The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-08
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Christmas has come and gone again
and a beautiful day it was-yes, one
| long To- he remembered, for both old
and young have had good time, es-
pecially the youngsters. In fact every.
body seems to be happy......T. C. made
a Christmas dinner and had a pleasant
family reunion with his wife's folks.
That roast goose was just too good to
talk about, and we will pass by saying
that it was real greasy. George and
Jim were out with fOur-in-hand team.
Those girls they were hauling around
must be very heavy, as 1T takes four
horses to pull them. Most everybody
was out driving with some friend that
day. Some went to Moran; some to
Uncle Georges; few to Russell's; Il
great many to Huffman's and many
other places to numerous to MENTION.
......ThOs. Myers Is at home spending
the holidays. He is running on the
Wichita railroad this DR..
Allen will leave his farm and move to
Ottawa in the spring for the purpose
of educating George and John, and
while there will engage i'm the small
fruit business. lie has bought 20 acres
of fruit land and has five acres of
Strawberries i'm fine condition. -. Some
miscreant stole two of Uncle Jim's
wagon wheels and hid them away for
a Christmas trick. The old man got
on his ear and was i'm the notion of
pulling somebody's hair, but no on
was willing to furnish the hair, 50 con
seIuently there was no pulling don
......ThO-e young men who took their
girls out airing went into kind of q
circus and "Jimnazium" arrangement.
Yes, Jim was there, and 30 was the
nahum, for she did stand on her
head-maybe you would call it trapeze
or acrobat-well, reckon she did bat
OH the ground. .........That stone wall
across the Usage was very slippery to
cross over by moonlight alOne...T The
widow says she has not seen anything
of Grafton for long time. Well,
Grafton where art thou, these long
evenings? Oh. where art thOn. ........
The Pleasa atom & Colony r. r. is to
work soon west of kincaid.
The road will go via. Neosho Falls and
Yates Center, WOodson county. The
party reached Yates Center
tast Friday evening. .ThOs. Myers
says the Wichita road is building Il |
branch from Wichita to Trinidad. Col
oradO. So you see that the Sunflower
Is going to to be powerful important
road at no distant day. Hurrah for
Ihe SunfiOwer is my prayer. Tom also
says that nearly everybody is blowing
between Reece and FIT. Scott. That is
MS division. .......... Well, John Tracy
eels just as good and big as Sam Dodge
md can whistle as lively. They are
10Th girls-that.s all. Who is next:..
=. There is to he a big time at the
Holman or Davis school house Thurs
lay night. Speaking, spelling and
OTIS Of fun for all that may go. JIM
nd George think Of going for Jim still
cells religiously inclined and leans tha.
ray occasionally......... Nearly every
Ody In this vicinity is plowiDg.
Where is the living man that ever saw
Ich fine weather as this in the Attain
C States: Robert Stanley is buiId-
lg dwelling on his bottom farm west
the Bray's farm, and also will soon
1ild on 1GO tract in the valley near
I'm. Gilhams. Bob. means business
-. This is a splendid time for all kinds
out door work. That's all.
HAwKEYE