The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

C. B. Garten has bought the Chase
Register of G. w. McClintock.
Mr.. Corwin, of Wichita, is the proud
possessor of a flag that waved over
Fort Sumter during the civil war. He
also possesses nails from Perry's sunk
en- frigate.
A Concordia man says that thirty
six years ago the snow was twenty
seven feet deep there, but the Salina
Journal thinks he surely means that
the snow was thirty-six feet deep
there twenty-seven years ago.
Some news travels slowly. After a
year and a half the Petroleum Gazette
learns that at is stated that the con-
ing used with satisfaction in the
Standards plants at Neodosha, Kan"
Col. Bill Pepperell, of Coneordia,
one of the few big Democrats in the
state. has been i'll for few days.
We're glad it wasn't serious for the
genial gentleman is the life of Demo-
cratic state headquarters around cam
paign times.
r. Mangold, Of Compton, Cal, a
former Dickinson county man, likes
the Abilene Reflector so we'll that he
has paid up his subscription until until
Of the paper to say that is a sub
scriber after the editors heart
True it is rather late in the season
for flowers to bloom out Of doors but
that is what they are doing in that
part of sunny Kansas around Mitchell
county. Mrs. J. P. gladden. was able
a few days ago to pick fine bouquet
of violets from her flower bed in East
Beloit
Frank Burge. of ottawa, became
entangled in a corn shredder which
was rapidly desiccating him, when
machine reached out for the old
man and got him, and the Burge
home smells strongly of arnica and
profane language.
J. B. Case. of Abilene, who was
elected president of the Transmits
sissippi congress recently, is four
kinds of merchant prince, and has
his fingers in every praiseworthy pie
that happens in the neighborhood of
Abilene. He used to be cowboy
in the olden golden days, and has
seen the wilderness blossom as the
Early Rose potato.
Walt Mason has been writing dog
gerel rhymes for some time as heads
for the big news stories in the En-
poria Gazette. Here is one which ap-
account of the Bradley trial: THE
trial progresses, with windy addresses
by lawyers paid by the day; the lit
tie mint julip, as shy as a tulip, sobs
over what they say"
A man in Great Bend says the
L
has trouble in expressing his feel
ings. His wife wouldn't let him have
a dog they don't keep a cat. He
coaxed for a canary bird but she
wouldn't let him have 1t. They have
no children. They can't afford to
keep a horse. He has now found
something to do with his surplus af-
fections, however. He has a big love
affair on his hands.
Mort Albaugh tells this one on him
self: The writer took some copy into
Fred Clouds linotype office one day
this week and in the office was a gen.
tleman who was an interested specta-
tor of the workings Of the machine.
In passing around behind the opera
tor he glanced at the copy that was
being set and being unable to make
it out, said, why. can you set Ger
wered Fred, that isn't German. It's
Mort Albaugh's editorials.
Charles Bevan, of Garden City, who
is a member of the crew of the o. s.
s. Tennessee, recently visited Hawaii,
China and South America, and con-
cbudes a letter to his brother as fol-
lows: 1.-THE U. S. A. for mine. OF all
I have seen in the way Of countries
I will stay awhile with Uncle Sam
The Emmett Citizen last week tried
a novel plan for the increase Of its
Subscription list. At a public sale In
the highest bidders for one year, the
sales to be confined to that one day
only, with the stipulation that no bids
be accepted for less than 60 cents
Marysville Democrat.
Yep. And they bid it up to regular
price, tool per year.-Emmett
Citizen