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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12

The article in Tuesdays REGISTER
in regard to the changes that would
he made in our mode of government
by organizing lola as city of the
second class was written hastily and
did not give quite all the points
of interest that should nave been
mentioned.
In the first place the old law has
been modified by statute passed by
the last legislature so that the elect
i've officers of city of the second
class are as follows: Mayor, police
Judge, city treasurer, and treasurer
of the board of education. together
with councilmen, members of the
BOARD of education, justice of the
peace, constables, city marshal, city
clerk, and city street commissioner.
In addition to these officers the mayor
shall appoint, by and with the con-
sent of the council city attorney,
and city assessor and he may appoint
city engineer, an assistant marshal
and such policemen and other officers
as may be required. All appointed
officers hold their places for one year
only.
No member of the board of educa-
tiOn shall be a member of the council,
nor shall any member of the council
/ be a member Of the board of educa-
ton, and no person shall hold the
office of police judge and justice of the
peace at the same time.
The levy OF all city taxes of the
current year for general purposes, eX-
elusive of school taxes, shall at nc
time exceed four per cent. of the tax
able property of the city as shown by
the assessment books of the proceed
ing year.
The council is required to have
published in March, June, Septem'
Der and December of each year, full
and detailed statement of the re-
ceipts, expenditures and Indebtedness
of the city for the quarter ending or
the 18th of said months respectively
The city council may impose pol
tax not exceeding one dollar on all
able bodied males between the ages
of p and 50 years.
The city council NAV provide fol
the weighing and inspection OF hay
grain aud coal and the measuring o
wood and fuel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
A SECOND CLASS CITY.
Some Of the Differences in the City Gov
eminent Soon to Be Made.
ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
VIII the CouncIlmen and Members OF the
Board of Education Receive AS
saIaries-POwer of the
Council the same.

The differences in the government
of a city of the second and third
classes are very slight, but we print
the following laws relating to the
government of second class city,
hoping it may prove of interest to
seme of our readers.
The mayor is required to call a
meeting of the council within fifteen
days after the governors proclama-
ton, TO divide the city into wards,
prepare books for registration and
call special election within from
sixty to ninety days. Atthis election
new officers throughout are elected.
This election will probably occur
sometime i'm January.
On the first Tuesday In April OF
odd numbered years, an election is
held and mayor, councbmen, police
Judge, city treasurer. school board,
justices of the peace and cOnstsbles
are elected. Half the council and
board of education are elected for two
years aud one-half for one year, when
others are elected.
Two councilmen and two members
of the board of education are elected
from each ward. The law says that
none of these shall receive more than
one dollar year salary, and permits
him to receive less.
The powers of the council are about
the same as now, but they may exer-
else some of the powers which have
hitherto been unused.
The statutes allow city to collect
a license tax from most any kind of a
business and gives list which begins
with a corn doctor and ends with a
newspaper. There is certainly a
range of power wide enough to suit
any despot.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
PUBLIC SALES.

Chas. II. Smith will sell at his farm
Al miles northwest of lola at 10 o.
clock a. m. on Thursday, November,
10th, 1897. The following property.
l span mules, span horses, l span
mares, milk cows, / 3-year-old heif-
er, 3 yearling heifers, 2 steer calves, /
heifer calf, % head of shosts, 4 brood
sows with pigs at side, 2 brood sows.
Farm implements including steam
threshing outfit, l self binder, l now
or. rake, corn planter, . cultiva-
tors, . stirring plows, . harroWs, :
wagons, about % tons of clover hay
and numerous other things.
At the Biddison place, two miles
east of LOLA, ON Tuesday, Nov, 3, w.
J. Bea bout, agent, will sell buggiesr
wagons, harness, farm implements
and household furniture. Strickland
auctioneer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12

