The Iola register., 1891-01-30

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We have the finest line of furniture,
carpets and shades i'm the county, and
the lowest prices. s. HI. Patterson &
Co.
Cowan & Ausherman want to sell
you drugs and medicines and can offer
you inducements to buy. Give them a
call.
Rev. Johu Price, of Paola, was in
town yesterday on the way to visit
relatives in the Deer creek neighbor-
hood.
The flag was floating over the
school house yesterday in honor OF
Kansas 3Oth birthday. Fitting and
proper.
Superior Axle grease at Coutant's;
warranted not to gum, get hard in
cold or melt i'm hot weather; boxes
for 25 cents.
About the only thing that came to
Kansas in the beginning and stayed
with it and has never had any luck in
it, is the Democratic party.
DIR. H. A. Brown, of Humboldt, has
been appointed coroner in place of DIR.
Mcdowell, removed from the county.
The appointment is a good one.
What is the use of hugging the
kitchen stove all winter and getting
In the way Of your wife, when you can
get good heater go cheap at Bartels?
Beginning with the first of Feb
ruary I shall do a strictly cash busi-
ness. This means that 1 can and will
sall goods cheaper than ever. 1hrig.
Going by the history books Kansas
was 80 years old yesterday. But going
by the fun she has had and the swath
she has cut in the Nation, she Is about
800.
Last weeks paper should have stat
ed that the lowest. temperature yet
registered here this winter was y de-
grees abOrc zero and not II degrees
below.
There was a good audience at the
Opera House Monday night to hear
Little Lord Fauntleroy. The play
seemed to give very general salts
faction.
Wanted Immediately a few good can
vassers for Allen and Woodson coun-
ties. Good pay. Address w. T.
Frederick, care Lock box II, lola,
Kansas.
There will be public sale of house
hold effects mattresses, beds, tables,
chairs ETC., at Ewart's corner tomor-
row Saturday afternoon. You can
get bargains.
Supreme Treasurer Smeltzer ycster-
day paid the life insurance of DIR. L.
NJ. Sanders, of Thayer, who died u
little over a week ago. The policy
was in the o. S. +.
Parties having farms to sell for cash
or to exchange for other property will
please call Oh us at once as we have
considerable inquiry for farms.
Bostwick & Smeltzer
Constable Strickland sold four
horses at auction on the streets last
Saturday for the grand total sum of $50
The horses looked ashamed of them
selves at the price they brought.
j. w. Mcclure is in charge of the
Lewis stock of dry-goods on the north
side and will sell the goods Mt nearly
your own price. a lot of new goods
just received. Go and see him.
The friends of Mrs. l.. H. Hartman
are gratIfied to learn that by the be-
quest of an uncle, recently deceased,
she comes into the possession of a
legacy of several thousand dollars in
cash.
Former comrades of Samuel l..
Stansbury, once lieutenant in the
Ninth Kansas Cavalry, may be inter-
ested in knowing that he has lately
been admitted to the soldiers home at
Leavenworth.
Nothing more has happened in lola
this week than usual, and the editor
has been away most Of the week so he
had no time to manufacture anything.
Which must account for short local
columns i'm this issue.
1t is my custom always to balance
my books the first of the year and L
expect all those who are owing ME TO
make prompt settlement. Ifyou have
not the cash come i'm and give me
your note. ID. Ewart.
The council held a special meeting
Wednesday night and ratified con-
tract with Mr.. Pryor for the gas to be
used in the new street lamps. The
city gets six lights for 500 month,
which is cheap enough.
Iou may expect pardon for almost
any crime except that of getting on
better than your associates. There
are very few people who can forgive a
man for making more money or more
friends or more reputation than they
do.
We publish in full this week the
address on the school book problem
delivered before the last meeting of