The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-12

The F. NJ. B. A. Cooperative store
announces that it Is closing out its
stock of goods at cost and will 60 out
of business. When the store was
started two years ago the REGISTER
expressed doubts whether it could be
made successful. The event has prov
en- those doubts to have beelI well
founded. The store has been well and
honestly managed. 1t has been we'll
patronized by the people of the town
as well as by the farmers. And yet it
has lost money from the start, and the
stockholders are out, not only their
original investment, but several humid
red dollars besides. We regret that
this is so, because we are always sorry
to see anybody lose money, and be-
cause we believe the store has been
an advantage to the general trade Of
the town. The experiment, however,
should convince those who were in
clined to believe that the merchants
were robbing them by charging ex-
orbitant profits that they were mis-
taken. The Cooperative store charg-
ed the same prices for its wares as the
other stores, and paid no more for pro-
duce. 1t was well managed and it
had big trade. And yet it lost
money. There certainly could not be
more convincing proof that the men
engaged in the mercantile business
are not growing wickedly rich by
charging the people exOrbitant
prices.
The proceeds of the entertainment
to be given in the Park tonight by
the Library ladies, will be applied to
the purchase of new books, and for
this reason the patronage should be
large and liberal. There is no one
thing of which lola has better right
to be proud than its library. Few
towns the size of it support one, and
fewer still have so good a one. 1t
should be a matter of pride with us to
make it continually better by the con-
slant addition of new books, because
as it increases in size it increases in
interest and usefulness. 1t would be
hard to compute the good it has done
by furnishing whOlesOme,,and iDstruc-
tive reading to hundreds of those who
otherwise would have been without it.
AS an educating influence, q library
is but little behind school, and as a
moral agent it is but little behind
church. Let the people show their
interest in it, and their appreciation
of the unselfish and unrewarded work
of the ladies who have undertaken
the management of it, by literally
patronizing the entertainment that
will be given tonight.
J. w. Wolf of Elm, was nearly scar
ed to death Monday. He had gone
out to NOW some grass and on reach
ing the meadow left his team to step
off a ''land". The horses grew FESTIVE
with the heat and the flies and start
ed to move off. Finding themselves
without a driver they started 10 run:
They ran through a cOrnfield ana
across clover patch and then started
back through the cornfield when MIR.
Wolf met and stopped them. Inc
machine-a new Buckeye was In
gear and they had run with it q half
mile or more, but the damage done
was slight, while the horses were not
hurt at all. Mr.. Wolf was badly
frightened though, for he thought
that the machine would surely be
smashed and one or both Of the horses
badly hurt, He thinks his experience
should be a warning to others about
trusting horses too far when the SUMS
hot and the flies are bad.
4 man who went to market in lola
ON Wednesday morning bought fami-
w cunpliaS &c fellows.