The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

| other editor woke up in hi he would
claim for his paper the credit for his
fireworks
The Downs baseball team has played
this season 20 games of ball and won
q of them.
There is talk of second paper start
ing up in Almena. A fellow must have
nerve to put in the second paper in that
town this year when crops are so short
as they are in Norton county.
Notwithstanding the shortage of the
crops in the negihborhood of Rexford,
more than a dozen new residences and
commodious $4,000 school house have
been erected this year.
Mankato's idea of a good joke, as the
Jewell City Republican sees it, is to put
sandburrs in the bed of a bride and
groom" This is gentle hint that
such things have been done.
The Beloit Call celebrated it's thir-
tieth birthday last week 1t was origi-
nally started as a Democratic paper,
then it went over to the PopuIist party
then again its changing editors support
ed the Republican candidate for con-
gress, but the last change in editors is
pretty generally believed to have
brought it back in the Democratic fold
The Call is now issued daily and week.
ly.
The Almena Plaindealer boasts that
Norton county didn't send a criminal
to the penitentiary the last year, and
then the editor spoils the broth in say
ing that he knows of two or more
criminals in the county who deserve to
be sent there. Probably that editor had
few of his delinquent subscribers in
mind.
The Smith Center Pioneer says:
Nothing like asking for plenty. Phil
lips county is going to have a 'favorite
SON. candidate for state senator, At
torney c. A. Lewis is the man. That
county has state bank commissioner
and member of congress and goes
Democratic. BY all means give Phil
W. q
county is fairly we'll taken care of:
That county has the present state
senator, warden of the penitentiary
and member of Manhattan agricuI-
tural board. Besides, for good meas
ure. it has national bank examiner
and sergeant at arms of the lower
house of the Kansas legislature.
prominent Sixth district Repub-
lican who heard w. R. Stubs make
his speech in Goodland recently was
surprised to hear SO much sentiment
for Stubs as he heard at that meet
ing He found a strong sentiment for
him among the Rock Island railroad
men who make their home in Good
land. Many friends of this prominent
Republican have also changed their
minds, so to speak, and are now say
ing good things for Stubs. cit looks
bad" said the stand patter prominent
Republican, "for US fellows"
The Rexford News has a cartoonist.
When the Rock Island put the Ger
SGy train DICK OH the ROAD west OF
Phillipsburg the News cartoonist got
up a picture of the event, which the
paper printed last week. The car |
toon heraIds the event with great |
enthusiasm.
The name of Ed Mullaney of Hill
City, having gotten into some of the
Fifth district papers as a suitable man |
to succeed State Senator Chas. Bus |
chow, of the Thirty-ninth district, a |
number of his friends take it for |
granted that they can induce him to |
make the effort. Graham county has
MT had the state senator since the |
time of Populism. The Salina Journal /
which is published in the Fifth dis
trict, sees good timber in MullaneyA /
while his home friends will stand by /
ing and gnashing of teeth in the near
future.
Now there is likely to be something |
doing with Smith Center newspapers. |
1t is said w. A. Williamson has pur
chased the Messenger, and will make
sault from Populist to Republican.
What course the paper will now pur-
sue is conjecture. The Pioneer is a
sort of square deal organ. and 1t may
be that the Messenger will be stand
patter. AT any rate there will be wall
ing and ing and gnashing of teeth in
the near future.
There is a barber in Atwood named |
Moore. He has set a model example
for not only BARRIERS but all business
men. In his home papers last week
he publishes the following: ITO the
public: Remember the Sabbath day
and keep it holy.'-Exodus 2O:S. De-
string to have one day of the week
for rest and also to attend church
services on Sabbath morning / wilY
not do any more Sunday work in my |