The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-09

Ewing aud John Richards, and they
have tied at 9Ga.
Largest invoice of cook and heating
stoves will be received next week at
the Live Hardware. Wait for them,
examine them and get prices before
buying elsewhere.
Wednesdays Globe Democrat had
twenty-One columns of solid nonpareil
describing the toilets of the ladies who
attended the Yelled PROPHETS ball on
the previous evening.
We have sent out q number of the
lists of lands affected by the Brewer
decision, this week and have received
many thanks for our trouble in prepar-
1 ing and printing them.
A private note from s. d. Cook, of
Parsons, formerly proprietor of the
his shoe shop was recently burned and
that he lost everything.
We publish an interesting story OH
our last page this week. Anderson &
DeClute are the authors and you can
not spend q few minutes more profit
ably than in perusing 1t.
To a man up tree it would seem
that the last thing the democrats of
Allen county want is a campaign of
dirt. They tried something of that
kind last year, didn't they?
1t would be hard to find happier or
more contented lot of school children
than We have in lola. They seem en-
tirely satisfied with their new build
ing, their teachers and their work.
Davies & West have received
the finest line of piece goods and gents
suitings ever brought to the town. lola
now has merchant tailoring estab-
lishment in the full sense of the term.
The ladies of the Fairview Presbyte-
rian church will hold social at the
residence of Mrs. Fl. B. Hummiston, in
Usage township, on Thursday evening
October 18th, 1885. All are invited to
attend.
| The "lithograph" advertisements of
the Pink Tea that are displayed at the
Opera House and at GOodhue & Evans
have attracted no little attention this
week. Mrs. II. III. Knight, we belle We
is the artist.
| Mr.. J. w. Wolf has placed on our
table genealogical curiosity in the
shape of an apple which is formed from
the union of two full grown apples. 1t
is the most perfect horticultural twin
we have ever seen.
We have just received direct from
the manufacturers an elegant line of
ladies' Jerseys, including all the new
shapes in coat backs, vest fronts, braid
ed and scalloped. Prices less than ever
before quoted. o. p. NOrthrup & Co.
DIR. Lafary has proven himself to he
a reliable dentist and is permanently
located and he still guarantees first
class work for reasonable prices ex-
tracts teeth without pain by the use of
the safest anaestbetic known. Call
and see him.
We attended the High School rhetor-
icals last Friday afternoon and were
very much entertained. The patrons
of the school are cordially welcomed to
these exercises and we are surprised
that more do not attend. They could
not fail to be interested.
VIM. Hawkins has sold his interest in
the grocery store to Nimrod Hawkins.
and the firm will still remain Hankins
& Patterson. Mr.. VIM. Hankins, we
are sorry to say, gives up the business
on account of poor health, which will |
compel him to refrain from any active
occupation.
The COnZOnet Reading Circle, of
which mention was made last week,
held very pleasant and interesting |
meeting Saturday afternoon at the
home of Miss Mollie White. The circle
is composed Of nine lady teachers and |
will meet tomorrow Saturday after
noon with Anna Keyser.
We have been told by leading DEM
Ocrat that the great effort of that party
this fall would be to organize the GEN.
trail committee SO as to "sit down
on Smith," It would have been worth
good many votes to the party il the
matter had been attended to before the
appearance of last weeks issue.
Otten's building looks quite hand
some since receiving its cornice. It is
Mr.. Otten's intention we understand to
fit up the upper rooms for his family
residence during the winter. He is also
building an additional story to his bake
house and will connect it by a bridge
with the second floor Of his store.
The democratic county Central Com
mittee met last Saturday and organized
by electing DR.. Clifford, of lola, chair
man, and Clarence Cease, of Geneva,
secretary. 1t isn't our put in, but we
are little anxious to gee how the "sOl-
id south" will look at this thing. Will
it secede altogether, As the Interstate
suggests?
The candidates. on the democratic
ticket were all in lola Tuesday and
had conference with the editor of the
Interstate, in which, We are informed,
the latter told them that his price for
supporting them in his paper would be
$50 piece. From the discouraged
tone of the Interstate this week, we
fear the modest demand was not ac-
ceded to.
We are sorry to learn from Chanute
papers that Mr.. J. Clark was one of
the sufferers by the fire in that town,
losing nearly everything he had. 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Clark
was burned out here by the fire that
took the Richards and Young & Clark
buildings. and lost everything he had
except little household furniture. 1t
seems as though ill luck follows some
men.
A little examination of the stairway
at the south end of the court house
will show it to be in an exceedingly
dangerous condition. The timbers are
rotten, some of them have. fallen out of
place, and the whole thing is very