ushered into another room and seated
while pretty girls in dainty gowns
waited upon them with delicate re-
freshments in such variety and pro-
fusion that an epicure would have
been compelled to hold his peace.
The young ladies who assisted in this
feature of the occasion were: Misses
Adah Wright, Bula Reimert, joan
ma Dudley, Medora Richards, Grace
Acers, Clara Bowlus, Clara FOust,
Clifford Mitchell, Maude Ninrow,
Jennie Mcneil, Nellie COlbOrn, Grace
Brewster, blanche Richards, Grace
Beck. Ella Ewart, Sadie Reimert and
Susie Golf.
Upon leaving the tables the guests
returned tG the drawing rooms and
conversation was resumed. Miss Bula
Reimert presided at the piano and
the soft strains of the music waited
pleasantly through the rooms.
About half past ten o'clock people
began to remember that another day
was to be faced and one by one they
started home. And it was not per-
functory tribute they paid TO the
hostesses when they said they had
enjoyed themselves. 1t was sincere,
and host and guest parted with good
will and kind regard for each other.
1t was the largest social gathering in
the history of the city and was the
beginning of many firm friendships
which will endure life time.
We publish below list as complete
as possible of those who were invited.
Many whom the ladies would have
gladly welcomed were unasked only
because there were limits to their
power Of accommodation, not to their
hospitality.
Those invited were Messrs. and Mes
danes Morgan, II l. McNiel, w III Me-
Clure. Miller, Mrs Mounser, Mitchell,
Nash, Nelson, Lutte, Del, Alt and Mrs
LII Northrup, Patterson, Pulliam,
Pepper, Palmer, Parkinson, Mrs Ran
dol h Ritter, Stevenson, Slower, Sal
lie, Squier, Spencer, Sleeper, Mrs
II Scott, c F Scott, Frank Smith,
Decker, Servey, Taylor, Smeltzer,
Judge smith, Vezie, John Vannuys,
Wishard, Wright, Young, Whiteside,
VIM Turner, Ruble, F } Rutledge,
Rutledge, Swigart, Pickell, Parks,
Minor, Monfort, McClain. Munger,
Mason, w X Jones, J E Jones, Mrs
w c Jones, Fitzgerald, Potter, J
! Culbertson, PancOsst, Mrs Barnes,
Shaffer, Flemming, Faust, Oscar ami
John FOust, Apple, Ausherman, Tom
Anderson, w @ Allison. w l. ALL
son, Asphalt, Sam LanyOn, Josiah
Lanyon, Col Lanyon, Dee Lanyon,
Robert LanyOn, A GERS, Beatty, Ben
nett. Bouls0n, Bedell, BOstwick, w
/ G RarteIs, w b CulbertsOn, Chas
tain. Christy, Campbell, Cunning
ham, Mrs Cooper, COlburn, w A
/ COwan, = J Cowan, ClaibOrn, COzad
/ Ed Davis, VIM Davis. DeClute, Dun
/ lap, Dale. w Duncan, Delaplaine
Dudley, H A Ewing, Edgar, Ewart
Emerson, w J Evans, Rillbe, Frazer
Funk, Fry, FOrsythe, Frances, Cos
horn, Greene, Golf, Horville, Hart.
man, Hendricks, H l. Henderson, J
E Henderson, Rowland. H Hankins
Hobart, Ireland, Jennings, Krueter
Kruger. Klaumann, Mira Sofge, Mrs
Jas. McNutt. Mr.. aud Mrs. Couder
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Null and Mrs
Corey.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
Notice of Final Settle
ment.

First published Oct %. 1871
STATE OF KANSAS
ALLFS COUNTY
Ia the Probate Court of said county.
In the matter of the estate Of Eliza A Pear
son. deceased.
Creditors and all other persons Interested IN
u the aforesaid estate are hereby notified that
shall apply to the Probate Court in and for said
County. sitting at the Court House, in lola
County of Allen, State of Kansas, on the Sth
day of November. A. D. 1897 for full and final
settlement of said estate. L. B. PEARSON,
Executor Of the estate Of Eliza A. Pearson,
deceased t4S-5D
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
GAVE eREAT RELIEF.

after trying many different pre-
scriptions for dyspepsia without ben
eft was advised to take Hoods
Ssrsaparilla. The first bottle gave
me great relief and continued until
was cured. 1 believe Hoods Sar-
saparilIa to be one of the best of med
icines for dyspepsia" MRS. SARAH
CABLE, Durachen, Kansas.
Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick head
ache. indigestion, billiOusness. AL
druggists. 25c.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS.

