The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-26
w. II. RICKETTS,, Manager.

The town cows must have passed
the news around that there was good
pasture and shade in front of our
house, as there were eighty there one
afternoon last week. Mr.. Shaffer says
that he stood in his yard the other
day and counted tlCO hundred and
fifty.
All members Order Select Friends
are requested to be present at the
hall on July End at p. m. as business
ofimportance will come before the
lodge, and installation of officers.
Ice cream and cake will be abundant
and general good time is expected.
By order Of committee.
We are a box of fine raspberries
ahead on the cow question anyway.
They were brought around by eur
good friend, John Chstfield, who
begged US to accept them az q token
Of his appreciation of the protest We
had made against the practice of let
ting the COWS run at large.
Mrs. G. d. Miller, and daughter of
Pittsburg, were in this city the latter
part of last week and the first part of
this visiting the family of II. NJ. Mil
Ter. Mrs. Miller went to Webb City,
Mo-, Monday where her husband has
purchased large hotel. Miss Maud
will remain in lola some time.
The June number of the Allen
County Investor will be out next
week. There was such a demand for
the first issue of the paper that this
edition will be nearly twice as large
and will contain six pages instead Of
four. n. F. Acers is helping Mr..
BOstwick in the editorial work.
J. NJ. Wilmington and Ed. Full
wider were down from Usage Mon
day. Mr.. Wilmington began his
long career of political heresy by vot-
ing for Peter Cooper and he has been
slashipg around in the wilderness
ever since. But he declares he is for
Mckinley this year. He says the
REGISTER has brought him around
to it.
Miss Grace Beck came home We'd
nesday from her years study of mu-
sic in Boston and will spend the va
cation here. Everybody is glad to
see her and will be still more glad to
hear her at the piano, of which she is
already a master. Mics Orena Traf-
ford, a Boston friend, came with her
and will be her guest during the
summer.
Mr.. Ira o. DeLmsn, Of Charleston,
Illinois, who has been in this county
on business, called at the REGISTER
Office Wednesday. Mr.. Denman was
formerly teacher in this county and
has many friends here who will be
glad TO know that he has been doing
well and expects to finish his course
next year in the Hahnneman Medical
College at Chicago.
Mr.. Wni. Keith came in Monday
from Portland, Oregon, where he has
been living for the past two years
with his daughter, and will visit rela-
tives here and in Missouri. Mr..
Keith is one of the first settlers of AL
len county, coming here in 1856, and
was for long time one Of the fore
most business men of lola. His old
friends are glad to see him.
We have just received from the mu-
sic publishing house of The s. Brain
ards Sons Co., Isl Wabash Ave, Chi
cago, a copy of the True Blue Re-
publican Campaign Song Book" for
the campaign of 1896. The book con-
tains solos, duets, mixed and male
quartetts, and is especially arranged
for campaign clubs. 1t is not cheap
word edition, and is ssld for the re-
markedly low price of 10 cents or 81
per dozen postpaid.
Robert Cook tells US he has letters
from Michigan friends saying that
the State is being devastated by mir
lads of grasshoppers. There seems to
be some few out in Western Kansas
also as we see by one of our exchaDg-
es that in two hours Henry Crow Of
Garden City caught fifteen bushels of
grasshoppers in an alfalfa patch of
seven acres. He kept them in sacks
all night and in the morning fed them
to his hogs. He has invented q ma