The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-08
THE REGISTER RAMBLER
Continues His Round of Visits Among the
Good People of Geneva Township
and Writes
SOME INTERESTING NOTES.
AUNT BETTY EVANS

AUNT BETTY EVANS
Lives on a small farm where she
and her husband Harry settled after
the war. They were married in Eng
land, and Mr.. Evans came to America
in advance, and she, being stranger
in a strange land, had many difficult
ties in finding him. So she made a
vow that she would never again be
separated from her husband, which
she faithfully adhered to till in '76,
when he jumped into Milt NOrthrup's
cistern, to rescue the child of the lat
ter, where both were drowned. When
Mr.. Evans went away to war in the
9th Kans. Mrs. Evans went also, and
for nearly four years in camp she
cooked and washed for and nursed
1.-The boys" of whom she has an
album of pictures, and each one has a
history she never IorgeIs nor tires of
relating. She nursed lin the house
now Doctor FultOn's) "tne bright fine
lad, Ransom Brown" son of our hon.
Ored friend q. Nj. Brown, when he
died IN the hospital She thanks her
deceased friend, David Carman, for
her pension, and is kindly cared for
in her old age by
SAMUEL HOLMES
A pleasant man in middle life who,
when lad, met Mr., Evans and in
trOduced himself as the son of "a debtor,
and wanted work that he might re-
deem the pledge he had made to his
dying father that he would pay the
debt. Mr.. E. told him the debt was
forgiven, but gave him home where
he not only paid the ObligatiOn-re-
iusing any pay until he thought it
paid-but has bought good so acres
adjoining and has built up character
that commands the respect of every
one of his neighbOrs. And Aunt
Betty is reaping rich reward for her
kindness to a fatherless boy.
WIN. DENNY
Has lived on farm, near Geneva,
most of the time Tor 80 years and has
tried farming in nearly all of its
phases and adds his testimony that
a man can make a success of farming
if stock is kept TO consume the crop.
He and Mrs. Denny celebrated their
golden wedding in '95 and have raised
a family of eleven children all reach
ing maturity and are hOnored citizens
here and elsewhere.
He was a lieutenant in defence of
Kansas against Prices raid and says
if Mckinley could understand how
scared he was while on picket his
prospects for pension would be
made better.
HARVEY H. CARMAN
Succeeds his farther, ID, CsTman,
since the latter's death in April and
having spent his life ON the farm with
his father in various localities fully
understands the plans he made sue
cessful and is following them out in
his own management. He was found
building a model shed as the evening
shades closed our days rambles.
His sister conducts the household.
while MIS-. CaTman is gone on visit
south for the winter. Harvey hand
les fine lot of grade short horn cattle
and feeds out all grain grown and
does most of his own work and is one
of the farmers grown up here and has
faith in farming as it is. He thinks
that varied crops and stock to con-
sumo the crop will bring good re-
turns Just across the road lives
ED. G. OSBORNE
who came here a boy in '66 and with
his father and brothers stood up for
Kansas during the invasion of the
dry, the hot and the HOppers in IA,
the corn crop up and headed off the