The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
AYHAWKER JOTS

Thirty automobiles have been IL
censed in Hutchinson.
Henry Calnan calls Frank Ryan and
his associates the State Board OF
Trackwalkers."
A railroad employee at Onaga is
known as "Ole Oleander," but you can
guess what his name really is.
lola is paying $3.50 a bushel for Ben
Davis apples from Arkansaw. Just
think of that. Ben Davis apples! And
from Arkansawi
The peaches were not quite an killed
last spring. One has been picked in
Atchison that has a waist measure or
10k inches. No, it isn't one OF the
kind that wears dresses.
Speaking of improbable yarns, one
of the most improbable newspaper
stories the Kingman Leader ever heard
of is the account of a newspaper re-
porter being robbed of his purse con-
tanning $53.41 at the time of the
Hutchinson fair last week.
Poetic thought from "Sunhower.s
Cousin" in the Hoxie Sentinel: All,
this day closes cold and chilly; some
different from those in the very milo
August. Soon the grasses and leaves
will have a covering of icy white. o,
then the Joy to find the red. yellow
and golden leaves flutterinE down to
their last resting places.
Fooled 'em item in the Howard
Courant: Everybody in town got
fOOlinE
looking country girl with white dress
and white slippers and all kinds OF
dainty fixin's walked around with a
bashful looking young man VINO was
uncomfortable in new suit OF store
clothes--and it wasn't a wedding party
at all!
Here is a prosperity item, told by The
Troy Chief, that is hard to beat: John
Morgan lost his Brown county quarter
by going on a security DEBT and haa 20
of
section has made him rich. This year
he had $4,000 bushels of wheat: He
Is estimated to be worth $SO.OOO and
he lives in Kansas City, merely going
out to Barton county In Seedlng anu
harvesting time.
The Atchison Globe puts this on ex-
hibition as the record borrowing
story: An Atchison woman intended
going away on a visit, and she had a
neighbor who owned parucuiariy
are worn just now. The curls cost
So and the Atchison woman hated to
borrow them, feeling if she lost them
it would be hard to replace them. But
she nerved herself up, asked for the
loan of the false curls, got the curls,
and they were greatly admired at the
parties given in her honor in the town
where she visited.
Sad obituary from the Salina Jour
nal; "Old Bill'' is dead. He died
natural death last night at the age OF
about II years. In life "Old Bill'' was
one of the most faithful old horses
Salina horsemen have ever seen. For
fifteen years he pulled Cicero Post
about the streets of this town; he has
been the property of everybody who
needed a horse. Probably a hundred
people in salina made a practice of
using "Old Bill" whenever they saw
him standing and unused, and often
when Mr.. Post went to get the horse
where he had left him. the animal was
gone. Presently some man, some boy.
or some girl would return odd Bill,
and probably before Mr.. Post was
ready for him he was off on some other
mission. This horse pulled people over
town for fifteen years, and there never
was a horse with which children were
safer. He loved children and he loved
women. and a better natured animal
never lived. His death is sad blow to
Mr.. Post but like all other things,
when he passed out of existence there
was another one ready to take his
place, and in a short time "Old Bill
will be forgotten, Notwithstanding all
his good traits.