The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-21
O. P. NORTHRUP & co.

running into fallen trec-top, which
caused everybody to embrace the bot
tom of the boat with great ardOr for
several minutes. No lives were lost,
however, and they all live to embrace
another day.
Col. GOss, who is good authority in
Kansas, says that now is the time to
destroy the maple worms that defOliate
these beautiful trees almost every sum-
mer. The male moth is now flying
about, to be followed in about ten days
by the female moth, when the eggs will
be deposited in the trees. He RECON-
mends the burning of torches under
the trees, which will attract and de-
strOy the male:.worm before the appear
ance of the female. While the destruc-
ton may not be total the evil will be
so greatly reduced as to save these trees
and give to us clean sidewalks during
the summer.
1t seems that lola is not the only
town where editorial "comps" to home
entertainments are "all in your eye,"
as witness the following wall from the
Usage Mission Democrat. COuntr Y
newspaper editors are now required
to give every public entertainment that
comes along, or that il gotten up at
home for charitable or other purposes
from one tn three dollars worth Of free
advertising, and then be coolly informed
by the door keeper or dispenser of tick
cts that he must purchase tickets for
each member of his family ut full rates
or stay out; and then he gets s0undly
abused for not writing up a glowing
description of something he never wit
messed.
Some hoodlums and vandals have
lately persisted in picking the locks on
the school house doors and damaging
the building. The school board final
" secured the doors with barrel bolts
on the inside, but even then the doors
were broken in by main force and an en-
trance effected. This is imply shame
full and outrageous, and the school
board desire to say that if anyone is
detected in this kind of business he
will be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law, and if any such one don't
know what the full extent of the law
in this matter is, he had better look
it up.
Many people have availed them
selves the past week ofthe opportunity
afforded by the peripatetic astronomer,
DR.. Fitch, to learn good deal of as
tromony by taking peep at the heaven
" bodies through his huge telescope.
This is one kind of travling show that
is not fraud. His street lecture last
Saturday afternoon illustrated by the or
rery opened the eyes of q good many
to the wonders of the heavens. We
would suggest to our school board that
an investment in this ingenious contriv-
ance to illustrate the relation, position
and motion of the heavenly bodies
would yield return In practical and
every day knowledge that would far
more than justify the outlay.
In the case of the State VS. Frost, in
which Will Baker was the complain.
ing witness, the defendant appeared
before Justice Harris last Friday,
waived examination and was bound |
over to the district court. After care
fully inquiring into the facts on both |
sides, regarding the fracas out of which
this suit grew, the REGISTER Is in
clined to second the suggestion made
by the C0urant, that the county at
torney would be justified il Diminishing
both of these suits. No jury would
convict Frost, no matter how strong
case was made against him, for the
reason that he is feeble, halfdement-
I'd old man. No jury would convict
Baker because he committed no Of
tense. The only result of prosecuting
The cases would be to pile up costs on
he county.