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

how it looks i'm the region where he
used to live:
On the 9th we went to Forest on
the hack; there | met numerous old
friends. Stayed all night i'm Forest,
and the next morning we struck out
again in the country. We stopped
with several of our friends, and we
had a good time indeed, but must
say / was very much surprised to see
how the old farms have gone to rack.
The fencing has nearly all rotted
down, and have not seen q good or
chard since / have been here. l can't
see what the people of Ohio are doing.
The Kansas farmers have more pride
in one day than the Ohio farmers have
in week. On the 3lst / went and
looked over my old home place, and /
just felt sick. The old home has gone
to the dogs. The fences have all rot
ted down-the pOrches have rOtted
and fell from the house, and the old
house will go next. The barn and
OuthOuses are ready to fall down.
The beautiful orchard which my faith
) er took so much pains with, has been
neglected until it is nearly all dead
and gone. | find the farmers here
are more in debt than they are i'm the
! West, and there are lots of them that
are being closed in on. The crops in
! Harden and the eastern part of Han
cock counties are very fair. do not
like to say too much, but it looks like
/ if we Kansas farmers had hold of their
lands we would make the farms look
better and neater.
y announced last week, Hon. II.
w. Spar. the Worlds Fair Commits
sioner for this district, met with the
Horticultural Society last Friday af-
ternoOn and large part of the session
was spent in discussing ways and
means to have Allen county properly ;
represented at the great Fair. AS a
result of the discussion a corporation ..
was organized, to be known as "Allen
County Columbian Exposition AssO-
ciatiOn." with the following named
gentlemen as incorporators: T.. J.
Thayer, II. a. Ewing, w. :. Picken,
J. l.. Arnold, III. l.. Henderson, VIM.
Cunningham, The corporation will
secure a charter and will then issue t
stock to those who have already sub {
scribed to the Fair Fund, and to all e
others who may be willing to sub o
scribe, the expectation being that
preparation to be made by the next /,
legislature. For the purpose of col /;
lecting and taking care of the pro- q
ducts that will be raised this year for
Ii ~, 10, t.,
e>iiioi'ioi "' 'Ae + All III o. IL IL pro- il
posed to fix up the room i'm the rear of :
Judge ArnOld's office. About $g5 is !,
yet needed to make up the 50 per cent r.
of Allen cOunty's quota, which has
been called for in order that the Kan -
sas building may be completed, and
it is hoped that at least this amount
will be promptly subscribed. VIM. 3"
Cunningham will continue to act as q
treasurer and all money should be u
paid to him.
1t is now almost two years since it =,
was given out by its enemies that "
this paper had only short time to u
live; that its proprietors were to be W
"busted" and the Republican party tc
swept from the face of
the earth as it were. \ boycott was
by clannish few, the great bl
er number of whom were never sub IA
scribers, but regular readers; and the !,
paper was denounced in the county Wv
and raved and stOrmed at Ell
in the local lodges, yet the paper came pc
out regularly on time every week,
the even tenor of its way,
and the Republican party is still Ill
doing business at the old stand. And til
now after a lapse of almost two years or
finds the paper with a larger and bet a.
ter paying subscription list than it W
ever had in its history, while its local "a
or town patronage was never better.
We have no ill will for the fellows
who wanted to bust us with their az
Is or Is months ago, but wish W
they would start out again to do the I'm
same thing. 1t would be a good thing -,
for this paper Yates Center NeDs.
Same over here. 1t is just about W. w
two years ago this month that the ed
itor of the REGISTER was gravely in
formed that his paper had just one q
more week to live. Has anybody -
heard of it dying any? VI
The biggest "social junction." as hi
they say in Boston, since the leap ms
year ball, was the leap year Valentine
party given by fourteen young ladies o.
last Saturday evening at the hOspi :,
table home of Miss Adah Wright. r.
The ladies carried out their part to
the Queens taste, calling for the gen. -,
tlemen at their homes, entertaining -
them during the evening, and escort
ing them again to their homes. \
repast was served and the I'd
occasion, from first to last, was de- el'
ightful one. The following are the "
names of those present: Misses Clara Gil
Harris, Cora HOagland, Mollie White, su
Jennie McNiel, Lou Evans, Sadie and sil
Beulah Reimert, Maud Thrasher,
claudia WEIGH, Sadie Proctor, Kate Ci
Ellis, Olive Hankins, Anna McDOn- M
I'D, Adah Wright; Messrs Will Han fol
1ins, \. II. Jesse, II. l.. McNiel, Il. to
Il. Evans, J. l.. Lyen, w. :. McNiel, in
DR.. Linn, l.. f. HOrville, b. l.. Nc re-
Mel, Harmon Hobart, f. II. McNiel, pr
harley Ausherman, w. \. Grace.
Secretary Martin Mohler, who has IN
ately been travelling over the State hi
attending farmers institutes. says: pa
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