The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-31
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Walt Mason's Sunday Star has
ceased to twinkle at Atchison.
Emporia has declared war on the
auto drivers who break the speed
limits.
Ottawa isn't getting poor very fast.
Its bank deposits have increased $2O2,-
600 in the past year.
Winfield is having night blooming
cereus parties. Still, that is better than
having bloomin' serious night parties.
A Kiowa man, who speaks from ex-
perience, says that a rattlesnake bite
feels similar to a bees sting at the
time.
The first big watermelon story
comes from Coffeyville, where a
farmer has brought one in weighing
So pounds.
Zine mammoth pippin apples and
alberta peaches at Harris. Use the
phone" says the Parsons Sun. Why
not use the apples and peaches?
A Medicine Lodge man who had the
rheumatism about as bad as they make
it, found the most effective remedy to
be a hot stove lid applied to the place
affected.
For the fftieth time in thirteen
years." says a southeast Kansas item,
1.-The Frisco depot at Parsons was rob
bed" 1t ought to have skipped that
unlucky thirteenth year.
New one from the OSawatOmie
ried. The ceremony over. the wife
began to weep copiously. Whats the
NATTER" asked the new husband. Il
u never told you that L don't know
Don't fret" said he. "I'n not have
anything to cook. I'm an editor"
The Marquette Tribune perpetrates
this: Miss Jennie Jones and Rob
Henry were married at the Jones man
sion last night. The bride is daugh-
Of RI w
made good officer and will undoubt-
eddy be reelected next spring. He Of
fers a fine horse for sale in another
column. The groom runs a grocery
store on Main street"
Industry note from the Pratt Union:
Sam voolfolk, a young man only 20
years old, WHO lives in Richland town
ship, raised 5000 bushels of wheat this
year and prepared the grounds and
soWed the wheat with six horses. A
young man, or any other man in
Pratt county, who is possessed of the
necessary grit and push can do better
here than any other place on the
globe.
The Hoxie Sentinel gives the follow
ing dimensions of family with head
quarters there: The Toothacre fam
lily, though small in number, make 1t
up in weight. There are five of them
d. NJ, of Vasalia, California; Ed, of
Paonia, Colo; Charley, Pearl and Miss
Maggie of Hoxie, whose aggregate
weight is 1,0O5 pounds and laid on the
ground head to foot their length would
| be 80 feet, four inches, and sturdier,
more desirable class of citizens than
they cannot be found in any COM
munity.
~"Talk about school teachers making
good farmers wives. what is the mat
ter with Mrs. Harry Carpenter" asks
the Sabetha Herald. IAN old hen be-
| longing to Mrs. Carpenter a week ago
proudly walked into the yard and pre-
scented Mrs. Carpenter with newly
Matched and able-bodied family OF ~
chicks. Mrs. Carpenter had not SCI
the old hen. and knew nothing of this
prolific young family until it arrived
on the scene. The hens had evidently
| been laying eggs in some private nesl
in the woods. and this motherly old
girl had decided to hatch 'em out NC
/ farmers wife ever pretends to set a
hen on more than sixteen eggs, ano
thirteen is the usual number Bui
teachers and good farmers wives?