The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-10
Things are lively up at the apple

Things are lively up at the apple
evaporator this week. Wagon load
after wagon load of apples unloading,
AZ men, women and children pairing,
slicing and packing them. 1t is a
great big concern, and it came with 90
| little buster and ado that we don't
believe half our people appreciate ii
or know what it is worth to us. In
the first place it pays out from $50 to
$40 day i'm wages. And in the sec
ond place it will pay out this fall fiji
teen or twenty thousand dollars for
apples which would otherwise have
found no market worth speaking of.
Isn't that an institution worth brag-
ging about? Isn't it an institution
that the people of Allen county, and
of lola especially, ought to encourage
and help in every possible way. If it
had come here asking bonus and
promising to do half what it is now
doing, we should have all gone to
work to raise the bonus and then
thought ourselves mighty lucky to
get it. It is here without costing US a
cent and we don't doanything to show
our appreciation of it. Whether it re-
mains here next year will doubtless
depend much ON its success this year.
Whether it succeeds this year will de-
pend on the quantity of apples il can
get. And the quantity of apples it
gets will depend very largely on the
efforts of the business men of lola to
direct the attention of their customers
to it. The conclusion Is plain. Let
us do everything we can, by good
words, and by courteous and liberal
treatment of its managers, to advance
the interests of the Apple Evaporation.
We advance our own interests there
by.
What fool reports will get started!
A few weeks ago a correspondent of
one of our local contemporaries wrote
i'm his news letter, 'Two years ago,
when l.. b. Pearson was running
against +. ID. Lacy for Representative
Charlie Scott said that Pearson could
not write a six-line article without
mis-spelling half the words" We
did not think it worth while then to
reply to go silly lie; but the other
day we heard that two men, who are
both readers of this paper and ought
to know better, had repeated the
same thing and claimed that they
saw the statement in the REGISTER.
OF course we never said anything of
the kind, either by word of mouth or
through the paper. One reason why
we never said 1t is because it is not
true. Mr.. Pearson has much better
than average education, and he is an
especially accurate speller. We have
seen a letter from him nearly every
week for eight years and we ought to
know. Another reason why we did
not make the remark Is because we
ncUer utter an unkind criticism of any
man or woman who does US the kind
ness to act as correspondent for the
REGISTER; so even if the charge
against Mr.. Pearson were true no one
would ever have learned it from us.
The files of this paper are at the
disposal of any one who doubts these
statements.
Last Tuesday night an attempt was
made by someone without character
to burn down the Presbyterian church
in this place. Two young ladies ON
their return home from serenading,
about 11:30 o'clock, discovered blaze
issuing from the front door of the
building and Immediately ran and
awakened Rev. Hyatt. next door, who
procured bucket of water and ex-
tinguished the blaze before it had
time to do much damage, beyond
burning a hole in the door and floor
about a foot square. What the object
of the incendiary could have been is
no one seems to understand.
Certain it is that such q person ought
not to be allowed to live in lola, and
Mayor Thayer Immediately caused
bills to be printed offering a reward
of 500 for the arrest and conviction
of the guilty party, and it is to he
hoped that the proper person will be
brought to justice.
Pryor & Paulin have received six
large gas lamps-four of the Lungen
and two of the Gordon patent-the
same pattern as the one in Mr.. Otten's |
store. The Lungren lamps are two
hundred candle power and the Cor
don three hundred. One each of the |
former will be placed in Evans drug
store, Reeds barber shop, Gillihan's |
restaurant and probably the postoffice,
while the Gordon lamps win he hung
in the dry goods stores of NOrthrup
Bros, and ID. Ewart. The lamps are |
indeed beautiful and will give good,
strong light. We hope other business
men in lola will decide to adopt the
use of these lamps in the very near fu-
ture. With all of the business houses
lighted by these lamps from lola gas
the result produced would prove a
grand one and a drawing card for our
city.
On the principle that it is better late
than never we print the following note
handed us by VIM. Cunningham last
week but overlooked:
1.-THE Grand Lodge knights of HON.
Or, for the State of Kansas, held its
18th annual session i'm Winfield Sept.
24th. The Hon. A. r. Savage, of
Auburn, Maine, the Supreme Dictator
Of the Order in the United States, was
present and addressed the Grand
Lodge. The knights of Honor is one
Of the oldest and safest ffaternal Or
CARNATIONS in the country and has
paid out to the widows and orphans of
It's members over S3,50O,000. The Or
der has increased nearly 5000 in its
this year and now num-
bers more than 134, 000.n
Mr.. w. II. DeHart and Miss Alma
E. Caughran, both of Moran, were
at the residence of the brides
father, Mr.. s. Caughran, in this city,
On Sunday, October 6, 1890, Rev. w.
Emerson, of Moran, officiating. The
groom is one of the well known bust
ness men of Moran, and the bride has
also been i'm business there "a Dress
maker and milliner, for the past eight
Both are highly esteemed
Dy all who know them and have many