The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-16

Our California excursionists got start
ed Monday afternoon as noted last
week. They 60 by the Southern Pacif-
ic and will probably return Uia the Pa
ciflc Ocean, Portland Oregon, and the
Northern Pacific.
Parties wishing to buy or sell prop
erty in the south part of the county can
not do better than to call on or address
Wallace Young, SavOnburg, Kansas.
Mr.. Young also loans money at the
very lowest rates of interest.
We hope everybody in the county
will take note of the fact that flour can
be bought in lola so and GO cents
cheaper on the hundred than at any
other place in the county. This differ
ence is worth coming come little dis
lance for.
We neglected to mention last week
a pleasant surprise to Mrs. E. NJ.
Eckley by few friends on the occa-
sion of her birthday. Such reminders
of the milestOnes we pass so rapidly
through life are the source of many
kind thoughts.
With the. unanimity for which they
are noted the small boys about town
have all gone into the peanut business
this week and the streets are literally
strewn with the small tables and box
es where the unfortunate passer by Is
importuned to buy "peanuts for five"
The Union and Interstate have
Just 'caught on" and published in
their last weeks issue the notice of Pol
w Guilliland that she would apply for
q pardon for Hugh and Isaac Guilli.
land. The REGISTER published and
commented on this notice five weeks
ago.
We want to make prediction, and We will
wager toothpick, that our guess is within
fifty of being correct. Here 1t is: Benton will
How q man with q family on his
hands can permit himself to indulge in
such reckless gambling, is hard to I'M
derstand.
The REGISTER furnished it's readers
last week with the result of the Repub-
lican State Convention. The Union,
which went to press a day later, said it
''has not vet learned who was nOmin-
ated," and its readers will not learn
until tomorrow what the State ticket
is. The Union is great paper.
The editor of a certain paper in lola
mot the REGISTER-was seen strid-
ing along the east side of the square
last Sunday afternoon with each hand
firmly grasping the neck of a long
black bottle. Did the bottles contain q
sample of the ''ice-water" with which
the citizens of Humboldt 80 generously
refreshed the democratic convention?
Cummings & Jones can and do loan
money on the cheapest and best terms.
Why? 1st. They own the best set OF
abstract books in the county. 81. They
give the best optional payments before
maturity. Sd. They charge no COM
missions. 18th. They pay the borrower
the proceeds of his loan upon compile
ton of the papers. Call and see Cum
mings & Jones.
Mr.P.O.Daughters, blacksmith.at the
Carriage Works, received a telegram
Tuesday telling him that the ticket in
the Louisiana Lottery, in which he
owned q fifth interest, had drawn a
prize of 5000. Mr.. Daughters has
not yet received the money and intends
to hold down his job Of pounding iron
until he is certain of it. Lightning
does sometimes strike.
We have received pamphlet from
the State Agricultural College giving
an account of the experiments conduct.
ed during the past year on the farm
and stock yards Of that institution.
Farmers and stockraisers will doubt
less find in this volume many valuable
hints and suggestions. A copy will be
sent free OH application to Prof. E. NJ.
Shelton, Manhattan, Kans.