The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-02-26

ten blue rocks for fun and practice.
The annual election of officers was
then held, resulting in the reelection
of all the old officers.
Why is 1t that so many men seem
to be ashamed to be seen carrying a
baby? Hardly a day passes but one
may meet here on the streets man
and his wife and child, the man walk
ing at ease and with empty hands,
while the wife, with bent back and
tired face, is carrying the heavy child.
And many and many time we have
seen them go up long stairways in
this fashion, the man striding on
ahead and the woman with her babe
toiIing painfully after. And we
always felt like turning the man over
to the police. A man who lets his
wife carry the baby single step on
the streets when he is with her. un-
less he himself is carrying heavier
burden or the child needs the COM
forting of its mother, ought to be
ashamed of himself. 1t wouldn't
take much to make us print the
names of some Of them just to teach
them a lesson. Some of these days
we are going to write a book on 1.-The
Way Some Mean Men Treat Sheir
Wives,n and 1t will be full of names
aud photographs and will be mighty
interesting reading.
1t is lots of trouble to keep up the
reputation of being the finest enter
tanners in town. And if COlumbine
Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, don't
want to get into that kind of trouble
they would better not give many
more such entertainments as that
they furnished their friends at Ma
sonic Hall Monday evening. The
hall was beautifully decorated with
flags and things, to begin with, and
then the members were much more
beautifully adorned with flowers and
things, aud then they met their
guests at the door and really seemed
glad to see them, which counts for
more than a good many think it does.
When everybody had arrived the
Mandolin Club played and Miss Mel
lie Smeltzer sang, and Mrs. Shaffer
gave recitation and Little Stella
Rotermund, (whO is musical prod
igy), sang and then sang again, and
the Mandolin Club played some more,
and then every body had sandwich
and a dOughnut and a cup of coffee
and good time. A hundred people
or more are indebted to the ladies of
the Columbine ;Or one of the pleasant
est social events of the winter.
r. J. Kelly, a farmer of Geneva
township, who protested conversion
to Republication last fall and thus
established good credit aud reputa-
ton. decamped for parts unknown
last week, leaving large number of
creditors to mourn his sad and I'M
timely departure. 1t is discovered
now that be had been borrowing right
and left for the past three months,
mortgagiDg everything he had, and
perhaps some things he did not have,
several times over, until the total f
his accumulated obligations amount
ed to between two and three tbOus-
and dollars. 1t is understood that
the Fisher Estate, of Humboldt, al d
George Fry, George BOwlus and +.
+. Smith are the heaviest victims of
misplaced confidence. His wife was
sick in bed when he went away, and
she says that his only farewell was
the gruff declaration that he was
going to leave and she would never
see him any more. She has taken
her children and gone to her father in
Missouri. 1t is generally thought
that Kelley has gone to Oklahoma.
p. ). Well bet forty cents that he
lied when he said he voted the Re-
publican ticket!