The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-24
LAYHA WKER JOTS

The Perry Mirror also reflects about
a peach that measured ten inches
around the waist
The Abilene Reflector was made
glad the other day by the receipt Of a
seventy pound watermelon
Wellington is cooking its drinking
water. A gang Of Mexicans, working
on a railroad there, recently decided to
clean up and do their family washing.
AS the city reservoir was handy and
accepted that as a good place for the
function and waded in.
A Fort Scott man has a five dollar
bill that was issued in 1873. The face
Of it reads: Five dollars. The bear
er is ? entitled to receive 5 Spanish
milled dollars, or an equal sum in
gold or silver, according to a resolution
of congress of the 14th of January.
1873" The signature OF W. Ramsey
follows this certificate, in red ink, and
the name A. Ferrall Is signed in black
ink.
The Junction City Union under
takes to vouch for this fishy fish story:
While boat riding on the lake at the
Country club last Friday. Mrs. Y. Y.
Young and Mrs. T. HemenWay' had
eight bass jump into their boat. Sew
eral of the fish were large ones.
Crop story by the Baldwin Ledger:
John Clarke brought in three stalks
of corn Saturday from his farm near
Centropolis, the aggregate length of
which was over forty-eight feet, one
stalk measuring sixteen feet and five
inches. Uncle John also showed us a
long. Is it any wonder that farming
land is high around this part of the
state p"
Mention was recently made in these
columns of the western Kansas method
of farming by power. Here Is some
hi 4-c 1Io hot I4r1a f~n4 he 1c
Republican: Lee Dougan and sons
of Maeksville, have purchased twelve
disc Saunders pillow to work with their
25-horse power engine and are turn
ing over the ground at a great rate.
The pillow turns twelve feet each time
across the field and it is no exertion
for the engine to move along faster
than a team can walk if the ground is
in proper condition. They are think
ing of getting six more discs to put on
and If they do this they can pillow at
least sixty acres per day, as forty acres
is about what they pillow now. They
have some nine hundred acres of
ground to pillow, which will be about as
big job for them with the steam pillow
as the ordinary small field is for the
usual horse plow."
Out at Minneapolis lives a good lady
who is the subject of the following
lines IN the Anadarko, Okla, Tribune:
During the past two weeks the senior
member Of the Tribune family has
been up in Ottawa county, Kansas,
with ma. It makes no difference
whether we are prosperous or not. we
always spend al least two weeks visit
ing our ma. Now, our ma is not our
ma at all. Our own mother died when
we were a baby about 'steen weeks
old, and a good lady took compassion
on us and took US to raise. She did a
pretty fair job raising US by hand
sometimes she used a good peach
sprout-anyhow the result was salts
factory. As soon as we get home ma
always puts on a clean table cloth,
kills a nice fat rooster digs up a can
Of preserves and we partake of a meal
like ma only can prepare. Then after
supper and we have wiped the dishes,
ma sits down and tells all about the
mean tricks we used to play away
back yonder when kid We are past
forty years of age and our hair is get
ting gray. and a big bald spot ESQ they
say) is coming right on top of our
head. but we are still mas boy. and
she likes to tell of the good old times"