The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-19

~ ~ ChdtteFton, OF Salem, has
handed us some leaves from his day
a book in which il entered his sales of
!, these products, giving the quantity
d and the price received, during the
past four years. The record is not
complete for every month i'm the wear.
but In each year it is given for the
months from March to August inclus-
i've, and taking that period we find
the following:
lsNS-Av price eggs : u. Nv price bntteru
/ lNSGAv. price eggs Av price hiIttSr s1-5
lNAl-Av price eggs Az price butter Si.5
lS9i-Av- price eggs IL Az price butter 9i.3
These prices are for the six summer
months and Ofcourse are much lower
than they would be during the six
winter months, but they show the
comparison of one year with another
and that is the main thing we are af-
ter. The surprising and the signifi-
cant thing about these figures is the
Jump in the price of eggs during last
year. They average two cents doz-
en- higher than for the three years
previous, and for the first time i'm four
years they climb higher than butter.
the prices could be given during
the winter months i'm each year We
imagine the advance i'm eggs would
be shown to be much more marked,
for during the last four months of 1891
they averaged Il cents dozen, which
is higher price, we venture to say,
than eggs ever commanded during q
similar period of any year since the
country was settled We didnt start
this inquiry for the purpose of point
ing political moral. But We cannot
help calling attention to the fact that
the advance in eggs dates from the
adoption of the Mckinley bill which
imposed duty of ) cents dozen ON
the imported product. Mr.. Chatter
toms books make it plain that his
chickens and cows are by no means
mere articles Of ornament about his
farm. Mr.. Close has an interesting
letter in this paper on the same sub
ject.
CORcorClid DGyiight: by watching
the business columns of II newspaper
one is enabled to- know the exact con-
ditiOn OF town. We can sit in our
Office and pick out every live town i'm
the State, and also the dead ones. Its
newspaper is the best index to town
and is considered by sagacious men
better criterion to go by than pho
tOgraph. Then why not encourage
your home paper? PatrOnize them
and in this way show to the world
that you are living in town that has
the enterprise to make something OF
itself
\ farmer was talking to the Cherry
vale ReJJWbtic0H the other day and he
said this: II know by experience
that if We pay our merchants what
we owe them and then want to buy
goods i'll quantities and pay cash, we
can buy as cheap at home, qualities
considered, as anywhere in the world;
and again who will buy one of our
farms in the vicinity of village all
run down for lack of support? II we
want prosperous town we must keep
all the money in it we can"
DIED: Friday night, February L,
1882, at her home west of the river,
Mrs. G.. Fl. Bliss, i'm the Goth year Of
her age. The deceased was born in
New York and lived i'm Indiana and
Ohio previous TO the year 1875 when
she removed with her husband and
family to Kansas, locating on the farm
where she died The funeral took
place on Sunday afternoon, the ser
vices being conducted by Rev. J. +.
The deceased leaves
six children to mourn her loss.
If there is any citizen of lola who
has not yet attended one of the Friday
evening entertainments given by the
literary societies of the High School,
he has deprived himself of great
treat. We were there last Friday
evening and were entertained for an
hour and half by music, recitatiOns
and essays given by as bright lot of
boys and girls as could be found i'm
days travel. 1t is a great thing for
the boys and girls. And it is a great
thing for those who go 30 hear them.
Last Saturday evening was the
closing exhibition of the Maple Grove
school, Carlyle township, and large
number of lola people We're among the
visitors. 1t was reported the first Of
the week that some OF them had Great
I'd disturbance and that arrests were
likely to be made. We are glad to
earn, however, from citizens of the
who were present, that
here was no ground for such reports.
During the Temple of Fame enter
-ainment Miss Ella Brown left at the
\. o. [. w. Hall a copy of Gospel
Hymns, which she has since been I'M
lble 70 find. The book had the name
Of y. b. Barnes written in pencil and
S especially valued on account of as
,OciatiOns. Anyone who may have
aiken it by mistake will confer great
avOr by returning it to Miss Brown.
Dr. Linn's whiskers caught fire the
other day and it was only t prompt
lctiOn of the fire department that pre-