The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-24
Jayhawker Jots

Presumably, Radium is one of the
newer localities in Stafford county to
/ be given a name.
! Won Hindenburg is surely the chap,
thinks the Hamilton County Repub-
lican, who put the rush in Russia.
News note from the international
| bargain counter, in the Cimarron
Jacksonian. Bulgaria doesn't seem to
| be in a hurry to do its Christmas shop
ping early.
Every cloud has a silver lining,
quotes the Washington Republican
| Register, and it adds: You don't hear
farmers complaining of fired corn
| this year.
There is such q luxuriant crop or
sunfiowers along the Russell county
roads that the Russell RefOrmer fears
that unless these weeds are removed
before snow flies, the roads will like
| ly be impossible this winter
Astronomers have recently discov-
| cred a very large spot on the sun,
notes the Clifton News, and it adds
Considering the brand of weather we
are having this summer, 1T is reason
able to conclude that the spot is an
umbrella.
They are called Approaching We'd
dings,'' explains Editor Young in his
Oakley Graphic, because any one with
half an eye can see them coming. And
derstands it, is one which has been
arranged about four weeks in ad-
vance.
An excellent smile produced by the
Washington Republican-Re A
man who buSies himself over tr1fleS
that do not count, to the exclusion of
more important things, is much like a
hen that lays industriously in the
spring when eggs are cheap and goes
on strike in fall and winter when eggs
are eggs.
A Manhattan woman wrote the Ma
tionalist that she wants the city to
close the ice cream parlors on Sun
day and stop the ice wagons from run
ming on that day so that Manhattan
will be a fit place to bring UP children
And this same woman, suggests the
Alma Enterprise, probably let's her
Johnnie roam the streets until 10 or
IL o'clock at night, not knowing where
he is or who he is with. She prob
ably also allows her Mamie to meet
all the trains and stay up until mid
night with some worthless loafer with
the lights turned out in the front
room.
Tit for Tat, is the appropriate cap
ton the Hays Free Press puts over the
following story: Recently, between
Hays and Russell two men were trav-
cling in Ford car when they unfor-
tunately got stuck in a mud hole. A
farmer OPPORTUNITY came along with
wagon and team and obligingly,
with the help of his team, soon had
the car on dry ground. When asked
what his charges were for his help,
he calmly replied $500. The travel
ing men protested vigorously but the
farmer remained obdurate and they
paid him the $500. 1t is a "long lane
that has no turn" and retribution is
som times swift. The farmer climbed
back into his wagon which was pretty
heavily loaded, and went on his way
rejoicing, while his victims remained
behind to clean the mud off their car
The farmer had proceeded on his way
only a few hundred yards when a
large barrel of oil he had his
wagon, rolled off onto the ground and
he could not get it back alone, so
when the car caught up with him he
asked the men to help him which
they readily did, and then it was his
time to kick when the men charged
him $500 for helping him reload the
barrel of oil. He kicked and roared
Justify and refused to cash up, until
he was finally told if he did not shell
out he would get the worst thrashing
he ever had in his life, then he pro-
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