The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-09-04
STATE NEWS.

0fAtE NEWS.
Solomon has q P. T. Barnum, VIII,
makes cheese.
The first Sunday school in Oskaloos,
was organised in 1858.
The sheriff of Riley county has appoin
ted a colored deputy.
Mr.. Reuben Hackett of Ottawa ha.
written book on geology.
During the past ten years Kansas ha
paid S17 200, 600 for education.
In Anderson Comfy the demand fo
school teachers exceeds the supply.
A Holton man, seventy-eight year
old, has commenced suit for divorce.
Twenty thousand acres of land will b,
sown to wheat, in Butler county, thii
fall.
They say that Dio Lewis who is eter
nally telling what to eat, has the dys
pepsia.
A Presbyterian church in Belleville
Republic county, was dedicated on the
2lst inst.
1t is estimated that there will be 75O,.
600 acres more wheat sOwn in Kansas
this fall than last.
A couple of eastern gentlemen have
located in Ellsworth county with a fine
herd of domestic cattle.
A Kansas preacher put it this way
"Will you let a dollar breastpin draw
you down to perdition ?"
More money will be brought into Kan.
sas. this year in exchange for the products
than in any previous year Of her history.
The Emporia Mews tells us that an i'm
mense amount of grapes and peaches are
being shipped north and west from that
city.
Flax, two feet high, bowling finely and
only two months planted, is what
strikes them in Miami county as big
thing.
The Mennonites preserve melons for
winter eating by placing them in barrels
and covering them with salt.-Neacton
Kansdn.
Labette county has q laboring mans
party, which proposes to hold a conven-
tjOn September 10th and nominate
county ticket.
The Office of General manager of the
NJ. X. & 7. railroad, made vacant by the
of Col. Il. S. Stevens has
been abolished.
After talking the matter over for forty
years, the overseers of Harvard Univer-
sity have decided to add chair of music
to the professorships.
Gov. Crawford is to be one of the
speakers at the Indian Territory fair,
which is to be held at Muscogee, COM
September 18th.
The Lincoln county Patriot says:
'Threshers report the average of spring
wheat about twenty bushels to the acre,
md winter wheat thirty"
J. w. Burke, of North Sycamore,
county, had in $50 acres of
wheat on his farm, and. has threshed
herefrom nearly $500 bushels.
Tie Republic County Agricultural
Society will hold their fourth annual
air, on their grounds near Belleville, on
he 18th 10Th and Both of September.
The acreage of wheat in Cloud county,
lext year, will be largely increased. Con-
is already sown, and farmers
re busy and will be for ten days longer.
The Baxter Springs Sentinel thinks that
he democrats of Cherokee county will
un straight out democratic ticket this
FAIL. They want no mixture in theirs.
Jonathan Miles, a heavy cattle dealer
rho has driven cattle to Baxter Springs |
Or number of years, was shot and |
illed at Palo Pinto, Texas, a short time
90.
Alfred Gray, Secretary of the State
'oard of Agriculture, reports the wheat
rop of Kansas at nine million bushels,
nd the corn crop at fifty-ive million
ushels.
The Kansas portion of the st. Joseph
Denver City Railroad will be offered
'r sale on the 18th day of November
ext, at Marysville, Kansas; the Nebras-
a portion at Steel City, Nebraska, on
ne 25th inst.
The late grasshopper scare has about
lbsided. There were quite a number
assed over the western portion of this
tate and Nebraska, some of which lit
own in places, and did some damage in
nall localities.
Mr.. w. H. Roseberry, of Neosho coun-
:, claims that he can beat all big corn
Ilkers. He pulled an ear that measured
velve inches in length, and eight inches
'Ound the center, has twenty-five rows
grains and weighs two pounds.
The Parsons Sun is authority for the
atement that on the LIST of October the ,
TX. Il 7. and Houston & Texas Central
abroad of Texas, will connect with l
lilly line of steamers, four miles below
custom, for New Orleans, Havana, Liv-
pool and New York.
Mr.. Edward Jonson, living one and a ,
If miles west of Chetopa, while boring l
r coal, has discovered at a depth Of I
ghty feet, what Is pronounced plumba- I
}. or black lead. The vein is three and {
half feet thick, and the article is said {
be of good quality. {
The Abilene Chronicle says: A gradu-
e of the printing department of the Ag- I
College worked for us last I
EEK. He "ended up" five sticks. U
hen We come to read the proof we '
arked seventy-three mistakes, and then s
lit as we thought it would pay better \
reset the article than to correct it. o
Concordia Empire: "Those homestead,
5 who left their claims on account of
e grasshopper visitation last fall. are | t