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

Mr.. Wainscott of Nevada was here
between trains today with Bert Hall.
This is his first visit to lola in eigh-
teen years and he had to have guide
to find his way around town. He was
very enthusiastic in his comment on
the improvements and the prospects.
Mr.. Wainscott says that it is drier
and crops look worse in Nevada than
here. 1t was reported on the street
here last evening that Nevada had
been visited by destructive tornado
but Mr.. Wainscott says it was moth.
ing but hard wind with no rain at
all.
Here is something | don't under
stand, y said a citizen in this Office the
other day as he pointed to the notice
signed by the superintendent of the
water works forbidding people to
sprinkle the street in front of their
houses. 81 remember that the city
fitted up at considerable expense a
! goose neck from which the sprink-
ling wagons can obtain water free for
sprinkling the streets besides paying
the men for driving the wagons. Now
why should / be charged for the water
it takes to sprinkle the public street
when | bear the expense of hose and
| hydrant and do all the work MYSELF"
And nobody in this Office could
answer the question.
There were a couple of surprises in
town the other day. G. w. Townsend
drove down from his farm in the
Horseshoe Bend with five or six
bushels of tomatoes, a couple of
bushels of cucumbers and a lot of
cabbage, all looking as if they had
never heard of such a thing as the
drouth. He expected to have to dis
tribute them among the different
merchants as he used to do in the old
days when that much "truck" would
have glutted the lola market for q
week, and started mat the Up.to-Date.
The first surprise came when Mr..
Majors saw the unframed vegetables,
and the second came when he told
Townsend to unload all he had, and
paid him something like thirty dol
lars for the stuff, Townsend is think
ing now how good it will feel to sell
hundred bushels of tomatoes at five
dollars bushel which is about
what he will do if it rains within the
next week or two
1t is II good deal of job to ar
range an equitable and consistent
water-works schedule and in spite of
the most careful consideration the one
now in force in lola will probably
have TO he modified us experience may
point the way For example, the SUI
perintel de 1t says that nearly every
day s. m body stops him and asks him
questions like these; "Why should a
man who has 100 feet front be required
to pay three times as much for sprink-
ling when he is not allowed to let the
water run any longer than a man who
has only fifty feet? The two men will
use exactly the same amount of water,
then why should one man pay twelve
dollars and the other FOUR" "When
man has paid for the privilege of
spr ;ling his lawn, thus getting the
right to let water run through hose
six hours every day, why should he
not be allowed to I'LL his cistern il he
does it during the sprinkling hoursY"
''If man would rattle lay the dust
in the street than to sprinkle his lawn,
why should he not be allowed to do it
when he has paid for the privilege of
using the water?" OF course the only
answer the superintendent can make
is to refer the questioner to the ordi-
nance, but the questions indicate the
roubles the council have to make a
general law that will fit every case.