The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-22
LYKAWKER JOTS

Mcpherson is out of debt on the
school buildings erected there twenty
years ago.
Always cook your pork before the
tr1ch1nae cooks your goose" says the
Junction City Sentinel.
The Pratt Republican boasts of an
obituary editor, but it is said that he
doesn't handle much real live news.
Lawrence is having a mad dog scare,
but like most scares of this kind the
only damage that was done has been to
dogs.
David D. Leahy has returned to
Wichita from Washington and will take
editorial charge Of the Wichita Eagle
next week
An Arkansas City man has been
fined $500 for Illegal fishing. The
court could have assessed the fine at
s725 but didn't.
The information that a Garrett man
cut his fingers off while chopping wood
is another reminder that a good wife
should always do. such work
Kingman county's poor farm has
turned out to be money maker. The
county marketed over twenty-five hun
dred dollars in stock and grain last
year.
The ST. John News says the farmers
of central Kansas are getting wise and
Will raise more corn and less wheat.
Ths scarcity of harvest hands in season
Is the cause.
Mrs. G. B. Scott of Carbonate has
what Is known as a Christmas cactus
which must be a marvel of beauty.
Recently it was adorned with eighty
eight perfect blossoms.
They had to break down a door of
set of light housekeeping rooms in
Lawrence the other day in order to
save man and his wife. The gas stove
did not have any stove pipe.
A Chanute man was recently arrest
ed on the double charge of being drunk
and attempting to get smart" What
punishment will be melted out to this
execrable wretch is as yet unknown.
Miss Grace Lower, an Abilene girl,
| was severely injured the other day. She
was hitching a horse to a wagon when
| the animal threw her in some manner
| and stepped on one of her knees. 1t
| was dislocated.
| Leavenworth seems to take very SER
| iously the efforts of Mrs. John E. Rey-
| burn, wife of the mayor of Philadelphia,
to force herself into society there. Mrs.
| Reyburn was formerly a Miss Crozier,
| Of Leavenworth.
Rank Foolishness" was a headline
on the Atchison Globes editorial page
Monday; but the readers soon discov-
| cred it was a cough cure ad, and not
a discussion of Joseph E. Ranks resig-
nation, says the Kansas City Star.
It is said that Muskogee Red is
working as printer at Osawatomie.
Before a laundering operator found
the dispatch. however. it is believed
that it read. working the printers at
| Osawatomie," says the Salina Journal.
| Beloit folks are now looking for a
person whom they characterize as the
meanest thief that has infested the city
/ for some time. He or she broke open
| the poor box in ST. PauPs church a few
days ago and stole whatever money 1t
| contained.
| F. s. Mickey, from somewhere in Ne
braska, has bought the Lyon County
| Journal of Emporia, and the Gazette
accords him this welcome: Although
| his tripod has not arrived, and his
| Trenchant Pen was broken in transit,
| the initial number of the Journal, under
| his management betrays the skilled
handiwork of a man of experience, abil-
| ity and taste, who keeps fatherly eye
upon the mechanical end of the busi-
ness while using the other In the pre-
paration of hot stuff for the gentle
| reader"