The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-30

The ice crop is enormous.
"A happy New Year to all.
How do you like the snow7
Good many cisterns are dry.
Christmas has come and gone.
Coal has been in demand this week.
Free. Almanacs and calendars for
1877.
The Centennial year is drawing to a
close.
The game law goes into force next
Monday.
School will commence again next
Tuesday.
Five degrees below zero yesterday
morning.
Good weather on wheat but hard on
wood choppers.
To day is the last day for killing
quails and prairie chickens.
On and after next Monday date your
letters 1877. Don't forget it
Quail on toast will soon be out OF
style-if the game law is enforced.
Mrs. CampbelPs brother, from Hi
nois, has been visiting her this week.
1t is only some two hundred weeks
till the next Presidential election. Keep
cool.
The snow is said to measure ten or
twelve inches in the timber where it did
not drift.
Prayers for the poor this cold wealth
er should he accompanied by liberal con-
tributions.
Rabbits are making sad havoc among
young fruit trees that have not been
protected.
The Board of County Commissioners
meet in regular session Monday the Sth
of January.
The last week in leap year has been
well improved. The papers are full Of
marriage notices.
Judge Talcott came up home from
Neosho county the first of the week to
spend the holidays.
1t is a mistake about Cupid's having
laid away his bow and arrow and gone
into winter quarters.
With this number The REGISTER
commences volume eleven. Have you
paid your back subscription.
There have been several hogs ship
ped from here this winter that weighed
over six hundred pounds each.
Mr.. E. DOwner's little babe died
last Thursday. Funeral services at the
Presh, t,rian church on Friday.
Union meetings will be held in the
Presbyterian church every afternoon and
evening during the week of prayer.
Those of our subscribers who have
been receiving THE REGISTER by carrier
will hereafter receive it through the post
Office.
The snow that fell last Saturday
night and Sunday is the heaviest ever
known in the State. So says the oldest
inhabi,ant."
Read the prospectus of the Scientific
American published in THE REGISTER,
For scientific paper it has no equal
1920 per year.
MIR. Munger has put up one hundred
and seventy tons of good ice. A fact
that will be of more interest next sum
mer than it is now.
We have received from p l. Bone
brake the sixteenth annual report of the
Auditor of State, for the fiscal year end
ing November 81, 1876.
The General Meeting of Friends
hold a meeting at their new church three
miles south east of Geneva. on Friday,
January 5th. 1876. All are invited.
Among the publications that we caI
heartily recommend to our farmer friends
is the Prairie Farmer, an advertisement
of which appears this week. Read it.
The receipts at the public school en-
tertainment. Christmas evening We un
derstand were sufficient to buy set of
Chambers Encyclopedia fur the school.
Married in the NJ. E. Church in
lola, Kansas, on the oath of December.
1876, by Rev. H. K. Muth, Mr.. A. F.
Rosecrans and Miss Zoe DeMoss; all of
Allen county, Kansas.
The Society of Friends in Geneva
township have lately completed a new
church. 1t is located abouta mile north
of the Carpenter School House, and three
miles south east of Geneva.
The Christmas tree exhibition given
by the public schools Christmas evening
was we'll attended notwithstanding the
weather. The performance
was creditable to those participating.
Angelo Scott and Homer Hendricks
have been at home from school during
the holidays, the former from the State
at Lawrence and the latter