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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
Varieties of Grapes for Home Plant
ing.

Read before the Allen comfy horticultural
Society at it's regular meeting Jan. If 1901 by
the Secretary B. f. Pancoast.
The standard grape for all purposes
as everyone knows is the Concord. 1t
comes nearer growing and doing well
in all kinds of soil than any other va
riety Butfor homeand tabeuse there
are several kinds that surpass it in
flavor and productiveness. Most how
ever, are subject to the varying con-
ditions of soil, and climate, and re-
quire more care and less neglect to
obtain the best results. Among the
varieties deserving trial are the Earl y
Ohio black grape, it is almost the
earliest grown with Medium size ber-
ries and large bunch. Campbell
Early, an expert in grape culture has
written of it us superior to the Con-
cord in every respect" ripens here
the last week in july
Brighton is large, fine, good flaw
ored grape.
Moones Diamond is one of the best
of new, white grapes not easily in
jured by cold.
Agawan, one ofthe Rodgers hybrids
large red grape with peculiar flavor
is best for preserving or picking.
Early Victor, a Kansas native is
early, hardy, and productive. Very
desirable for all purposes.
Added to these are number of new
varieties, originated at Denisor
Texas.
Mr.. Munson the originator, probably
the most scientific expert in the world
on grapes and has produced them al
great expense of time and patience
He has combined the extreme hardi.
ness of the most northern grown va.
rieties, with the tender highly favored
kinds of southern Europe, retaining
in the new sorts. sufficient endurance
to stand our winters with the eXquisitC
havors of grapes from Italy.
Among these varieties we could Sc.
lect white, red and black grapes rip
ening from the earliestto the time thai
frost kills the foliage.
In this connection, although moi
a part of the subject of varieties, 4
thorough spraying of Bordeaux mix
ture will no doubt do more to destroy
the fungous diseases of the grape. anc
add many times to the quantity ant
quality of the product
The Bordeaux mixture is made b,
dissolving 6 lbs of sulphite of copper
i'm 30 gallons of water and adding
thereto a mixture of 1 lbs of quicl
lime Stacked in sufficient water to keel
from burning the vines, strain befor
mixing to prevent cloggingof sprayer
Spray early, just before the leave
start. Again after the foliage ant
blossoms appear.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
Elsmore Refunds Bonds.

The bond voting time OF Allen
county-outside of Iola-was at its
prime some twenty years ago and
now, thanks to a refunding provision
in the state laws, the bonds voted then
may be taken up and re-issued by the
voters. The present is an exceptional
time for such feats as interest rates
are very low and the Allen county
townships are not slow TO take adj
vantage of them. Elsmore township
is the latest. In 1887 she voted 81,
600 to aid the Kansas & Pacific rail
road. The bonds are 6 per cent aud
are held by l.. A. Bigger, Of Hutchin-
son. BY arrangement with him the
bonds are refunded to "A twenty year
series at At per cent, in denominations
of 81 900. For twelve years 1 per cent
additional mush be paid Mr., Bigger
as a sort of commission. After Feb
ruary /, 1903, the township will create
a sinking fund and pay off the bonds
81 900 a year. There is an immediate
saving in interest and an earlier pros
pect of getting out of debt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
FRANCIS IS THE LEADER
Speaker Barker Announces
his Chief Committee
ALLEN COUNTY IS HONORED
BY Having Her Member
Chosen as Chairman of
The Ways and Means, the Committee
to Which is Referred the Most
Important Legislation.