Many of your friends, or people
whom you know of have contracted
consumption. pneumonia or other IA
tai diseases by neglect of a simple
cold or cough. FOley's Honey and
Tar, a safe, sure and pleasant cough
medicine, would have saved them.
1t il guaranteed. Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12

Mary MeQuaker, plaintiff
Thomas Greenfield, E. A.
Barber and Geo. C. Barber
defendants.
By virtue of an order of sale issued by the
Clerk of the Seventh Judicial District Court. in
and for Allen county, State of Kansas. in the
above entitled cause, and to me directed and
delivered, win on
at [ O'Clock D. m. of said day, at the front door
of the court house in the city of lola Allen
county, Kansas offer for sale and sell to the
highest bidder for cash in hand. the following
described real estate, tO-wiE Commencing AZ
the northwest corner of the northeast = OF the
southwest 4 of section 10. township No 70,
south of range No. Is, east, thence east one and
4S-1OO chains to the west side of K limits OF l.
L & thence south along K limits six
teen chains to corner stone in road from Wnlch
the west part of the second bent of r r Bridge
bears north fifty mine 5gl degrees seventy three
ca links thence west six t6I and lO-lOO chains
variation ten degrees and thirty seconds, corner
in middle of Coal Greek inaccessible, meander
corner limestone, fourteen 90 BY six (6) by two
p one chain north dry stump ll6 inl in Diane
ter east sixteen links north from true corner 10
chains limestone isl by l12l by Isl thence east
four and 9S-10O chains to place OF beginning,
containing ten acres situate in Allen county,
Kansas.
said lands and tenements will be sold without
appraisement to satisfy said order of sale.
C. G. AUsHERMAN.
Sheriff of Allen County. Kansas
Sheriff-s Office lola Kansas. Oct. %. 1897.
C. A Smart attorney for plaintiff
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
The
Semi-WeekIy
Capital.

The SEMI-WEEKLY CAPITAL Is
the great farm and family newspaper
of Kansas 1t is published every
Tuesday and Friday, and each issue
contains all the news of Kansas and
the world up to the hour of going to
press, for the cost of an ordinary
weekly paper. The average Kansas
farmer gets his mail twice q week.
By subscribing for the Semi Weekly
Capital he receives a fresh Capital
each time, giving him in condensed
yet complete form the history of the
worlds doings during the preceding
three days. THE SEMI WEEKLY CAP
ITAL, besides being a newspaper, is
twiee-a-week magazine of the highest
class, filled with matter interesting TO
every member of the family. Serial
and short stories, sketches, CORES
pondence, sermons, anecdotes, humOr,
special matter for the women and for
the boys and girla, all find q place in
the columns of the SEMI-WEEKLY
CAPITAL.
THE REGISTER hiss made arrange
ments with the publishers whereby it
can offer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
Publication Notice.
First published October %, 1917
STATE OF Kansas sc

ALLEN COUNTY
Pearl Grace Cotton, Plaintiff, !
VS..
James R. Cotton, Defendant
said defendant James r. Cotton will take
notice that he has been sued in the above
named Court for a divorce upon the ground of
extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty and
must answer the petition filed therein by said
plaintiff on or before the 14th day of December,
A. D. 1897, or said petition will be taken as true,
and Judgment for plaintiff in said action grant
ing her a divorce from defendant James Z.
Cotton and restoring her to her maiden name,
Pearl G. McClaren will be rendered accordingly
IsEALI Attest n. NJ. MILLER,
oscar Foust < Son, Clerk of said Court.
Attorneys for plaintiff. T4S-5Ol
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
Publication Notice.

First published oct ., 1917
STATE OF KANSAS,
ALLEN COUNTY.
In the District Court for said county.
Frank D. Mills and DR.. g.
B. Mcclellan, plaintiffs,
vs. mo. 1890.
Dr. G.. 2. Mcclellan, defend
ant
Said defendant DR.. G. B. Mcclellan viii take
notice that he has been sued in the above
named Court upon an account for services as
an actor upon which plaintiffs claim Judgment
for sec 90 and have attached personal property
of defendant in said action, and asks that an
order direct the sale of same and the proceeds
to apply on said judgment and costs OF action
and must answer the petition hled therein oy
December A D., 1897, or said petition will DC
taken as true and Judgment for plaintiff in said
action for the sum of $50 90 and order directing
the sale of attached property in the attachment
therein granted, will be rendered accordingly.
(sEAL- AtesC d. MtL6Es,
OSCAR FoUsT & Son. Attorneys for PHI. $3.50
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
A CASE OF KIDNEY DISEASE GIVEN UP
BY -FOUR DOCTORS.
Beaver Dam

