The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-13
KANSAS NOTES.

Abilene is to have 81 900 creamery
The Mermons are building a churcl
In wyandotte.
Kansas farmers are called professor
OF agriculture.
Burliagame is to be county seat o
Usage county.
A Newton man prognosticates Awe
year. We hope 1t may be so.
Post No. oS, Grand Army of the Re
public, Abilene, has 900 members.
Fhe Grand Lodge of Kansns X. of p
will meet in Emporia the 10th of May
Some Labette county farmers art
planting large quantities of onions this
year.
The newly elected Mayor of La
Uygne is only % years old.
The grounds of the Emporia normal
school are to be graded and planted in
trees.
The Fort Scott schools are agitating
fhe question of giving up grammar as
a study.
Mrs. John Coleman, of Rocks county,
has in one year given birth to two pain
of twin boys.
J.K. Finley, of Emporia, is fencing
in six sections of land in Chase county
for cattle ranch.
Fredonia's new twenty thousand
dollar hotel has not yet materialized.
They want more time.
The Southern Kansas seed house of
Augusta, sold $500 worth of seeds in
one day last week.
A cigar maker employed in an Atch-
ison factory drank twelve glasses of
beer i'm two minutes.
Two of the railroad commissioners,
Major Hopkins and Judge Humphry,
are natives of England.
1t Is estimated that there are about
1lI,Oe0 old soldiers i'm Kansas and
about 10000 soldiers widows and Or
phans.
A dramatic company would do well
at Usage Mission, according to the
Journal. They have had no amuse-
ment there for three months, except
the quarantine against Parsons.
Fort Scott claims 1900 in habitants
and registered ,279 voters. Topeka
with population of more tnan e0,QOO
registers Ash. Atchison 200 and
Lawrence 2,073.
Colonel Prouty does not go out with
the Sells circus, as was expected.
Sells has sold his show, and Prou:y
will materialize as printer again, and
run live newspaper somewhere in
Kansas.
Eldorado Times: The city fire en-:
CINE was burned great deal easier and
quicker than it was paid for. Its total
cost, first and last, must be near "a 900,
and of the six fires we have had since
its purchase, it never saved dimes
worth of property.
Smallpox is spreading in an alarm
ing extent at Galena and Empire City.
Over seventy cases reported. The city
has appealed for aid, as their treasury
is already exhausted.
At Neodesha meeting was called
for Tuesday evening last, to perfect ar
rangements for Fourth of July cele-
bration. Neodesha fellows take time
blythe forclock.
Some farmers around Oswego, who
have farms adapted to raising swine,
are engaging in the business with good
heart and to profit. They are intro
ducing finer breeds mors than hereto
fore.
Gov. Robinson "came toward" at
recent meeting in Lawrence, and said
he "hardiy knew what was expected
of him this evening"" and then made a
speech which fills three columns in
the Journal.
1t is reported that Ben Hope, of
Smith county, has discovered that salt
sown thickly on the ground will over
come all bad effects of drouth and en-
able farmers to grow enormous cropsi i'm
the dryest seasons.
Han. N. Y, n. Bennett, editor of the
PTokibitionist, has an invitation from
the temperance societies of New York
TO visit that state and assist them in
their Temperance campaign. He has
accepted the Invitation, and will leave
the first of next month.
A man at TT. Scott got up one morn
ing, builta fire, a3d left the lamp on the
stove. The house was destroyed in con-
sequence, and we trust his wife realizes
that. ifshe had done her duty in the
matter of building the fire, she would
not now be homeless.
The State Millers' Association. which
met at Topeka last week, expressed
the opinion that the wheat prospects
of Kansas are very favorable, and pre-
diet that with good weather the yield
viii be from thirty to forty million
bushels.
In most neg States the rate of taxa
ton increases for many years, but in |
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