Topeka. Jan. 17-Speaker Barker
was a little slow in making up his
committee of ways and means, but his
long deliberation has given to the
house a particularly strong committee.
With the exception of Mr.. Honnell, of
Brown, and Mr. Davis of Bourbon,
the committee is composed of old
members, and its chairman, John
Francis of Allen county, probably has
a better knowledge of the finances of
Kansas and the real needs of the peo-
pie than any other member of the leg
islature. MIR. Francis besides being
an experienced legislator, has been
treasurer of the State three terms and
when it comes to bestowing appropri-
atoms his experience will be invalu-
able. Next TO him is J. b. Renting
ton of Miami, who, himself, has been
chairman of the committee in former
legislatures. Their associates, Gies-
ser, Bigham, Rees, Lawrence, God
shalk, Harris, Spurlock, Simmons,
Sims, Watkins, Finley, Hill, Honnell,
Davis and Schleyer are all active men
of affairs and will apply business
principles in passing upon appropri-
ations.
The only criticism of the speakers
selections comes from the minority
side of the house, which gets only two
members, Schleyer and Davis. This,
perhaps, from a party standpoint, is
a fair criticism, but the character and
excellence of the men reelected, makes
good for any neglect of the minority.
Besides so much pressure was brought
to bear by Republicans on the com
mittee that the minority is in good
luck to get even two places.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
Cultivation and Pruning the Grape
Vines.

Tread by j. W. Johnson at the Horticultural
meeting, January H. 1901
Our program committee has given us
two large questions to consider, but
they are like an unpruned vine so
interlocked by cross branches that
they are not easily separated, and
also the discussion of them would
seem worn threadbare, but so many
skeletons of once promising Vineyards
are scattered over our country to
brighten the prospecting stranger or
discourage the youth, who might, un-
der other circumstances, be induced to
branch out and make choice that
would be suited to his ambition and
one that has neveryet been overstocked
and withal is one ofproiit and pleasure
combined, that, like the gospel truth,
it must be continually given, Zine up
on line, and "precept upon precept, ~
Both Of these necessary aids to the
successful vine dresser, depends on
many other things that go before,
such as soil, location, variety and
the end in view. But in all cases the
cultivation should be faithfully done
and done at the proper time and
the pruning done with the future croI
in view and so directed as to en-
courage its development and not be
trusted to a careless, slashing person
with the idea of clearing away The
vines without any knowledge Of the
how it should be done,
Culture is to improve by labor, care
or study
One point much neglected by thosC
who fail, is that of fertilization. Their,
is such thing as making the soil too
rich for the vine, by erich we meal
applying too large aquantity ofmanur,
that contains one of the essential
elements of life in excess, and lacks il
another, and therefore brings harm
but If the grower studies the needs o
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25

for the w. G. r. u! 1t has defeated
the war department. the army officers,
and the teachings of experience ana
emptied the beer out of the canteen.
Lectures given by the Anti-Cigarette
League,.to the employees of banks,
mercantile houses land firms of all
kinds have induced many to sign the
pledge, and ~, 900 letters sent in APP
movement among business houses that
bids fair to root out the evil. One
firm has started fund to be sub
scribed to by twenty business houses,
who asked to join in the crusade.
In the last six months the work of
the League has been carried into
nearly every state of the union, and
doubtless the example of Chicago will
inspire other cities to similar legisla-
ton.
1t is interesting to note that in the
symposium of opinions advanced by
prominent business men on the evils
of cigarette smoking is the following
from Cashier. c. n. Gillette, of the
First National bank: zone thing
which has broken up the reign of the
cigarette, as far as our boys are con-
cerned, is the strenuous objection of
the non-smokers to associate with
the young men who reek of the nico-
tine given off by the cigaretts, When
the odor of nicotine is admitted to be
detriment to the business interests
of so stable an institution as a
National bank. women can consider
that emancipation from the evil
/ against which she has long and vainly
struggled is at hand.
The Anti-Cigarette League has
gained we'll earned victory in the
decision of the United States Supreme
court declaring the validity of
Chicago's Cigarette law, which calls
for 500 license and prohibits their
sale to minors. Ever since the pas
sing Of the ordinance, a few years ago,
it has been attacked as unconstitu-
tional, but has foughtitsway through
the local courts, the State Supreme
court and the National Supreme
court.
The decision is of vital interest to
the League at this time, not only on
account of the added impetus it will
give the work of general reform, but
because it has gained as important
allies some of the most prominent
business firms of Chicago. Absolute
prohibition of cigarette smoking
among the employees has been
declared by Montgomery Ward &
Company, The Heath q Milligan
Manufacturing Company, Hubbard
Spencer, Bartlett ~ Company and the
Chicago, Burlington u Quincy rail
road, each of these firms having its
own Anti-Cigarette associations.
Union Signal.
ETFA HELFRICH, Press Superinten-
dent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25

