The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-08
JAYHA WKER JOTS

There are 81 girls and al boys in the
state school for the blind It must be
interesting to watch those girls make
goo-goo eyes with their fingers at the
boys.
People up on the western end of the
Central Branch feel metropolitan once
more since they have a freight train
every day instead of only three times
a week.
The big judicial district down in
southwestern Kansas that recently
elected w. H. Thompson judge, is re-
ferred to down there as the half-minute
district. You see it is the Thirty-second
district.
The Chanute high school has an or
ganization known as "The jolly Dogs"
which is credited with ringing the
school bell for an hour in the middle
of the night. 1.-THE Jolly Dogs" would
probably have an attack of hydophobia
if they should be referred to as young
ours.
Personal testimony given by the
Kingman Leader: An exchange has
made the discovery that it is real ex-
citing to kiss a girl in a hat with
long feather in it without putting out
your eye. It's excitement enough for us
to kias a girl whether she wears hat
at all or not.
"Oid ideas stick like poor kim" says
Roy Tapley. "a great many people
still believe that newspaper writer's use
a pen, that law students begin on
Blackstone that school teachers act
ually use birch switches, that doctors
make much use Of bone-saws and
squills. and that bankers actually
spend the first few days of every quar-
ter clipping coupons off bonds
Ralph Tennal tells this on a brother
editor: When Harry Leslie, editor of
the Robinson Index, was sparlin' his
wife, who was then Miss Leslie Snyder
of Seneca, he made trips regularly ev-
cry, week to Seneca. The Seneca chaps
were were Jealous of the prospects of his
going off with one Of their fairest,
scornfully referred to the EDITORS reg
ular appearance as 'Lesliess Weekly"
The Atchison Globe refers to the
ports of gold in Trego county shale.
One Atchison county man was not
fooled-Balie Waggener. He dug a hole
and had a workman put in a stick of
dynamite. Then everybody had to
stand away back. After the explosion
Waggener went alone to the hole and
filled a sack with rock. He kept the
sack in his hand until he turned it
over to an assayer whom he could trust
He did not invest in Trego. county shale
mines.
A story is going the rounds of late
about DR.. Peter DOckler of Onaga prac-
Using medicine at the age of 101. He
came to Kansas fifty or more years
ago and settled in Neuchatel in the
southwestern part of Nemaha county
He is said to be an old fashioned kind
of doctor who gathers and brews
herbs for his patients, and some old
fashioned people, who believe in the
herb treatment rather than in patent
medicines, refuse to have any other
physician. He lives alone in a cottage
of three rooms in Onaga and does all
his own cooking and work, as he has
done for many years. He was born in
Greece, October s. 1905.
Sabetha Herald: J. A. Robertson has |
a Az acre truck farm ON the western
outskirts of Sabetha, which he intends
to irrigate. With a gasoline engine and |
q deep we'll he believes he can irrigate
the Az acres. Last year he tried an ex-
pertinent. He put out two patches of |
strawberries with 400 plants each. The |
irrigated patch brought him $40 worth |
Of STRAWBERRIES. The patch he did not
rrigate produced one dollars worth |
If Strawberries. His power costs three |
cents an hour. He intends to convert |
MS patch into small fruit exclusively, |
and he believes it will be a money |
maker. He believes he can develop a
profitable business by farming Az |
acres of irrigated land.