The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-12
AYHAWKER JOTS

There was a dog fight at Salina the
other day in which 1S dogs partici-
pated. 1t appears to have been a free
for-all, go-as-you-please affair.
A few years ago a thousand bushels
of wheat was considered a fair days
work for one threshing crew. One day
last week Pratt county machine
threshed 2.570 bushels in one day
which is going some.
Industrial note from the Sabetha
shovelers for the Central Branch
struck for Is cents per ton more
wages. They were receiving $1.75 a
day. They have lived in Corning many
years. and the town is backing up the
strike.
found a swarm of bees in a mail box.
1t is up to Harry Bone and Judge West
to prosecute them for interfering with
the United States mails. and then they
will think a hornets nest has been
| stirred up.
Speaking of this school ma'am fam
inc, what does this sort of an item in
the Phillipsburg Dispatch mean?
Dane Hansen and sister. Miss Katie,
and d pair of other Logan young
evening Miss Hansen boarded a Rock
Island train ticketed to New York,
from which place she will sail for Jap
an, having secured lucrative position
side OF the globe"
An old soldier at Richland was ex-
tremely unlucky during the war. AL
though he served three years he never
got scratch. and therefore has never
been entitled to pension until the
recent service pension law was passed.
The Ellsworth Reporter makes the
statement that gas was struck at ELS
worth in 1887 or 1888. at depth of
1,175 feet. This gas burned 10 to Is
feet above the opening for some days,
and the Reporter says a gas we'll that
burns or feet above ground when
first struck is considered good well.
It Is said the hotel keeper piped this
up with water and refuse. The Re-
porter wants to know why move
ment has not been made to open up
the we'll. The well is situated a mile
and half from Ellsworth.
Advice from Deacon Walker: So
you have repented and are going to
turn over new leaf. have you. young
man? Well. it is a mighty good idea.
There are several things you want to
do at the outstart. however, to make
people think you are sincere. There
are numerous little debts you owe
around town. You can't become full
f1edged repentant until you step
around and tell the fellows who have
are ready to make good. If you can't
pay them all of it, pay part. Or set
time when you will come around ana
square up. Then you have been using
too much bad language and missing
the truth a whole lot of times. You
also want to cut out all such things.
The people may be a little slow to ac-
cept your reform talk, but they will
eventually do it if you are in earnest.
The restaurant keepers and the cloth
ing store man may not rush out and
grab you the first time they see you,
and want you to come in and stand
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make good you will have no trouble
about credit in time. You might also
help the folks a little at home. There
are numerous little things you can DO
to help mother. and the old man would
find life lots easier If you would help
occasionally. You can't repent and
still stand around on the street and
cuss and smoke and loaf throughout
the day. The first thing for a re-
formed boy to do is to go to work
Keep at it, and the rest will come easy