The Iola register., 1890-08-01


A good stock of groceries and tive
stocks of general lmerchandise to trad,
for good real estate. Cummings
Jones.
Mr.. A. B. Johnson, one of the goot
Salem friends of the REGISTER, was
i'm town Wednesday and called up ts
"gloat" little over the Funston vic
tory.
lola has resoluted the o. p. men out of town
! but they stay alice samee.-LapreRce Record.
Well, yes. Facts are we think sc
much of them that we keep them un
der lock and key.
Read Foraker's speech ON another
page of this issne, and see If it doesn't
make your blood tingle. Foraker Is @
long way from a dead man yet.
w. J. Evans went out to Moran
Monday on business. He reports the
corn along the road looking much
better than he had expected to see it
The first watermelons of the season
came to market Tuesday, but they
were little bits of runty things that
hardly deserved the name of melons
1t is claimed that Sun, the Cali.
fornia colt, recently trotted hall
mile In 1:02 1-2. We should like tC
see him make race with Col. Bruce
Picnics and moonlight boat rides are
what might be called the order of the
day among those of our population
who are not too busy toiling and spin
ming.
Attorneys or others desiring blank
applications for pension, either SOL
dier's or widows, may obtain them
at the REGISTER Office at reasonable
rates.
Miss Mamie Voorhees,, of Garnett,
is visiting ner friend, Miss Adah
Wright this week,-a visit that Is
much enjoyed by all of her lola
friends.
We are not In the farming business,
but If we were we should try planting
a lot of corn OH oats or flax or wheat
stubble. Fodder is going to be fod-
der this year.
The Santa Fe will sell round trip
tickets August 4, to tho Congressional
convention held at Kansas City,
August ), at q rate of S3.O5. J. B.
Daniels, agent.
Don't forget that Cummings & Jones
are still on deck, loaning money on
the best possible terms, writing in
surance and transacting all kinds of
real estate business.
The doctors and druggists are called
up pretty often these nights to get
somebody peppermint or ginger or
some other hot essence. Evidently
all the "green truck" Is not dried up.
The delinquent tax-list printed this
week is the shortest since 1884. A
pretty substantial proof that times are
not so hard as some of the apostles of
affiictiOn would have us believe they
are.
Parties indebted to the late firm of
Hart & Bennett, are urgently request
ed to make immediate settlement,
either by cash or note, as the old ac-
counts must be closed at once. Nj. NJ.
Hart.
A numerous company of his young
friends dropped in ON Earl Gillihan
last Saturday evening to help him
celebrate his 18th birthday. 1t was a
jolly crowd and they spent jolly
evening.
We can now sell you anything that
goes on wheels from cheap buggy to
the finest carriage. We make the
best spring wagon sold in Kansas.
Come and see US. lola Carriage &
Co.
Richards & Welch continue to be
the leading grocers because their
goods are fresh and reliable, their
prices reasonable and the treatment
accorded customers always prompt
and courteous.
Oklahoma Journal: VIM. Davis,
territorial Sunday School organizer,
returned last evening from one of his
trips over the Territory. He Is an
worker, and Is doing
great good I'm his work.
The REGISTER remarked a good
many times last fall that the farmers
who held their 15-cent corn would
make barrel OF money. The REGIS
TER was mistaken. 1t should have
said a hogshead of money.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Union will be held next
morning at 10 q. M, ut the
parsonage. All the mill
isters of the city are earnestly reques-
ted to be present. A. l.. Freed, Sec'y.
Prof. G. +. Whitehill returned last
Friday from Junction City where he
has been visiting q college class mate.
The Professor was i'll for two weeks at
Junction City and Is looking decidedly
peaked" although now in his usual
health.
Corn took a jump of four cents a
bushel i'm the Chicago market Monday.
1t begins to look as if corn would be
corn this year. At any rate we take
notice that the men who have big
crib full of ii are not running around
to hunt somebody to give it to.
Beck has shipped six car loads of
fax this week. AS each car holds
over 800 bushels and as the
price has ranged from S1.O5 to Sl.lO a
bushel, it will be seen that a good
deal of business has been done i'm lola
this week as quiet as it has seemed.
A fine large safe, fire and burglar
proof, was landed here Tuesday as the
property of the Supreme Lodge o.
5. +. 1t took all the spare men and
boys about town most of the afternoon
to get it upstairs into DIR. Linn's of
fice. 1t Is of the Hall pattern, nickel
furnished and very handsome.
1t does us a power of good to have
the old fashioned Republicans from
sll over the county come up into the
REGISTER office discuss the situ-
alton, as they have been doing the
past two or three weeks. The mean-