The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-23

sermon. .
HSee here A. j.. you're road overseer
Fnow and of course will expect the usual
faulf-inding for not having good roads
all winter. =
Now is the time to advertise for the
holiday trade, and our enterprising mer-
chants are taking advantage of the op-
portunity.
The Board of County Commissioners
will meet on the 9th of December for the
purpose of approving the bonds of town.
ship officers.
Stevenson is receiving Mexican dollars
and Trade dollars at their face value for
goods and pays them out in change at
ninety cents.
Some mistake in their presumption FL
ings brought large number of people
from the eastern part of the county to
lola this week.
When you want any accomplishments
for your thanksgiving turkey, go to
Cowan and Ireland's, you will find it
there sure pop.
The young man who plead guilty to
the charge of burglary at the late term
of court was sentenced for five years in
the State penitentiary.
Cowan & Ireland carry the largest
stock of queensware and glassware in the
county. Remember this when you want
to make sensible present.
Since the first days of 1870 there has
never been the demand for property in
this place as at the present time. Straws
show which way the wind blows.
Our hotels are we'll patronized and are
good ones. We mention this for their
benefit. Really it would pay at least one
one of them to advertise. Try it.
/Hauling stone for the dam across the
Neosho, affords teamsters some work at
present. We shall have something to say
about this enterprise at an early day. i
The Ladies Missionary Society. will
give a concert at the Presbyterian
church on Thanksgiving evening, Nov.
18th, beginning at y o'clock. Come.
Ellis & Gray have thoroughly renova-
ted their meat market recently. Paper
and paint have been unstintingly ap-
piled until it looks like bran new place.
lola is as well supplied with lawyers
at the present time as any city in this
part of the State, And the proudest fact
is that they stand at the head in point of
ability.
A complete list of the Representatives
elected in Kansas this fall will be found
on the outside of this weeks paper. Also
tolerably full returns from the general
elections.
Messrs. Dunlap & Allison and Robert
Cook advertise their fine stock and poul-
try in the Kansas Farmer and Lawrence
Spirit. They are reliable men and de-
serve success.
Sheriff Hodgson went up TO Leaven-
worth Tuesday, with the young man who
was sentenced to the penitentiary, at the
late term of court. He returned the
following day.
1t seems to be entirely superhuous for
We local to think of new overcoat this
winter. Back subscription accounts are
not received fast enough. May possibly
make it by 1880.
I NJ. H. Stow notifies the public this
week that he will not allow hunting on
his premises. The law is very strict in
regard to tresspassers and hunters will
govern themselves accordingly. u
The best stand, largest stock and choic-
est assortment of cigars, tobaccos, pipes,
cigarettes, etc, in this county can be
found at the postoffice. If you don't
believe it call and be convinced.
Judge Talcott and wife went to Usage
Mission Monday. Phe Fudge holds reg
lar term of courtthee during the next
week or so and ID. Talcott will improve
the opportunitYfo visit her parents.
( DIR. Boulson's team ran away with him
last Saturday, throwing him out and
bruising him up considerably. This is
about the fifth time that the Doctor has
been more or less hurt by runaway
team.
A farmer wishes to know whether it is
better to cut or bend down a we'll ad-
vanced hedge, at one year old, or wait
until it is older, and the reasons for
either course. Some one please answer
next week.
We have a large number of accounts
that were made ION few days time" on
which the "few days" have expired.
Please remember that your reputation
for promptness "where you came from"
needs preservation in Kansas.
RICHARDS e. COwAN.
Last Sunday, some boys while playing
on farm belonging to Mr.. Christy, two
miles north of town, set the prairie on
fine, thinking they could put it out; but
it escaped from their control and burned
up two hay ricks and thirty or forty rods
of fence for Mr.. Christy.
1t is utterly impossible for the editor