Beaver Dam, ".
NY daughter, after being treated
by four doctors and given up for lost,
a neigh Dor recommended FOley's Kid
ney Cure. To-day she is able to walk
several miles without fatigue. l feel
we would have lost her if it was not
for your medicine. Respectfully,
Evans Bros. MRS. ]. NJ. BAILEY.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
MODEL GROCERY.
m SAY PEOPLES

Remember we have in our employ
a Practical Upholster and an ex-
perienced Carpet man that has fol-
lowed this business for years. Give
US a call in this line. CULBERTsON
& Son,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
The News of Kansas
and the WOrld-

Twice each week, while it is fresh
and interesting, can be obtained
for the cost of an ordinary weekly
paper by reading
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12

All agents in this county for
Chicago or Eastern Tailoring Houses,
please address at once The Chicago
TaiIors' Association, 242-24S Adams
ST., Chicago, ILL.,, and by return mail
you will receive a proposition guar
anteeing 81 100000 year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
A GOOD CHEAP FARM WAGON.

In order to introduce their low metal wheels
nj have placed upon the market farmers
handy wagon, sold at the low price OF $685.;
The bed Of wagon is only . inches high, lifted
with "A and 30-inch wheels, with 4-1neh tires,
either straight or staggered spokes- This wag-
on is made of best material throughout and nut
ly guaranteed for one year. Catalogue giving
full description win be mailed upon application
to the manufacturers, who also furnish metal
wheels at low prices made any size and width
OF tire to fit any axle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
4 NEW DEPARTURE.
As We Have Already Briefly Announced
We Have Decided to add
FRESH M EATS

As well as cured meats of all
kinds to our stock. The ar
rangements are all completed
and We are now prepared to
give our customers the adj
vantages of a first class meat
market. Orders by tele-
phone (No. y will be prompt
ly filled and free delivery
made to any part of the city.
Brigham & Munger
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-12
The Semi-Weekly Capital
AND
The lola Register
For the very low price of 500 year.
Address, THE REGISTER,
lola, KANSAS.
SheriFs Sale.

First published q Oct 1871
State of Kansas. Allen county, IS.
In the District Court Seventh Judicial District.
Sitting in and for Allen county. State OF KAN
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24

The TACT OF ARKANSAS WOMAN.
"Who is that horrid whisky bloat? ?"
asked a lady of an acquaintance,
while they stood viewing the guests at
a fashionable reception.
(which one?
"That one with the red mustache
and awful nose. Don't you see ?"
"He's my husband"
"Oh," laughed the lady, ~ see that
you are not sensitive, although she
saw vengeance in the eyes of the in
suited lady. "Several nights ago a
friend made a similar remark about
nv husband and I became very angry
1 declared it would anger any woman,
but my friend said that you, having
the best husband in the world, would
not care, and I wagered a pair Of
gloves that you would; but you see
that 1 have lost. I hear that your
husband is spoken of as an available
candidate for governor. How clever
he must be-"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24

FRANKNEss ON BOTH S1DEs.-"I'm
a plain spoken man." said Ebenezer
Weatherwax to Miss Samantha Clover
seed, "and so I can't go into rhapso.
dies about love and affection like some
men can; but I know what l want,
and I know that I could give you a
good home, if so be that you could
take ur with my offer of marriage.
What do you say, Samantha ?"
Now Samantha did not look with
favor upon Ebenezer, and she would
not marry him if he were the last man
on earth, but Ebenezer did not know
that. She waited patiently until he
was through, and then replied:
"You say you are plain spoken
man, Mr.. Weatherwax?"
ayes, that's what I am, and every
body knows it,
"Yes it wasn't necessary for you to
say you are plain spoken, any more
than it is necessary to say that you
are plain looking"
This remark brought the interview
to an end, for Ebenezer Weatherwax
put on his hat and went away without
saying another word, and as angry as
a man could we'll be.
Samantha was plain spoken herself,
but Ebenezer did not appear to appre-
ciate that quality in any one else but
himself.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24

