The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-15
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new pome which is entitled IAN Ode
to Pair of Black Eyes By gravy,
| she must have seen Elmer Jones
| comm home from the dance the other
! night.
Mrs. Prof. Jimkey says her son
Lafe is doing quite we'll down to
Louisville in the publishing business.
! He has wrote home that he is now
! bookmaker. Amariah Tilson, our
| barber, has got a new man from down
| to the city the third chair. Am
says the new Teller amt much of "A
barber, but he can play the guitar
| divine and that is all that's needed
| around a barber shop. Miss Amaryl-
| lis Teeter, the new singer in the
meetin house, has got a falsetto voice
and false set of teeth. T. Egbert
| Peavey says he has sent down to the
! city for new pair of dancing pumps.
Huh, who ever see a pump dance?
Amos Butts, our gentlemanly and
congenial undertaken, livery, feed and
sales stables. also folding chairs for
rent, says business is so dull he has
filled his hearse with water and is
running a gold fish aquarium.
Bill Todhammer sent Preacher
Goodbelcher mess of cows liver
last Monday, which was thankfully
received and highly appreciated by
| the preachers family. Uncle Bill is
widely noted for his generosity and
we need more Todhammers in this
community. Shorty BiXter and his
dishfaced sister, Sally, went over to
Bean Creek to the dance last night
and tipped the light fantastic toe.
They attracted much attention with
their high kicking.
Times must be piclxin' up consid' bic.
1 see Uncle Ezra Harkins droppin' a
cent in the gum machine at Tibbitts'
grocery last Wednesday. Uncle Ez
never CANDLES unless times are good
7 Old Man Purdy has got a new job
with his wooden leg He got notches
| cut in it and he stands out in Swazey
creek so the people can see if the
flood is raising or falling. Purdy says
| the only help for this town is to dam
| the river and d good many people in
our midst are following the suggestion,
with the exception of the Rev. Hud-
mutt, who doesn't believe in it.
Amos Butts, our genial undertaken,
says business is quiet this spring. What
Amos ought to do is to advertise in
the Clarion. We reach all the dead
ones. There is going to be an amateur
tank drama at Tibbitt's hall next
Wednesday evening and Hank Tumms
is going to take the leading part. Some
kick is being made because it is
claimed Hank is not an amateur, but a
professional tank.
The Hickeyville Silver Cornet band
has been engaged to play over to West
Hickeyville next Thursday That's
when we will get even with West
Hickeyville for all she has done to us.
Grandma Perkins is still alive and a
lot of relations is kept in suspenders
to know which will get her eighty
Amos Butts, Our popular and con-
genial undertaken has purchased a
new whip socket for his hearse Let
the improvements go on. Racin' home
from funerals is all the go in these
parts at this writing.
Amariah Tilson, our popular and
congenial tonsorial artist, guitar player
and fancy whistler has got his picture
in the Police Gazette at last. He now
expects to accept a lucrative offer from
some vaudeville opry in the near future
as this town is getting too small for
him.
Reginald Hickey, who has been
heavy man with the De Coursey stock