The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-09


boldt, for the championship of tn,
county, attracted good deal of atten
ton and interest. We go to press to,
early to report the result.
We have heard a great many com
mandatory remarks upon the action o.
the county commissioners i'm calling q
grand jury. The feeling has become
very general that such step was need
ed; and very little complaint will be
made that it has been taken.
The auction man has folded his tent
and hied him away to new pastures
We understand he Is coming back in
the spring with stock of queensware
to be sold in the same way. We again
renew our suggestion that a prohibito-
ry tariff be levied. 1t will pay.
Wheat has had a decided upward
tendency in the eastern markets for a
week past. and in sympathy with that
corn has also strengthened little. If
the movement continues we may look
for hogs to follow coon. The price of
hogs is never very far below the price
of corn.
At the last meeting of McCook Post
No. 81, G. A. R., the following officers
were elected: w q Mcclure P C; E ]
Thayer, s V C.; VIM Ricketts,, ] V c;
] NJ Mcdonald, QW; f NJ Eckley
AdJt; ID Robinson, Chap; w d Scott,
Surg Jas Burns, o d; John H Har-
ris, . G.
Ferdinand Pickey was brought be-
fore the police judge Monday, charged
with having assaulted Newton Tharp
on the day previous. After hearing
all the evidence Judge Harris assessed
fine against the defendant of $50 and
costs. We understand the case has
been appealed.
= gold and silver watch and some
smaller articles that were left over
from the G.. A. r. Fair were rallied off
Monday night. The gold watch was
drawn by Mat Field and the silver
watch by w. III. Richards. Mat
Field generously donated the watch
to the Post and it was sold at auction
for SS1.40.
1t isn't too late yet to make good res
olutions for the new year, and the one
that would make you happier and bet
ter than any other, in our opinion,
would be to resolve that you will take |
THE REGISTER and persuade all your |
neighbors to take it. Practice that |
resolution a year and let us know how
ysd feel over it.
Lee Rucker has leased the skating
rink and will make some radical
changes in the arrangement of the
nall and the general management
Tho ltnvn xt,ill ha 20 IL Nj
OF The room and the front part of the
hall will be rallied off from the main
rink and seats placed in it for the ben
eft of spectators. Other changes will
also be made that will add very much
TO the comfort and convenience of all
Since our last report, marriage licen-
res have been issued to the followingI
parties: Will B. Robertshaw and
Florence l.. Ruse, both of Allen cgtln-
y; j. ID. Meador and Ida l.. Warner,
both of Allen county; Owen Efum and
Alice A. Burns both of Allen county;
j. n. Ard and Maggie Anderson,
both of Allen county; d. F. Higgins,
Linn county, and Hattie A. Campbell,
Allen county.
The "Minatyfe Circus (the man
hat assaultedand battered that first
word as it appeared on the hand bill
by knocking an out of it, has not yet
been arrested, but he ought to be-
which gave performance at the skat-
ng rink Tuesday night, is said by
hose who attended it to have been a
very fair entertainment. The hall was
lot crowded with visitors however and
he proprietors of the circus are proba-
bly, little richer for having visited here.
The Inter State and its correspon-
tents, think that THE REGISTER is a
very naughty paper indeed, because it
alluded in facetiOus manner to the
1alor displayed by Humboldt officers
n arrestlng negro a week or two ago.
They take all their spleen out in abuse
however, and do not condescend to {
show upon what principle of law an Of |
icer Is justified in going to greater
length in making an arrest for one
than another. That was {
the question at issue, we believe.
A farmer who lives four miles south
west of the city of Savannah feels sat
SIZED that he has at last discovered a
l..
matter how cold the weather may be.
He takes the dirt from around the ,
roots in the fall, bends the trees over
IN the ground and covers them over ,
with straw. He has now about twen-
ty-five trees that he experimental ON
asst fall, and these were filled with
peaches, and were the only trees in the
country that had peaches on this sea-
'on.-Hdmilton (1No.l -Neps Graphic. /,
Mr.. J. Randles was arrested and ,
into Justice Harris court last {
Friday, charged with incest in having
married his first cousin. The defend
INT presenting no evidence, was bound s
over in the sum of 81, 900 to appear at l
he next term of the District Court.
In default of acceptable bond he was
to Jail. On Monday he was
allowed to go out of the Jail after
bucket of coal. Arriving at the coal
house, he managed in some way to
.lude the guard and make his escape. 1
3ehas not yet been heard from. G
1t may improve ones looks to shave !.
lean and pull out ones eye lashes and !
,rows, but it subjects one to an i'm :
nense amount of impsytinent question: .
ng. In less than I've minutes the .
,ther day we heard John Gordon ask :
ID whether he had been in democrat
C row, whether he had been struck by =
lightning, whether he had laid out in :
he snow all night, whether he had !,
been in an explosion, whether he had
rot married, whether he had attempt :
III tn arroSt hiuuop man than him