The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
JANA WKER JOTS

Independence is trying to secure a
stove factory, which Fred Trigg sug-
gests is hot proposition.
Wichita thinks it's a pretty good
town after all 1t recently raised $1e.-
coo at one sitting to pay pit church
debt.
Mr.. Teagarden lives up in Republic
county. OF course there are no beer
gardens in a prohibition state like
Kansas.
A Mitchell county preacher tried to
help in building a new church and he
fell off the scaffold and broke his arm.
Point your own moral
The Hutchinson News looks with
considerable alarm on the amount of
ink the newspapers are shedding in tn
war between Japan and the United
States.
delinquent subscriber went into
the Office of the Sedgwick Paragraph,
planked down a dollar with a flourish
and remarked: ''Th ere, that ought 20
keep you going for another year"
Cowley county tries to get into the
nmelight because Miss frankie Ruck-
er, born and brought up in Bethel
neighborhood. a short distance north
of Winfield. is playing with Dunstan
Farnum in THE Virginian"
Secret Orders to Build" is the head
ing over a story in a Wellington paper
It turns out, however, that instead of
somebody receiving secret instructions
to build, it's the Odd Fellows and
Masons who are going to do it,
Atehison Globe: Jim Howe. an Atchi-
son young man, Is a reporter on the
Washington Herald, and is handling"
the murder Of Senator Brown by Mrs.
Bradley. One of the attorneys for Mrs
Bradley is Robert w. Wells, who for
nerly attended the Kansas university,
Atchison. He knows Frank Crowell.
Sheffield ingalls,, Rolla Mitchell, the
Fletcher boys ana others.
William Wells. who will represent
Graham county in the next legislature,
objects to having western Kansas call
ed the short grass country He says
few days ago one man shipped
thousand tons of alfalfa from Hill City
to Kansas City. Wells claims that
western Kansas is really the iong grass
country Being a member or the Kan
sas legislature, the Sabetha Herald
suggests that he will probably intro
duce bill in the next legislature abol-
fshing the name short grass country
and officially designating western KAN
sas the Long Grass Country"
William Allen White on The Passing
of the Patties'': Ten years ago she that
was Sallie Flenniken, now Mrs. Percival
Harvey. gave a party in Emporia, and
introduced patty shells-intro5uced them
from Topeka where her fa~.er held
Job. They created a sensation, and
since that time every party of any con-
sequence in town has been adorned,
to the refreshments. with patty shells
There have been round pattIes, oval
shaped patties. and something of fur
~ was caused by diamond shaped pat
ties. and Mrs. Jim Griffith certainly
threw society into a sensation when she
introduced cornucopia shaped patties.
which she saw in Lawrence wAen she
attended BiH's wedding Nothing in
the patty shell line ever equaled that
spasrn Of culinary excitement. But the
Gazette is panied to note that the patty
is passing This week Mrs. Howard
Dunlap gave two large social food tests
and did not serve patty shells ait either
one IT was a brave innovation, and it
surely was a pleasing one, for patty
shells are like the cherry in a man s
liquor-to be seen and not eaten. but
they are likewise most monstrous
tempting, and they are full of grief for
the faster. But this is also past history
IN F,mnoria. For the patty shell has
been pointedly ignored by source
which makes it impossible ever to rec
ognize it again at any place more form
al than a church social.