The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-04

Prof. Nj. A. Root, of Buffalo, N. Y.
has been visiting his old friend, Mr.
A. l.. Dibble, this week. Prof. Roo
has taught for % consecutive years il
the same school,-and he has no
begun to think of quitting yet. The
REGISTER has been well pleased tt
make Prof. Roots acquaintance anG
has been much interested in learning
his impressions of our country. 81
am sure l never saw prettier farm
lug country anywhere than thai
lying between Kansas City and lola,
he said. 80 one who is accustomed
to the hills and the truck patches o.
New York, there is something sur.
prising and attractive in your long
stretches of gently rolling or level
prairie and i'm your enormous fields o.
corn. Why, driving out in the
country the other day with my old
friend, L saw $50 acres of corn in one
field, standing from to Is feet high
1t was the prettiest sight l ever saw
1t doesn't seem to me that there is
any room to complain of country
that can raise a crop like that. And
there is something i'm the ali
here that we don't have i'm New York
something that makes me sleep
longer and eat more than l have fol
years. shall certainly have plenty
of good words for Kansas when l re-
turn home, for l have enjoyed every
minute of my stay here" Prof
Root had forgotten that we had prob
ibitiOn i'm Kansas, and one of the first
questions he asked was where
all our saloons were. He finds the
contrast between our condition in that
res poet and the condition i'm his own
State very great and pleasant one.
Prof. Hicks forecasts August wealth
er as follows: A temporary abate-
ment in heat after last storms in July,
will be renewed on about the End and
3rd, with many threatening clouds.
AS we enter period of 8th to 18th, look
for about the hottest spell of the sum-
mer, Vulcan, Murcury, Venus, Moon
and Saturn, all bear on this period.
Hard storms or phenomenal heat,
changing suddenly to very cold must
result. The same conditions will ex-
list Tor the reactionary days 14th and
18th. Stubborn heat, with much ten
dency to hard electric storms with
heavy local rains, or water spouts, /"
are more probable from 18th up to
23rd. Watch all heavy clouds storms.
Cooler from 23rd to 9th, at which
time warmer with storms. Month
ends warm, with storms starting from
in the west. Many earthquake indi-
cations in August
Union: At Chanute Monday sever
al persons bit, and of course were
taken in by the shell game. Daniel
Welkers. of lola, watched 1.-The pro-
ceedings" just long enough to think
he was "Onto the game" and here
was the opportunity of his life, of
beating a sharper at his own game.
MIR. w. was so sure of winning good
stake that he risked 5000, all the
money he had. He lost it. Another
man, a we'll to do farmer, living i'm
the vicinity of Chanute, thought the
game was "great snap" for those
who played against the fellow who
worked the shells. He borrowed
5000. The shell man won the mon
ey and all the farmer won was ex-
perience. Several others lost sums of
five to ten dollars. We did not hear
of the shell man losing a cent. And
people will continue to lose their
money just as long as they risk it on
such games.
Laurence World. Prof. f. w.
Myler, of the Baldwin schools today
began his work in County Superin-
tendent Peairs Office. He will be
there every Saturday during the lat
ter's absence in Chicago.