The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-12

are III 1OAd wiz
| have Worried along for years with a
small patronage, because they have
! not advertised their business. II
they had told the people what they
had through the columns of this pa
per. and kept on telling them, they
might have as large and prosperous
a business now as those merchants
who have been doing the advertising.
The REGISTER announced some time
ago that Mr.. Joseph Culbertson, of
Moran, had bought Chas. Otten's res
idenee. He did come pretty near
) buying it, but he finally concluded he
wanted more room, and bought the
Arnett house at the west end of West
street. He will move in about the
first of March and after making some
repairs to the house will open board
ing house. He paid $1,000 for the
place.
William Dingman will sell his per-
sOnal property at public auction at
his farm west of the river next Tues
day, Feb. Is, consisting of four horses.
five mules, seventeen head of cattle,
including cows, steers, heifers and
cal yes, all his farm implements, in
Guiding wagon, buggy, harness, cider
press, etc., and about 500 bushels o.
corn in crib. For terms and partic-
ulars see bills from this office. EwRrt
auctIoneer.
Miss Anna Scott, of Eldora, Ia,
came home last week to remain two
or three weeks the guest of her father
and mother, Mr.. aud Mrs. ID. H. Scott.
She is a teacher in the state school
and has been unwell for some time,
so she came to Kansas to recuperate.
Miss May Scott went to Eldora Tues
day and will take her sisters place as
teacher. Mr.. Willetts, of Elk Falls,
, will run Miss ScOtt's photograph gal
, lery during her absence.
/, Under the inspiration of good eX-
ample the Gun Club did little better
shooting last Friday, the highest
score being Z, at which Louis COtfield
aud C.. f. Scott tied. COffield offered
to set up the oysters all around if he
won the medal, and so we let him
win the shOOt-Of by one bird enough
to encourage him, but too little TO
make him arrogant. The following
is the score: Heilman 4. Horton 0,
r Porter 4. COffield Z, Brigham 2, Gard
J ner 2, Scott Z, Bennett 0, Haney 2.
The Sedan Times says Chautauqua
county has man by the name OF
ClOyd, who makes practice OF SOW
ing his wheat field with salt. He
has a new variety of wheat which he
calls the Kentucky May not our Lit
tie May, but big grain and chaff,
smooth head wheat that ripens in
May, and which he expects to yield
close to forty bushels an acre. He
got the seed from his old home in
Kentucky and raised enough of it last
| year so that he has fifty bushels of it
sOwed.
The trOuser-stretchers man who
was in town Tuesday said he had
been in all but fourteen of the cOun-
ties OF Kansas during the past year,
and that lola was the Invest town he
had struck in all that round. He
says it is the most talked about too.
Everywhere he goes he hears people
talking about it and the great pros
poets there are in store for it. Dear,
dear, if things were only as they were
ten years ago, if Kansas had the best
reputation of any state in the Union,
which she then had, and people were
tumbling over each other to invest
money here, how lola would boom
next spring! Rut she is all right any
how. Wait and see.
The trsmps are working q new
racket now. They come to house,
usually in the north part of town, and
say that they have got work at the
smelter, but cannot begin for q day or
two and want to engage board. The
unsuspecting housewife takes them
in, gives them the spare bed and puts
mince pie on'the table,-and the next
day Mr.. Hobo wanders on to find new
victims. One of them played it on
Mrs. J. Gard that way last week, and
when he disappeared set of silver
spoons came up missing. The next
day the tramp was drunk. He had
evidently made trade. There was
no evidence to hold him, though, and
all the officers could do was to tell
him to move on.
They say that J. s. Lehman, the
Humboldt POpulist who was appoint
al Guporinfardapt of CapftOI huiId