The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

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The Wayerly Coffee County, Gaz
cite is for sale.
Senator Plumb has given $500 to tn
Anderson Memorial library of the Col
lege of Emporia.
The reports made by the Humboldt
papers of the great fire there last week
were very creditably illustrated by
Mr'C. B. Critzer.
T. J. Norton works more of the evi.
dences of scholarship into the editorial
page of the Newton Republican thar
any other man in Kansas.
Will the Troy Chief please tell us
who P. L. Gray, of Bendenna, Kansas
is, and what merit there is if any, in
the two books lac advertises?
The Independence Star and Kansan
invites bankruptcy and distraction by
offering prizes for original stories by
Montgomery county authors.
How much does the Topeka Flam
beau Club get for booming Chicago
for the Worlds Fair; And how did il
happen to drop onto the snap?
Frank Roberts, of the Oska lcosa In !.
dependent, is queer sort of a man,
He gets out better paper now than
he used to before he got to be postmas-
ter.
The annual output of Kansas coal is
now estimated at 100000 bushels.
This is not go bad for what Noble
Prentis calls purely pastoral and ag-
ricultural State.
Kansas always leads. The highest
average daily wages paid to the en-
p!oy ees of any institution in the Uni
ted States, are paid to the workmen in
the smelter at Argentine.
Last weeks issue of the ElDorado
Republican had 35 columns of home
advertisements, not counting two or
three columns of "pay locals" and
legal notices. No wonder ElDorado is
a live town.
Last week completed the 30th year
during which Sol. Miller has not miss
ed regular issue of the Kansas Chief.
Which Is one reason why it has be-
come the chief among the Kansas
weekly papers.
The home friends of District Attor-
ney, J. w. Ady, presented him with
a fine gold watch the other day as a
token of their satisfaction that he had
gone up higher. 1t was a very neat
and graceful thing to DO
We notice that the thrillingiy fas.
story entitled "Meg's Luck"
Is still infesting Kansas, Lawrence be-
ing the latest sufferer. Aud it still
wirds up with the old gag about the
babycarriage. Kansas readers are long
suffering.
We are thinking seriously Of asking
the Kansas City Star to cut the REG
rsTER from its exchange list, for there
is no paper that comes to this Office
which interferes so much with our
work. When we get to reading it we
we forget have anything else to do.
We hope w. I. Nay is preserving
those bibliophilic articles of his that
have been Frightening the pages of the
Capital for the pastyear or two,
70 that they may eventually be pub.
lished in book form. His latest articles
on Falstaff are particularly charming.
The first number of the Clay Center
Dispatch under Bion Hutchins' man.
agement comes 20 us this week and is
clean and bright and strong as every.
body who knows its editor knew it
would be. Now if there is only money
in it for Hutch We shall all be hap.
py.
The following pleasant remark must
,e added to the already long list of
good words for which the REGISTER is
indebted to the Leroy Reporter:
The lola REGISTER is twenty three
Years old. 1t is the only paper in lola,
covers its field well and is a credit 10
any publisher and community.
Jacob Stotler is understood to be a |
candidate for State Printer. While we
ire an original Stotler man under |
ordinary circumstances, We consider |
hat Cliff Baker has a right to re-eIec-
ion. lie has made good record, and |
hould have a second term Then |
StOtler by all means.-Laprence
Record.
But Cliff Baker has already had a |
econd term. What will the Record
10 now?
THE VISITOR BY MIGHT"
rom Ben Hur