The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
HYHAWKER JOTS

The Douglass Tribune got trifle pre-
vious last week by running this date
line at the head Of it's editorial col
uInn: Friday, November %.
The Bushton News calls attention to
the fact that hired girls have souls. and
it also insists that "a lot of folks who
hire these girls have only gizzards.''
A married lady at Macksville is prac-
| ticing with boxing gloves and the En-
terpriSe reports that she is getting SO
she can make things interesting for her
husband.
Says the Florence Bulletin: Another
reason we should not again have saloons
in Kansas is the fact that nearly every
one has an auto and autos and booze
are bad combination.
Another kind Of protest against dry
weather from the Wilson County Citi-
zen: The dry weather keeps out the
wild ducks and deprives hunters of
much anticipated sport.
A MacksviIle man, according to the
Enterprise. who boards at the hotel,
says he has been there so long that he
has developed a reach that would out
reach the reach of johnson.
A Kansas City woman who is seeking
a divorce told the court that she had
only had two eggs to eat all last win
ter. THE extravagant thing should
have married a millionaire" comments
the Holton Signal
Johnny" the Oakland Blade quotes
a mother as having said to her son, IT
hope you have been a nice, quiet boy
at school today That's what was"
replied Johnny. IT went to sleep right
after dinner and the teacher said she'd
whip any one who walked me up
An agricultural note in the BurIing-
ton Republican: 1t was reported We'd
nesday evening that the sheriff was
hunting Cap Endsley for highway rob
berry, but 1t turned out that 1t was
simply some of Caps friends who at
tended the Bunton sale that day and
saw him sell COWS at almost unheard
of prices.
1t is unnecessary to call attention to
the fact that the editor of the Lindsborg
News is a woman. Read this from that
paper: Folks who complain because
the churches might derive some con-
ISOLATION from the fact that it is Off
cially stated that there are more men
than women in the poor houses and
penitentiaries.'
A singing rebuke from the Military
Road correspondent OF the Galena
Weekly Republican: Say Crawdad, you
was speaking about Military, said that
you would have to get some smaller
shot, that is what is the matter with
you now you have shot much too small
shot. Always shoot according to your
size, not anybody elses. So come again
when you have coarse shot.
A reasonable protest from the city
editor of the Stockton Review: The
city editor Of this paper is never wor-
ried much about what is told about
him. The fellows who put. in their
time trying to tell something that will
worry him are generally wasting their
time, but it must be admitted that
George YoxalI put up a story and told
it on him this week that worried him
a good deal. The story was nothing
more nor less than that he had taken
to writing poetry. This was more than
he felt like standing without filing a
demurrer. This is charge that no
man should make against another I'M
less he stands ready to prove what he
says We are sorry that Mr.. Yoxall is
given to telling these things, which are
so damaging to person who is trying
to live right.