The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-22
News Notes.

Sedan has five drug stores.
Dodge City has building boom.
Atchison is unusually healthy.
Ripe pawpaws sell in Atchison four
for five cents.
A Sunday picnic at Fredonia was
enlivened by imported beer.
EmporIa will take active steps to
ward securing union depot.
Lawrence wants glucose factory
and linseed oil mill right away.
Cholera infantum is decimating the
number of Enterprise children.
One hundred and forty-seven pupils
attending the Dodge City schools.
The foreman of the Ne,o York Wit
ness will come to Kansas and Iowa to
take notes Of prohibition.
The Kansas state convention OF
Universalists has just cleared very
successful annual session in Abilene.
J. T. Robinson, of Salina, was acct
dentaliy shot ami killed by a stray
ball from Topeka shooting gallery.
Johnson county has paid out humid
reds of dollars in liquor trials, and has
not single conviction to show for it.
Two hundred and fourteen bushels
of flax seed were threshed from eigh-
teen acres of land in Norton county.
The Lyon county Sunday Schools
will meet in annual convention at En-
poria on Tuesday, the 10th of October.
A colored man in the Franklin county
Jail, for stealing watch, kicked hole
through the stone wall and made his
escape.
The Republic concludes that the
prospects of the Republican party in
Kansas never were better than at
present.
A Sabbath School convention and
picnic will be held in Big Creek town.
ship, Neosho county, on Thursday,
Sept. 18th.
While little girl eight years old at
Lindsburg, Kansas, was feeding a
broom corn scraper last week, she had
her arm torn off.
The Independence fruit canning es-
Enlistment is doing big business
lately. and is an institution that is
worth much to that town.
Sheriff Amos Long, of Miami coun-
ty, is searching northern Kansas for a
horse thief known to have gotten
away with thirteen horses.
T 1t is only question of a few years
when Kansas will grow so many
grapes that they will have to be made
into wine to preserve them.
- The Wellington Press calls for the
enforcement of the compulsory school
law, in order that children may be
kept off the street of that city.
The train robber killed at Vinita
was man named Wilson. His body
was taken back to Vinita Wednesday
and buried without an inquest.
Ex-Governor and ex-United States
Senator ]. NJ. Harvey is talked of as
possible candidate for the state senate
Ito fill a vacancy in the Riley-Davis-
Dickinson division.
The attendance of the Emporia Nor
NAL is larger by nearly one hundred
than when the term began, the enroll
ment at present being about two hun
dred and sixty.
There is q young man tending bar
in Lawrence, who three years ago
graduated from an eastern college and
who is member of a prominent in
tercollegiate secret fraternity.
A chorus has been organized among
the Welsh singers of Emporia, to COM
pete for the prize which will be offered
at the Eisteddfod to be held at Usage
City next Christmas.
One third of the corn in Wabaun-
see county has been cut down for
want of rain, and west of Rice county
it is said that the dry weather has
burned up everything.
Kansas has pensioner of the war
of 1872, Mrs. Amanda A. Sines, of
Lawrence township, Osborne county.
Her husband, Henry Sines, was pri-
vate in the Sixteenth Virginia militia.
The United States revenue collector
for Kansas has issued, during the past
year, ], $50 government licenses for the
sale of liquor, 400 more than was ISIS u
ed up to corresponding date last year.
About $500 of the five thousand
guaranteed the Missouri Pacific right
of way by citizens of Atchison will be
paid and the company called upon to
forgive the balance, as it cannot be
collected.
There are $50 acres in the grounds of
the Western National Fair association
at Bismarck Grove, Lawrence seyen-
ty-five acres i'm the Grove alone, and
the Improvements cost one hundred
thousand dollars
The Greenbackers of Kansas are