The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12

You miss a whole lot if you fail to
read the four or five columns of cor
respOndence on our last page. Ittells
what is happening all over the county.
Mr.. G. V. Baker got a telegram
Wednesday bringing him the sad
news of the death of his mother which
occurred at Hutchinson. He went to
Hutchinson Thursday to be present
at the funeral.
E. Rosenthal, of Peoria, ILL.,, is back
to Humboldt on visit to his old
home aud was in lola Tuesday. He
is not overly enthusiastic about his
new location, although he says he is
doing fairly well. The facts probably
are that he is homesick for Kansas.
Col. Ed. r. Smith, of Mound City,
one of the "Old Guardr in Kansas,
was in lola on Wednesday and made
| the REGISTER a pleasant call. He
was accompanied by a Mr.. Mitchell
of Pennsylvania, and they were look
ing into the gas and oil business.
| ID. Sims: l believe if a man would
SOW bushel of sorghum to the acre
along with oats and pillow it under
about the first of September, and do
that for two years, he would have his
| land as fine as it could be made. How
else can you get 20 tons of fertilizer as
cheap?
VIM. Davis returned Tuesday to
his missionary work in Oklahoma.
He asks us to say that he can use any
number of religious books and pa
pers, and requests all who can con-
| tribute anything in this line TO hand
it to J. w. johnson or Albert Della
plaine.
An effort was made last week to
| have a township herd law adopted for
| lola township, and for q time the
question was kept so hot that people
even forgot to talk about free silver.
But they couldn't get names enough
on the petition and so peace again
reigns in Warsaw.
Miss Matte Thayer wrote to an lola
friend this week that they had q very
heavy hailstOrm at Medicine Lodge
lately, and that in an extra large
hailstOne which she picked up she
found a large grasshopper, firmly i'm
bedded in the ice. Nearly anything
can happen in Kansas.
Three weeks ago corn was worth
10 cents in our local market, but it
sold yesterday for 30 cents. The diff
| ference in the price is not due to the
contraction OF the currency but to the
expansion of the rainfall which
makes the prospect of big crop this
fall good deal brighter.
How would it do to pass an ordi-
nance providing that no more board
sidewalks should be laid in lola?
Wouldn't it be great If all our side
walks were of lola marble? Then the
cows wouldn't break holes in them,
and people wouldn't step in the holes
and sue the city for damages.
There were heavy rains all around
US Sunday afternoon and night. That
is the reason it was so cool Monday.
In some places in southern Kansas
there were hard winds also that did
a great deal of damage. Oswego sui
| fered severely, and so did Cherryvale
and a number of other towns.
There were awful storms Sunday
nearly all over Kansas,-floods of
water and tempests of wind and tor
rents of hail that spread death and
destruction, unroofing houses, over
throwing windmills, destroying crops
and eealing havoc generally. Allen
county is mighty lucky this year.
The Santa Fe has now placed
in effect summer tourist rates to Den
yer, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Mani
tou and Glenwood Springs, Colo, Los
VegOs, Hot Springs, n. NJ, Grand
Cannon of the Colorado via Flagstaff,
Ariz., Ogden and Salt Lake, Utah,
HELENA, Butte and Anaconda, Mont.
and Spokane Falls, Wash.
1t has been almost uncomfortably
cool here all week. Wednesday il
drizzled all day, and people went
about in overcOats, shivering. If it is
as much cooler in Colorado as it usu.
ally is we are sorry for the people
who went there. There has been
nothing the matter with lola for 9
summer resort so far.
The minister of the Colored Baptist
| church asks US to announce that there
will be a grand rally at the new
church next Sunday at which an eff
fort will be made to raise money fol
the benefit of the church. The pastor
very earnestly invites the attendance
Of all, white or colUred, and their helI
in the good work. Preaching all day
AS seen in the ad. in another place
the II. Il. Photo Car will leave lola OF
the 22nd. During our stay here thil
Co. has turned out lots of work and 81
far a. We have heard, with entire sat
isfaetiOn. They will continue to wori
up to their leaving day for all wht
desire their services, and with guar
antee of satisfaction. Rene N her thi
day of leaving, July -