The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
.JAYHAWKER JOTS

The Hutchinson News thinks that "In
the Good Old Qndian) Summer Time
| is likely to become a favorite air in
| Kansas.
| There is music in the air around
! Hutchinson these days but it is in a
| sad and mournful strain. The Hutchin-
son concert band has disbanded.
Here's the right kind of a newspaper
slogan; Charles Garten says his paper
| at Nickerson will not be bound by party
! ties nor controlled by any faction.
AS for the print paper famine" "
| which the manufacturers predict, the
| Ottawa Herald says THE prophecy will
| be fulfilled this way: There won't be a
famine, but the price will go up"
Lawrence has something new, or more
properly speaking, decidedly old, to
! marvel at. The skeleton of a prehis-
toric horse, with three toes on each
leg in place of a hoof has been mount
ed in the university museum.
From the temper of the people as ex-
pressed through the columns of the
Great Bend newspapers something will
put up new station in that town.
While they're about it the Great Bend
ers might start an agitation for union
depot to serve as station for all the
railroads which it is believed will event
ually run through that place.
w. Y. Morgan, of the Hutchinson
News, says that during the past five
years Il employees of the News Aave
married. Twelve of them were girls,
and 15, boys. Both parties to five of the
marriages were from the News Office.
With a single exception these marriages
have been happy, and in IA instances
babies have come to bless the union.
The News claims it is the best mar
riage agency in Reno county.
Wichita likens herself as to a camel
in comparison with Topeka, for during
the month of November the liquor sales
in the Peerless Princess as reported by
1,-,,- rf-f- AA1 oh A
while those in Topeka were more than
$4,000. An explanation of this may be
found in the fact that in all likelihood
liquor may be obtained promiscuously
in Wichita while in Topeka there is not
joint of any kind running and any
person who wants liquor has to go to
a drug store and sign up for it.
There is but one negro family in
Cawker. that of Mrs. Luella Bowen,
but it was very fortunate for the COM
munity that she lived here during the
process of construction of the new
school house. 1t was necessary to en-
ploy a number of colored men from
Kansas Citv as helpers on the building,
and had it not been for Mrs. Bowen it
is probable that the workmen would
not have found a place to board while
here. Under the circumstances every
body was we'll taken care Of and the
work on the building progressed with
out delay.-CaWker City Ledger.
Tom Clayton has a man at his place
shucking corn, Ben Walker, who for
five days husked 10 bushels daily and
one day it made 130. Tom was telling
about this in the club rooms the other
night when Jake Miller told of a IL
year-old boy who started out in the
morning on John Woods place and got
back in at o'clock with 55 bushels.
1t may have been a man who got back
at IL o'clock with SO bushels but any
way the way Jake told it he was
cornhusker. This started the talk
-l-,.c -4.,rr a
who Is some pumpkins himself when it |
comes to work, decided that he could
throw corn out of a wagon by hand
faster than any man could husk and
throw it in. Reg Russell has a man |
on his place who he says can beat any |
man at the game and Charlie about |
decided to try him. The meeting broke |
up when some one told of a man who
husked so fast for nine hours that he !
kept an ear of corn in the air all that |
Bend Item -Rustler.