The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Regarding the Abilene girl who re-
fused to accept a diamond ring because
1t was bought from a mail order house
the Emporia Gazette says; .such a CIR
is too good to be true"
Bent Murdoch has made discovery
of course Kansas can stand a drouth
of 100 days." sage he, "but we didn't
know before that the east could live
through a drouth half that long"
Wichita tells of a man who raised
an ear of corn two feet long. Over
at Bennington it is nine feet to the
first ear, and no man has been found
who would go up in a balloon and
measure the length of the ear says the
Salina Journal
Farmers hereabouts are marketing
their last years corn which means
they are assured of plenty of new
has been here long, sells his old corn
until he knows the new corn is safe.
They are all too smart for that.-El
Dorado Republican.
The Manhattan Nationalist, which
is sure electric cars will be running
in that town this winter because the
city has granted another franchise,
should pause for a moment, says the
Wichita Eagle, and think of Lawrence
and Emporia. Incidentally 1t might
take glance at the cars rushing furi-
ously up and down the streets of Sa.-
This good story is being told over
the state just now: After a certain
jury had been out an. extraordinary
long time on a rather simple case, the
members filed into the court room and
the foreman told the judge they were
court rebuked them. saying the case
was clear one. and remanded them
to the jury room for second attempt.
adding: If you are there too long /
will have to send you in IL suopers."
The foreman, in a rather irritated
tone, spoke up and said: May it please
your honor. you might send in eleven
suppers and one bundle of hay"
The old days are recalled by Rev
Hiram S. Bower of WeStmOreland, an
evangelical preacher who now has a
preaching circuit which will measure
so miles from one border to the other.
He passes through five counties on the
trip-Pottawatomie, Jackson, Brown,
Nemaha and Observation-Disclosures his ap-
pointments are in but three of them.
He has charge of the Granada mission,
with congregations at Victory school
house in Ford district. West Powhat-
tan and Mount Zion, near Nina. He
takes two days for the trip. Rev. Mr..
Bowers is past 81 years of age. He
first served this circuit in the early 'SOs,
and then taught German in the Potta-
watomie high school. But the call OF
the ministry was too strong and he
went back to his first love.
1t can be safely said that H. Miles
Moore is the oldest resident of Leaven-
worth. He was a member of the town
site company that came down the river
from Weston, Mo-, in 1854 and staked
out the site for Leavenworth. Only
two members of the company are living
and the other. A. T. Kyle, is no longer
a resident, having returned to Weston.
1T seems strange" said Mr.. Moore,
reminiscently, that 1 survived those
ragged days to enjoy the quietude of old
age when my career came so near be-
ing nipped in youth so often. Why.
twice in the year 1856 1 was strung
up by proslavery ruffians and once
thrown into the Missouri river fin the
same year. I was cut down by friends
who found me hanging by the neck I'M
conscious. Those ruffianS were terri
fed by my temperance to life"-here
he chuckled as in appreciation of a
good joke-'when I walked about the
streets the next ay."-Leavenworth
Times.