The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10

about this sort Of feast is the multi.
tude of the bivalves man Is expected
to eat. The proprietor Of the resort
replied in answer to a question that be
usually provided about 125 for each
person. One hundred and tWentr-
five oysters at single sitting! it
makes one faint to think Of it. OR
party, as in duty bound, dill
their individual beat to come
up to the standard, and some of them
did not fall far short Of it,-but we
fear they will never again like oysters
as well as they once did. Judge PEI.
fer, with the quiet but diligent atten.
ton to business which characterizes
him, earned the championship and
was awarded leather medal, appro.
priately engraved. The presentation
was made by Judge McComb who
took advantage of the occasion to say
a great many pleasant things about
our party and the State 1t hailed from,
and in HE response Judge PETER re.
turned the compliments In a very
graceful way. With this little cere.
mony the program arranged by the
Galveston people was brought to q
close, but their hospitable attentions
did not cease until the last member of
the party was safely aboard our car
for the return journey. Certainly the
gentlemen and ladies of this city :.oi
the Gull are Incompatible hosts, and
their lavish hospitality will long re-
main pleasant memory with their
fortunate guests.
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Leaving Galveston at 6 O'Clock
Tuesday morning, two hours ride
brought us to Houston, where We
were met by the mayor and other citi.
zens and driven to the various points
of interest in and about the city There
are three cotton seed oil factories and
two cotton congresses here, employ.
ing q multitude of hands and turning
out very large product. The hands
are nearly all colored and receive good
wages ranging from one dollar day
upward. The oil mills use every par.
tic!e of tho cotton seed, separating the
shell from the kernel, burning the
former to heat their boilers, pressing
the oil out of the latter and then
grinding into feed or fertilizer the SOL
id residue. Every particle is used OF
that which was once discarded as OF
no account.
1t was the last day Of the year, and
as the evening came on, from all over
the city came the glare and noise of ex.
ploding fire works, discharged to sa-
lutte the approaching new year. We
were told that the celebration of New
Years eve in this manner was much
more common and enthusiastic here
than the celebration of the Fourth of
July.
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An all night ride brought US to Dali
las, where we were again the recipients
of lavish inequalities, which included
a lunch, banquet and a seat at the
opera. A drizzling rain and our brief
stop made it impossible to see much
of the town. But from a hurried tramp
about some of the business streets, the
impression gained was most favorable.
Dallas seems to be live, 60 ahead
"Northern" city full of ambition and
enterprise and bound to get her share
of what is going.
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Leaving Dalles in the afternoon, q
ride Of 80 miles brought US to Cleburne
where We again struck the Gulf, Colo.
RADIO and Santa Fe-the Texas exten.
sion of the Santa Fe-over which we
returned home without further stop or
other notable incident. The trip had
lasted exactly a week, had shown us
an empire, had taught US more geogra
ply than a months study of books
would have taught, and had brought
pleasure and only pleasure and that
continually. C. F.. S.
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