The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-01

| An immense audience crowded tn
Baptist church last Sunday to hear til
Memorial exercises, which consisted G
an able address by Mr.. Moore and til
usual adiuncts
Don't fail to call on A. E. Wrigh
when you want groceries. 1 find h.
sells more for the money than an.
other house, and he pays as much 70
produce as anyone.
i We enormously stated last weel
that Harry Brubaker and Ralph Blai
had formed partnership in the jewel
ry business. We are Informed that
is NJ. G. Brubaker & Co.
We learn that our Moran friends ar
contemplating an occupation tax. OuI
opinion Is that it will not be long tefor'
they grow very weary of it. 1t IS tn,
most unjust, onerous and unpopular o
taxes.
DR.. Merriman informs us that Mis-!
May Ewing, who is at his home il
Chicago, is making fine progress in hel
various studies. She will come home
for short vacation probably abou
August 1st.
Good grain and stock farm of Ion
acres in Marion county ILL.,, 20 miles
east of st. Louis, with house, barn
sheds ETC., and 20 acres of timber Il
trade for an Allen county farm. BOst
wick & Shelter.
Hon. A. w. Smith, of Mcpherson
county,, will address the Republican
Club on the Goth. Smith and Humph.
ley are the leading candidates for gov.
etnOr, with johnson and Anthony
pressing close behind.
The third annual CONVEX ton of the
Young Peoples Christian Union will
be held at Parsons June 5th, 9th and
eth. Each church is entitled to five
delegates, and it is earnestly hoped
that lola may be represented.
The. REGISTER is indebted to Mr..
John Blair, of Parsons, father-in-law
of w. A. Cummings, of this city, for
three boxes of the finest Strawberries
we have ever seen. They were man,
moth in size and excellent in flavor.
Monday night after rehearsal, Prof.
Wallace Duncan conducted the Kick
apOO club to Otten's restaurant, in
honor of shat girl" The boys had a
rich and rare time, and would have re-
tired considerably mellow If the enter
tainment had been of that kind.
We hear many concentrations of
Mr.. Johnson's memorial sermon Sum
day night. 1t incuIcated the doctrine
of brOtherly love aud mutual fOrbear-
ance between the different sections of
our reunited: cOuntry-certainly the
true patriotic and christian sentiment.
Straw mating at Patterson's.
The Carriage Works are obliged to
run at extra hours in order to keep up
with their work. They shipped this
week carload of buggies 10 Califor-
mia. This prosperous state of things
reflects great credit upon the manage
ment and is source Of generalization
to the city.
The reason why the trade of COwan,
Aushe-man & Norris has, of late, IN
creased so largely, is that they sell all
goods uniformly low, thereby making
the occasional buyer a regular custO-
mer. They buy lower and their ex-
pense is less than that of anyone else.
Try them.
Milk shake at the Nickel Plate.
Some thirty.five of Iola's lovers of
the great. American game' went
over to Yates Center Tuesday to see a
match game between the home nine
and the Yates Center's. The game |
was an interesting one throughout and
resulted in a score of 8 to 2 in favo- of
Yates Center.
During the summer months the Fl. |
8. w. & w. will sell tourist excursion |
tickets to Denver, Colorado Springs,
and Pueblo, Colorado, at $500, and
to Salt Lake City aud Ogden, Utah at |
81 so for the round trip, good for 80
days from date of sale. Going via |
and Mo. p. short line, return
ing via any route. Geo. H. Gregg, Ag't.
$50 parasols received at Rodman's.
The called meeting of citizens to con-
slider a Fourth of July celebration
failed to materialize very extensively.
owing to numerous other gatherings.
It adjourned to Saturday night at 8
o'clock, at the court house, when it is
hoped a rousing meeting will be held.
Let everyone interested turn out-and
we are all interested.
Mrs. A. w. Allen says she has been
asked just five hundred times how it
happens that her brothers. name and
her own are the same. To avoid the
same question from the remaining
fifteen hundred people she wants il
'aid that it is for the very obvious
reason that when she married she
1idn't change her name.
Under the energetic administration
If the council, and the efficient direc-
ion of Mr.. Ihrig, our streets are being
thoroughly improved in every direc-
ion. lola has long enjoyed the repu-
.atiOn of being one of the best side
walked, tidiest, neatest towns in South
ern Kansas, and she is more than
keeping up her reputation this spring.
Best styles shirtings at Rodman's.
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In the afternoon the question of the
pest means to secure a revival of relig-
on was presented by Rev. johnson, of
lola, who claimed that the pulpit work
vas first in importance. This brought
,ut fusillade of responses all along
he line, but Rev. johnson held his
ground in good shape.-Btue Mound
Sun.
The game of base ball at Yates Cen.
er last Tuesday between lola and
Yates Center resulted in a victory for
he latter by a score of 9 to 2. We un.