The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-07-06

him. His aged widow and his child
rem and grand children have the
sympathy of large circle of friends.
The great railroad strike has got to
such stage that nearly everyb body is
feeling it. Mr.. Yeager has 1000 chick
ems on hand and they are beginning
to die. The chances are he will lose
large part and possibly all of them
because they cannot be shipped to
market. Eggs cannot be shipped
either, and so the price is down to
five cents a dozen, lower than it has
been for years. A great many of our
merchants have orders out for goods
which they cannot get, and of course
there can be no shipment of cattle or
hogs. So all of US are put to loss and
incOnvenienced because a man at Chi
cago and his workmen cannot agree
about wages /!
Mr.. Lawyer requests us to urge that
all those who received infected chinch
bugs from him and followed directions
should send him a written report of
the result oftheir experiments, wheth-
er they succeeded or failed. We hope
this request will be complied with for
we want to know whether any good
is to be accomplished by following up
this work. Mr.. Lawyer says that
the infection has worked perfectly in
his laboratory and there seems to he
no reason why it should not work just
as well in the field. OF course where
the instructions are not followed to
the very letter good results could not
be expected. But surely some of
those who tried it did follow direc-
tions carefully, and those are the ones
Mr.. Lawyer wants to hear from.
The declamatory contest given at
the Baptist church on Thursday even
ing of last week by the pupils Of Miss
Eva Burkholder was attended by q
large audience and was highly enter
tanning. The first prize was awarded
to Miss Maude Esse, of lola, the Sec
ond to Miss Josie Swearingen, of lola,
and the third to Miss Eta Harding,
of Chanute Miss BurkIolder. who
has been conducting rea.Iing classes
in the Institute and giving private
instruction in elocution, is the daugh-
ter of G. f. Burkholder, formerly of
Marmaton township, but now of Fit.
Scott. Miss Burkholder is an accom-
plished and progressing young lady
she shows makes it certain that she
will succeed. She went from here to
Chanute to organize class.
There was big fire at Yates Center
last Thursday which destroyed all
the buildings on the east side of the
Public Square except ". f. Hogue-
lands office and the old wreck of a
court house. Butler 4 l.ans, II. III.
Winters, Capt. Hurt, j. A. Wagner,
Mai. Plummer, T. z. Wharton, j. III.
Sticher. G.. H. Lamb, c. a. Bauers-
feldt. and X. r. Wells are among the
heaviest losers. We regret particu-
larly the destruction of the Democrat.
1t is hardly a year since Mr.. Wells
lost his house and all its contents by
fire, and this second blow must be
very discouraging. Fortunately,
however, he carried some insurance,
and we predict that it will not be
long until the Democrat is again do
ing business. The loss to the town is
a severe one as some of the buildings
burned were among the best there.
The Board of Commits oners have
been in session all week. kept We'd
nesday, and will probably remain in
session until noon to-day Their time
has been employed almost wholly in
routine business, the only other mat
tiers of interest to come before them
being a petition for a herd law in
Marmaton township, and a petition
from the Allen County FAIR AssOcia-
ton for an appropriation of county