The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-24

i Readers of the REGISTER will re
! member that Matt Fields had ne,
, coat and vest taken from Mcclure
store early in January. He had loni
ago given them up for lost, but oil
Monday of this week friend told hin
he thought the goods might be foun,
in possession of a man by the name o
Bromfield, in Yates Center. Consta
BILE Conley was accordingly dispatched
to the place and was fortunate enough
to find the clothes and the man. Or
Wednesday he returned here will
both. Mr.. Bromfield pied guilty II
petit larceny and was sentenced t.
eighty days in the county Jail.
AT the last meeting of the city coun
Gil, the bonds of newly appointed city
officers were approved and filed. Thu
Judiciary committee in conjunction
with the city attorney were instructed
to prepare an ordinance to prevent the
sale of intoxicating liquors within the
city limits. The advisability of revis
ing the whole volume of city ordi
nances was discussed and although nc
conclusion was reached we understand
that the council has about decided to
have the revision made. This certain.
ly ought to be done. New ordinances
have been passed frequently without
regard to the old ones and the result is
that we have a lot of contradictory and
often bungling and unstatutory laws
They ought to be revised and put in
practical shape.
Quite change is contemplated in
the arrangement of the Court House,
after the repairs of which we spoke last
week are made. The old stairways on
the south side will be taken down and
in their place one broad stairway will
be built entering on the west sside be-
tween the Treasurer's and Probate
Judges office. Upon ascending the
stairs you will enter the court room by
turning to the left through a door cut
just in front of J. H. Fishers office, or
you will enter the Clerks office by 60
ing straight ahead. A jury room on
the left of the landing will also prob
ably be arranged. We do not know
that anything particularly is to be
gained by the arrangement, while the
Probate Judges office will lose some of
its space. Still it will be "new," and
that word, in connection with Court
House, has rather sweet sound.
There is some talk of hiring leader
and recognizing band here. "Tis a
contamination devoutly to be wished"
but we hope those having the project
in charge will call upon the business
men, before hiring leader. and secure
from them monthly subscription suffi-
cient to guarantee his wages. We never
can have a permanent band so long as
those who compose it are compelled to
meet unaided, the entire expense. And
we ought not to expect it. We know
from sad experience that the boys who
go into band sacrifice enough time
and pleasure and do enough hard work
and thankless work, without having
to go down in their pockets and pay
for the privilege. No one denies the
great benefit to town of good band.
Then the town ought to support one.
Let every business man agree to pay
an assessment of S1.O0 monthly, and
we could have a band here from one
years end to another.
Architects are of the opinion that
should the south and east walls of the
court house be taken out, the west wall
would probably fall out of its own &C
cord. In view of this probability it
becomes question whether the Com
missioners would not do better to re-
consider their decision. 1t certainly
looks like poor economy to spend s., 600
or s. 900 in building new walls around
old partitions. Even when this is
done the result is a building that but
poorly serves the purposes of court
house and cannot be used with any
convenience but few more years al
longest. THE REGISTER would be the
last to urge the county to assume new
obligations so long as they can posi-
bly, be avoided. But it certainly seems
that if the repairs to our old cour
house are to cost as much as is estimat
ed it would be the part of true econom!
to build new one. Penny wisdom i
very often pound foolishness.