The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01

We clip the following compliments
ry notice from the Martinsville (Ind. }
Republican, DIR. Lafary's h ome paper:
eve learn since the departure of DR..
]. s. Lafary that he is permanently 10
Gated at lola, Kansas, where he will
Immediately enter upon the duties of
his profession. We take great pleasure
in introducing the DR.. to the citizens of
lola aud surrounding country as an
honest, upright man and skillful
dentist as we'll"
At the last meeting Of the Board of
Commissioners, T. s. Slower was en-
ployed to make new plats of the towns
of the county, and he has now got the
work well toward completion. 1t is
work that has long been needed, as the
old plats were on separate pieces of pa
per and were liable 10 be lost and dis
fiured. The new pfats are in book
form and are drawn with Stover's
usual skill and accuracy.
1t is only fair to Mr.. Harris who an
nounces himself as an independent
candidate for reelection to the office of
trustee, to say that he did not appear
Us candidate before the convention
last Saturday. He was nominated but
withdrew his name, and the votes cast
for him as.shOwn by our report of the
convention on our last page, were cast
by his friends without his authority.
The same statement applies to the
votes cast for Messrs. Boyd and Chris
ty.
Parties who happened to be awake
about eleven o'clock Monday night,
were somewhat startled to hear two
sharp crashes as the freight train. on
the Wichita road, went west from the
depot. Ye Local went peacefully to
sleep after hearing it, fully expecting
to have an interesting item about rail
road wreck to write up in the morning,
but on inquiry we found that it was
only pair of torpedoes placed on the
track to give the engineer warning
that he was near the crossing. Twas
ever thus.
Webb Bostwick shows us this week,
copy of a paper published at Salam-
anca, New York, which contains the
report of committee sent out by the
Southwestern Mutual Land Associa-
ton" to visit the southwest with
view to selecting lands for the location
of colony. The committee visited
the western and southwestern. counties
of Missouri, and southeastern Kansas,
and their report shows that they were
very favorably impressed with what
they saw of our State. They greatly
preferred it over most Of the country
they saw in Missouri and recommend
ed that the colony be located in some
portion of Southeastern Kansas.
There seems to be a strong impress
ion in the community, that the city
council has made overtures to compro- !
mise the suit which it is thought that |
Prof. Harris expects to bring against |
the city, and that. such overtures
have been rejected. 1t would seem
hardly necessary to contradict such a
but as a. few seem TO give it
credit, we eau say, from official author
ity, that 10 such overture has ever
been made. The city council has new
er been notified that the Professor in
tended to bring suit, and so far as We
know, the Professor Ras not told any !
one of his intentions with regard to the
matter. a.
The Dispute" at the Literary
Union last Friday night, between |
Misses Nettie Scott and Ella C0wan,
was given in a manner highly cred
liable to both young ladies and was
very entertaining to the large audience
that had assembled to hear the exer-
cises. The much mooted question as
to the motives that influenced women |
in dressing stylishly, was finally and
forever settled both speakers declaring
that "wOmeu dressed to annihilate |.
other women" The male portion of the
are heartily glad to learn
such little secrets rs this from the lips
of the ladies themselves. and if there is
any chance OF disclosing more of them,
the disputes" should be made per-
manent feature of the programme by
all means. We will guarantee a
house. |
In the coming township election
most of the interest seems to center on
the offices of Justice of the Peace. We
are not fighting anybody's cause par
but with all respect to the
independent candidates it must be add
mitted that the nominees of the con |
vention for Justices, are exceptionally |
good men. Captain Morehouse, besides
his well known reputation for good,
hard sense, has had good deal of ex-
perience as Justice of the Peace, hay-
ing held the office for long time in
Ohio and i'm this state. He has been |
admitted to the practice of law also, in
both those states and is undoubtedly |
well qualified for the office. We have
spoken of Prof. Harris quail
fications for the office and need not re- !
hearse them here. With two such |