The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
.JGYHAWKER jOTS

Cowley county worried along %
days without having a divorce suit
filed. and it had Is weddings in that
time. too.
Burlingame braGs that Victor Muir
dock was born there and Henry Allen
lived there when boy. Now they are
the leading journalists" of Wichita.
A thresher near Navarro ran out
over three bushels of wheat per min
ute. That is some faster than getting
1t out with a fail. a sour grandfathers
did.
BelIeville has just put in electric
lighting plant. and the bugs, according
| to Tom Charles. seemed to do as good
a job of buzzing the first night as they
could have done with a years practice
| Glen Elder Sentinel: L. T. Lowder-
milk dropped into the office yesterday
and showed us couple OF Old re4lcs;
A fork. which was of the first set used
! by Mr. LoWdermiik'S grandparents
after setting up housekeeping, and it
! is at this time over a hundred years
/ old and is quite small compared to the
1907 style. The other was wooden
! imitation of a fish and used Tor a pin
! case 1t was presented to Mrs. Low
| dermilk's mother when young lady
| by a beau Interesting relics. TO pc
sure. and yet we figure that our grand
children will look With the same sur
prise at the articles we use at present
Deacon Walker: We have a brother
! in our church who got himself into an
embarrassing position because ne
hadn't paid strict attention to the ser
mons the minister preached rms
brother was selected to make a few
remarks at q certain church meeting
He run across just what ne wanted IN
q sermon another minister hau preach-
ed and he proceeded to hand 1t out as
original. After the meeting was over
our minister. who was gentle SOUL
went UP to the brother ana congrat9-
lated him on his remarks. ana sara.
- ,1xrf fNrr1
ing and 1 Will show you those same re-
marks in a sermon preached IN TINS
very church only three months age; l
thought they were good then ana Lnat
is why l congratulate you now. Inns
story is true and 1 can point out the
brother to you any day and he still has
the stolen sermon in his possession
There is a 25-foot layer of mystery
in the air on Main street in HlgnIan1o;;
Of night falls it is then the sDooks ana
hobgobblins gather for orgy It's peeh
heard twice nowhere can be no mis-
take. What's been heard ?-gr 1is9
Not merely hair-raising but scalp-n1t-
ing groans. Groans that rend the an
as a bolt of lightning rips the nnlns
Of a thunder cloud. And always three-
occurred. and each time three groans'
MANY have heard them and always
close to the uncanny hour OF mlahlslltt
Thew were heard one ni2ht last WSeh
and again MONDAY
family. the Butner family and seVeral
others have heard them-those soul IId
freezing, marrow-1arrinS, graNe-eIiu
eroans And they seem to be human
groans-human! No animule coulu
produce sounds with so much OF 1eeI-
ms and mortal terror as these are de-
scribed. Who viii solve the l nIyybiiity
correctly? On it hangs the possI 1i4 ~
for the future peaceful slumber OF the
persons who have been stirre Maniac Iy 'R Who
in,ns rom his couch in the stlliy
hour and gFq Il va thsbe sT Tho nas
srodhe -. ta1Iish Mot to freeze the
marrow of innocent sleeping np of hory
on Main 80 eroans real chapters in
domestic tT ,s iaso th is night T bs
DelnH - n husband or some
man p s3aws of his to %ah
roIinS pfO1r rNwould that it were!-are
they merely the verbal e49 mares e%e9 OF
man who has eaten te ,. I0U l-1W ali want
q know