The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-12

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first.
The st. Mary's Eagle dies the ban
ner For President Teddy Roosevelt,
For Nice-President Frederick Funs-
TOM
The Howard Courantcontri butes the |
TO lowing study in evolution First it's |
Mary, then its May, subsequently |
Mae finally, Ma.
There is some comfort in the thought
that for the most of us this hot spell is
attached to time and not eternity.
Hutchinson News.
1t is generally understood that
Representative Ed McKeever, of To-
peka, will be Mr.. Tracey's assistant
district attorney.
The combined weight Of Holton's
three heaviest citizens James Tucker.
Moses Sarbach and William Fisher
is loo pounds, or more than half Il
ton.
The Clarion's musical editor com
menting on Cherryvale's band concert
the evening of the Fourth says, 1.-THE
boys did a fair job of musical wind
pushing"
II is reported that Col. John G. Car
renter Of Chanrte, is to be appointed
attorney general for the Cherokee
Nation, the place now held by eX-Con-
gresham Springer.
Jessie Morrison's lawyers have
anufactured thirty-uine reasons why
She should have new trial. There is
| just one why she shouldn't-she is
guilty.-Chanute Tribune.
Western Kansas wheat men claim
that they nearly doubled their yield
| by importing seed wheat last year and
this season they will import u, 900
! bushels from Russia. Some sections
tried Canada seed and found it very
successful also.
The records of the Lewis and Clarke
expedition in 1904 show that the first
| Fourth of July celebration on Kansas
soil was held in that year at the mouth
of White Clay Creek. which flows
through Atchison. The creek was Mt
that time named Fourth Of July creek.
Just because the city dads at Hutch
inson refused to provide for street
sprinkling the business men of that
town engaged a brass band. made a
collection of tin cans, punched holes
in the bottom and marched down the
middle of the main street sprinkling
as they went.
The Denver Post thinks that the
Abilene woman whohasno' been in the
business part of the city for twenty
years is perhaps the only woman liv-
ing under the folds of the American
flag who never had her skirts mussed
or her temper skewed out of shape at u
bargain counter.
An Englishman who came to this
country to get some local color for
some stories of American life which
he intends to write started out by
shocking few acres of Kansas wheat
and in a few hours had all the color
he wanted He will probably write a
yellow story. Hutchinson News.
Well for heavens sake! The second paper
is to he started in Macksville, Stafford coun
ty town which numbers 2iS people, when al
the residen'S are ut home. The new paper, II
is said, is to be started 10y parties which have
IA grudge against the old one. Topeka cap
itul.
And the old paper is run by girl
too. For shame.
Owing to complaints alleging that
mail carriers on free rural routes were
fast becoming peddlers, Superintend
ent Machem, of the free delivery ser.
vice of the postotlice department, will
issue an order prohibiting carriers o.
rural free delivery mail engaging il
any other business.
Lawrence journal: The Wichita
) Eagle claims the honor of suggesting
the method of opening the new terri
tory that has been adopted by the
government. But what will the es
, teemed Eagle have to say to the disap
pointed boomer who comes in with
fling papers on a rocky tract tina
stands on end with the base resting OF
sand bar?
A Salina dry goods clerk in the en-
deavor to be agreeable contracted tn,
habit of saying Eyes. have noticed
that" A gentleman buying som,
hosiery for his wife the other day re
marked that she always wore blacl
and the alfable salesman immediatel,
replied Eyes, | have noticed that. ,
He has been trying to get over tn,
habit ever since.
ne NCl ueESOu lAepubllcuu pIluu
local story under the head Cir
) stuck in the Mud" and which tells of ;
t young couple who went out for {
pleasure drive and got mired in a muC
hole along the road. Eastern Kansa,
: is perfectly willing totake back all tn,
things it ever said about the lack o
moisture in Western Kansas but it il
little hard to have it rubbed in tina
way.
The members Of the Boys club whC
were bOmbarded by the ornery boys o
the town up at the Ottawa swimming
hole got revenge. They found that {
town boy was getting in on the clul
doings and wasn't paying a cent anC
they Immediately took him ont anC
strung him up by the heels for half al
4 hour. "Thus," says the Mail anC
3 Breeze, sis the spirit Of charity anC
} brotherly kindness inculcated in thu
/ rising generation by the Chautauqui
] method"
Gems from the Selma correspondent