The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-26
gufal Matters.

Ex-clerk Davis, with buck saw anC
bran new ak, like Vanderbilt, "don'
care - for the dear people," only HI
don't put it that way.
Rev. T. c. Coffey has returned from
Indiana. His return is heartily welcom
ed. rnd he has the sympathy of all ouI
citizens in the loss of his mother.
1t is hard to say which have beer
kept the buster this past week-the
transfer men hauling coal or the con.
sumers paying for it.
The Humboldt papers are trying ta
get up a boom for an opera house a!
that place. The burned district fur.
nishes an excellent location. The one
thing needful is capital.
We neglected last week, to mention
the establishment of new meat mar
ket at Buchanan's old stand, by Press
Ter and Inks. lola now has three meat
markets and they all seem to be doing
good business.
The recent conflagratiOns all over
the country have not been without
their redeeming feature-they have
created boom in the insurance bust
ness. ATS an i'll wind that blows no
body good"
A lively correspondent from Usage
has good deal to say about the Mo-
docs In another column. And by
the way, hasn't THE REGISTER a
pretty lively set of correspondents all
around? Not week passes but we
hear them complimented.
On the morning that our thermpm-
eters here registered nine degrees be-
low zero, thethermometer at the State
University at Lawrence registered
twenty degrees below zero. Onewould
hardly think that 50 miles would make
SO much difference.
We present our readers this week
with the opening chapter of new
serial entitled, 1.-THE Hearts Problem"
The story is by a popular author, and
promises to be of considerable interest.
1t will continue through seventeen
or eighteen numbers.
If the ingenuity of the average Kan
san is illustrated in anything better
than in the construction of sleighs we
would like to see the article. The va
riety of patterns exhibited in this line
on our streets the past week, would
make an interesting collec ton for a
museum.
Considerable curiosity exists as to
the identity of the 'young lawyer"
who returned his marriage license en-
dorsed "no cause of action" TO re-
lieve ourselves of further Questioning
on the matter, we will say that we
are pledged not to tell. II you want
10 find out you must ask the man
himself.
One of the townships in Sedgwick
County failed tn vote bonds to the St.
lLOuftJ TOil f5COtb q "icAitd Eoffu oIi
which account the road will be built
direct to Newton instead of to Wichi-
ia. So at least says the Eldorado
Times The item does not state
whether the read will eventually pass
Through Wichita or not.
Among the business changes Of last
week was the purchase by w. L. Bar
tells Of Mr.. Thomas harness shop.
<'The rEalng passion is strong" and
Mr.. Bartels knds it hard to keep out of
the harness business very long. He
says he is there to stay now, and in
tends to bring on the heaviest stock of
goods in that line that has yet been
brought to lola.
We have lately received several
fonts of the handsomest and finest job
type that were ever brought into Allen
county. 1t is all of the latest style,
and enables Us, with our already large |
assortment, to get up as fine a job as
can be done in Southern Kansas We
have put our prices down to the lowest
living rates, with the expectation Of
doing all the job work there is to do
in lola. Give us call.
We regret tie Learn of the resignation
of Miss Sarah B. coffey of her place in
the pyblic schools. She was one of the
very best Of the corps of teachers, do
ing earnest, enthusiastic and excel
lent work. she will remain, we I'M
derstapd, at her home in Indiana.
Her place i'm the school is supplied by
the promotion Of Miss Flora Gay to
her place, Miss sadie Reimert taking
the place vacated by Miss Gay.
Several sleighing parties of more or
less magnitude were INDUCED in the
the first of tire week The most am
bilious one CHARTERED four horse team
and "took in'' Hunboldt-so they say.
1t was composed Of the following gen.
tiemen and ladies' Messrs. Gordon,
Boyle, Smyth, Thomas and Evans
and Misses Trego, Gay, Evans, Pick
ell and Carrie Ellis. The only conf
plant we have heard entered by any
OF the party was that that they had
neither s break doxs nor run away,