The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-15
Jayhawker Jots

That noise we now hear mornings,
explains the University Daily Kansan,
is a tennis racquet.
AS the Spring Hill New Era points
out: 1t is difficult to lasso anything
of consequence with red tape.
Incidentally, points out the Meriden
Ledger, it is more profitable to go out
and get thing than to howl because
it doesn't come your way.
A red-headed man knows his hair
is red, says the Calena Republican.
ways auburn or Titan.
Simplified spelling, as INDUCED in
by one of the advertisers in the Pow
haitian Bee: Kun in Fridae & Satur-
dae and get sum Enormus Bargens.
As Coal Oil Johnnie observes in the
state penitentiary's square deal: Many
men have a good aim in life, but the
weapon they use has no carrying
power.
Herb Cavaness of the Chanute Trib-
une defines preparedness as having a
supply of gasoline, dynamite, spades,
knives and cuss words ready for the
dandelion invasion, soon due.
81 would rather sit on a pumpkin
Bevans in the Elk Falls Reflector,
than to be crowded in between two
fat women at a picture show"
Show me the man, writes the Leb-
anon correspondent of the Smith
County Journal, that the family dog
runs farthest to meet and fondle as he
returns home, and I'll show you the
best-natured person around the place,
providing they keep dog.
If you wish to get a genuine rush,
| lots of mail and frequent visitors, adj
he ri inst or
known that you expect to buy piano
some time during the next four or
five years.
Inasmuch as all good people are
keeping Lent, Ruth Alexander People
of the Erie Record sees no reason why
| she should not also keep Lent. So she
hasn't returned an umbrella she bor-
rowed a week ago.
Editor Alrich, of the Cawker City
Public Record, makes complimentary
| acknowledgment of three auto rides
given him by youthful chauffeurs with
their new machines by stating: They
handle them as well as their fathers
did young horses at their age.
One of the Erie milliners informs
the Erie Record that an Erie woman
dropped into the shop the other day,
stating that she had forty dollars to
spend for a hat if she could find one
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that looked swell to her and finally
selected one that cost $3.25.
! This seems to have all the earmarks
| of being a gentle hint, or, rather. a
hint to a gent. Sweet Sixteen" the
Lyons correspondent of the Oberlin
Herald, suggests:
| If L were a lonely bachelor,
And lived on a Lonely Divide,
I think l would buy an automobile,
And take some Sirl for a ride.
John F. Lindquist who has a col
umn of Short Grass Dope in the Cove
! County Advocate, tuned his Tyre re-
/ Gently and sang:
! The larkS MARBLE,
Boys play marble,
Green grass perfumes the air;
And poets sing
| Like every thing
That spring is everywhere.
The Troy Chief issued supplement
I with it's issue of April that comes
pretty nearly standing alone among
the newspaper supplements that have
/ been issued by Kansas newspapers. 1t
is in the nature of an illustrated his
/ tory of DOEiphan county and the do
ings of it's people from the very be-
ginning. some of the matter covered
going back as far as 1887 when the
/ Rev. S. NJ. Irwin established a Pres
! byterian mission two miles east of
| Highland in Iowa township. And as
DOniphan county was one of the first
| localities in Kansas to be settled,
much of the interesting material in
| the supplement comes within the
classification of early Kansas history.
It is a volume of no less than 3s4
pages monumental work for a news
/ paper plant of the size of the Chief S
and is wonderful testimony to the
ability and efficiency of Editor Cal
nan and his staff. H w. Montgomery
assisted them in getting the supple
| ment out