SAD FATE OF A GREEDY SHARK
Special agents of the United States
treasury travel in many states, and see
many strange things. They hear
strange stories, too. In the big custom
house building every day from 9 o'clock
until 4 there sits man who is very
treasure mine of anecdotes. He is so
modest, though, that he won't allow
bis name to be used in connection with
this particular story.
ut was off Cedar Keys" said he.
"I had been shark fishing, and was
talking of sharks to an old-time sponge
fisher, when he told me that he had
found, some 20 miles off the Keys, the
largest shark it had ever been his for
tune to see, floating belly upward,
starved to death. why, the shark
was as thin as POKER said the sponge
fisher; 'and I determined to find out
what allied him. pulled him aboard
and cut him open. There, in his stom-
ach, open end toward the head, was
half of a barrel which had contained
mess pork. The half barrel had evil
dently been thrown overheard from
some vessel, and the shark had gob-
bled it up as it hit the water, without
looking to see what it was. 1t was
too bad that he swallowed it butt end
first, ior whatever he ate after that
went into the barrel, and did the shark
no good. So he just starved"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24

BICYCLING AND THE HEART.-In
bicycling the heart is severely taxed,
and often beats 120 pulsations per
minute while riding. This organ can
not endure for a long time without
overstrain, such strain. DIR. Her.
schell, in the London Lancet, says:
"The chief danger in cycling lies in
the fact that a cyclist takes much
more exercise than he is aware of or
than he intends to, and is frequently
tempted to overtax his powers. This
cvertaxing of strength may accom-
pany efforts to reach given point as
laid down in plans for the day, or is
made necessary by certain exigencies.
"More frequently, however, the ex-
ira exertion is put forth in hill-climb-
ing. In this latter case the heart has
already as much strain put upon it as
it can stand with impunity; but a
glance shows the rider that but a few
more turns of the wheel will bring
him on the top, and he redoubles his
exertions, and the mischief is done.
In club runs, again, while the start is
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24
Aumprous 9epartment.

PROVED IT ON HIM.-A candidate
in a western state tells the following
story. He said that while engaged in
a canvass, he was approached by a
portly, substantial-looking man who
said:
~ wish to give you piece of ad-
vice. Never deuy anything. Some
time ago, ran for Office in this section
of the country, and resolved to keep
quiet, whatever was said about me
before the election, which was to take
place in about a month. The first
week they accused me of being horse
thief, but paid no attention to it.
The second week, they asserted that l
had been the treasurer of trust COM
pany, and ran away with the funds,
and I received this in silence. The
third week they said I had induced my
right hand neighbor to'make over his
property to me temporarily, and then
refused to give it up, and still l
made no defense. The fourth week,
thew came forward with statement
that had stolen the chickens OF my
left hand neighbr, worthy old lady,
and sent her to an insane asylum.
This made me indignant, I denied it in
public, and I'll be darned if they didn't
90 to work and prove it on me-"
There is a moral contained IN this
story, which some of our political can
dates might lay to heart.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24

ORIGIN OF THE TERM "YANKEE. -
1t is generally supposed that this term
originated shortly after the landing OF
the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Rock
in America, about 1920. The Friendly
Indians asked them of what people
they were, to which query they replied
"English." But the red man could
not twist his tongue around that word,
and "Yangeese" and "Yangkies" was
as near as he could get to it.
But there are several other explana-
tions. 1t is said that farmer of
Cambridge, New England, named
Jonathan Hastings, in 1713, used the
word as synonym of excellence. "It
is Yankee good" or as good as if
English made; and the people of the
other colonies jocosely called the New
Englanders Jonathan Yankees" and
sometimes shortened the phrase either
into Jonathan or into Yankee. The
first public use of the term was in
1725, when the sale of the effects of a
gentleman at Morpeth was advertised,
and these included zone Negro, named
Yankee"
It is curious that Jameson, in his
"Scottish Dictionary" has the word
"Yankie," which he defines thus: "a
sharp, clever woman, at the same time
including an idea of forwardness. d"
In connection with the term "Yankee
Doodle" the origin has been traced to
the Persian phrase, "Yankidoomiah, "
or inhabitants of the New World.