The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-04

There are lot of old newspapers a
/ this office that will be given away
without money and without price,
called for ON or before the fifteenth &
the present month. First come frs
served.
By careful inquiry among our straw
berry growers and shippers we fin,
that not less than q thousand dollars
worth of berries were sold in lola o
shipped from here this season. N
small item.
A lady and two or three children
were overcome by the heat while listen
ing to the exercises at the cemetery
Memorial Day. They soon recovered
however, and we have heard of no ser
iOus consequences.
The Unions opposition to Funston
might have some weight if the inspir
ing cause of it were not SO well known
Nc, you ought to be too proud to lei
Everybody see how badly 1t hurt tC
have the pap cut off.
The REGISTER acknowledges an in.
vitation to attend the Humboldt High
School Commencement exercises which
were held last Wednesday evening
There were two graduates, Misses Glars
Long and Grace Percy.
Tube paints, lustra metallic, metalli,
brOcades, gold, silver and bronze paints
porcelain, papier mache and pottery
plaques, easels, hangers, canvas, var.
nish brushes, oil studies, wood novel.
ties, etc., etc.. at GoOdhue & Evans.
There were six applicants before the
Pension Board Wednesday rs follows
Hiram Harding, NeOshO Falls; A.
Harding, Yates Centre; 7. j. Coulter
| Colony; 1. n. Post, Fulton; d. V.
Park, Kincaid, and L. NJ. Sawyer, lola.
AS matter of economy and all that,
it may be a good thing for every body
to stay at home and attend to his own
business; but it's rough on the news
paper men who have to have so much
"news" whether anything happens or
not.
The ladies will find that Mrs. Simp-
son has chosen her spring stock of mil
linery with her usual fine taste and
Judgment, and that she has also
brought on great many goods. Ev-
| cry one can be suited in style and
price.
A little furry in the salt market this
week brought that commodity down to
81 80 per barrel. The dealers engaged
in the war, however, soon got tired
buying from one another to sell to their
customers, and the old rates were re-
stored.
The professional card of A. H. Camp
bell, attorney-at-law, will be found in
this issue. Mr.. Campbell is young
man of studiOus habits and strict integ-
rity, and any business placed in his
hands will receive prompt and careful
attention.
Will not some of our democratic fell
low citizens drop card to the Presi-
dent suggesting to him that lola Min
eral Well would be nice quiet place
to spend the honey moon? There is
nothing like taking advantage of all
these little things.
We were little previous in stating
last week that the Wichita road had
passed into the hands of receiver.
Suit has been brought by holders of
the first mortgage bonds for that pur.
pose, but the case will not be heard
until the latter part of this month.
Mr.. Oscar Foust delivered the Me-
mortal address at Humboldt last Mon
day, making altogether five citizens of
lola who Were called upon to furnish
Oratory for the national holiday. We
wonder if any other town i'm the State,
our size, can show as good a record.
As he will soon have to give up the
room he now occupies to McCOok Post,
DR.. Lafary has rented the rooms over
Richards Il .Henderson's store and Is
having them fitted up for dental par
lors. He will probably move into
them about the middle of the month.
Mr.. Rcttermund tells us we were
misinformed in stating last week that
he would bring suit against the Wichi-
ia road for damages. He says that he
could not ask any better treatment
than the road has given him since he
was injured and has no idea of bring
ing suit.
Judging from the fervent and en-
phatic prayers( = that welled up every
few moments from Il certain up
town office last Sunday night. there
must have been a gospel meeting some
where in the vicinity. Ask almost
any of your democratic friends for par
ticulars.
The mercury celebrated the advent
of summer by aspiring to climb out of
the top of the thermometer OIL Tuesday
afternoon. Aspiration is good thing,
but when it is the cause of 80 much
perspiration it becomes matter of ag-
gravation and should not meet with
appreciation.
A gentleman who attended the Mem
roial exercises at humboldt and then
came up to lola, remarked that even
when he got here there were twice as
many people OH the street as were in
the former village. This is mentioned
merely incidentally and without mall
ice aforethought.
With the exception of flax, some
fields of which seem to be dying from
some unknown cause, crops of all kinds
never looked better in Allen county
than they do now. Some fields of wheat
will be ready for the reaper within q
week or ten days, and the yield prom
Uses to be very heavy,
The lola Carriage Works sent out a
number of vehicles last week, among
them a buggy to s. V. Matthews, In
dependence; a fine $3.50 carriage to Chas.
Freeman, Wichita, and buggy and
carriage to w. johnson, Garnett. Be-
sides these they made several sales to
parties in and near lola.