The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-18
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The Scandal Journal has also raised
its price to $3.50 year.
The Norton Telegram also reads the
riot act to Governor Hoch for his re-
| marks about banks.
young Holton bride, according to
Will Beck, was told she had a model
husband. The day after she was mar
ried she looked in the dictionary and
found that model was defined as a
small imitation of the real thing
Holton Recorder: An eastern church
recently drew large crowd to an en-
tertainment by advertising that the wo-
men would wear boomers. There was
much disappointment among a certain
class of men when they found the wo-
men all dressed modestly as usual, but
wearing pinned on their dresses large
blooming chrysanthemumS.
The Rossville Reporter has adopted
the following clearing house rules for
itself: while the pinchency in kopecks
is on, the editor will protect the reserve
fund on deposit in his watch pocket by
following the clearing house plan
adopted by other financial institutions.
Payments of from 10 to 20 cents in cur
rency will be made according to size
of bill, and bits of paper will be issued
one payment per month. Creditors must
be identified, and show signs of great
distress"
The people of Mound township, Nc
Pherson county, have decided to have
all roads in the township fixed up by
dragging them with a King road drag.
About $500 will be expended for this
purpose. There are about 70 miles of
roads in the township and it is estima-
ted that it will keep Is drags busy to
keep the roads in f1rst-class condition.
The contract will be let to the extent
of one mile to each man willing to
contract for same. The roads leading
to the town of Moundridge will receive
he lin o1r dxy
owns eight drags.
The alfalfa hole" stories are starting
again. A number of years ago deep
holes, some of them large enough to
let in team and wagon, suddenly ap-
peared in some alfalfa fields and were
a source Of mystery. Not long ago such
a hole appeared in q field near James
town, and now the Formoso New Era
relates the following: 81. Braderick
rescued a pig from hole in his alfalfa
field one day last week. From appear
ances the pig has been bottled up at
least four or five days. The hole was
about Is inches across at the top, about
s feet in diameter at the bottom, feet
of the dirt that was in the hole is what
puzzles Mr.. Braderick.''
Editor Criner of the Mcpherson
Opinion, who has just returned from
a visit in the east. makes this COM
parison between Kansas land and the
farming land of the eastern states:
When land in Mcpherson county
reached $50 to $75 an acre 1t looked
like it was getting entirely too high,
but when man goes back to a hiily
and stony country where they have to
use expensive fertilizers and farm land
that the ordinary Kansan wouldn't
break out and then see that land sell
for $40 to $50 an acre he doesn't won
der at the price Of Kansas land. He
also becomes thoroughly convinced
that while the price may remain sta
tionary for a time it will never get
much cheaper.
Sabetha Herald: C. M Geiger and
wife who live car Sabetha, recently re-
turned from a visit to Mr.. Geiger's old
home near Canton. Ohio. 1t has been
80 years since Mr.. Geiger had visited
the old homestead. Childhood impress
sions have a strange way Of clinging
bored holes on the under side of certain
boards in the hog house when Mr..
Geiger was boy. These holes were no
doubt among Mr.. Geiger's first impress
sions in his wondering and guessing at
the mystery of everything around him.
The first thing he wanted to see when
he arrived at the old home place were
those humble bee holes. He found them
exactly as he remembered them. He
the other buildings the same as they
were when he was a boy, and for sew
eral generations before, for that matter.
He was curious about another thing.
When he was a boy a spring near the
house poured out a stream of water
the size of a lead pencil. He looked
for the spring and found 1t after SO
years still pouring out it's little stream
of water.