The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-23
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Noting that Neodesha has a modern
Priscilla, the Wichita Beacon calls on
John to speak up.
The Concordia Blade celebrated the
opening of the new opera house up there
with a 4s-page issue, full of advertis-
| ing. Even q local blacksmith had q
page lad
The fact that Wichita handled 1900
| tons of broom corn last year gives
Charlie Blakesley an idea of how the
| reformers came to make clean sweep
down there.
The Troy Chief is issuing some SOU
venir postal cards and among others are
two bearing Sol Miller's famous Kansas
poems, "Pawpaws Is Ripe" and THE
Homes of Kansas" That Is fine idea
to utilize the postal card.
Tom Thompson tells it on a Howard
young man who wanted to marry and
was too bashful to ask the girl, that he
went to a leading young merchant, and
asked him what he said to the girl who
became his wife. IT said yes" said his
friend.
Noting that a New Jersey scientist
has discovered that fish eat mosquitoes,
Tom Cordry says all that is neces-
sary for Parsons citizens to do to rid
their homes of mosquitoes is to flood
the rooms and stock the water with fish.
Sure.
The Hays News says the farmers who
| frequent that town will welcome the
day when wagons and like vehicles are
kept off the main street. That Is prob
ably true. People with automobiles
don't like to have wagons and like We
hicles get in their way.
Note of inquiry by Henry Calnau i'll
the Troy Chief: 1t is currently reported
that one of the bunch has caught on
with a st. Joseph widow, fair and forty,
and as a banker of that city says, with
a bank account of twenty thousand, SO
n We vxh iC
Atchison Globe: An income of 81, goo
a year is a good deal. Dozens of farm
ers in Atchison county make that
amount, or more, every year. H. T.
Keats admits that he has made an
7 average of more than $1,000 every year
for six years. Other Atchison county
farmers make from two to five thousand
dollars a year. Every man who has a
good quarter section, and takes proper
care of it, should make $4,000 a year
under present conditions.
Osawatomie Graphic: Mrs. c. w.
Collins of Dunlap. Kan, was in this
city the first of the week. She came
here to get her mother, who has been
an inmate of the hospital since August,
1881. When placed in the hospital she
had a husband and six children. -Four
of the children are dead. She came here
from Mankato, Kan, and has not been
away for an instant since that time.
She went home today fully restored to
her right nina. Wnen Sne was sent TO
the hospital she was the mother of an
infant two weeks old, which subse-
quently died. The daughter who came
after her can just remember her mother.
After a hot fight, the city council of
Lyons has passed, by a vote of to 2,
an ordinance allowing the installation
of billiard and pool rooms in Lyons.
This is the elimination of a lot of ex-
element here for the past few weeks"
says the Republican. "A Kansas City
firm will open up hall in the near flu
ture. There has been a great deal of
talk on both sides of the question, but
the most vital point in connection with
it now is the selection of a manager.
This man must be selected by the owner
+ of the hall and approved by the council
There should be no mistake made in
This selection"