The Iola register., 1891-05-22
THE lola REGISTER
FRIDAY, MAY -, 1891.
LOCAL MATTERS.

Adj. T. S. Slower has undertaken
the task of collecting the photographs
of all the old soldiers who now are or
who ever were members of McCook
Post G. A. r. The idea is to get a
cabinet photograph of each member
of the Post and have them framed in
groups, with brief biography attach
ed to each picture, and hung OH the
walls of the Post room. 1t can read
ily be seen that such a collection
would be eminently appropriate and
that as time passed on it would be-
come more and more interesting and
valuable. In order to assist in max
ing the collection Capt. Moore will
take photographs of those who do not
now have one for merely nominal
price, and it is hoped that every men,
Der of the Post will see to it that a
picture of himself is placed in the
hands of the Adjutant at the earliest
convenient date.
Among our letters Tuesday was the
following:
18TH MAY, 1891.
DEAR SIR: Below we hand you names of res
idents of your city who have recently arrived at
Coronado. Will you kindly send us a copy of
the issue in which the names appear in the en-
ClObeu wrapper very hespeCilullN,
THE HOTEL DEL CORONADO -
Mr.. L. J.. NOrthrup.
To the News Editor, REGISTER, lola, Kan.
We are interested, of course, in
knowing that Lutte Northrup has vis-
tied the Coronado. But we would be
a good deal more interested to know
what scheme the hotel is working in
sending US his name. The wrapper
enclosed is addressed to +. G.. Barry,
Herkimer, n. ", and we hope when
he gets this paper he will put us on"
We told Treasurer Cunningham,
when he began taking subscriptions
for the Worlds Fair fluid, that if he
would furnish us the names of the
contributors the REGISTER would
print them. Mr.. Cunningham stands
ready to furnish the names, but the
REGISTER must beg off from its part
of the bargain, for the reason that the
list is altogether too long. 1t begins
to look now as if the name of nearly
every taxpayer in the county would
be on it in short time, and to print
such list as that is more than we
bargained for. MIR. Cunningham will
make permanent record of the
names, however, in a book kept for
that purpose, and it will always be a
roll of honor.
Something more than year ago
the REGISTER printed this paragraph
i'm its local columns:
When man takes cigar out of his mouth
TO tell an editor to stop his paper because he
cant afford it, - the editor NAV say nothing
hut he thinks a great deal. And when he or
tlers his paper stopped because he "hasn't
time TO read it - and then goes down and whit
ties dry goods box for two hours, the editor
may not say anything, but he thinks a great
deal. And when h5 stops his paper because a
two line item does not suit him and then pes
tiers his neighbor by borrowing the paper, the
EDITOR may say nothing, but he thinks a great
deal.
1t went the rounds of the press at the
time, and now we see it has been pick
ed up by one of the big patent plate
houses and started again. This would
be fame-only the thieves who made
up the plates run the item without
credit. =
The Paola Republican tells good
story on a Miami county Democrat,
who went into store and ordered a
dollars worth of sugar. The mer-
chant tied it up for him. The Demo-
crat looked at the bunble and said:
"How much have you got there?"
"Nineteen pounds" said the mer-
cnant. 1Gs 100 mucn, replleu the
Democrat. "If 1 take nineteen
pounds home and tell my wife got
it all for dollar she will make me
vote the Republican ticket. Take
out some and make it thirteen
onion: we learn that Simpson,
West, the colored man sent from this
county to the penitentiary, endeavor-
ed to make his escape one night this
week. He played the insanity dodge
and was confined in the "pen asylum"
where he sawed off an inch iron bar
with a case knife and gained the main
yard. He was about to scale the
twenty-foot wall that surrounds the
prison, by means of a furniture car
and plank, when he was discovered by
one of the night guards and forced to
return to cell.