The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-03
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From the Junction City Union.l
Oswego had $1,000 fire last Satur-
day.
Topeka is to have another 500, 900
hotel. "
Potatoes have been planted in Neo-
sho county.
Jewell county has thirteen divorce
cases pending.
The Burlington Patriot wants rail-
road legislation.
There are 200 chartered lodges of
Masons in Kansas.
Republic County is threatened with
a county seat war.
Come west. There are 1000 Office
holders in Sumner county.
John NJ. Price, postmaster at Atch-
ison, has sent in his resignation.
John Gilmore thinks irrigation has
nothing to do with Mormonism.
Lawrence, the Athens, of Kansas,
complains of an overplus of Migrants.
Wichita is taking up her board side
walks and laying down brick or flag.
Sensible.
There are many advantages to be
derived from planting walnut trees on
waste land.
A Burton man, who ran sand bur
into his thumb, had to have that MEM
Der amputated.
A young man of Seneca eloped with
the girl that his brother was to have
married next day.
Labette county has twenty-three
criminal cases and eighty-one civil
cases on the docket.
Every citizen of Leavenworth of
any importance is now in Washington
on the post office fight.
All the whiskey now sold at Empo-
ria is for medicinal purposes. Plenty
Of sick people at Emporia.
Charles Payson, an ex-convict of the
Kansas penitentiary, is lecturing on
"Crime and Criminals"
The Allen county papers are getting
personal over the failure to make pro-
hibition prohibit down there.
Leavenworth ladies wear immense
suptiowers upon their heaving bosoms
when attending swell parties.
Senator Plumb has prevailed upon
Hon. ]. G.. Blaine to attend the SOL
diers' reunion at Topeka, this summer.
Prentis has had to explain some of
his jokes recently. Pretty dull man
who needs an explanation from Prem
tbs.
The Atchisop Globe says that one of
the leading prohibition papers is ed
tied by the biggest beer-belly in the
State.
If Kansas elects four Congressman
at large, how about the division of
Federal patronage, such as post Of
fees, etc.?
1t is reported that Col. John G. Car
penter, OF LeavenwOrth, who is now
east, will bring Mrs. Carpenter home
with him.
Speaking of Congressmen-at-large
the Kansas City Journal says Kansas
has had a Governor at large for the
past year.
The Santa Fe road is to have steel
rails the entire length of the road, and
the track is to be supported by solid
bed OF limestone.
In Howard, the citizens meet at the
court house in the afternoon of each
Sunday and spend an hour in a congre-
gational singing bee.
Kirwip is noted far and wide for its
unsavory personal quarrels, and the
Chief rises to inquire, what will next
weeks stink be about?
The Kansas City Journal predicts
that Ex-Governor Charles Robinson,
of Lawrence, will be the Democratic
nominee for Governor.
Gentlemen in search of 'budge" in
the average Kansas town, are remind
ed that if they don't see what they
want they can ask for it.
A Harper county man proposes to
fence block of land in fhe Indian
territory twelve miles square with
barbed wire and cedar posts.
Newspaper fights are unknown in
Edwards, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane,
Sheridan and Trego counties, as they
have but one newspaper each.
An Emporia man attempted to beat
the government out Of two cents by
folding a letter inside paper. A ten
dollar fine ruined the speculation.
A Chautauqua idiot filled out per-
sonal property statement with $4,000
for joke, and now the tax collector is
after him for $l6S.7O taxes.
If every county in Kansas, that is
talking Of voting Jail bonds, votes
them, there'll be lot of new homes
for the weary before the year is out.
A Solomon Valley farmers wife,
last year, sold butter to the amount of
1854; eggs, $4.sO; cheese, S14.2O; and
poultry, $3.50; making the neat little
ann total Of $40 81