The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-19

De one OF Jne uellCaCleS tnat only the
rich can afford to have on their table
this year.
The Kansas City Gazette thinks that
since Jessie Morrison Is so handy with
a razor she should be assigned a place
on barber's chair at the Peniten-
tiary.
'If Baldwin does discover the north
pole" thoughtfully remarks Victor
Murdoch, sit will be refreshing to
hear that there isn't a woman at the
bottom of it,.
just as the last layer of ice from the
bottom of the ice houses at Ottawa
had been dug up and distributed, the
local ice plant began to do business.
It was close call.
Abilene Reflector: President Schwab
need look no further for the six men
that he wants at 1925, 900 year. We're
one and he can get the rest by using
our want ad column.
An Ellsworth county man has luck
that is better than license to steal.
He took hog to the local packing
house the other day and sold it for $50.
and within two hours the hog died
from the ne at.
Mrs. Nation has discovered that
some of the rest of the dear sisters are
not working for their health any more
than she is. Mrs. White who sued her
for wages as private secretary was
granted $1,000 by the jury.
Hutchinson News: A company of lola
boomers are going TO locate town in
the kiowa country and when they
name it Funston one of the blunders
the government made in opening the
country will be eradicated.
The Washington Post-Register, one
of the best papers in northern Kansas.
issued a 24.page illustrated edition to
commemorate the completion of the
of the water-works system. Water is
water IN Kansas this year.
The very worst news in the papers
these days is that which tells of the
burning of the wheat in the fields. To
see the result of a whole year of work
and waiting swept away with a breath,
is enough to break a mans heart.
Wellington people have raised 81
900 with which to celebrate the harvest
of the biggest crop of wheat ever
raised in Sumner county. They had
better save it. Some of the rest Of the
state may be calling on them for aid
before spring.
Nobody doubts Bill White when he
says he isn't going to Guthrie; but
when he says he doesn't owe anybody
and has five or six thousand dollars
in the bank-everyb body thinks of the
observation of old Jack Falstaff,
| ST .n,A T.npH hnNy fhic tunt,ll lie sriy
to lying"
An Ottawa man who tried sleeping
out in the front yard during the hot
weather oversight himself the other
morning and for an hour people going
past the house remarked about the
beautiful and life-like piece of statu.
airy that had fallen down during the
night. News.
a formerly OF Pleasanton girl, Miss
! Adeline Brabant is noted as the hero
| Inc of the Alton wreck. After her own
narrow escape she devoted herself for
hours with rare skill and endurance
to relieving the wounded, soothing the
dying and in many ways making her
self an angel of mercy. Kansas
again.
Last Sunday evening a Wichita
minister told his congregation that he
was glad some of the young men had
the courage to wear shirtwaists to
church adding by way of parenthesis
that the women were at liberty To re-
move their hats. Its ten to onethough
that the last suggestion won't be fol-
lowed out.
In an introduction to lecture not
long since Mrs. Nation said: "Do you
know why it's dry here? It's because
you don't do any smashing. Get out
and smash aud the Lord will send
rain" 1t was the general understand.
ing when Mrs. Nation started out that
smashing was for the purpose of max
ing things dry.
You can't very easily corner your
aunt Carrie Nation. She went into
Henry Aliens print shopthe other day
and advised the boys not to marry a
girl who wore corsets. One of them
who wanted to be funny asked her how
fellow was to know that kind of a
girl and she replied: "A man who
hasn't got sense enough to tell that
hasn't got sense enough tomarry on. "
About a hundred farmers of Kansas
have formed on organization and are
going to form Temperance Colony
in the new country. No liquors will
be allowed even for medicine and the
growing of grapes is prohibited for
fear some weak brother will make
wine. Several thousand dollars have
been raised to buy up claims from
anti-prohibition men who get lands in
the colony.
The Humboldt Herald is the only
country paper, so faras has appeared
in this Office which published in full
of stuff sent out with couple o
complimentary tickets emitting thu
holder to convention hall guess
1t was nearly column of solid bre
vier. which it is likely that nobody
will read and which ought to have
been charged for at the rate of fiv,
cents line.
Ottawa has a man who is a gooC
second for the woman out at Abilene
= who hasn't been down town for twenty
5 years. Congressman lands of lndiani
was the big speaker there the Fourth