The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-21
.HYHAWKER JOTS

Chester Rose of Atchison has five
hundred pounds of live fish in box
at Bean lake. He feeds them every
day. In the live box are lots Of black
bass. Rose expects to sell the fish
about the middle of February at high
prices.
A woman near Holland gave birth
last week to her seventeenth child she
has had no twins or triplets. Each or
the seventeen children were single
births. None of them died under four
months Of age. The woman Is thirty
nine years old.
Stringent methods are to be pur-
sued by lola in dealing with the pa
irons of the city gas department VINO
are delinquent in settling their &C
counts. A start is to be made by shut
ting off the gas supply of seventy-hve
persons of this sort. This will cause
a few howlS to rent the air.
E1Dorado is meeting with success In
the conduct of it's waterworks plant
which was purchased some time ago.
The plant paid all expenses last year.
added new machinery, mace many
improvements and closed the year with
all needed betterments are made the
prices for the water service are to be
reduced. Municipal ownership in this
instance is a complete success.
o. c. Boyce, an Abilene boy, Is be
ing championed as the star corn
Gently on tina farm of Fred McCu',
Tough. near Rossville, and he husked
and put in crib 139 bushels OF corn IN
ten hours. In % days he huskeo
within eighteen bushels OF 2'soo push
els That is something of record.
Anyone who can beat it will please
speak up.
Joe E. Rank, who has severed his
connection with the Atchison GLOBE
after a long service with that paper, Is
e..
the legislature. After leaving the
Globe he wrote a little piece for that
paper on breaking of Home Ties
which is as follows: After having
tried unsuccessfully to attract atten-
ton as a reporter for more than TWEEN
ty years, I have finally succeeded In
getting myself talked about by re-
signing. All I've got to say. SAID WIN
Bowen, is that any man VINO quits ms
Job in the middle of January is big
fool ]. J. Skinner seems to be Of the
same opinion. When he asked me
what 1 intended to do, jokingly told
him 1 thought of going into the bank
ing business. You can't 90 II; my
like the fire engine horse that was sold
to a dairy: you'll come trotttng back
the first time the bell rings Having
nothing definite in view. told Jim
Spalding that I thought I would start
keep YOU busy. Two men, E\rned and
Scott, who were on the pit committee
at the coal mine, claim placed tn EN-
in a false position before the public,
and they, with other men I have un-
Intentionally displeased in my news
paper work, will be glad. Still, a sur
prising number of people, considering
that l have been a reporter so long,
have wished me well in the last few
days: 1 don't believe reporters are
hated so much as 1 have hitherto
thought. Having been frequently ask
ed about my plans, I am reminded OF
a story that Ed Post used to tell. A
man tried to commit suicide oy cutting
his throat, but the slash was only
deep enough to cause a flow of blood.
An excited friend leaned over a chair
in which he was sitting, and asked:
What are you going to do now?'
don't know. the would-be suicide re-
awhile. But seriously. I hope that
wherever I go the people and my new
employer will be as kind to me as the
people of Atchison and my present
employer have always been.