The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-07

~ dHu Will HOt open III IdTtn6r until
the casing is put in, but the indications
are that the flow is as strong as that
in any of the other wells. lola has not
been doing much boasting lately, but
we do not wish our people to lose sight
Of the fact entirely that lola has sup
ply Of gas that is sufficient to meet all
demands made upon it; that her mar
BILE works are running every day; that
she has the best trade of any town in
the county, and, on the whole, she is
far from being the deadest town OH the
map.
A man who signs himself the spirit
of John Brown, re-embodied and sent
back to earth to tell of the proceedings
of certain council in Heaven, has
left several manuscripts at this office
for publication. Lack of space and
other reasons prevent us from print.
ing them. He says that the eight
hour system is universal in Heaven
that people don't "groan and vail
there because they are "decent and
have no mean tricks to wall over
Tho re-embodied John Brown wears
very shabby and faded clothes, by
which however, in accordance with
his own earnest request, we will not
Judge him. He bears no resemblance
to the original Kansas hero.
The School Board finally announce
the names of the teachers employed
for the coming year. The majority OF
them have been connected with our
schools before, and we feel confident
that with so strong corps of teachers
our schools will not fall below the
high standard Of excellence hereto
fore maintained. Their names are as
follows: Prof. w. S. Picken, Princi.
pal; Miss Hattie Williams. principal
of High School, J. f. Henderson,
Misses Ruth Brown, May Woodin,
Alice Crosby, May Ewing, Clara Har-
ris, Maud Minrow, Alice Myler, Mrs.
Julia Archibald.
Our threshers and our grain dealers,
generally, unite i'm declaring that the
upland farms have produced much
heavier average ofwheat this year than
the bottom lands. We trust our farm
ers who have been deferred from grow
ing wheat by the fact that they do not
have a bottom farm will bear this in
mind and be encouraged to raise more
wheat this winter than ever.
What you want is the Victor Steam
Evapora tor to save your fruit, berries
and green corn. This is not Dryer
but an ErdpOrdtor and il warranted
to do good work, is cheap and will not
wear out. Try one. All orders left
at 4. Ewarts' Hardware Store will be
filled and there the machine can be
seen. 1t does away with canning. +.
Agent, lola, Allen Co, Kan.
Mrs. John Hart gave pleasant tea
afternoon in honor of
of Mrs. DIR. Hart who il up from Guth-
rie on Il visit. The guests were her old
lola friends who were glad of an OPP
portunity to renew acquaintance and
talk over old times. The ladies pres
ent were Mesdames Ireland, Evans,
Clark, Cowan, McCarley,
Munger, Jennings and Thrasher.
The Apollo Club went to Moran last
and repeated the entertain
ment which they gave here some
weeks ago. The people of that town
their appreciation of the
young ladies' effort by crowded
Hall and the Club had the satisfac-
ton of making another addition to
the Worlds Fair fund for Allen Co.
The action of the school meeting in
electing Mrs. Shaffer to the office of
clerk of the School Board will be gener-
ally commended. We have never had
a woman OH the Board before, but the
election of one so bright, capable, and
energetic as Mrs. Shaffer, assures in
advance the success of the experiment.
Rev. Freed left on Monday for Kin
caid where he will be engaged all
week "a one of the Instructors in the
Itinerant's Club of the S. X. Conf.
His pulpit will be filled next Sunday
by Rev. Mr.. Myler, and in
the evening by Rev. VIM. Hankins.
Sheriff Hobart arrested Frank See,
from west OF the river, last Saturday
ON charge of assault and battery.
On his trial before Squire Morehouse
he plead guilty to the charge and paid
s. and costs, and put up bond for 800
not to disturb the peace again for one
year.
An ice cream social will be held
at the G. A. II. hall Friday evening,
Aug. IA for the benefit of the Episco-
pal church of lola. Excellent music
will be furnished by the orchestra and
Guitar Club of lola. Admission 10 c.
A cordial invitation is extended.
DIR. w. I. Linn, ID. B. ID. and NJ.
E. Shelter, w. A. Cummings, III
Reimert, S. NJ. Jennings and DIR. L.
Tozer are at FIT. Scott this week at
tending the Annual Meeting of the
Supreme Lodge of o. S. F. which con-
vened at that place Aug. 18th.
Star Valley Republican club meets