The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-20

eI. IHE LEICESTER was the only pape
= in the county that published portrait
of all the members of the new cabinet
We also published the Inaugural ad
dress in full and gave more space to
description OF Inauguration proceed
ings than any of the other papers, be
) sides printing the new liquor law il
full. This is not a boast, but a calm
statement of a fact which everyon
may verify for himself, and is made t.
assure the public that readers of TIL
REGISTER get all the news there il
going.
The X. of p. social, held at the room
of the Lodge last Saturday evening
was quite numerously attended and
was very pleasant affair. The frs
game of Progressive Euchre which ha.
ever been played in the town, was in
dulged in, and the universal verdict
was that it deserved the great popu
larity it has recently attained. Those
not thus employed, amused themselve.
with other games and with music, tall
etc. Altogether the social was so much
of success that the Lodge will proba
bly, hold another in the near future.
AS Mr.. Wright was driving through
the north part of town Tuesday morn.
ing, he discovered that the kitchen o.
w. ID. Rowley's house was on fire
He at once alarmed the family, who
had not yet discovered it, and by Wig.
orous efforts the fire was extinguished
before any great amount of damage
was done. fit had been allowed a
few moments more Roadway, the en-
tire house would have been consumed
AS it is, only the roof of the kitchen
was destroyed. The roof was set on
fire by stove pipe which passed di-
rectly through 1t.
Bills are posted announcing lectures
at the Opera House on Saturday, Mon
day and Tuesday evenings, March 81,
% and "A, on the subject of cleo
tricity, by Mr.. Louis Favour.
Mr.. Favour has been delivering
these lectures in all the larger
towns of the state and has met with
very flattering success. The newspa-
pers have been liberal in their
praises and he also carries with
him very fiattering letters from prom
inent educators throughout the state.
The lecture tomorrow evening, COM
mencing at s o'clock, will be free.
We can have as we do now, all the
business, amusements, trade, money
and the best town, while Moran can
have the county seat and lola can go
to help swell the list of high taxes for
useless railroad appendages, in towns
with grave yards too large for the num-
Der of citizens that are always telling
how sickly Humboldt is.-Iter-S State.
Coming from a paper published in a
town that has not dared for seven or
eight years to elect a council that
would qualify, lest the city be driven
into bankruptcy by being compelled to
pay its honest debts, the above remark
about "high taxes" betrays just little
bit of gall.
G. A. r. armory is raging this week,
some parties favoring the north side,
opposite the Brosier building, and 9TH
ers the south side, opposite the Court
House. The proper place for it is in
the square, and it does seem as if some
arrangements might be made whereby
it could be safely put there. One thing
is certain, if no one has the right to
pass title to the ground that would be
used, surely no one would have the
right to coz fiscate the building after it
was erected. Put it on the square and
chance it. We don't want any bad
blood over the location of a building
that is pre-emminently monument
to peace.
The attention of the authorities has
been called to the fact that some par
ties have been disfiguring the new
Elm creek bridge by cutting their
names into the wood work of it. The
parties doing it may not be aware that
the defacing of public property is a
grave offence. And there is no way
in which public property can be more
Wiley defaced, than by having names
cut and scratched and written all over
it. This immodest and disgusting
habit of registering yourself on every
thing that comes in your way, particu-
larly in public places, is one of the
worst of the small vices of the Ameri-
can nature, and it ought to be dealt
with severely for the sake of the ma
tional credit.
Slower reports singular circum-
stance. He says that on Feb. IA, his
boy Lutte, saw piece of paper lying on
the snow at the Ponca Agency, L. II.
On examining it, it proved to be n pre-
scription for one pint of spts Jrunenti,
to be given to well known citizen of
lola, by Goodhue & Evans, druggists.
1t was dated Jan. ), 1885, and was
signed by J. c. Boulson. NJ. d. The
question is how the bit of paper made
its way from lola to Ponca, distance
of nearly 800 miles. DIR. Scott is the
only person who passed between the
two places between Jan. 9Th and Feb.
l4th, and he has no recollection of hav-
ing ever seen the prescription until it
was found there. Can it be that it was
borne all that distance on the wings or
one of the numerous billiards that WIS.,
tied us about that time?
According to the new law relating
to county boards of examiners, teach
ers' examinations will hereafter be
held at the close of the county normal
institute and on the last Saturday in
January, October and April. Ger
tificates shall be issued in three grades
as heretofore, but it is provided that
first, second and third grades shall
continue in force respectively three
years, two years and one year. Pro-
vision is also made whereby the
county superintendent, upon request
of district board, may himself exam
inc a teacher and grant temporary
certificate that shall be valid until the
next regular examination. In accord
ance with the provisions of this new
law Mr.. Henderson wishes us to give
notioa that the next teachers eXaml-