The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-27
JANA WKER .JOT.S

The coal famine isn't bothering Jew
ell City, where the people have home
made coal mine of their own.
Hearing that Mr.: Curtis will leave
torship, Charlie Blakesley concludes
that this must refer to Representative
Bob Stone.
Bert Walker says that Bill Shiftless,
after long and hard study, finally
bought bought Mrs. Shiftless a wash
ing machine for a Christmas present.
This Is q fine thing in Bill. Heretofore
he has bought her dollars worth of
plug tobacco.
Symposium collected by Deacon
walker: Il recently asked eight married
men what they said to their wives
when they proposed marriage, and six
out of the eight swOre they didn't say
anything. The wives did all the talk.
ing and laid all the plans"
The Gaylord Sentinel has a scheme
to make the north fork of the Solomon
river navigable. BY this means freight
rates would not only be reduced, but
shippers could get their ommoditias to
market much more speedily than the
Central Branch gets them there.
Jewell Republican: The two create
authors of tragedy are Shakespeare and
whisky. ., If we were Santa Claus,
and while hunting for a boys stocking,
should find a roll of cigarette papers.
we would Immediately shoulder our
pack and go straight up Two
bank robbers and a train robber have
come to grief this month. When a
man has a good job of cornhusking he
would better stay with it. Ev-
cry girl should know how to support
herself, and it she Is bound to get mar
ried she should also know how to sup
port a husband. An Tonia
man gets up IN the morning, eats his
breakfast and raises the price on his
town lots. Then he Is ready to go 70
work.
Ancient history item from the Os-
FnIl ~.
an old resident of the Alton country,
who was secretary of state during the
administration of Governor L. d. Lee
yelling: Rev. r. S. Osborn of Stockton
will preach at the Congregational
stone church in Ash Rock next sun
day, December is, at II O'Clock. Many
old settlers will remember that some
20 or rs years ago he used to preach
in a sod church one and one-haIf miles
north of the stone church and that he
did much Of the masonry work Oh the
stone church with his own hands and
preached there for eleven years aftar
He Is now old and feeble but has ex-
pressed a desire to preach there once
again during his lifetime.
John S. Gilmore. of the Fredonia Cit
izen. who has himself been a Kansas
editor since the paleozoic age, or there
abouts, is authority for this: The press
and some people frequently mention or
assert that this or that publisher is the
Oldest editor in Kansas. They arc all
invariably wrong. Marsh Murdoch is
the man, not only in years of life com
bined with active and practically con-
tinuous service. but in stretch or such
service. He viii have been constantly
a working editor of papers Of his cwn
A years next September, having found
ed the Usage Chronicle at BurlingGme
in 1863. When he sold that paper in the
early spring of 1872 he started the Wich-
tia Eagle as soon as a type foundry
could furnish the material. He is the
real veteran editor Of Kansas, and in
comparison with his services lot Of
other fellows frequently referred to as
veterans have but passed the stage of
fairly seasoned recruits"