The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-06

etal families bnat we kuON VI Ht't W
the cellar and camped there i'm damp
and Imouldy misery for an hour or
more, waiting for the cycloie that
never came. But there were cyclones
abroad that night and the next days
papers were filled with the havoc
wrought. In the country near Topeka
only three houses were left standing
in q section miles long and miles
wide. Three or four people were
killed and dozens badly hurt, while
the estimated loss of property is $500, :
600. At Moline, in southern Kansas,
two women and one man were killed
and much property destroyed. At
Olathe q church and a number of
houses, barns and fences were de-
molished and several people hurt.
And at number of other places more
or less damage was done. 1t was a
bad night and lola was in great luck
to escape with nothing more damag-
ing than a minority scare.
Prof. Snow says: "The coolest
April since 1884; the windiest since
1880; and the clOudiest on the whole
% years record. The rainfall was
half an inch below the average. The
most remarkable feature of the month
was the Straightforward or hurricane
of the LIST. From a. m. to p. IN. on
that date the standard signal service
thermometer, with small cups, regis
tered 7O6 miles i'm the ten hours, while
the champion thermometer of the Eng
lish style, registered $50 IN. From $40
to S:35 a. m. the register was miles,
or at the rate of "a miles an hour; and
from 11:45 to 11:40 a. m. q miles, or at
the rate of 80 miles an hour. Yet
scarcely ten dollars of damage was
done to the five buildings of the Uni
versity of Kansas. The rainfall for
the month was 30 inches, and the
total rainfall for the four months of
1892 now completed has been 14.2l
inches, which is 800 inches above the
average for the same months in the
preceding "a years"
Two or three years ago the REGIS
TER suggested that a great many cit
liens would be willing to put up street
lamps adjoining their residence prop
erty if the city would agree to keep
them trimmed and burning. The
present administration has decided to
adopt that policy, and the first fruit
of it is the fine lamp at Mr.. Taylor's
corner. Mr.. Taylor, Mr.. Duffy and
Mr.. DeClute shared the expense of
putting in the lamp, and the city will
see that it is kept burning. We trust
that similar partnerships will be FORM
ed until the residence portions of the
town are as well lighted as the bust
ness portions now are. 1t will help
the looks of things.
The Baptist Sunday School testified
its appreciation of Mr.. VIM. Good
hue's long and useful service as a
teacher by presenting him OH last
Sunday with a set of the handsome
Garfield edition" of "Ben Hur."
This is the finest edition of the ia
nous novel that has ever been print
ed, being i'm two volumes luxuriOusly
bound, printed on the finest paper and
richly illustrated. The book is one
that might be valued by one who
came by it in any honest way, but it
will doubtless be dOubly priced by
Mr.. Goodhue because it comes laden
with the love and good wishes OfthOse
who have so long been his co-wOrkers.
Oscar Cain started Monday night
for Oregon as announced last week.
uardy Hamm concluded to try his
fortune also on the slope and so they
went together. Mr.. Hamm is well
known as a popular and successful
teacher, and he will be especially
missed in lola where for the past
three years his skill as cOrnetist has
made him very useful as the leader of
our band and orchestra. The boys
were accompanied to Topeka by Mr.
Foust, on whose motion they were adj
mitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the State. The best wishes
of all their friends follow them.
The teachers in the city schools,
whose vacations begin next week,
will be pretty widely scattered this
summer. Miss Crosby will visit her
old home, Rome, Ohio. Miss Minrow
will spend several weeks in MinneSo-
ia, Miss Williams will return to her
home at Lawrence. Miss Ewing will
visit relatives in Chicago during the
summer. Mrs. Archibald will go to
her home i'm Chanute. The others ex-
pect to remain most of the summer in
lola. Wherever they go or stay the
REGISTER wishes them happy, rest
full vacation.
Everybody who saw them says that
the hailstOnes which fell here Monday
night were absolutely the largest that
ever fell anywhere on earth. If they
had come on a wind instead of in a
| dead calm there wouldn't have been
| a pane of glass left that one of them
struck. Falling on the roof they
sounded like pistol shots. Lutte
Northrup thought the boys must be
throwing rocks at the house and got
out his artillery to go after the mis-.
creants. He found out though that
/ there was no fighting back at thai
/ kind of bombardment.
! At a recent meeting of the schoo
board Miss Crosby was promoted from
! the position she now holds to that o
assistant in the High School, in place
of Miss Scott who was not an appll
cant for reelection. Miss Dee Arnold
was elected to fill the place of Miss
Woodin resigned, and Miss Grace
Bostwick was elected as additona
teacher, with grade not yet assigned
With these exceptions the teaching
force will remain the same as during
the past year.
Somebody entered Brigham d Nun
GERS store last Saturday night, break
ing through the large glass in one o
the front doors, and stole some tobac
co and candy. On Sunday afternoon
the +. NJ. b. A. store was entered
through q rear window and some CT
CARS, tobacco and candy stolen. Tn
burglary in both cases was doubles
the work of home talent. a good dea
of such mischief has been done lately
1t may be done once too often.
At the annual meeting of the Build
ing and Loan Association held las
Monday evening. the old board of di
rectnrs was reelected for the ensuin