The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-09-29
LOCAL MATTERS
LOCAL NOTES.

] -Postponedl
Weather magnificent.
| Ibid you go over to the fart"
| Indies summer has commenced.
! How is the paw-paw crop this year
1 1t is time now to look out for you
house plants.
The Neosho Valley District Fai,
was success.
Well all go down to the Humboldt
fair next week.
-Teachers' examination next Satur
day at the school house.
County Commissioners meet in reg
ular session next Monday.
Neat and nobby = those circulars
We printed for Yates this week.
Bring out your parlor stoves and
prepare for the winters counting.
Our folks will go down 70 the Hum.
boldt fair next week in large numbers.
Get your little bill ready to present
to the County Commissioners next Mon,
day.
"A large number of our citizens have
beed attending the Neosho Falls fair
this week.
Pull down your chin, and your vest
wipe of, preparatory to attending the
fall fairs.
Our merchants have brought on big
stocks of goods in anticipation offs very
large trade this fall.
"A bell-ringer troupe gave an enter
tainment at the courthouse last Satur-
day night to a pretty good house.
business in the justice courts has
been lively this week. Messrs. Boyd
and Paxson have been working like bea-
vers.
Premium lists of the Allen County
fair can be had by applying to the Assist
ant Secretary, r. B. Stevenson. Send
for one.
Married, at Geneva, Kansas, Sept.
26th, 1877, by Rev. S. G. Clark, Mr.. A.
M. Adams and Geneva b. Reese, all of
Allen County.
Munro Goforth tells us to inform
parties who have promised to bring sugar
cane to the mill, to bring it along at
once-forthwith.
We should like to inquire if any of
our exchanges have had "returns" from
the advertisement headed Seaside Lii
brary 2" Is it fraud?
To decide whether a candidate is
Republican or Democratic watch the
arguments used. The Rep pulls out
cigars, the Dem. beer checks.
Some of our subscribers must live
several hundred miles from their post
Office, Judging from the time it takes to
hear from them in regard to their sub
scriptions.
There is a book published in Chi.
cago entitled 1.-THE Dance of DEATH"
from which we have read, and
would recommend that our dancers get
and read it.
Webb. Bostwick has finally succeed
ed in killing four of the wolves that
have damaged him and his neighbors So
badly during the past year. One of
those he killed last Friday week whip
ped his dogs before he was despatched.
The farmers of that neighborhood are to
be congratulated on the fact that these
brutes have finally been destroyed.
Last Saturday Mr.. J. Black filed
before Judge Boyd charging
Allen Bryant with the crime of incest.
The charge was made at the instance of
the girl, Delilah Bryant. The defendant
gave bond in the amount of three hun
dred dollars to appear and answer to-
day. The case is set for 9 o'clock this
"A few weeks since we mentioned ga
lot of men wrangling all day about the
age of horse" The animal was stray, |
which had been taken up by Mr.. Adam
Maiers, of Deer Creek township. and
was claimed by man from Butler Co.,
Kansas. He claimed that his horse was
Xix years old, while the opinion of the
of those claiming to be judges
If chooses" was that the horse in ques
ion was only three years old. Tuesday |
he gentleman from Butler, accompanied
BY his witnesses, put in an appearance
md proved his property before Esquire
Boyd. Maiers gave up the horse after
the charges for keeping, etc.
We have neglected noticing "The
Elements Of ook-Keeping for Common
by S. A. Felter, A. NJ, pub
ished by Geo. W. Martin, Topeka. From
! hasty examination of the work, we
IAN recommend it as an admirable text
'ook for our public schools, being clear,
concise, and practical in all its details
L combines arithmetic with ook.keep-
ng, hus interesting pupils in practical
of the first to advance himself
n the other. The book closes with
hantar nm ga ctnal practice - hy prof