The Iola register., 1901-11-29

ing. 800 per head is now offered.
Mrs. Nation is back in Topeka, suf-
fering from q sore throat. Rock and
rye is powerful good for sore throat,
Carrie.
An Ottawa man sold mussle pearl
the other day for $6S. Why don't
that man Tom Oyster of Paola search
himself.
On December % amateur tiddlers o
Lyon county will contest for prizes n
Emporia's opera house. They mus
play by ear only.
The Missouri Pacific paid $500, 600
in taxes in this State this year. Which
is just another instance ofwhat itcosts
anyone to be forever pulling their
freight"
Senator Burton is quoted as saying
that he considers irrigation superior
to rainfall. Now it will be seen wheth-
er Mother Nature Goes Away Back
and Sits Down.
A colored man. evidently very
angry, tried to buy a gun of an Otta-
wa merchant that would shoot a
mile" He promised strange doings
in his neigoborhood II he could get
such a weapon.
a 40 million dollar Texas lumber
company is said to be planning to
establish lumber yards all over Kan
sas. That's about the only thing this
State actually has to import.
John Breidenthal says the Republi.
cans will carry Kansas next year by
10000 majority. so the opposition
party which is to swallow the other
might gulp that fact down while its
throat muscles are loose.
The new game law permits the kill
ing Of quails only during December
and then only by consent of the land
owner. About the only noticeable
effect will be that the hunters will brag
of their spoils next month.
For years past Democrats from the
Indian Territory have been voting in
southern Kansas counties and carry
ing the elections. This year county
registration law was tried and the Re
publicans won for the first time in
years.
Nine Arkansas City young men have
organized Bachelor Clubwhose pur-
pose is to secure the marriage of all
lllb llltiIDtIS y DIS NbbIl as DONNlUlt. F4dtn
gives the first Benedict $40 and strict
rules compel regular attentions to one
of the fair sex.
Fred Wellhouse. who in 1918 was a
day laborer, this year raised 53, 900
barrels of apples on his own trees
which he sold for $4,000 He is one
man who Outranks Cy Leland. Well
house is known as Apple King, and
Cy is only Apple Jack.
The Ottawa Republican dcvotes a
column to proving that mo cause is
Lost Which is Right" which is sup.
posed to cheer up the fusion forces.
But it is equally true that because a
Cause wins is proofthat it is wrong.
A whole lot of Kansas people would
like to know why things that are plain
lotteries in Kansas become great,
noble gift enterprises when moved
over to Kansas City, Missouri. That
convention hall business is no more
than lottery-and Kansas City
man won. It's altogether bad.
George Lane, n Pittsburg contract
or, has been arrested with his family
for Systematically robbing the stores.
His adopted son would be hidden in
store, get locked in at night and then
open the back door. II 600 worth of
stolen goods were found at the hand
some Lane home.
Thirty gallons OF mince meat, | 800
pounds of dressed turkey and two
barrels of cranberries viii grace the
table atthe Osawatomie insane asylum
Thanksgiving day. Yet there is no
tendency on the part of the public to
act like the small boy in becoming
religious shortly before Christmas.
A prize recipe in the Ottawa Repub-
; lican says the first step in preparing
a Thanksgiving turkey is To pull out
the pin feathers. That may be true in
Ottawa but most women would be
afraid to chase a live gObbler around
pulling pin feathers out OF him.
A Kansas City girl who couldn't
make the match she desired with a
FIT. Scott boy, mixed a drink ofmatch-
es and water. drank it and wanted 10
: die. Luckily thev were "eight-day"
matches and the doctors have time TO
prepare for the crisis.
The Chanute Sun has changed from
} a morning to an evening paper and
J enlarged fourfold Fred Cone has
been scattering Sunshine six years
with the little paper, and will doubt
less scatter n correspondingly large
amount OF moonshine ofevenings now.
/ Mondays issue of the Ottawa Re
publican told how woman smashed
the family stove, how a stranger stop
I ping in town went wild and how a girl
l appeared at hotel and took possess
sion. All three are crazy. The items
appeared in the Going and Coming
=, column so il is suspected that the
Going means going crazy.
t A Moberly Missouri paper found a
r joke that started in Kansas and re-
printed it thus A MOherly family was
, going to move to Mcpherson. Kansas
and the night before leaving the little
girl prayed: Good bve, God. we are
,, moving to Kansas" The Mcpherson
Democrat wasn't phazed. 1t saws the
story is true but that the Missouri
paper failed to spell "by" correctly