The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-15
Additiopal Local.

| AQQtetOV6t hOAot.
If those who borrowed the Febru.
airy and March magazines from the
REGISTER office will kindly return
them the favor will be appreciated as
we have not had a chance to read
them.
The way to succeed is to be cheerful
The merchant who always has a
CHEEKY word for his customers, who
has good word to say for his town
and his county and his friends, is the
man who holds his trade and makes
money. And what is true of man is
true also of town. which is made up
of lot of men. When a town gets
grumpy and blue aud pessimistic and
discouraged and begins to talk about
its hard luck and its debts and its
heavy taxes, it is gone. The way fOr
town TO go ahead and get big and
rich, is to always put the best face on
things, to talk only about the things
that make it pleasant to live there and
that promise prosperity in the future.
Whenever a man can't say something
good for the town i'm which he lives,
he should keep silent. And when he
can no longer keep silent he should
move out.
VIM. Cunningham has handed us a
copy of the Humboldt Herald, OF
May Is, 1865, Joseph Bond, editor.
The paper is a 6-column folio, all
home print, and is not at all bad
looking sheet. Humboldt was the
county seat at that time, but this very
Issue of the Herald contains a procla-
nation by the county commissioners
changing it to lola. One would nat
urally suppose that the Herald
would make a "roar' about it, but it
does not. John Harris was county
treasurer then and John Francis was
county clerk. Jeff Davis had just
been captured and the paper is full of
jibes at him. Nearly all the adver-
tisements are of Lawrence houses.
Gold is quoted at S1.30. The Herald
was probably the first paper started
in Humboldt. if not in Allen county.
1t only lived about a year. Then the
Union was started and go9s on for
ever.
Ben Ausberman is i'm town this
week paying visit to his folks, ON
his way from Washington to his
home in Evanston, Wyoming. lie
was secretary of the Republican State
Committee during the late campaign
and helped to carry Wyoming back
into the Republican column. I'm
mediately after the election he went
to the capital as the manager of the
Clark Senatorial campaign. In this
fight also he was successful, and his
share of the victory is the appoint
ment as private secretary to the new
senator. The position is not only
lucrative but an influential one, and
all of his old Allen county friends are
glad of his well earned good fortune.
Mr.. Ausherman says that women suf-
frage has proven an unqualified sue
cess in Wyoming. He went there
very much prejudiced against it but
he acknowledges his complete con-
version. He says that it cOmpels all
parties to put up their very best and
cleanest men for office, and that it
gives them clean, sober and honest
election.
There will be heavy responsibility
upon the Republican mass convention
that is called to meet at the Court
House next Thursday evening. The
nominees of that convention will
doubtless be elected to fill the city of
fees during the ensuing year, and it
is of the highest Importance that
those offices should be filled by the
very best men we have in the town.
In order that we may have an OppOr-
tunity to get the best men, the REG
ISTER desires to suggest a change in
the matter of nominating councilmen.
Instead of dividing the town into four
wards for that purpose, let all the
of the council be chosen at
large. That will give us a chance to
get the strongest and best business
men, regardless of their location. |
What difference does it make if they
should happen to be punched" lit |
tie? The town is not so large but |
that every part of it will be taken |
care of even if all the councilmen |
should come from the same block. |
The council that is elected this year |
will have something more important |
than sidewalks and street crossings |
to look after. II may have business
to transact that will affect the welfare
Of lola for years to come. And since
this is the case we ought not to let |
any artificial division lines prevent US
from securing the services of the best
men we have. This suggestion is not
made in opposition to or i'm favor of
any particular man, but solely "for
he good of the order" We trust it
will receive due consideration