The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-20
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
From Register Representative 10 Being
Done Throughout The County Events
and Gossip Of the Week.
Salem.

Salem.
An original package arrived at the house Of
Mr. Tate few days ago that IL will hardly dc
to sell, as girls are too plentiful In Kansas, tt
admit Of selling them.
Mr.. David Ayers is the man who is building
new house instead Of Mr. Argus as you made
| us say in our last letter.
Miss Laura Fenton, of Bogard, Mo-, is visit.
ing her many friends In Salem. Like most peo-
be here than there
Superintendent Barber's announcement of the
beginning on July II, Of the Normal Institute
is as the editors would say ION our table, and
rus al, q ~ which shows s that those
IL they study mp what he thinks they ought to
Surely Prof. Barber has been one OF the most
earnest hard-working superintsndents Allen
has a pretty sure thing Of getting II he wants.
reelection.
Surely everyone In Salem will sympathize
with Father Marshal and family i'm the loss OF
his adopted daughter Elsie ROther.
David Ferguson Is Just "rattling things
taking the senses of the Salemites. He thinks
he will finish this week. He ought to know
more about folks I'm Salem than anybody else
when he gets through He has been treated
that in some of the townships people have re-
fused 20 answer some Of the questions. They
had better see the enumeratOrs and fix IL up or
they will have Uncle Sam after them and then
they will not only have to talk but will have 10
pay for ii too.
Ben Davis has bought a new spring wagon
IL Is OF the lola make and looks strong and solid
This IL another evidence that the farmers Of Sa-
lem are (?) going to the dogs.
Isn't great deal Of the bowling that Is being
done about now, for political effect? We know
a great many are In debt-got in debt when
times were good and found It mighty hard to
times. But what will IL do to pass . law pro-
hlbiting people from mortgaging their property?
That would seem to be the only way to prevent
through now which occurs about every ten
years-from 1916 to 1874, from 1s37 to 1871, from
lSS1 to 1851, and from 1854 to the present time,
with corresponding pond SGod time: between l,
get hold Of bearing on the financial condition Of
the country that we are now enter
Ing . on m, one Of the most prosperous
believe that the great majority Of these who by
economy and industry do their level best to pay
of the debts contracted Of their own free will,
will pull through all right True we need leg
islatfon to prevent men from gambling in any
article Of commerce and to prevent combines
from raising or lowering the price of articles
that are for sale Then the supply and demand
Flax never looked better. An old resident of
Humboldt township said to us the other day:
Of fax this year And that is about true
throughout the country. This means that
good many debts will be paid.
Corn is looking well though small for this
time Of year.
The rain Saturday night was good thing.
Oh F1ossy, has that free trade speech made
free trader of your
J. E Stewart sold q lot Of cattle and hogs to
Mr.. burning Of Humboldt, lately He will be-
gin to feed 100 head of cattle soon lie Is one of
the prosperous farmers Of Salem.
Miss schmelty, a sister Of Mrs J. T.. Hoff-
man: OF Hamberg Germany, arrived In Salem
last Thursday and will spend the summer with
her sister.
"F1ossy," the correspondent of the Farmers'
Friend from Salem complains that when he
writes anything that is said In favor OF Mr.
Funston by his friends or reports what is said
by those who do not look on the dark side alto
gether, that Ii is cut out Let Us see Don't
the Friend hold that all parties have q right to
be heard? That must be on the same plan that
one of the speakers at Diamond, was howled
down when he spoke In favor OF Mr.. Funston.
Men and brethren, IL WON'T pay to be intolerant
of the opinions of others Suppression of the
free expression of opinion Is like the damming
back OF water-it win overflow The American
people love free speech and they will have it.
Mr.. Overholt has bought new wagon.
That picnic showed that the editor Of the REG
IsTER had quite family for one that does not
make any more pretensions to one than he does
Ii seemed q good thing to belong to IL that day.
WILLOW FARM