his plants this may be avoided and
the right element of plant nutriment
applied. Science has figured this all
out, if we would but heed the lessons
and learn all that we could by inves-
tigation.
We think that some of our people
have produced fine growth of vines
by heavy application of stable manure
and found a fruitless result and think
that ifacompost had been applied with
more of the element of nitrogen in it
to sustain the bearing of fruit that the
results might have been far different.
The soil should be one that will
thoroughly drain, for while grapes
will takeup large quantities of moisture
it will not thrive with too much
moisture confined near the surface by
an impervious subsoil.
Father Mcclure advocated placing
stones, old shoes, bones and the like
about the base of the vine.
This would in part provide for the
drainage. AS a mulch Mr.. Chase al
ways provided covering of fine earth
on his grounds and | have examined
his gro unds, when others were
parched and always found moisture
near the surface on the thin soil in
northeast lola.
If the grapes have been set in rows
six or eight feet apart and the space
kept well cultivated with u cultivator
and the top soil fined by II small
crusher easily made, and drawn by
one horse weighted to suit the work
required, and until the vines shade
the rows the hoe used in the
rows, the shade of the vines will
soon help to smother out the little
weeds and the work become easy and q
pleasure because of the victory you
have won.
OF pruning we are constrained to
believe that many people do not un
derstand the purpose for which it i.
done, hence make sad mistake wher
they attempt it. The vine puts forth
the branch each year that blossom.
and bears the fruit. This branch i:
the vine from which the next year,
shoots repeats the forces. So in fol
lowing an individual vine the frui
would be farther aud farther from tn,
parent vine each year, if not cut back
Or if all this growth was cut off thu
growth of vine might be fine but NJ
fruit would be found. a member of ou
society once did that very trick anC
wondered why" until a friend eX
lained it, Prune after the leaves are
shed, but before the balmy days start
the new life, if you can. But dom
put it off till the leaf has attained full
growth. Don't be scared if you ar,
delayed till the sap has started, fol
the watery sap lost will not material.
injure if other conditions are favora
BILE. Cut back to one, two or thre
buds of last years growth.
And when your grapes have formed
or set, then occasionally pinch or Gu
away long branches beyond the frui
and thus conserve the strength of tn
vine for the fruit,
When grapes are nearly full grown
or at least half grown, sack them t.
protect from enemies and retard ripen
ing and thus prolong the use as
table grape.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
Real ESTATE Wanted.

We have some buyers who wish to
invest in farm lands in Allen county
What have yCuto offer Us? We want
10000 acres in tracts Of from 80 up tc
$40 acre tracts.
We will buy your farm or sell it foi
you just as you like.
We want land at the right price
but are willing to pay all it is worth
Would like few well improved
farms close to lola. Don't delay inthi'
matter but come and see us at once
Respectfully Yours,
FULLER e. FULLER, Northeast corner
of square, lola Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
Summer Vacation Society.

The Ottawa Herald tells how the
young professional men of Ottawa are
scheming to each have vacation the
coming summer without losing all their
savings or having their business ut
terly neglected. AS it would be easily
feasible in lola the plan is hereby pre-
scented.
Briefly, the idea is this: There are
a number of young professional men
in town who want to go somewhere
when hot weather comes. They know
the evils of the conventional summer
vacation, and wish tofght shy of them.
They also have learned the difficult
culties of laying up expense money for
journeys to vacation spots, and wish
70 overcome that obstacle Accord
ingly it has been proposed and prac-
tically adopted that mutual "sink-
ing" fund be created for the trip to
some secluded garden of Eden, when
the sun gets too far north. a half
dozen, or maybe a dozen, convtvial
and congenial spirits will band to-
gether and pay stated initiation fee
into the association of fresh airlovers.
Each month until hot weather the mem
bers will each and severally dig up a
stated sum to add to the fund. BY the
first of June or perhaps by the first of
July, the store will be amply large and
the party will get under way. 1t will
probably head for Colorado, II Will
rent cabin far away in the Businesses
of the mountains, and with suitably
stocked commissary will go into re-
t"eat. The common treasury VIII sup
ply the round trip transportation and
ali other expenses of the syndicate.
The outing will last for month.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25

