The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-25
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.

Mrs. William Tibbitts is hitting a
crazy quilt for her uncle, who is in the
insane asylum. She is one of the best
nitters in this mans town.
Gale Prouty. our jeweler and watch
makers, has got job regulating the
works in Hold Peters thrashin' ma
chine. Gale says he can't sleep at
night unless he hears a clock ticking
] should think he could get along just
as we'll by listening to the bed tick.
Mrs Hank Tumms was chewing slip
perry ellum the other day when her
lower jaw slipped out of joint. Neigh
borS advocates havin' something done
about it, but Hank says there amt no
particular hurry Mrs. Arson Frisby
is takin them arts and crafts LESSONS
from down to the city, and at present
is poundin a forty-dollar brooch out
of one of Anses brass suspender but
tons. Miss Lutte Bibbins is making an
up-to-date peek-a-boo shirtwaist outen
the hammick she had on the side porch
last summer.
Mrs. Ansen F'risby has got a rub
ber-tired trap at this writing. but we
amt seen her catch anything in it yet
Colonel Fri bought some chestnuts off
a dago down to the city the other day.
1t seems as though he ought to patron
ize home industries and get his chest
nuts here at home by taking the Clar-
ion. A new piano tuner has bowed in
to our midst and taken job stretch
ing wire for the telephone company.
Miss Euphemia Nudge, our only Vas
sab graduate, went over to West Hick-
eyville yesterday to attend the rah rah
game Uncle Ezra Harkins had chick
en- for dinner yesterday and Consta BILE
Ezra Hand is working on the case with
only a slight clew.
A move is to pave Main street.
Some folks favor cedar blocks and
others want asphalt while still others
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new kind of pavement no town in this
vicinity has got. Most of the delin-
ouent subscribers of this town will find
a new kind all right when they get
to the place that is paved with good
Intentions.
One of the pool balls suddenly flew
off the table and disappeared during
a game in the Golden Nugget saloon
five weeks ago and its whereabouts
was mystery until yesterday, when
Amariah Tilson, our tonsorial artist,
found it in Grandpa Hibbins' whis-
fers. Am got a drink fer takin'
it back to the Golden Nugget and
says he is going to examine all whis-
kers in the future. Who knows but
some day he may find a pianola or
a forty-five candlepower automobile?
1t don't pay to rub a cat or plug
hat the wrong way. T. Egbert
Peavey expects to leave soon for the
city to accept lucrative position as
second mandolin IN a DarDer SnOp.
Amos Butts, livery, feed and sales
stables and undertaking with neat
ness and dispatch, also folding chairs
to rent, says he has got a roam geld
ing which went better than three-ten
on a kite shaped track to trade for
three bushels of potaters and a cord
of wood. If the other Teller will
throw in wringer, grindstone, a box
of red herrin' and set of false teeth
suitable for middle-aged gent, Amos
will throw in bride, laprobe, one
busheI corn, set of hobbies, one good
meat grinder, secondhand zinc
board, one hose nozzle (slightly wore)
two volumes of Swede Borgian re-
figion and first-class wire dishrag.
Here's chance for a dicker, gents.
Mrs. Arson F'risby told a friend
that she cut Mrs. Hank Turns dead
the other day. Constable Exta Hand
is worlxin' on the case, but he amt
found 10 murder clew as yet Grand
pa Bibbins has got new set of false
teeth made out of secondhand plan
ner keys he got at bargain down
to the city.
The Rev Mr.. Hudmutt says there
a. one good thing about an atheist