The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

"That little item in last week
REGISTER about the drouth in India
ma and Illinois did me and my neigh
bors lot of good" said a farmer the
other day. mot that we are glad to
hear of any body else's misfortune.
but because it is pleasant to know
that in comparison with other people
we are so well off,"
Rincdid NetUs: lola has another
gas we'll which, it is claimed, is fully
equal, If not better than any hereto
fore drilled. They now have three
strong wells besides some weaker
ones. Kincaid is on due line drawn
from lola to PaOla, another gas center,
and no doubt we are in the gas or oil
belt. If any of our men of means had
the courage to invest we might have
cheap fuel.
A. NJ Wright, MdrBldtOn: The sill
yer question doesn't worry me any.
l take notice that if 1 have stuff to
sell can get along all right no mat
ter how scarce money is; and if
haven't anything to sell L guess l
wouldn't have much money no matter
will just send me good crops every
year won't ask any odds of the sill
yer question.
The REGISTER is indebted TO the
authors for Failing Leaves, a new
song just published of which the
words are written by Miss Florence
Srow and the music by ThurlOw
Weed Lieurance, of Neosho Falls.
The words are full Of sense and senti-
ment, as all Miss Shows poems are,
and the music is melodious and at
tractive. 1t is published by the Chi.
cago Music Co., Chicago.
A man down at Neodesha says that
this oil business is going to draw all
the sap out of the earth and crops
will cease to grow. He accounts for
the dry weather this spring by the
fact that the ground is punched full
of holes. A woman up in COlfax
township also has wild ideas about
this oil and gas. and says it should
not be disturbed because God wants
it to blow the earth up with when he
is through with it.
Temperance drink formula clipped
from somewhere: Take a tall lemon
ade glass and fill it half full of crack
ell ice. Break into it two fresh eggs
and pour into it half pint of milk,
with just enough sugar to sweeten it
to the taste. Then shake 1t well and
strain into another ice-cold glass.
Top it off with dash of nutmeg. One
of those on q hot afternoon will make
you feel as if you were stretched in a
hammock swung on the shady side of
an iceberg.
Mr.. G. p. Rockwell died at his
home east of lola last Saturday even
ing at o'clock. He has been ill a
long time and his death was not I'M
expected. he was a man of exem-
plary character and had large circle
of warm friends who mourn his death
and extend their heartfelt sympathy
to his stricken wife. Funeral servic-
es were held at the house Monday
morning, Rev. King officiating, and
the remains were brought to lola and
put aboard the Southern Kansas train
to be taken to Albion, Mich, where
they will be inferred.
lola came very near suffering an ir-
Monroe Sanders, one of the north end
colored population, made a desperate
attempt to commit suicide. His moth
er had asked him to bring in some
wood, which he refused to do, where
upon she very vigorously applied the
slipper. The indignity went to Men,
roe's heart and he ran to the edge of
the we'll and called his little sister to
him, babe her good bye and told her
he would meet her in heaven. He
then plunged head first into the well,
but when he struck the cold water he
changed his mind about
leaving this earth and promptly
crawled out. His mother then APP
piled the slipper again, more vigor-
ously than before, and Monroe now
thinks that suicide as means of get
ting even with ones mother is not
what it is cracked up to be.
81 Just rejoice when hear of any
good luck coming to any of our lola
folks" we heard a young lady say
the other day. "And when one does
that wins him praise from
or gains any honor or dis
either here or some where
else, am as glad and as proud as II
the distinction or the honor had come
to my own family" That is the spir-
it that is worthy of the Kingdom!
What little paradise we would have
here if every one was as free from
envy or jealousy. and as generous and
unselfish. If instead of trying to pull
down a man who showed signs OF
we would all get under him
and give him a boost! If we would
treat our own as well as outsiders
treat them, and be as ready to render
praise and credit where they were
due to one of our own people as we are
to a stranger! The young lady whose
words we have quoted is the happiest