The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-10

SliepllGlu q AllCllell.
The Santa Fe, which dug a hole not
far south of its depot years ago is now
filling up that hole cutting the hedge
from the west wide of its track and
dumping the same in the ditch, This
makes the Davis addition seem less
isolated and is preparing the way for
streets and sidewalks across thetracks.
a male human, somewhat the worse
for drink, wobbled back from the
general delivery window at the post
Office yesterday with rather a comical
look ofdistress on hisface. "Wouldn, Z
gimme u letter, m call ever day,
too. Seem t think don't want no
mail" And he stood and gazed
despondently down the street.
The rain last Friday was nice,
genteel, soaking, lcrop getter, and it
fell on the just and the unjust, on the
lawns that have new city water squirt
ing lover them and on the freshly
sprinkled lawns. 1t was q good rain
and was badly needed by the farms
all over the county, and as the patent
medicine testimonials say, if Allen
county could not get another she
wouldn't take million dollars for
this one. ID,
The Ottawa Assembly will be held
this year from June "a to Julyl5, and
the program published promises one
Of the best meetings ever held in the
West. a great many Allen county
people are figuring on spending a
week or more at the Assembly, and If
everybody knew what a good timethey
could have there at small cost, II any
more would go.
a Chicago printers journal prints
the following and declares it to be a
fact; a Chicago business man deter
mined to spend all he made in one
year in advertising. He soon found
that it was impossible, for the simple
reason that the more he advertised the
more he made, and after a strenuous
effort to get rid of his money in ad-
yertising he gave up the idea.
According to Webster, just thirty
two years ago today win Cowan was
clerking in little store where the
New York store now stands, and Sam
Cowan was running post Office about
forty feet farther north. Webster
Johnson, who is the Webster referred
to, blew into lola that day and soon
after rode across prairies without
having to dodge "A fence for ten
miles.
1t is a surprise every time one real
ICES what an institution the public
schools of lola have become. The
teachers recently had their pictures
taken in a group and it required a
large card to hold them ALL as there
are thirty-one in the picture. And
they are good-looking, intelligent,
crowd, too, well-dressed and well-fed
despite their universal feeling that
they have about the hardest time Of
anybody.
As vaccination prevents smallpox
and quinine chills and fever, SC
TEETHINA prevents and counteracts
the effects of the summer heat, much
dreaded byFmothers with small child
rem. TEETHINA relieves the many
troubles incident to teething and the
hot summers, and no mother is ex.
cusable forlnot giving it, for it costs
ouly 20 cents at druggists; or mail %
cents to G. j. MoiTett, M. D., St.
Louis, Mo.
In speaking Of two prosperous farm
ers, Kansas paper says: They are
about the most up to date farmers in
this section. They use printed station
cry and write their letters on q type.
writer Their farm is known as the
'Pocodilla farm" Here are two
good points; A good farm deserves
q name; farming is business as
much as any business and printed
stationery is businesslike. Progress
sive farmers are beginning to recog-
nize these two facts.