The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-07

Senator Baker went from here to
Mound City, where he was billed for
speech on Wednesday. He was the
guest of the editor of the REGIS TER
during his stay in lola.
7. J. and Harry McElheny, two
young men of LogahspOrt, Ind, came
out this week for a visit with their
grandfather. Mr.. j. NJ. Mason, and
other relatives Harry, the younger,
will probably spend the winter with
his uncle, Mr. Swigart, of Carlyle.
An old trunk with a peculiar odor
created quite an excitement at the
depot Tuesday night. 1t came from
Blue Mound and went to Humboldt.
Some how the story got started that
it contained corpse and all the ex-
citable men in town went to the depot
to see-an old trunk and smell the
fumes of some kind of medicine.
A former resident of lola, who after
taking the REGISTER for three or four
year after leaving here, concluded he
could do without it, has changed his
mind and writes as follows:
, l still miss the REGISTER and should like
to have il sent here again. think person
needs something like the REGISTER to
brace him up in times like the present
when he is inclined 10 ''waver in the faith
d. account of all the free silver talk. l al
ways could swear by the old Republican
principles better when the paper was
around. " p"
1t does one good to see the interest taken
in base ball by the lola REGISTER mis-
taken idea has prevailed around these dig
gings that it did not indulge in such levi
ties but last weeks issue is bound to dis
pei all misgivings. Tally one for the REG
IsTER!- Bronson Pilot
Base ball Ievity! Why bless
your soul, it has been the chief bust
ness of life over here at lola all sum-
mer. And as for the REGISTER
why we have to lock the doors and
windows whenever there is a game in
town, to keep the whole gang from
boiling.
The question of church utilization
having been unwisely raised in rela-
ton to our city schools, it may be of
interest to state that, aside from the
Superintendent, who is a Presby-
terian, there are in the teaching force
four Presbyterians, four MethOdists,
and three Baptists. This is the first
year in the history of lola when an
item of this kind would have been
read with any interest whatever, and
we trust it will be the last 1t will
be sorry day for the schools of leila
when the dominating factor in the
choice of the superintendent or of any
teaches is his or her church utilization.
And it will be great deal sorrier
day for the church which attempts to
introduce this factor.
Our base ball boys went to Neosho
Falls last Friday intending to remain
over Saturday and play two games,
but they were so shabbily treated
that they came home Friday evening
and declined to engage in another
game with the NeoshO Falls nine.
Our boys say that the Neosho Falls
boys not only paid them no courtesies
whatever, but that they put in an
umpire who was reported to have said
before the game began that lola
should not have a run if he could |
help it, and that they permitted and
to degree encouraged the hOodlums
to call our boys vile names, to crowd
into the diamond and to go clear be-
yond the bounds offairness or decency |
in their efforts to "rattle" the,players.
In spite of all this unfairness, how
ever, our nine won by the score of Is
to r. OF course this is but one side |
of the story, but it would seem to be
pretty near the truth from the fact
that comittee of the business men of
Neosho Falls followed our boys on
their way home, overtaking them at
Piqua. and apologized for the treat
ment they had received and promis-
ing them they should have nothing to
complain of if they would return
and play the second game. 1t is un-
fortunate that anything of this kind
should have occurred, but all the
testimony we have been able TO gather
goes to show that our boys did right
in declining to play again with
Neosho Falls.