The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-31
HYHAWKER JOTS

There is some uneasiness out in
Finney county now that Ralph Faxon
is no longer connected with congress
in an advisory capacity. What, they
want to know, will Garden City do
without garden seed?-Kansas City
Star.
A Missourian is quoted by an Atch-
ison Globe reporter as saying: Every
body says confidence is restored, and
I suppose it is; but I notice that the
manufacture of cash registers still
keeps whole town busy"
1.-THE old editor of the Clay Center
Times is going to get off by himself
next week and have a cove oyster
feast just to see If they taste as good
as when he was a boy says the Alma
Enter prise There was no greater
delicacy in Kansas thfrty-five years
ago than cove oysters
The editor of the Lebo Enterprise
returns heartfelt thanks to candf-
date for mayor of the town, for q
gallon of maple syrup and a chunk of
sweitzer cheese. That candidate is apt
to run up against some kind of an
anti-law If he conducts his campaign
after that fashion.-Emporia Ga
zette.
The iconoclasts are abroad in the
land and are very busy. If they keep
up their nefarious work about all the
romance and poetry of life will be
eliminated. A firm with $500, 600 cap
ital is putting up a factory in Hutch
inson to manufacture device to pre-
vent eavesdropping on party telephone
lines.-Kansas Agriculturist.
1t is announced that baseball will
not be played in Paola on Sunday
hereafter. Leaving out the unimpor-
tant questions as to whether or not
the national game ever was played In
Pola on Sunday or any other day, the
other question naturally suggests it,
xxyin Ia n
the rest of the day Sunday after
church is out ?-Lawrence Gazette.
A blacksmith at Victor had dis
pute with his family doctor recently
and in the course of the affair. he bit
off the doctors ear. The doctor is not
only suffering because of the pain the
operation inflicted but also from the
thought that the amputation was not
done in the professional manner he
should have desired had he considered
it ecessary.-Garden City Telegram.
At a party composed of adults in
Journal, it was proposed that the en-
tertainment consist of the games that
prevailed in the Good Old Days of
Childhood-"Post Office" "Tin-Tin''
London Bridge" etc. Finally a prize
was offered for the person who could
make the "ugliest face" The judges
witnessed the contortion of faces for
while and then awarded the prize to
an old maid. you win they said.
handing her a box of bonbons. 1T will
thank you to know" she replied, "I
was not playing"
One of the most attractive souvenirs
of Kansas locality that has been is
sued in many day is that of Larned
| and Pawnee county which has just
been put out by the Larned Business
Mems association. 1t was compiled by
the Tiller and Toiler and the Chrome
scope, the two wide-awake newspapers
of Larned. and Is a work of art. The
book contains eighty pages, without
the cover. Four of them are devoted
| to brief descriptions of Kansas. Paw
nee county and Larned and the rest
are given over to excellent halftone
pictorial representations of the homes,
store buildings. farms and public
| buildings of the town and the county.
Every man, woman and child in Paw
nee county should be proud of the
beautiful book and especially proud
that they were able to furnish such
good material for the magnificent pic
lures in it. Not only is it credit to
Larned and Pawnee county, it is also
| a credit to the state OF Kansas.