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

raising money is to collect 5000,
stamps which she seems to think sh,
can sell to somebody somewhere fol
lot of dollars. At any rate lot o
women in lola have got an idea some
: how that there is such a woman
somewhere who wants stamps fol
such purpose and although none o
them seems 10 know who she is OIL
where she lives or how much she is
J going to get for the stamps, these
dear women are all crazy to get
stamps to send to her. We know o.
one woman who even cut the stamps
from lot of her old love letters,-bui
she has been married long time and
the letters were very old.
Among those who were in the poker
game which was raided some time
ago and who didn't stay i'm town long
enough to pay his fine, was Fred the
Fisherman. He came back again last
Saturday evening, however, and the
marshal tried to arrest him. Hedidn't
understand the situation though, but
rushed into store and gathered a
couple of scale weights and "stood OFF,
the marshal and big crowd that had
gathered. After telling every body
what he thought of him he walked
out of the back door of the store carry
ing the weights with him. Jim Me
Mutt ran up against him after awhile
and persuaded him to go to Jail. He
paid his fine Monday morning
We are very sorry to note that
Humboldt suffered severely by fire
last Friday night. The fire began i'm
Hettinger's barn, and burned up an
other barn or two and Johnson's lum-
Der yard. 1t was only by the great
est exertions that the entire business
block, in the rear of which these
buildings were located, was saved
from the flames. The loss, we under
stand, was between eight and nine
thousand dollars, fairly well covered
by insurance. 1t thought that
the fire was ineendiary, but not
enough evidence is at hand to justify
an arrest.
The Ladies' Missionary society of
| the Presbyterian church held its
monthly meeting Wednesday after
noon, at the parsonage. At the close
of the regular program, the ladies re-
solved themselves into five o'clock
tea party and were most charmingly
entertained by Mrs. Squier. The fol-
lowing are the names of those present:
Mesdames. Barth, Crowell, Heller,
WeIth, Cunningham, Picken, Ewing,
Servey, Ellis, Arnold, Northrup,
Wright, Wise, McNutt, Delaplaine,
Ewart, Scott, Munger and Miss
Crosby.
VIM NJ. Cherry and III. A. Ewing
fought through the war in the same
regiment, but have not seen each 9TH
er for % years until last Monday
when Mr.. Cherry walked into Capt.
Ewing's office. Mr.. Cherry used to
live on the Usage Coded Lands be-
low Humboldt, but he now lives in
California. He was one of men, by
the way, who went after the famous
Bender family. He doesn't know
what became of them; but he is quite
certain that they will never trouble
anybody again, here OH earth.
Miss Nellie Colborn returned yes
terday from ten days visit with the
family of Mr.. John Francis, at Brook
Haven farm in Deer Creek township.
They had a good rain up there last
week and crops are fine. Mr.. Francis
thinks he has about the best wheat
in the county. He says he owes not
only this crop but his oats and corn
crop also to Prof. Shows chinch bug
infection, which under the intelligent
and persistent management of his
daughter, Miss Clara, has proven ell
tirely successful.
There will be a convention of the
Allen county w. G.. Il. u. held i'm the
Nj. T.. church i'm lola commencing on
Tuesday, Aug. s, at . p. IN, and clos
ing Wednesday evening. A good
program has been prepared, partici-
pated i'm by members of the several
unions i'm the county. The President
of the Second District will be in at
tendance, All are cordially invited
to attend all these sessions and learn
the methods of work being done by
the greatest organization Of women in
the world
A Junior Christian Endeavor society
was organized in the Presbyterian
church last week with 16 members.
Mrs. Squier and Mrs. Ewing have
been appointed Superintendent of
the work and the following officers
elected: Pres Miss Nettie Wise;
Vice Pres. Miss Marga Stevenson;
Secy. Roy Slower; Treas. Merritt
Esse. The membership of the society
was doubled at the second meeting
and the work bids fair to be very
popular and successful among the
cb5dren.
/Evans Bros are almost discouraged
l. a I. Ill Il L.. -.
vious to the fire it was one of the best
wells in town, and it has plenty of
water i'm it now. But the water
tastes of all sorts of things, not all at
once but by turns. One day it tastes
of coal oil, another day OF printers
ink, another day OF varnish, another
day of paint, and so on. 1t must be
that all these which were melted by
the fire, ran into the earth and are
gradually seaping into the weI
MARRIED: At the residence of the
BRIDES parents in lola, August Ind,
1893, by Rev. VIM Hankins, Mr.. w.
II. Long, of Cofeyvillo, and Miss Nell
lie Baker of lola, Kansas. Mr.. Long
is business man of excellent reputa-
ton where he is known, and his wife
is the oldest daughter of our well
known citizen, G. V. Baker. The
REGISTER extends good wishes.
Mr.. George A. Fry, of Lamar, Mo-,
and family, have rented the house va
Gated by Mr.. Grace and expect to
make lola their home. Mr.. Fry was
formerly in the banking business but
was compelled to abandon it on ac-
count of failing health. We are glad
to welcome him to lola, and hope that
we may soon be able to announce that
he has engaged in business here.
Uncle Johnny Gilkeson, of Carlyle,