kinney rOuDle.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble. because the heart is
over-worlSing in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
1t used TO be considered that only urinary
troubles we're to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ming in kidney trouble.
II you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctorirg your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect Of Or. Kilmer
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits f-yFI
by all druggists in fifty fTsiTsEf ....!
cent and one-dolar siz- sill; 4.
es. You may have a -sl1H.s Asss4,ssi l 2
sample bottle by mail Home Of swampRoot.
free, also pamphlet telling you how to Vnc
out If you have kidney or bladder trouble
Mention this paper when writing Or. KilmeI
Il Co., Binghamtor N. Y.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
lingering Lagrlppe Cough.

G.. Vacher, 1877 Osgood street, Chi
cago, say, "My wife had a severe case
of lagrippe, and it left her with a
very bad cough. She tried II bottle of
FoLEY's HONEY AND TAR and it gave
immediate relief A 80 cent bottle
cured her cough entirely" Price 25c
and SOC
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25

LAGRIPFE coughs often continue for
months and sometimes lead to fatal
results after the patient is supposed to
have passed the danger points
FoLEY's HONEY AND TAR affords
positive protection and security from
hese coughs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25

The kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fill
ter out The waste or
impurities in the blood.
II they are sick or out
Of order, they fail to do
their work.
Pains, aches andrheu-
matism come from ex-
cess Of uric acid In the
blood, due to neglected
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
Tried Five Doctors.

Mrs. Frances l.. Sales of Missouri
Valley, Ia, writes; 81 had severe
kidney trouble for years, had tried
five doctors without benefit but three
bottles of FoLEY's KIDNEY CUREcure
me-" Campbell 81 Burrell
Usage City has damages suits galore.
An old lady who rested her weight on
a rotten board is suing the city for
So, 900 for breach of bones, and a
young lady who trusted her weight on
the neck OF rotten lover wants 80.
600 for breach of promise,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
OVer-Work Weakens
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-11
MANCHURIAN
CONVENTION.

London, March 1.-THE Times, In Its
second edition today publishes dis
patch from Shanghai. March IL, saying:
at Is reported, upon trustworthy au-
thorty. that Russia has notified China
that unless the Manchurian convention
is signed at an early named date, she
(RussIa) will withdraw the convention
and substitute harder terms In its place
Ii Hung Chang declares that he Is
powerless to resist and has appealed to
the United States, Great Britain, Ger
many and Japan to intervene In Chinas
behalf
considerable uneasiness, In conse-
quence OF the extreme friction, IL De-
lieved to exist between the Yang-tse
vieeroys and LII Hung Chang"
TO REMAIN AS LEGATION GUARD.
Pekin. March accompanies A and
OF the Ninth United States infantry
have been notified that the are to re-
main In China. 1t is believed that MAJ.
Robertson will command them.
MANY Americans have urged the Legal
ton TO use It's influence to have at least
two field guns and enough artillerymen
to work them left They say that dur
ing the siege these guns would have
been more valuable than 200 armed men
ana that necessity for their use Is Ia
BILE to occur again
The Germans report that in the recent
enga cement near Pao Ting Flu $50 Chin
ese were killed and four magazine guns
captured. There were no German losses
The American field telegraph line
which was constructed here has ceased
operations. and the wire has been coiled
I'm preparation for shipment TO Manila.
Despite the report that Ii Hung
Chang Is seriously ILL., and that his Ire
hangs by thread, his physicians say
that his condition would not be dan
gerous except for his advanced age
They are extremely hopeful OF being
able to bring him around.
The question OF quarters Tor the
American troops remaining in Pekin IL
sim the subject Of discussion. Army
men favor the temple Of agriculture as
being healthier and sufficiently near the
legation for troops to be sent there IN
hurry as an additional dally
guard should circumstances arise
rendering IL necessary They
think the courts objections are
magnlfed. II Is not likely the Brit
ish will relinquish the temple Of heaven,
and they will certainly long require the
permanent building being erected there.
A company of infantry could easily be
housed in the temple Of agriculture and
the two temples now used for quarter
masters stores The only other avail
able place ready Is a palace belonging
to one Of the princes. far from the lega-
ton. in the middle of the Tartar City.
This Is private property.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-11
EIGHT YEARS DIVIDENDS.
Paid by the Mammoth Mining COM
pany 90 Frank Hagen Today.

