The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-17

thanks of the community, for his Office
has paid him little else. We refer to
w. A. Ross. For six years Mr.. Ross
has served on the board Of County
Commissioners,-the most important
Office In the county-and he has
brought to the performances of his du-
ties business ability of an unusually
high order, any amount Of hard work,
and unquestioned integrity. He has
not consulted his personal wishes or
bis private convenience, but has acted
always with an eye single to the inter-
ests of the county. In doing this he
has at times necessarily come in con-
fict with the views Of private citizens;
but we believe that all who have done
business with him in his official capac-
ity, whether he has rendered a decision
in their favor, or not, have been im.
pressed with the belief that he was
guided solely by his sense of duty, aud
acted only from worthy motives. The
county has been fortunate IN securing
for SO long term the services of 90
able and honest man as W. A. Ross.
"There is one feature of the weather
which compenaates for all Its bullying
vagaries, the ice-storm, when q
leafless tree is clothed with ice from
the bottom to the top.-ice that is as
bright and clear as crystal; every
bough aud twig Is strung with ice
beads, frozen dew.drops, and the
whole tree sparkles cold and white,
like the Shah of Persia's diamond
plume. Then the wind waves the
branches and the sun comes out and
turns all those myriads of beads and
drops to prisms that glow and hum
and fash with all manner of cOlOred
fires, which change and change again
with incOnceivable rapidly from blue
to red, from red to green, and green to
gold,-the tree becomes spraying
fountain, q very explosion of dazzling
Jewels; and it stands there, the acme,
the climax, the supremest possibility
IN art or nature, Of bewildering, intOx
icating, intol cradle magnificence. One
cannot make the words too strong"
1t was New England weather that
Mark Twain had in his minds eye
when he wrote the above, but it de-
scribes 80 graphically the gorgeous
glory of our own landscape as it ap-
peared last Monday morning that We
copy 1t, to stand in place Of any poor
comments Of our own.
Arrangements are being made by
the lola Public Schools to celebrate
Kansas Day by giving, with the help
of the friends and patrons Of the school
a Kansas Supper, aud a literary pro.
gram the last week in January. The
purpose Is to have nothing for the sup.
per that does not grow, or is produced.
in Kansas, and to secure the material
for the supper the school will be OBJ
liged to depend largely on the gener.
osity of its friends for contributions,
The proceeds of the entertainment will
be expended in adding new books to
the school library. The committee who
have the decoration Of the hall In
charge are specially anxious to secure
representative specimens of Kansas
crops in the way of pumpkins, beets,
cabbages, unions, corn, apples, wheat,
oats, millet, etc. Any one who can
conveniently contribute any Of these
things will confer a favor by notifying
Mr.. Grant Bible not later than Janu-
airy 25.
The sleet and slight snow which
reached Us Sunday were only the
"leayings" of a storm which was gen
eral over the whole couDtry and was
very severe in some places. No far
Their north than Topeka the snow was
elk inshes deep aud 50 badly driftsd as
to hinder travel, while farther west. at
Abilene, the snow was foot deep, and
the mercury fell, on Sunday night, to
Is degrees below zero. Still farther
west, however, the storm was lighter.
A tornado swept through st. Louis,
blowing down a great many houses
aud killing three people. Clinton,
Kentucky, was also visited by tor
nado which killed eleven people and
injured a great many others, besides
destroying large amount of property
The friends of Mr.. L. H. Gorrell, OF
Moran, regret to learn that, through
no apparent fault Of his own, his bust
ness affairs have become 80 involved
that he has been obliged to make ar
assignment for the benefit CT hi
creditors. The assignment covers
the store at Moran and the ont
at CenterviIle also. The liabil'
tiles are about $4,000, and the assets
are estimated at about the came
amount. A meeting of the creditors
was held on Tuesday in the Diet. clerks
office at which w. II. Mcclure was
unanimously elected assignee, to take
charge of the stock. r. w. Duffy
and A. J. Clark were appointed ap
praisers and went to Moran Wednes'
day to perform their duties. The pas
year has been a hard one for the mer
chants of Moran, the failure of Gorrel
& Co. being the third.
Readers of the REGISTER will re.
member that an attempt was made by
a party of masked men early last sum.
mer to take Columbus Carter from the
custody of the officers, on the road
near Moran, and that several ahoti
were exchp u2ed. The assault was one