The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
.AYHA WKER JOTS


Down at Garnet the women have
formed a Uneeda club. This will doubt
less fill a long-felt want.
Begin to save your money. 1t will
soon be time to buy school books, and
nearly all of them changed this year.
Mr.. Jackson's good work" says the
Jewell Republican, makes Kansas regret
that she didn't elect an attorney general
long ago.
w. r. Stubs, Congressman Reeder
and Senator 1. D. Young are scheduled
among the ATTRACTIONS for Old Set
tiers Day at Jewell City on August 8,
and the management promises a square
deal.
A recent issue of the Goldfeld, New,
Chronicle contains prophecy that Gold
Mountain near there, will become the
biggest mining camp in 1.-THE world. :"
This is the district in which T. G. Starr
editor of the Scott City News, and who
has dabbled more OF less In Kansas poll
tics, Is interested. Mr.. Starr is presi-
dent of the Gold Mountain Eagle Min
ing company, and has been spending
much of his time in the last two years
developing his property.
Deacon Walker: Pretty hard to make
woman believe that a man can be
doing anything useful by staying at
lodge until midnight. Just be-
cause girl says she is never going to
get married is no sign she has given up
AOpS, out II is SOOQ evidence CnaC
she is preparing to not be disappointed.
The ability to pitch wheat from
a header barge all day long may not
draw as much applause from the grand
stand as the ability to pitch a wide
out curve, but it helps father out a
man these days who has an automobile
has almost as great a cinch with the
young ladies as in my day the young
fellow had who had a finger small
enough to wear a girls ring. :.
Whenever meet a man who is eternal
ly blowing about how he always says
just exactly what he thinks and how he
is out and out just what he really is,
know I have met another liar.
The staid old Lawrence Journal has
got its sporting blood up. Listen to
this: There once was a man who was
accounted wise. He was a club member
and never said word, wherefore his
reputation. Finally on the bill of fare
was shrimps. 'Shrimps,' he declared as
a smile covered his face, that's me- The
Journal is that way about the fair.
While being in sympathy with the fair
it has been a bystander but when
horseshoe pitching was mentioned, that
was US. The match game of horseshoe
at the fair will be the best of them all.
Ever pitch horSeshoes? If not your ed
ucation has been neglected. You take
the shoe in your hand, put a finger at
one end and balance the thing with
your thumb, then you raise 1t to the
level of your eye and calculate DELHI
erately just where 1t will go. With
raising infection of the body you throw
the shoe directly at the pin and anxious
ly look to see 1t light. Sometimes 1t lies
where sent and the ringer cheers your
heart. At other times it strikes the pin
at the wrong angle and goes so far
wrong that the other fellow tells you
you need a bell on it and you believe
him. You get even when the other fell
low plays, he does even worse. There is
luck in pitching horseshoes. One man
can win and another lose. through pure
luck. Let us have great contest when
the township fellows all come in -