The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-15

A young man by the name of +. F.
/ Dawdy is holding a Sunday School
rally at the Christian church this
week. Much interest is being taken.
Star Judge Mcfarland, Judge En-
cry, State Senator Scott and Mr.. DIN
Templin have prepared a symposium
on needed legislation" for the Febur-
airy Agora,
Do not patrOnize every pedler that
comes along even if his goods DO seem
cheap. They are always inferior.
Give them the gO-by and patronize
home merchants.
\ unique and highly interesting
mask social was given at the Opera
House last night by the Library Ia
dies. \ more extended report will be
given next week.
Doing business among a reading
public without advertising is a good
deal like climbing the stairs of a
twenty story building when the
elevator is running.
w. d. jackson, of Is Harpe, made
this Office a very pleasant call Tues
day. He is one of those whole-souled
fellows that it does one good to meet.
Come again neighbor.
A synopsis of bills that have been
introduced in the House at Topeka
will be found on the first page. They
were received last week but were
late, caused by the delayed trains.
The Florence Bulletin is parading
around with its head up i'm the air in
great shape because last Friday was
its ninth birthday The REGISTER
wishes it many returns Of the day.
A crew of eighty men were at work
on the Mo. Pac. last week shoveIing
snow off the track. There were no
trains on that road through here from
Wednesday till Friday, and no mail
till Saturday.
What came near being a fatal acct
dent happened to the five-year- old
son of Edgar Hazard Wednesday
afternoon. While playing around the
well he fell in some way and was
finally rescued,
Last Saturday was the first chance
the farmers had had TO come to town
for about a week, and our streets were
crowded almost all day. Come to
lola to do your trading, it is the best
place in Allen county.
Another inch or so of 1.-The beauti-
ful'' fell Sunday afternoon and eve
ming, but the warm sun of Monday
made it disappear about as quickly as
ii came. 1t has been showing and
then thawing every day since.
Last Sunday will go down on the
pages of history as "dirty shirt day"
The laundry got Snow bound some
where between here and the laundry,
and as a consequence there were a
good many angry young men in town.
J. r. Gard was up from Humboldt
the first of the week and made the
REGISTER office a pleasant call. He
says he doesn't like Humboldt and
that he is going TO move back to lola
in the spring Thus it occurs to us
again that once an Iolaite always an
Iolaite
Tuesday evening was the twenty
first anniversary of the wedding of
Mr.. and Mrs. "Billy" Huck, of this
city. About thirty of their neighbOrs
and friends went in the evening and
took his family by storm. They took
we'll filled baskets and had a most en-
joyable time.
Marriage licences have been issued
since our last report to w. E. Ross
and Ida NJ. Quarels, of Parsons w.
G. Keith and Laura a. Ball, of lola;
Josiah {. Griffith and Bertha +.
Baker, of Elsmore; Alvin G. Scott
and Mary E Minckley, of Colony,
John J. WilIenburg and Mary a.
Lanferman.
Mr.. Dibble furnishes us the follow
ing weather record for Sunny Kansas
that is worth remembering: Average
temperture at a. IN. for two weeks
commencing January 2G. 1895, and
ending with February Sth was 0.
The lowest temperture during that
time was - degrees below zero,
Easter Sunday comes on April 18th
this year. An early Easter, it is said,
is always a sign of an early spring,
and late Easter is a sure precursor
of late backward spring. The 22nd
of March is the earliest date upon
which it can come and the 18th of APP
ril the latest date. This year it can
be hardly classed as an carly Easter
nor yet as late one.