The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-09
HYHAWKER JOTS

1t is not often that doctors put
wooden legs on horses but DR.. Groome
of Jewell City recently placed a plas-
ter cast on a broken-legged mule and
the animal seems to be coming around
all right.
Hays City thinks it amounts to
something as a wheat shipping CEN
ter because 500 cars of the golden
grain have been shipped from that
point so far this season. And there
is lots on hand yet to ship.
Beloit boy writing from his Ca
madam homestead says that for seven
weeks one year the mercury averaged
fifty degrees below zero. Flour is 81
per hundred, oats SIS per hundred.
Says he likes it fine but 1t is too lone
some up there for women.
The editor of the Kinsley Mercury
has arrived at the belief that there
is something in traditions. He was
given a bay berry candle to burn
Christmas night for good luck. He did
so and the next morning he received
a check for no less than nine dollars
from delinquent subscriber.
Something of rabbit tale from the
Pratt Union: "Some hunters were out
Christmas and one of them shot at a
rabbit Just as he shot, another rabbit
came in range and he killed both of
them with the one shot. He had not
seen the rabbit number two until af-
ter he shot, but he got it all right"
starts to carve the turkey. Don't sit
and gawk at him in open outhed
awe. Start a conversation, spill some
cranberry sauce on the table cloth, in
fact do anything that will attract at
tention from the man who is trying
to find joint where there is none
Mack Gretchen.
Charley Partridge of Sabetha, has
demonstrated that it pays we'll to
raise a few cattle. He took 107 fat
ct 9criT
400 pounds per animal, to the st. Jo-
seph market the other day, and after
up all his expenses including
on investment, pasturing etc,
he found that he had cleaned up more
than two thousand dollars on the deal.
Poor old barren, treeless Kansas, as
to her western partSi And yet-adver-
tisementS are appearing the papers
local to that section that certain land
owners there have thousands and
thousands of fence posts for sale from
timber cut from their lands and in
many instances they have on hand
of telephone poles of a
length of twenty feet cut from the
same land.
The Holton Signal narrates that Mr..
Bender, the county attorney for Jack
son county, has notified the sporting
men that they must not shake dice or
may shoot for turkeys. Shooting is
skill. The other kind, the country
attorneys holds. is gambling. 1t is
easy to understand that Mr.. Bender
was never in a first class crap game or
he would appreciate the fact that
there is considerable skill to shooting
dice.
Evidently the people of Scottsville
do not appreciate the brass band of
that town. The financial history of
the organization would seem to in
dictate that this is so. On its organi-
zation more than a year ago the band
gave a box supper. the receipts of
which were $50. OF this sum $40 was
by the members of the
band themselves. Since that time the |
band boys have expended $1,000 of |
their own good money for instru- |
ments, uniforms and music. They |
have cheerfully given free concerts |
during the summer and furnished n1u- |
sic free for most of the local and gem |
9ral entertainments in the town. They |
gave a concert last week for the BEN |
eft of their own treasury and the net !
receipts were SIP. But that has not |
killed them off They are going to !
hang together and play on. A band !
made up of members with that kind |
Of spirit must be a good one. And |
many a town would be glad to give it |
the support that Scottsyille denies it, |