The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-13

stephens were married on "Wednesday
evening March IL 1896, at the home
of the brides paren by Rev. W. F.
King. Both Young people have lived
in IOia nearly all their lives and they
have ms"y friends who will join with
the REGISTER in wishing them long
life and happiness.
A bout tweni y-five or thirty of the
friends of ID. Ewart made last Tues
day evening, his Sud birthday, the
occasion for an una:nounced visit
which was a very pleasant one to all
Concerned. here was nobody but
"oid folks" there, and they didn't do
thing, as the boys say, but turn
themselves loose and have an old
fashioned g OOd time.
Major E. w. Virgins, of Wichita,
was here the first OF the week solicit
ing patronage for a map of Allen
county, that he proposes to make.
The last map of the county is Is years
old and a new one is so much needed
that Maj Virgins had no difficulty
in securing advertisers and subscri-
bers. He expects to have the maps
ready for distribution in about ninety
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Mcdowell, of
in ri
latter part of last week and the first
of this visiting friends and relatives.
They are both formerly of lola folks
and have many friends who were de-
lighted to see them. Tom thinks lola
is mighty good town and although
he has been away good many years
he is glad to come back. They re-
turned to their home Tuesday MORN
ing.
Mr.. J. II. Rowland, of Carlyle,
brought in So dozen of eggs last Satur-
day, the product from his 200 hens for
one week. He says that 133 dozen eggs
is the smallest number he has taken
to market any week this winter and
counts that he gets four times as much
profit out of the corn he feeds his hens
as that fed to his hogs or cattle. Mr..
Rowland says also that since the
tariff was taken off of eggs, the price
In this market has averaged two cents
dozen less than during the time
when the tariff was on.
The county commissioners held
meeting last Tuesday at which they
designated Northrups Bank as the
county repository, and entered into
contract whereby the bank is to pay
8 per cent interest on the lowest daily
balance shown during the year. Con-
sidering the fact that the commission
ers are required by law to deposit the
county funds in some bank at the
county seat, and that the Bank of
Allen County does not care to handle
the funds, the terms made with Nor
thrup's Bank are very favorable. as it
will bring the county in the neigh
borhood of 5000 a year.
The following order of the board of
county commissioners OF Anderson
county was made on January Is, 1895.
sit is hereby ordered by the board of
county commissioners that they will
not accept the books of any trustee
until he subscribes to an oath certify
ing that he has sworn or affirmed
every person he has assessed in the
form prescribed by law, the supreme
court having decided that an oath is
not an oath unless the right hand be
uplifted. Also that the trustee must
keep an itemized account of his time
and present in such form when he
presents his bill for making the
assessment
Quite number of our young peo-
pie attended an entertainment and
supper at Silver Leaf school house
Tuesday evening. Miss Maude Esse
is teaching the school and the enter
tainment spoke volumes for Miss
Maude's ability as teacher. The
program consisted of music and reci-
tations, after which coffee and cake
were served. A small fee was charg-
ed for admission and refreshments,
the proceeds of which will be used in
purchasing a new bell for the school.
We are glad to note that Miss Esse
is giving most excellent satisfaction
as teacher and will teach the spring
term.
Rev. ]. ?. Wright was so much in
terested in the report made by Mr..
Barth about the results of soaking
seed corn in coal oil that be has made
experiments in a similar way with a
number of other grains. He finds
that corn sprouts all right if not left
in the oil more than "a hours. Oats
soaked u hours sprouted fairly well,