The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-04-13

did not winter Kill.
A Bourbon county farmer who Is
getting rich raising buckwhe is Mr..
Pancake, of Fulton.
The Lawrence Journal answers the
question, "whose candidate will
Dewey be-" by replying, MRS.
Dewey's."
AS additional proof that business in
Kansas is a fizzle, a FIT. Scott drug
gist has just bought new $500 soda
fountain.
One of the latest overland routes is
that taken by n NeOdesha boy who
ate some wheat which had been set
out for the rats at "a mill.
Edna, a small burg in Labette
county, claims to be 30 healthy that
the town p ysician constantly huns:
"How tasteless and tedius the hours y
The severance News claims to believe
that when the Troy chief Gays 1.-The
hens are laying lots" it means that
the hens have gone into the real estate
business.
Frank Montgomery: 1.-THE Demo-
cratic platform IN Kansas will prob
ably read something like this:
Whereas, Our candidate for governor
is prohibitionist, Resolved, That we
don't give a d-n.'
Chetopa was among the first towns
to organize improvements clubs and
look! look! already there is town
clock. The moss backs are watching
that clock with alarm.
Right now, when the students in
the high schools are studying Virgil
and have struck that famous line
Dur ,femina .facti," comes Dewey's
trou oles to point the moral.
Here is material for the Kansas
KnOcker. A Wilson county farmer
has protested against the spring
cleanup oA the ground that the
numerous bonfires cause drOuth.
A western Kansas paper remarks
that "the people are lousy with
money" The peculiarly about this
breed of 'lUuse' is that the scratch
ing takes place before the "lice" APP
pear.
The Newton Rdnsan thinks that as
between Bryan and Dewey it is a
slandoff, the former gaining IA nomi-
nation ny oratorical fireworks at
Chicago, and the latter by fire works
at Manila.
SIMPSONS much admired feats of
yOre with the jaw bone OF an ass didn't
require half the power and prowess
shown by u Garnett colored man who
cracked an African brothers. head
with piece of stove wood.
The Hutchinson NeWs devotes q
column to prove that Kansas politi-
clans have proepered, and he makes a
stOng case. In truth the politics
generally serve to sharpen wits and
the success came in other lines.
Mr.. Digs and Charlie Lease are
both confident that when the truth is
known it will be found that Dewey
announced his candidacy on condi-
ton that hie wife would wear those
rubbers and quit tussing about his
medicine. And theirs is expert
testimony.
The same day that LeAvenworth
boy filed suit against the city for
$4,000 damages sustained by y fall
down an embankment, ths society
leaders decided that the city was
geographically suited to golf and or
gRnized n CLUB.
MANY towns in the State have
bored Tor gas" says the Neodesha
Register, "hut only the southeastern
part of the State found it," And then
as the editor gazed at the green tint
OF the tree tops through the open
window he spst at the early fly and
added, land Neodesha seems to be
the center "
Lodge note from the Sabetha Tri-
buHe: 1t was Friday morning lust
before dawn. IT'S not Workman.
but Royal Neighbour" and Joe Moss
swooned and GRANDPA Noes went into
parOXysms OF wild delight. Mother
and daughter are doing nicely, but no
word from Joe and Grandpa has been
received.
A beautiful and lasting monument
has been erected at Lawrence to the
memory of Mrs. Fred Buchan who
died at Manila. Her college fraternity
sisters organized the Mrs. Buchan
scholarship fund, and will loan 5000 a
year without interest to some worthy
young woman to help her through
school.
Ewing Herbert agrees to send the
WOrld to all POpulists and Democrats
in the county for one year, with the
understanding that II the Republicans
carry the county by 300 they shall pay
$3.50 for it, and if the Populists carry
1t they get the paper free. That lie
good logic, too. With Calamity in the
chair of state there will be hard times;
with Republican prosperity the OPP
position can afford to pay for the
paper.
The Concordia Empire Daylgh,
says that Jerry Simpson recently
spoke there and was met by three men
without even a jews harp, while IL few
years ago the report would have start.
ed off like this: GAS previously ad.
Vertised lar and wide, Jerry Simpson
the sockless statesman of Medicine
Lodge and the most renowned leader
of the great middle-Oi-the.r road. anti