The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-06


as follows:
Pryor & PauIlin, 4 gas lamps and gas for
J II. Harris, salary city marshal. -. 20 o
s sm% : special police police o Sps d.
Jake George, special police on DAY -... .
4 Thorpe, gasoline, oil, c 3
D scott, II labor as oInr :
The ordinance printtu ,.aewhert
was passed, and another ordinance re.
lating to the fees of the city attorney
was introduced and referred to the
Judiciary committee. The serious dam.
age sustained by citizens on account Of
water obstrueted by the Mo. Pac. and
s. X. railways was discussed and the
city attorney instructed to notify the
officers of said railways that the cul.
verts under their respective roads
within the city limits must be en-
larged. The city attorney was also in
structed to prepare an ordinance fixing
the compensation to be allowed prison
ers when working for the city.
By an error In figures given last week
| the assessed valuation of real estate
in lola was made to appear lower than
last year, whereas, as will be seen by
the corrected statement, ii is consider
ably higher. In fact the assessment in
the city of lola this year in comparison
with actual values, IL long way above
that in the township. We happ n to
remember an individual instance that
will illustrate this difference. A short
time since friend of ours left his farm
and bought a home in lola for which
he paid $500. Ha offers his farm for
sale at 1900 cash and will not take
less. Yet his town property is assess
ed at $1,000 per cent of actual value
and his farm il assessed at S130-lS
per cent of actual value. If this case
Is fair sample, there ought not to be
any complaint about the town paying
less than its share of the taxes.
Pension Agent Kelley gives notice
that the pension appropriation for this
year Is exhausted and that no addi-
tional funds will be available until
July /. The Kansas agency has on
hand about 81 900, 600 but that will all
be paid out in five days, and those
who are not reached will have to wait
until July. Mr.. Kelley says: "Pen-
sioners can send In theirvouchers, but
il will be useless for them to write let
tiers, as we will send out the checks az
soon as we have the money. No orig
inals or increases can be paid until the
new appropriation is available. Pen
sioners can execute the vouchers and
forward it to this agency, where it will
be placed on file, and payment made
as soon as funds are received. Furth-
er correspondence is unnecessary.
Prof. Snow reports May "a cool de-
lightful month, with ample rainfall,
although the cloudiness was five per
cent. below the average. The wind
velocity was slightly above the nor
NAL. A heavy boar frost OH the sixth
did very little damage to strawberries
and garden vegetables. The rainfall
was 5.1i inches, which is 0.90 inch
above the May average. Rain fell
i'm measurable quantities OH l. days.
There were six thunder showers. The
entire rainfall for the five months of
1890 now completed, has been IL 80
inches, which Is OBS inch below the
average for the same months in the
preceding - years"
Recorder Nigh kept close account
of the mortgages filed and the releases
given in his office during the month
of May with the following showing:
Mortgages, Sl5,T61; releases, S23, 269,
showing debts paid to the net amount
of s., 502, which is not at all bad. The
chattel mortgage record does not show
corresponding decrease a. there
were ninety-nine filed in May this
year as against a hundred and five fl
ed last May. Still the balance Is
on the right side, and taken with the
large net payment of real estate debts,
Is very encouraging.
A. o. Allen and his son, Fred,
started Wednesday to st. Louis, Chi
cago, Milwaukee, and then to Grand
Ledge, Mich, expecting to be gone
a month or two, Grand Ledge is the
place where Mr.. Allen was born and
" brung up" and he goes back to
revive the associations and acquaint-
ances of his boyhood. The vacation
that he takes is n richly earned one
and he will doubtless enjoy it thor
oughly, while Fred has had nothing
in his waking or sleeping thoughts for
weeks but the wonderful journey.
Eric Record: Our city schools closed
yesterday for the summer vacation.
The progress made in Fries schools for
the fast year has been exceptionally
good, which is due to the untiring eff
forts of Prof. Merwin and his efficient
corps of teachers. We believe that it
is the general feeling of the pa
irons that Prof. Merwin shall be re-
tanned another year, also a large ma
jority of the teachers who have lahOred
80 hard for the advancement of the
school during the past school year.
Superintendent Barber is very
busy man and in order that he may
not forget any of his numerous engage
ments he makes q note of them on q
calendar kept for that
purpose. A visitor i'm his Office the
other day was idly running over this
calendar when he came to June 3, and
there on the blank left for memoranda
was the note "To be married." Mr..
Barber was evidently not going to run
any chances of missing that engage
ment.
The following dispatch appeared in
the Kansas City Times of Tuesday:
HUNBoLDT, KAN, June 2-Between twelve
and one O'Clock this morning an attorney with
q body of assistants invaded the hotel Nickel
Plate, the leading house Of the city, and cleaned
II out from top to bottom, taking out beds,
bedding, stoves, tables, dishes and everything
number Of travelling men who were there had
to yacate their beds and go to a restaurant for
breakfast. IL Is claimed this Is done at the in
stigatiou of two sisters named Henderson. who
held mortgage on the goods for services, they
having worked for the proprietor for about
twelve years, receiving very little for their
work save board.
Laurence Record: A number of his
friends met at the residence of Mr.. \.
2. Brewer ON south Massachusetts,
street to congratulate him upon the ar
rival of the second anniversary of his
abandonment of the use of tobacco. DIR.
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