The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-18

Old Jim Wheeler who lives bach
eler existents doing all his own cooking
warshing & mending made a trip to the
CO. seat last wk & brung home box
of what is cald Bachelor buttons"
They go on persons pants or coat
good cal like a rivet & no needle &
thred is necessary. Jim says they're
turrible handy to have on hand in case
of emergency speshially for a person
who don't barber a wife like he does.
Mrs Lem Brown wife of our expert
carpenter says her husband is so bizzy
doing odd carpenter jobs for everybuddy
else that he amt got time to do few
things in that line around the house.
Well, Mrs. Lem, you know how it is
they say it's the shoomakers wife who
allus has to go barefooted.
Miss Phoebe Hilderbrand, our fash
ionable dressmaker is giving fits to sew
eral wimmen hereabouts who is having
new spring buds made. Among them
is Miss Amelia Tucker who Phoebe is
making new dress for, but Amelia has
asked Phoebe not to make the partick-
lers publick We persoom Amelia de-
sires to a pear in church one of these
days in her new dress as a surprise to
everybody.
Subscribe for the Bugle before the
1st of the munth and then it will be
often your mind and you wont half to
do it at that time P. SIN case you
subscribe kindly pay cash in advance
no others need to apply being as we
have enuff of the other kind as it is.
Anne HillyeT one of our most re-
SPECIFIED citizens while setting by the
fire smoking in his slippers tother evg
accidentally slept on the cats tail and
= ,a C1a /, fhrnt1ot
Then Lem juinpt up and kicked wish
iously at the cat, but mist the cat and
his slipper flew often his foot and
struck Mrs. Hillyer who was hitting
right in the Ease knocking out one of
her front teeth and cracking her upper
plate clean acrost. Now she will hiatt
to buy a new upper set That was a
purity expensive kick for Anne
Hen Weathersby, prop. of our gen
eral store, has had about II doz. eggs
on hand in the store ever sinst erly last
fall which there amt been no call for
and being as they have been setting not
far from the stove we persoom most
of EN- is purity ripe by this time. Hen
paid on average of 20 cts per doz. for
same, and when Snide Petersby askt
Hen how mulch he would take doz.
Hen said he would take 5 cts. per doz.
and welcome Well Snide bought all of
Hens eggs at this price and peddeld
EN- to the co. seat where he sold EN-
for 30 cts. per doz. as strickly fresh
eggs. Snide returned home full of joy
and ticker and has been braggin around
town ever sinst about how smart a biz
ness man he is. This may be but we
calkilate Snide will steer clear of the
CO. seat and also of them he sold the
eggs to hereafter
Hank Dewberry's hound dog has run
off somewheres agin and Hank has been
askin every person he met if they had
seen enythink of his hound but they
haddent. This amt the 1st time Hanks
hound has run off and we wouldn't
blame the hound if he newer did come
back. IF Hank had of give the dog
enuff to etc to keep its sole & body to-
gether it wouldn't of run off in the 1st
place.
Abe Witherow down to the Snake
Crick sawmill last wk. lifted a bigger
log than ennybuddy else present could
lift and got crick in his back & has
been laid up ever sinst What does it
amount to even if you kin lift bigger
log than tother Teller if you haft to git
crick in your back doing so? Per-
sonally we would ruther not be SO
strong and have no cricks.
Eph Higgins desires US to a nouncc
TO the general public that it's no use for
folks to poster him for molasses be-
cause they can't git none until later in
the season. 1t amt as if Hen diddent
have no molasses on hand becus he had
neerly half bari, but it wont run at the
spigot this cold wether except jest
| little triclle and If takes neerly 2 hrs.
/ fo- i cal OF molasses to dribble outen
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a gal for Mrs. Cy Hoskins he come