The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-25
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Jewell City shows UP this year with
a population of 1.051
A half section of land five miles south
of Cawker City sold for $4,000 last
week.
Lyon county last month paid out 500
in bounties on wolf scalps and crow
heads.
Roscoe township, out in Hodgeman
county. naturally ought to be fol
Stubs.
A Saline county farmer proposes to
cut his wheat, even if he has to do ii
with lawn mower.
The experiment station of the State
Agricultural station will make tests to
determine the much-debated question
OF the effect of frozen alfalfa on stock.
Good news from the Lawrence Jour
nal: Douglas county is going to have
an average crop of strawberries. It's
other small fruit is almost crop The
wheat is in as good condition as could
be expected. The fruit has been killed
but everything else is in fine shape.
Let US quit bowling calamity. There is
nothing to it."
THE Wisconsin senatorship fight, -
says the Abilene Reflector, Indicates
that man with IL million dollars can
ton law" 1T also indicates" says
Charles Blakesley. that a mn who
stands squarely for LaFollette's prin-
ctples can get quick results by going
ulE0Clly D0lOT0 the people.
Atchison Globe: F. D. Coburn says
in Chicago, and he may be right. j.
Howard, who farms five miles south
west of town, says his wheat is in bet
ter condition than this time last year
H. c. King, whose farm lies few
miles west of town, says the same
thing about his wheat, and his wheat
fields last year yielded over 80 bushels
to the acre.
Some of Will Palmer's wisdom:
What worries us is to know what the
plum curculio and the apple worm are
going to do for a living this year. . i.
The papers say the snow drifts in wy
oming are still II feet deep. No won
der it gets too cool once in awhile for
Kansas to wear her peek-a-boo waist.
Mary, can't you make those
children keep still a minute is often
the first thing you hear the other fell
low saying when you take down your
telephone receiver. With all
the doctors, ministers. court dignitar-
les, grandees, knights, ladies, and funk
les loaflng around the Spanish palace,
the stork must have had a hard job
finding a place to light. . You
can't talk with a man very long this
spring until he will tell you confiden-
TALLY how many times he has laid
away his flannel shirt and had to put
it on again. There is a joke on
the Farmers Union. BY the time they
get wheat up to a dollar a bushel they
will all be buying flour. A man
gets married the first time because he
doesn't know any better. After that
he gets married to get out of other
peoples way. You have all
heard about the man who had nearly
all of his wheat plowed up when the
rain stopped him, and what was left
made 20 bushels per acre. Rain and
warm weather any time in May is US
ually able to resurrect a good deal of
dead wheat. A man ought to
use enough business ability to get his
share of. the good things of life, but
share too. writer in the Sci
entiflc American claims that our solar
system is going south toward the melt
ing point at the rate of five million
miles a year. We are not going to
get scared though until it quits freez-
ing in the summer time.