A peculiar incident occurred today
in the office OF the Mammoth Mining
company when Secretary Wilkinson
forwarded bulky envelope to Frank
Hagan, Summit City, B c. Inc
envelope contained checks for dividends
30 10 62 inclusive, amounting In all to
s1.9O per share. Mr. Hagen purchased
a small block OF stock In 1898 and ne
has not been heard from since
until the other day when he wrote Tor
mer Secretary Curker, asking how the
company was getting along. The mine
paid no dividends from 1898 to 1896, but
slrice that time IL has distributed II
scent dividends, 1 20-cent dividend,
1 lucent and 10-cent dividends
amounting IN all 10 $3.50 per share, The
stock probably cost Mr.. Hagen at that
time less than the sum he viii receive
a few days hence in dividends, and II
he desired to sell out today he would
receive 1921 per share Assuming that
$lgO was paid for the stock In 1893, the
dividends received have paid for his
stock and II is worth 30 cents a share
more today than II was then AT that
rate Mr.. Hagan has made altogether
10 per cent on his Investment IN eight
years, or almost IA per cent per an
mum. and this notwithstanding that
the company paid no dividends be-
tween 1893 and 1896 or for about three
years Of the above period. No incl
dent that has come up for some time
better illustrates the advantages Of
holding ON TO first class mining stocks
as an investment.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-11
THE RISE IN FLOUR,
II Was Decided on by the Nueu a
Saturday Afternoon.

At the special meeting Of tbe q.
Lake county mlllers, held on SATURDAY
after some discussion Of facts and h.
ures, It was agreed that the wbole,,l.
price of flour should be advanced T.,
cents per hundred. This Is The N,s
actual move towards an ageemen, tls,
has been made in several months Til,
cut was made in December and -four 1,
still ten cents below the price to
which II sold then The prices tr
which flour will now sell are ll5 SIS
and $l,5O ner hundred. The real caus,
of the advance, Il Is said Is the ha
that wheat has been shipped from h,
state In large quantities. and the pnci
has gone M FIVE cents per bushel AZ
two and n half bushels are ussd u
make one hundred pounds Of amf A
raise In prices was necessary, The &c.
ton yesterday is looked upon viii by
by the millers, who take It as an IN.
dlcation Of a speedy settlement d al
their troubles as to prices hsG
pccted that al the next regular meeting
the prices will be advanced snotAs
ten cents.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-11
SOME INSUFFICIENT METHODS.
Take American sympathizcrs and
Bury Them Alive.

Manila, March 1.-THE trial Of the
nine natives charged with having muir.
dered Outstanding, president Of calam.
ba. because he was friendly to the
Americans, discloses how the insur-
gents terrorized the natives even in ter
ritory occupied by the Americans.
Members Of a secret society known as
Mandoducats, systematically abducted
and killed Fillpinos fayorlng American
rule. In two months the Calamba
Mandoducats killed forty-nine natives
The victims are usually buried alive
Fear kept the people silent An OFF,
Ger of Gen. Cables organized and direct
ed the operations Of the Mandoducats
In Calamba. Binang and other towns in
the Laguna province, The ringleaders
were arrested and many suspects were
held pending an investigation. The
arrests effectually checked the opera
tions OF the Mandoducats. The verdict
Of the military commission which is
trying the cases has not been an
nounced.