The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-14
.AYHAWKER JOTS

| And nobody printed walls of Corn
this year. Why this oversight?
| The postoffice at Robinson will have
been established so years next year.
Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, the evangelist
| who has been conducting a big revival
| up at Jewell City, will go to Lawrence
soon.
A Hiawatha man paid $1,000 for an
oriental rug for use on the floor of his
| new home. What does Wall street
think of that?
joke is being told on a veterinary
surgeon of Atchison. A circus sent for
him to treat a sick camel, and the doc
tor spent several hours putting poultices
on its back to reduce the swelling.
Clay Center is now entertaining an
S. COG hog-one of the four legged kind.
The Times brags that he is the finest
Poland China in the world. Half of him
is owned in Clay Center. but the Times
neglects to state which half
Noting that a Winfield man claims
to have purchased the first two-cents-
annie ticket under the new rate, the
Leavenworth Times hopes there will
never develop controversy over who
shall have bought the last one-that the
two cent fare will stick
Talk about 1t being inhospitable to
the farmers not to have hitching racks"
sa VS. the Robinson Index. eff you go
out in the country you will find that
not one farmer in ten has hitching
every case it is out in the barn ward"
A man writes to the Scandal Jour-
nal calling attention to the need or
another great reform. He relates that
while travelling on train recently he
reached into his trusty suit case for
that which suit cases are wont to con-
tain, and instead of the expected
drought reliever his cropping hand
found only curling irons and soft, fluffy
things; so now he rises up in his right
ind nd a g.
quiring a different kind of suit case for
women from the ones used by men.
The Clay Center Times was entitled
to. feel considerable pride when it
week printed 500 bills for schloss Bros.
& Co., clothing manufacturers of Balti-
more, Nd. Schloss Bros. & Co. were
so well pleased with the manner in
which the Times was getting up ad.
vertisements for the Great Western of
this city that they ordered 500 bills
printed containing the whole page on
which the Great Western advertise
ment appeared, which were printed as
soon as the paper was off last week
and expressed to them. Schloss Bros. |
will use these bills to send to newspa-
pers all over the country showing then
how to set ads"
Elegy pronounced by Bent Murdoch: |
Many years ago tiny cottonwood seed
settled itself between the wood work
and the brick wall of the building OPP |
posite this office and as it happened to
land in proximity to leaky spout, II
grew and expanded and spread out I'M
til it had grown to be quite a bush. |
It's roots crept into the interstices of
the brick wall and in the good old sum- |
mer time it's branches, which had |
grown big and strong, put out the green |
leaves under which the birds found |
shade and rest and peace. But We'd |
nesday afternoon some bold bad men |
went to repair the cornice of the build |
ing and the cottonwood tree was ruth
essly torn from the wall, thrown to
the ground and assigned to the ditch,
where it was afterwards rescued and |
given a place in this office 1t Is
gnarled and crooked as 1t had not been
given a fair chance to show what 1t
could do but then it did the best 1t
could and is entitled to much consid-
Grafton Its birth was noticed in these
columns and from year to year 1T got
better attention than was given to more
important things but 1t is no more In
ife and this in memorium brings
Jump into our throat that chokes us.
Requiescat in peace, you blessed little
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