The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-07

Bent Murdoch says that his town,
tldorado, has the 'mulligrubs. y
| few more wholesome truths like that
and Bent will become broke.
Speaking of the price of calve, the
Parsons sun says that an offer OF 81
was made for calf as soon as it got
It's eyes opened and was refused.
When The fusion convention met at
| Kincaid the local butcher bought
special bill of fresh meat for the pack
ers agent so that calamity should have
no cause TO beef.
A Sedgwick farmer has refused SD
600 for lj2 acres. Bent MurdOck says
! Arkansas bottoms are selling for 500
right along and that Butler county
land is worth more.
81 tons of coal in the basement of
Mulvane's school house were discov-
cred on fire recently and promptly ex-
! tiugui shed. Probably there is another
boy who wanted his vacation extend
! ed.
In her petition for divorce a Par
sons woman declares that her husband
has been more than halfdruuk for L.
! years" Their sea Of matrimony has
/ evidently been composed largely of
| booze.
1t was probably shirt waist man
/ preparing to toy himself out properly
who entered Pretcn house and stole
a corset. He wac pursued by the dogs
and the article brought back by them
when he dropped it.
Wichita wickedly but gleefully an
nounceS that two men will fight there
soon, one of whom has exchanged
thumps with Sharkey. The Peerless
Princess, like other nabobs. had evil
IDENTIFY some rotten ancestors.
The little Salina boy disappear
ed after narrowly escaping death in a
runaway probably had his face made
mp to meet the angels and knew when
he found himself back ON earth that
his parents wouldn't know him.
When a minstrel wagaskeda Cofrey-
willie audience if there was doctor i'm
the crowd DR.. Young arose. The
black face said: "Glud To- see you
Doc. The audience Will need your
help soon as | am going to ,iNg a
song.
The Baxter Springs News is getting
ont "a daily edition at the reunion
grounds i'm tent \ rain storm Leak
Sd through and filled the cases but the
plucky girls put ON rainy day skirt,
and plucked the type from the little
pools and got out paper.
Mrs. John j. Ingall, has already
received the $50. $50 life insurance
money which her husband carried
The company probably feared that he
might have left memoirs, a chapter of
which We're devoted to them in case
there was Hillmon delay.
a man with home made sores col
lected all kinds of cash and sympathy
and sure cure and advice at Pratt. lie
discarded all but the money and
walked well out of town. Strangely
enough those who gave the money are
now sore.
The Emporia Republican says "the
: man is the best platform. Bryan is
, the party platform and breeches
of Democracy and Il lot of voters who
, stand on the Republican platform in
tend to walk over that other platform
in November.
The New York A. O. U. w. has
challenged the Kansas lodge to con-
! test for the prize as to which shall Sc
, cure the most new members between
I September | and December 81. Wives
who have welded "iiners' had best
take to the woods.
The octopus has come to Kansas
r and opened up headquarters at llmpor-
4 ia where all the hash houses have form.
t. ed trust and will hold up the vorac.
ious Normalites for 80 n week fOl
grub. Holders of Standard Oil Stock
9 in Emporia are selling and buying
, boarding houses.
, The colored people of Emporia have
!, selected as their camapigner d, e.
Henderson. Henderson some year,
ago while debating in school house
T. in Morris county became disguised
{ and cut his way through eight mer
/ with an axe. He evidently belongs &c
: the sledge hammer class Of orators.
l The X. c. Times is great on claims
1t claims everything for Bryan anC
n while in the business last Saturday
4 printed the picture of good old, A
p .. Chase, under the headline, prom
i, inent Kansas Cityans." 1t is not
|. far cry from the Times politica
y claims to its claim of heaven as q
Kansas City suburb.
The Chicago Chronicle tells Ions
u u story supposed to be at the expense o
= Billy sDeford. A friend introduced
; him to Chicago girl and told each o
Il the young people that the other wal
worth million. The way they wen
l. after each other wasn't slow. Tit
e very idea that our Billy, the champion
Fl OF the common, poverty stricken, dowr
e trodden, anti trust octopus fearing
v folks of Kansas, would agree to pos