The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-22

unifor mity of school text books two
years ago, Ii was . part Of the con
tract with the American Book Com
pany, from which most Of the books
were bought, that 1t should furnish
teachers copies and desk copies of
every book it supplied. The Company
promptly supplied the teachers
copies, but failed to send the desk
copies. Ed. Barber hammered At
them as long as he was In ONCE, and
then Supt. Jones took up the good
work. At first they tried to laugh at
Jones, then they lied to him and then
they tried to bluff him. But he kept
right after them and finally they
"came down. Last Friday Mr..
Jones received desk copies of every
book published by the American Book
Company and used by this county,
for each of the SO districts in the coun-
ty. The invoice price Of the books il
something over $500, but it Is worth .
good deal more than that to compel
an OCTOPUS" like the American Book
Company'to come to time.
The defenseless condition of lola in
case of q raid by bank robbers, has
been frequently commented on since
/ these raids have become 50 frequent
/ and desperate, and has been the cause
of a good deal of anxiety. This week
the talk has crystallized into action.
Mr.. Cowan has suggested, that in
every business house around the
square there be kept always in q GER
tain place and always ready for in
slant use, O weapon-shot gun, Win
! - Thia 00oafinr%
has been acted upon, and lolA IL now
fairly well prepared to receive the
Daltons or any other band Of looters
and cut-throats. This sort OF thing
may seem foolish to some But 1t
isn't. Coffeyville saved so, OO0-and
five robbers-by being armed and
ready. lola is not rs likely to be
attacked as Coffeyville, perhaps, and
yet 1t might be. 1t won't do any
harm to be ready. When you
don't need q gun you don't need 1t;
but when you do need it you need it
awful bad.
A bout 80 lola people took stock
S. 90 share-in the town ofBlackwell
in the Strip about Is miles south Of
Hunnewell. The TOWNSHIP was an In
dian allotment so there was no run
ming for lots, but each share holder
drew lotsr for his lot. 1t is the gen.
misunderstanding that Jimmie Camp
bell, who was not there at all, got
the best lot, q good business location.
Ernie Welch also got . good one. Is.
aae WEIGH drew q residence lot-and
came home. w. II. Ling is running
a lunch counter and doing good bus
l in anpvAufn0 oad
seems in no hurry to get back. Will
lis Henderson got enough In . day or
two. We haven't heard whether any
body from this county got . claim or
not. No accident happened to any of
our people that We have heard.
The success of Mrs. Annie NJ. Beam,
of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in the
treatment of diarrhpx in her children
will undou btedly be of interest to
many mothers. She says, 81 spent
several weeks in Johnstown, Pa, AZ
ter the great flood, on account Of my
husband being employed there. We
had several children with US, two Of
whom took the dlarrh9a very badly.
I got some of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and DiarrhRa Remedy from
Rev. Mr.. Chapman. 1t cured both Of
them. l knew of several other cases
where it was equally successful. /
think it cannot be excelled and cheer
fully recommend it." % and so cent
bottles for sale by Evans BrOe.
When this office set up the delin-
quent tax list last July: the editor
read the proof column by column,
then a "revise" was taken and the
county treasurer read this by copy,
and then after the paper was on the
press the whole list was carefully
read by the treasurer and the editor
together. And yet, when the treas
urer came to check up he found that
mistakes had been made in eight de-
scriptiOns and these have to be repub-
lished for an October sale. We tell
this little story simply to show that
mistakes in newspaper are not al
ways the result of the printers care
lessness.
1t has been pretty hot and dry here
| in Kansas. but il is hotter and drler
everywhere else. We saw portions Of
Missouri, Iowa and Illinois last week
and the pastures were rs dry as they
will ever be and the corn as brown.
In Chicago it hasn't rained half an
inch in 80 days. In southern Illinois
q man told US it had not rained Tor
$50 days and corn would not make 3
bushels to the acre. The same story
comes from Wisconsin and Michigan.
Eastern Kansas has q better crop to-
day than two-thirds OF the agricultur-
al area of the United States.
On Tuesday evening as MIR. and
Mrs. NJ. 2. Jacoby had almost reached
home from the s. 3. Convention 1t
Prairie Hall, their horse became
frightened and turned around sharp
", throwing them violently out Of the
cart in which they were riding. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. JacOby were quite badly
and numerously bruised, out fortu-
nately no bones were broken and no
was one of those lucky "might-have-
been-worse" accidents.
A bout q month ago Will Brewster
went over to MontrOse, Mo-, 10 take
charge of q stock Of goods which his
neither had recently traded for. Evil
| IDENTIFY the merchant business did not
furnish excitement enough TOR him
and so he has gone into the newspa-
Der business. The Montrose Signal
Is on our table with q Statutory signed
by Fred w. Brewster which is q stun
ner. If the Montrose people know .
bright paper when they see it they
will stand by the Signal.
Among the incidents Of childhood
that stand out in bold relief, as our
memory reverts to the days when we
were young, none are more prominent
than severe sickness. The young
mother wildly remembers that 1t was
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured
her of Group, and in turn administers
IL IN har Ovvu nffapyiuD and aivays