The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-03

SEASON CLOSES.
i According to the last report Of the
3 State Board of Agriculture, the value
, of the various farm products Of Allen
ooun ty was as follows : Wheat, $l2,-
e59.4O; corn, S2Ss.377 barley, 200;
; oats, 500, 81 .35; buckwheat, $s71. 25 ;
; Irish potatoes, $60.660 sweet potatoes
$3.50; sorghum (eyrup and forage) S.
$40; castor beans. S. O5S.s0; cotton $40;
fax, A,3s5.50; Tobacco, 90; broom
corn, $95, 5O4: tame hay, $5l,615; prai-
RE hay, sll5. 6o4; rye. sos. The total
gives rs the sum Of $s68, s62. 81, or near.
ly $50 for each man, woman and child
in the county. This does not. howev.
or, include poultry. dairy, orchard and
the other products, which were a. fol-
lows. Cheese, $328 %; butter, $50, l2s IS;
milk, 1923; poultry and eggs. Sl4, 7sa;
horticultural products, 81, 4S2; garden
products, $s,5ss; wine, $ass; honey.
$S47.
The society ladies In some Of our sis
ter cities Of Kansas are getting consid.
cradle fun rs well ~ money for charit-
able purposes out Of . new amusement.
1t ia called yelled statuary and consists
of lot of young ladies standing on
pedestals behind . curtain or folding
door. A facetious and witty auctioneer
sells numbered tickets corresponding
with the numbers pinned onto the
statuary, describing the beauties Of bis
figures a. classic goddesses, famous
women, etc., to warm up the enthusi.
asm Of the bidders. After the sale 10
over the purchasers are requested to
come up and remove their property.
The first to unmask his statue finds o
pretty girl, and he tucks her under his
arm for supper; the second finds
broom hidden in mask and wraps; the
third another pretty girl. Generally
there is but one dummy, though half
dozen, each different, can be arranged
if desired.
KANSAS in big letters across the
top Of the stage.-Festoons Of ever
greens over the windows and under
the chandeliers and about the stoves.
American flags Of all sizes every
wherein audience that comfortably
filed the hall and seemed to be all the |
time happy and well pleased-A well
written and well read paper full Of
good things about KANSAS |
(Always in ''Caps. '')-Loudly |
applauded tableaux that glorified |
KANSAS-Occasional songs by the
Kickapoos and piano music by Mr. 8.
Woodruff to fill in the "waits"-A
'Colloquy ofthe Nations" in which for
due cause shown, the United States
with her white robe and her tri-color
sash and her starry flag was crowned
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
That was "Kansas Day" at the Opera
House Monday evening under the
auspices of the bright and enterprise
ing ladies' of the Baptist Church.
Humboldt's gas we'll doesn't lose any
of its pressure under Frank Wings de-
scription. He was in town the other
day and some of the fellows asked him
If they really had any gas down there.
"Gas 7" he replied, and his very form
seemed to swell and dilate at the men.
ton of it, "Why, man. we've got more
gas there than any other seven wells
in the State put together! Gas! There
isn't anything but gas ! Tosses . 1000
pound weight into the air like pith
ball! Whistles and gurgles and roars
and stinks Especially stinks) like It
was coming straight from hell! Gas!
Hope may be shot for liar If 1t don't
crowd up through that hole as II the
whole earth were hollow andfull of gas
and it had just been tapped! Why,
as I'm Christian. we
don't dare to turn that gas loose by
itself in the furnace at the mill; it
would melt the boiler in holy minute.
We hare to put coal in NTH It to tone
do,on the HEATH"
"But the land of Kansas Is w0nder,'
says Bob Burnette in the Electrical Re-
vieW. ga town no bigger than q vot-
ng precinct will have street cars and
electric lights and corner lots. Itjust
makes q mans back ache to look at
Wichita. Street car lines running
twenty miles out in the country. Six
universities going up. The very
ground a-quiver with excitement and
growth. Different from anything you
ever saw in all your life. Everything
except the saloons. Shows
that you can boom town clear up in
to the millions without the aid Of one
whiskey shop. The old idea was that
when you doomed q western town you
started it with q saloon every other
door and church or two came alongl
by and by. In Wichita you stumble
oyer the churches and get tangled up
among the colleges and lost in the
labyrinth ofhomes'and reading rooms,
but you have to sneak around and
learn the ropes and lie little to
get drink. And yet the boom goes