The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-09-11
STATE NEWS,

Five burglaries during one night in
Lawrence.
One bushel Of potatoes to every twelve
hills in Cloud county.
F. G. Hunt, of Emporia, has filed a
petition in bankruptcy.
VIM. Ransom, of Wathena, has pears
that weigh over one pound each.
The Garnett Plaindealer says hay is
only $500 per ton in their market.
In Sumner county water melons are
considered dear at two for nickle.
Mr.. Nat. G. Barker has sold his inter-
est in the Fort Scott Sentinel and Pioneer
to w. K. Larkin.
Many of the farmers of Shawnee coun.
ty are agitating the question Of adopting
the herd law.
Ingeniously constructed torpedoes pro-
tect melons, apples and pears, in Don
iphan county.
The Marion County Agricultural So
ciety hold their first fair at Peabody on
the 18th, 18th and 18th of October.
The Hiawatha Dispatch has a castor
bean pod two feet three inches long, and
about three hundred seed burrs on it.
A meeting Of the Arkansas Valley
PRESBYTERIAN Association, in connection
with Sunday School Association, will
be held in Newton September 9TH and
9th.
Mr.. Perkins, of Minneapolis, Kansas,
has powder-horn that was used in the
Revolutionary war, by his grandfather,
Ephraim Perkins. 1t will 60 to the Cen
tennial.
The Burlington Patriot decides that
the late session of the grand jury has
proved "a luxury entirely disproportion-
ate to the good sough to be accom-
plished."
The South Kansas Tribune says that
one of their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS politi-
clans snapped a peck of peaches-the
first fruits" of his Grclard-for a quart
Of cheap whisky.
The Methodists are arranging to pur-
chase tabernacle-a tent with capac.
ity to seat $500 people-in which they
expect to hold meetings in different parts
of Salina District.
Two attempts we're made in Cofey
county to Gust the County Attorney.
One 70: neglecting to attend the grand
jury, and the other under the new law
for being drunk. Both failed.
The party that left Arkansas City
with fatboat for Little Rock, were
last reported one hundred miles below
Arkansas City. They found the channel
three feet in depth all the way.
The Sumner County Press is authority
for saying that DR.. w. H. Moore of that
county, has pumpkin vine fifty yards
in length, is still growing, and has al.
ready forty-two pumpkins on it.
The Wamego Blade does not believe in
digging up JEFF Davis for county pur-
poses, and says: LET the petticoat of
oblivion he kindly cast over this weak
kneed representative Of all that is false,
murderous treasCEable."
The MarysvilIe Ncrs says: "a wall
eyed dead beat has sued this paper for
libel, for n mistake which was cheerfully
corrected. and it now transpires that he
was Just the kind of cat we said he was.
In short, he is libcrtine.'
The Salina Herald explains as follows:
Many Eastern Editors are much puzzled
to know what we mean by volunteer
wheat" They have seen notices in the
Herald and other reliable central Kansas
papers, announcing the harvesting of
volunteer" crops Of wheat and rye that
yielded twenty to twenty-five bushels OF
number one grain to the acre, and they
can't understand it. For their informa-
ton we will explain that a volunteer
crop" means here just what it means
anywhere else a crop grown on stubble
ground from the scattering seed left by
the previous years harvest, without any
blowing, narrowing or sowing, or any
work or care of any kind until it is
ready to be harvested. Many fields of
this "volunteer wheat" yielding over
twenty bushels IN the acre, have been
harvested in Saline and adjoining eeun-
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