wouldn't cut
the paper, pieces Of paper worked into |
the rollers somehow, some plate slid /
clear out of the form. a supplement |
had to be printed No one lost his /
temper, but spoke in well moduIated |
tones; through It all was heard the |
monotonous chirD of the type lice. |
The Record was late. That's all-until |
the next press day