The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-10

and always will pay the very highes'
mar ket price for wheat.
The last page of this issue is grace
with another interesting letter from
Mrs. Prof. Carruth. to whose facile pen
the readers of the REGISTER have nj.
ready been several times indebted. y.
tho writer has returned to her nome i,
Lawrence" the contribution will not i,e
continued.
At . congregational meeting he',l
last Saturday the Daptisis decided 70
extend call to Rev .Chas NH. Moore,
of Hays City, to occupy the pulpit oil
their church for the ensuing year. Mr..
Moore has accepted the call and will
arrive here in time to hold regular ser
vices next Sunday. morning and even.
ing.
The report of the Librarian, publish
ed in another place, is certainly very
encouraging. We venture the asser-
ton that few libraries, in q town the
size of lola, with no outside help what
ever, can show as many and as good
books as the result Of two years. work.
The ladies who have managed its az
fairs deserve all praise.
Geo. Edwards has traded bis "forty,,
north of town to Mr.. Chase, of lola, for
business property and stock of gro
ceries in that town. He has routed
the: Holzapfel building next door to the
post Office and will move the stock
here and engage in business, COM
mencing about the middle of Septem-
ber.-COlOnV Free Press,
Cummings & Jones can and do loan
money on the cheapest and best terms.
Why? LIST. They own the best set of
abstract books in the county. I'd. They
give the best optional payments before
maturity. Sd. They charge no COM
missions. 4th. They pay the borrower
the proceeds of his loan upon compile
ton of the papers. Call and see Cum
mings & Jones.
All that is necessary to crowd the
largest room in lola ut any time is to
announce temperance meeting. It
therefore goes without saying that the
meeting at the Baptist church last
Sunday night was an entire success.
The program was short, as beiitted
the temperature and time of year,
and the large audience, many of whom
were standing, appeared to enjoy it
thoroughly.
Web. Bostwick has received requests
from number of eastern agricultural
papers to send them specimens of the
fruit and grain raised in Kansas this
year. He therefore requests us to ask
farmers to bring him in any specimens
that are unusually fine Of apples corn
&C., which they are willing to donate
in the good cause of advertising Kan
sas, and he will forward them where
they will do the most good.
Prof. Snow says of August weather:
"One of the three hottest Augusts on
our record. There were eleven days
with temperature below the average
for the season, but the remaining
twenty days were excessively hot, and
the week from the 18th to the 18th, sur
passed any week upon our record since
August, IA. The July drouth was
broken on the lst, by acOpiOus shower.
There were seven ..Other serviceable
rains during the month, but no rain
heavy to wet the ground
to greater depth than two inches"
Mr.. A. II. Knox tells Us we We're
in stating that he prefer
ed having his first suit brought before |
Judge Harris. He says that he had no |
choice whatever, and that when max |
ng out his complaint in the Office of
he county attorney nothing was said
Is to whom the case should be brought |
,efOre. He says that with this excep- |
ion our statement of two weeks ago,
vas entirely correct. We gladly note
his correction as it was far from our.
to cast even the shade of re-
lection where it was not deserved.
Seven or eight boys about town from
to II years of age, have been teasing
heir mothers for several days to let
hem go camping out" None of the
aid mothers wanted her respective
oy to 60, but they all happened to get
ogether the other evening and found
D their CONSERVATION that each had
Did her boy he could 60 if the others
7ould let theirs go. The ladies saw
ley were ''downed," aud we under
land they agreed to compromise by
citing the boys 90, and sending man
long with them to see that their pow
err was kept wet, and to lariat them
, the bank when they went SWIM
ling.
Last Friday afternoon while a freight
,ain stood on the track near the
Wichita depot and the engine was run
ing down to be coupled, a young lady
urried around the foremost car with b,
he intention of crossing the track.
lot noticing the brakeman waiting to !
ouple the engine, she deposited her.
III in his arms with more force than
race. When she got down town a
1end said to her. "You look warm
nd mad.u r.,
81 ann 6
"What's the natter"
II had collision with a brakeman ,
q the Wichita road"
The brakeman, in giving his account
the affair said it was nothing more
ian might be expected from allowing
extras" OH the road without orders.
A late issue of the Fort Scott Moni- I
,r has nearly column account of the '
of q wholesale grocery
usiness in that city by Lakin & Beat q,
: Bros, from which we take the fol- .
wing:
Our people have occasion to congratulate
emselyes upon the advent of the firm of :
Akin & Beatty Bros as wholesale grocery 8
m. They have just received and have upon
e track already about thirty-fve carloads Of
oceres and their spacious building is being t
pidly filed, from the large basement to the e
ird floor, with complete stock of new and
esh groceries, MIR. Lakin and Mr.. j. I
FATTY having lust returned from three weeks y
ip to the eastern markets. where they made
cir purchases from first hands Their stock U
complete in assortment, covering all staple
ID heavy groceries, as well as notions and