The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-08
NYHAWKER JOTS

Following up the trail through his
cornfield, Adam Hunt. of Westmore-
land, came upon and slaughtered a
16 pound turtle, and invited the neigh
bors to feast.
The good time that a Concordia boy
had by forging check and following
carnival company out of town lasted
just two days, but his reformatory SEN
tence is expected to last quite a while
longer than that.
Without going to the trouble to
make affidavit to It,, a Salina man ex-
plains that the reason he was late get
ting home was that his train was de-
layed in western Kansas by the hail
storm. 1t took three men with pinch
bars to each hailstone, he says, to clear
the track.
Fredonia is getting to be a city and
the city council is now asked to have
the names of the streets posted in a
conspicuous place. Strangers. asking
to be directed to certain place, can
not understand the direction. Just a
block and a half beyond Bill Thomp-
sons fathers old house."
w. E. Blackburn, a regent of the
State Agricultural college and editor of
the Anthony Republican, protests as
follows: Manhattan, a college town
just think of it-has joined the list of
burgs where Shubert's doleful 'Sere-
made is sung at fashionable weddings
unOer the SuppOSltlOH THAT II 10 SHcci
full and appropriate"
The wheat straw worm has been
discovered by Saline county farmer.
The worm eats the straw and allows
the head to drop to- the ground. 1t is
about time for some one to discover a
root worm. This would fix things SO
there never would be a time when the
farmer thought his wheat was safe,
says the Wichita Eagle.
Harry Shoemaker, of Atchison, has a
Scotch collie female dog that his neigh
bors would like to steal because she
has so much sense. One of her regular
duties is to go to the timber in the
evenings and bring in the cows. A
few days ago her owner was putting
up hay and was late about milking.
When he went to the barnyard there
were the cows with Collie guard
ing them. She had not waited for or
ders to go after them.
June is not THE month of brides.
Probate Judge Rankin says so and the
records of his court back up his state
ment. True there are brides IN June
and a good many of them but June is
not the month when the happy cou-
pies mate and the soft. sweet strains
of Mendelssohn and Lohengrin watt
on the balmy air and rice and old
shoes appear in abundance and your
pocketbook becomes depleted from
buying so many presents. Rather Sep
TENDER and October are the prize
months for the brides and grooms. At
ter the wheat and corn are harvested
and brought big prices and the farm
er's bank roll is fat, then is when the
probate judge is busy issuing mar
riage licenses and the preachers work
overtime tying true lovers knots-or
nots. June, 1907, was a big month for
marriages, but for three years before
that there were only II, is and Ii Ii
censes issued respectively in June In
September, 1907, there ware 20 licenses
issued and in October there were "a
The average for the last four years in
September and October has been Il
and % So far this month there have
been IA licenses issued. No, all old
traditions to the contrary. June is not
THE month of brides-in Dickinson
county.-Abifene Reflector.