The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-17
MCCLURE BROS, WEST SIDE WASHINGTON AVE.

We are glad to be able to give oul
readers. even at the expense of local
news crowded out, racy letter from
John Gordon. We await with impa-
tience his promised description of the
political situation.
On last Saturday afternoon, Geo.
Sears, convicted of riotous conduct,
was sentenced by Judge Stillwell to
pay fine of $40 and costs of suit, and
enter into bond of 5000 to keep the
peace for two years.
Patterson Bros. step gracefully TO
the head of the procession this week
with an offer to the Normal student
taking the highest grade in physi-
ology, of a child's variegated willow
high chair, worth $3.50.
Travelling men do not allow common
usage to blind their eyes to existing
facts very long. As an evidence OF
this truth, they are beginning to
change the name of n neighbOring vii
lage from H-b-dt to Brownville.
THE REGISTER job force is employ
ed this week i'm getting out 5000 circu-
lars for the Mineral Well. Lee Ruck-
er is firm believer in the virtue of
printers ink, and is bound to make
the thing go if there is any go in it.
The Sunflower route has added two
new coaches to each of its passenger
trains, to accommodate increasing pat
ronage. The Newton branch of this
road is now complete, trains running
regularly from Eldorado to Newton.
Mr.. John 2. Hays, an old and well
known resident of this county, died
last Friday at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. Horner. The funeral
services were held Oh Sunday, and the
remains inferred in the lola cemetery.
Two of the finest peaches we have
seen anywhere, were shown us by Mr..
| II. Reimert, who raised them on his
residence lot on Walnut street. They
were of the Hale's Early variety, and
were firm, highly colored and very
large.
The building now occupied by the
post Office has been rented to Mr..
Basher, a grocer, of Neosho Falls, who
will take up his residence here and oc-
cupy the building with stock of gro
ceries as soon as it is vacated by Mr..
Simpson.
As the Fisher House omnibus was
crossing the S. X. II. r. track Mon
day, the passenger train suddenly
backed up against it, humping it
pretty severely. Beyond dishing one
of the wheels somewhat no damage
was done.
Farmers who have begun cutting
prairie hay say that the crop is nearly
twice as heavy as it usually is. Every
available stalk of it should be cut.
1t will go far toward supplying the
shortage in the corn crop. 1t is selling
now in this market for 81 u ton.
Gordon expresses ii pretty well
when he says that it seemed as though
he had gone tall over and under the
State of West Virginia." in following
the Parkersburg route. In one section
of that road there are twenty-siX tun-
nels in less than one hundred miles.
A number of the Normal students
called without notice last Monday
evening at the residence of Mr.. A. L..
come To celebrate the sixteenth birth
day of Miss Clara Hazard. They
were hopitably received and the even
ing was most pleasantly spent.
The heavy, dashing rains last week,
were doubtless of immense sanitary
value, washing away the slime aud
sediment that would otherwise have
bred malaria; but they settled the
question about replanting anything on
the inundated land. The bottom lands
must lie failow until time for wheat
planting.
Mr.. A. o. Allen has offered Web
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