The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-24
THE TREAsURER's TALK.

When Treasurer Cunningham sits
himself down to talk, he who listens is
pretty sure to hear something. He
happened up into the REGISTER sane.
tum the other day, soon after his re-
turn from making settlement with the
State Treasurer, and after he went
away we gathered up, as nearly as
we could, the items of information, and
observations, witty and wise, that he
had let fall. And here they are:
The tax collections in Allen county
have exceeded those of any other coun-
ty that has thus far settled with the
State treasurer, from six to twenty per
cent.
The school districts have been paid
their money as fast as it has been call.
ed for, and school treasurers ought to
be prompt to call for it. -.
Twenty.three hundred and seventy.
five dollars worth of school bonds have
been paid off this month, thus stopping
an item of thirteen dollars per month
interest for the people of the county.
The boys of Allen county have
decided to hold the worlds fair around
the waist.
The treasurer of Logan township
drew one hundred and ninety dollars
from the county treasury, as the
share of that township of the collec-
tons from Humboldt and Cottage
Grove townships.
Adam Watterson says he made the
corn that fattened eleven head of hogs
net him % cents per bushel and he got
cents for his hogs.
Fewer people are sued in Allen coun.
ty for debt than in any county of like
population in the State.
Letters are frequently received BY
the county treasurer asking for assign.
ments of lands bid in by the county at
tax sale. There isn't q farm In Allen
county, on which the county has paid
the taxes. %, assn, 81
Farmer Willemberg, who lives seven
miles south west of lola, says he des-
troyed six bushels Of chinch bugs with
ninety rods of his chipch bug fence,
and john Arnold, near Humboldt,
saved forty acres OF corn by using it
two years ago.
Kansas girls and Kansas corn grow
well together in the breeze Of morn.
The busiest people all over the couu.
ty are happy, but the idlers are grum-
bling and some are moving away.
Riding along in street car the 9th.
or day Geo. T. Anthony said the peo
pie of his district might need him
to sweat icicles next summer, IL the
ice crop was failure. @
A good listener eau get bushels of in
formation from the ex-governor, when
he is in talkative mood.
The board of railroad commissioners
have made slack a separate commodity
from coal, and fixed a rate Of SO cents
per ton. This will make cheap fuel
for the salt and sorghum mills of the
State and give them q chance for liv-
ing profit.
The farmers of Kansas who are sell.
ing for a song, will be the wealth of
the fellows that stay right along.
X. G. Culbertson made eight hun
dred dollars out of little patch of cane
last summer. The product of his mill
has good reputation in Colorado.
where be has quite trade for his
molasses.
With all the grumbling about hard
times, Allen county will have twenty
per cent m re wealth fn the hands of
the farmers this spring than she had
last year.
Egypt was rich when her granaries
were filled with corn, but Canaan was
poor with her Golfers filled with gold.
Don't waste your corn If it is cheap,
as fuel for fire 1t is a failure, as q
fuel for fasting it Is fine..
! Sow your seed with song, and sorrow
will soon succumb-
Send your sons to school, but teach
them to love their home.
Gov Humphrey says he will wait
until the time comes before he will
consider the Supreme Court commits.
sionership question. He knows the
lawyers Of the State, and when his
decision is made it will be found that
little of location, something of poll.
tics, but q good deal more of capacity
and fitness for the place, have helped
him 70 settle the matter. .