The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12

uOuct lu6t Hull OldCh-
smith shop last Saturday night, when
Marshals Moore and McNutt put in
an appearance-and played a trump
that the boys did not know was i'm the
deck. Some of the players escaped.
Some would have escaped-as their
noses show-if wall had not been in
the way. AS it was, about seven or
eight followed the officers to the city
attorneys Office where warrants were
made out, binding them to appear be-
fore the police judge. This they did
on Tuesday morning, pleaded guilty
to the misdemeanor of gambling. ans
were fined one dollar and costs each,
amounting to Si.60 apiece, which they
all paid. Some of them have asked
us not to print their names, and as
they are very sorry for the scrape
they got into and are not likely to re-
peat the mistake. the request is COM
piled with. And as il would not be
fair TO print the names Of some and not
of others we leave them all out. The
officers deserve much credit for their
successful efforts to enforce the law
and to bring to punishment those who
violate it. 1t is greatly to be hoped
that the lesson will have a salutary
effect. not only ON those who were
caught, but on good many others
who might have been caught if the
raid had happened at some other
time or place. There has been a
great deal of gambling done in lola at
Ons time and another, and we don't
know of a man who has got rich at it.
We do know of a good many men who
have ruined their business at it and
blighted their prospects and lost
| their good name and brought distress
| and poverty TO their families. There
were men in that game Saturday
night who owe US money which we
have not been able to collect, and who
| doubtless owe money to other business
men. Is it likely that their record in
the police court has helped their cred
it? Quit!
Tuesday at 3 o'clock p. m. the Pres
bytery of NeOshO held an adjourn
| ed meeting at the Presbyterian
church at this place. Members of the
Presbytery present were, Rev. w. {.
| Porter. ID. ID. l.. /. Drake ID. ID. Revs.
A. w. Mervin, w. ;. Wilson, w. c.
McCune, J. c. McElroy, :. d. Jewell,
J. 5. McClung, f. w. BeesOn, w. l..
| Squier. J. p Wright, also three or
| four elders whose names are not fur
nished us. During the afternoon
some routine matters were disposed of
and in the evening Rev. w. l.. Squier
was installed pastor of the Presbyter-
| ian church here. Those conducting
| the installation were, Drs. Drake and
Porter and Revs. Jewell and McClung.
The services were solemn aud impress
sive and there was a large audience
in attendance. Mr.. Squier has made
great many friends since he came
here, and at the conclusion of the ser
vices, the most cordial greetings were
shOwered upon him and his wife.
The PIesbytery held a brief session
Wednesday morning and then adj
jOurned sine die.
There are longer but no better roads
in this or any other country than the
Chicago X Alton r. r. This line
makes a permanent patron of every
traveller who once gives it trial. Its
tracks are of the heaviest steel and as
smooth as glass. Its road. bed is stone
ballasted throughout. Its equipment
is superb. 1t was the first line on
which the Pullman sleeping car wac
ever run, the first line to adopt dining
cars and the first line to run free re-
clining chair cars, and to-day its SOL
id vestibuled trains containing all of
these modern luxuries, are running
through on fast time to and from
Union Depots in Kansas City, st.
Louis and Chicago with astonishing
regularity and with exceeding COM
fort to its ever increasing patrons. If
frir in, diraafinr,
between Kansas City and Chicago, or
Kansas City and ct. Louis, or ct.
Louis and Chicago. and fail to patro-
nize the Chicago and Alton you may
be sure that you have missed at least
one opportunity for increasing your
happiness in this life.
If anybody is inclined to think that
the farmers of Allen county are worse
off than the farmers of any other
county in Kansas, we invite them TO
come in and look through our ex-
changes. In three-fourths of the Off
cial papers that come to this office
there are at least ten foreclosure no.
tices to one in the REGISTER. An
other evidence of ouI prosperity is
that the Equitable Mortgage Co.,
which has loaned more than $4,000
in this county, has never yet fore
closed single mortgage and does not
now own an acre of land in Allen
county. Our farmers have managed
somehow TO live and pay their debts
in spite of bad seasons and low prices.
Give them good seasons and high
prices and they will get rich. Which
here's hoping will happen.
hos icznnd
his prospectus, published his pro-
gram, and made all necessary ar
rangements for this summers Normal
Institute. The Institute will be held
June ) to 50, with w. c. Stevenson as
conductor and 5. 5. Estey, Ida NJ.
Reece and l.. T. Gibbons, instructors.
Two lectures are announced, one by
Pres. w. A. Quayle on "A FOOLS En-
rand" and another by Rev. J. w.
Stewart, of Emporia, on 1.-The Plague
of Old Bachelors" Other entertain
ments will be announced in due time.
Mr.. Jones thinks the attendance at
the Institute will be quite large.
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