The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-08

HumDOlQt grocer, mas Sarueu dDOus
200 feet square which he turns over to
his children every year and agrees to
buy from them at the market pfice
everything they raise. He WAS tell
ing us the other day that already this
spring he had paid them more than
S1OO for the truck they had raised on
that little patch of ground, and the
crop is not nearly exhausted yet
Isn't there pointer for somebody in
this little item? 1t is strange that IL
should be so, but it is a fact neverthe-
less, that our merchants here in lola
have been obliged to import peas,
beans, cabbage, potatoes and nearly
all kinds of vegetables all this spring
and summer i'm order to supply their
customers. We should think it would
pay somebody to go into the "truck''
business.
The preliminary canvass by candi-
dates who will go before the Republic
can county convention next Tuesday
while active and interesting, has not
been i'm the least acrimonious or
recriminative, and there will therefore
be no bitterness when it is over. II
any candidate fails of nomination
anu unfortunately oOiiO biuSt, Nv " IL
be simply because he has not votes
enough and not because some other
candidate has tricked him or SANDER
ed him. Hence there will be no rea-
son for any body to feel sore, or to feel
inclined to lay in supply OF cutlery.
The ticket is sure to be good one
and is sure toreceive hearty and en-
thusiastic and winning support. -
Miss Maude Richards returned
Wednesday from Boston, having COM
pleted the course in piano at the New
England Conservatory of Music and
graduated from that institution with
high credit. Years of hard work and
conscientious application, added to
unusual natural talent, have made
Miss Richards one Of the most ac-
complished musicians in Kansas, and
her home friends are delighted to
welcome her back.
The County Commissioners meet
ing this week was very short and un-
! interesting. The usual claims were
audited and allowed. Appropriation
was made, according to notice given,
for the bridges over Martin and Owl
creek. And Treasurer Cunningham
was instructed to go before the State
/ Board of Equalization and ask for
rebate of State taxation on account of
our higher valuation. That was all.
The morning service in the Presby
terrain church next Sabbath will be
especially adapted to the children.
Subject, Zachariah >; 3, "Apd the
streets of the city shall be full of boys
and girls playing in the streets there
Of" All the children and youth of
the congregation are especially invit-
ed to be present. Parents and friends
are requested to come and bring the
children with them.
Ell. Thayer has returned ff9m his
visit to Southwestern Kansas. He
spent most of the time on the farm of
his brother-in-law near Madison
Lodge" and comes back much re-
cruited in health. He says the sor-
ghum sugar works there have con-
tracted for 1900 acres of cane and ex-
pect to make 10000 pounds of sugar a
day when the season begins:
The Brodhead, Wis, IndepeRaent.
published at Col. w. &. Jones' cid
home, gave him a handsome half-cQl-
umn write-up ON the occasion of his
recent visit there. We should be glad
to reprint it, but space is too limited;
and besides, it doesn't say anything
that the REGISTER has not said at
one time or another, or say 1t any
stronger.
Ten years ago whiskey seller could
not be convicted unless the jurors
were all prohibitiOnists. Now it
doesn't make any difference what the
complexion of the jury is, if the evil
dence warrants it q verdict of guilty
is Just as certain rs it would be if the
crime were horse stealing, This. is sig
niflcant.
The man who tried to guess what
the weather would be in Kansas from
the record of what it has been, would
find himself poor prophet. Look at
Mr.. Dibble's report this week, for eX-
ample. June 1891 gave us lOt inches
of rain, while June of 1892 gave us but
%. The only certain thing about Kan
sas weather is its uncertainty.
Mrs. George Orndorf, the wife of the
colored preacher, died Tuesday morn
ing, after long illness. She was
buried Wednesday afternoon, Rev.
ID. ID. Payne, of Parsons, officiating.
The services were largely attended as
the deceased was highly esteemed
among her people.
Col. w, c. Jones and j. B. Goshorn
are attending the Democratic State
Convention at Topeka this week.
George BOwlus, our other Democrat,
wanted to go but couldn't get away.
Jones is "ferninst" fusion, but Goshorn
is for anything to beat the Republic
can party"
We are in receipt of the Palouse
wash Republican, a red hot Repub-
lican paper owned and edited by A.
H. Harris, formerly editor of the Far
mer's Friend. Mr.. Harris believed
in the Peoples party as the Democrats
believe in the tariff, "for revenue
only"
The regular monthly union gospel
temperance meeting will be held at
the Baptist church next Sunday at
4:9O D. m. Subject, "What are Gods
claims on Christians as message bear
ers:" We earnestly ask you to come
and bring your bible and your friends.
Humboldt has a young woman military
band that goes around playing for picnics and
celebrations Itmay be all right for Il woman
to play ON a brass horn but 1t makes the lips
hard just the same -.stdr.
That is probably true. But how
in the world did an old misogynist
like Alex. Butts find 1t out?
We loan money ON ten years at low
rates. Annual interest; no commits
sion. Can pay part or all any year.
We buy, sell or trade real estate, mer-
chandiZe and live stock, and write in