The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-27

The lola Couranf and the Democrss have con-
solidated and Is published - the Democrdf-
Courdnf. This is good move financially for IL
gives the pa blishers sse.crdpsSn .s
medium. 10 will also he . good thing for the
democrats OF Allen county, heretofore they
have been chewing each other mp while the re-
icte.
The republicans will continue to get
the persimmons, thank you; they've
kind o. fallen into the habit Of it.
Capt. Slower has received Volume
20, of the Official War Records for the
McCook Post library. Like all ofits
predecessors it is full Of interesting
matter. Among other things 1t has
frequent reference to the evangelist.
Sam Jones, who was Major General
in the Rebel army. He signed his
name then, as moo, plain "Sam."
The prosperity of Allen county de-
ponds on the corn crop. The corn crop
to a large degree, on the
quality Of seed planted. Wetrust our
farmers will bear this in mind, and
get the very best obtainable. If any
of them have any suggestions to make
in the matter, the REGISTER will
gladly give them the use Of its columns
The many friends Of Hon. TT.
Hudson, of Fredonia, will regret to
learn that his residence, with all its
contents, was recently destroyed by
fire. The house was completed only
last year at a cost of 90. 600 and was
handsomely furnished. There was
81, 500 insurance, but Mr.. Hudson's
loss will not be less than 5000.
"Valleyite" gives q full account of
the burning of Joshua Buffers house,
west of the river, which took place last
Friday night. Mr.. Butler was fortu-
nate in having the house and its
contents insured so that the loss will
not be very heavy; butt is q serious
inconvenience, to stay the least, to be
burned out of "house and home" in
the middle of winter
Ottawa now has telephone connec-
ton with Kansas City, Lawrence and
Topeka, and Garnet is making an
effort to have the line extended to that
place. Might it not be we'll for our
Board of Trade to look into this mat.
ter little and see whether lola connot
be brought into the circuit? Telephone
connection with the cities mentioned
would be valuable enough to be worth
working for.
1t is hoped that our Gas and Coal
Companywill have all the preliminary
made 80 that work op
the new well may be continued at the
very earliest day the weather will
permit. Factories will be browsing
around in the spring hunting q place
to locate and we want to be able to
them beyond question that
lola can offer inducements superior to
those offered by any other town in this
REGION.
Now that the spring time is nearly
In sight canEot the band boys gather
themselves together again 80 as
to be ready to give US some summer
evening concerts? There is going to be
lots of politics too, next summer, and
what does political meeting amount
to without brass band? Particularly
q democratic political meeting that
lives and moves and has its being in
wind and blow and noise? Let the
band be organized at once.
McCook Post No. 81, G. A. R. aud
w. r. c. will each install officers for
the ensuing term, tomorrow evening.
The Corps ofiicers.elect have ALREADY
been announced. The Post will in |
stall the following: J. b. Turner, P.
c.; John Walters, g. w.; D. B. d.
J. "; r. 8. Moore, Chap |
lain; DR.. Mcdowell, Surgeon; john
@. NJ; C. M. Cholotte, OF.
ficer Of the Day; John Thomas, Officer
Of the Guard; T. q. Slower, ::Adjutant.
Our Fl. Scott, Wichita & Western
time card shows some radical changes
that took effect last Sunday. The
night passengers are taken of, as are
also the time freights, leaving one pas
senger and one freight train each way
daily. The change is very satisfac-
tory here az all trains now carry pas
sengers and parties in the eastern part
of the county having business at the
county seat can come here, remain
several hours and return the same
day.
Sheriff Britton tells US Of one of the |
most striking instances we have yet
met Of the extreme ''streakedness" of
last years crops. He says while the
corn on his farm yielded about Is BUSH |
els to the acre, Mr.. H. II. Hickman,
living only half mile north of him,
raised eighty-ssuen bushels to the
acre. There is no perceptible difference
in the soil, and the crops were equally |
we'll tended. It was all q matter Of
rain. 1t fell on Mr.. Hickman's land
and it did not fall on Mr.. Britton's.
As briefly announced last week,
Capt. L. A. Thrasher has bought the
Mcclure Bros. stock Of drygoods, boots