The Iola register., 1902-08-01
COUNTY NEWS
DIAMOND.
Mus. T. W. JONES'. Corresponden


July 20-A h Banta and family who
have been visiting friends here re.
turned to their home in Wyandotte
yesterday.
II A Hardy and family visited eye
Scribe" recently.
John Cox and family Sundayed with
Mr. and Mrs Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs Perkins made bust.
ness trip to LaHarpe Saturday.
Mrs James Davis has earned the
banner this year. She raised and
marketed thirty-eight dollars worth of
lettuce and radishes, and eight dollars
worth OF winter onions, besides doing
unaideds sthework for her husband and
hands, and helping in hay harvest
and doing many other days work on
the farm. We say hurrah for one
farmers wife.
In your issue OF last week Mr. w A
White In his "Sporting Event" has
made few assertions tina. have raised
the ire of some of our farm voters.
And at an Indignation meeting held in
our presence at which some of our
most respected voters were present,
the concensus of opinion was that
"somo one should rip Mr. White up
the back for writing and the REGISTER
for publishing such assertions"
Exery admits that big race is
on in Kansas, that the stakes run up
in the millions. But when Mr. White
asserts THAT the Kansas farmer has
nothing to do but sit on the front
porch and watch the game" the horny
handed sons of toll rise in their indig-
nation and call the gentleman q
liar" with more expletives than our
pencil is used to repeating. And he
A also asserts "That no one has laid by
4 corn" One speaker said: 81 want
n that man to know that | plowed my
II corn four times and when | laid iii by
n it was Clean Another said: 81
y plowed my corn till it got so tall [
could not plow any more, and have
never worked so hard to keep the weeds
down as this year." One gentleman
turned to ''Ye Scribe and desired
us to inform Mr., r,White that 'if he ever
should run for Office Deer Creek town
ship would snow him under too deep
for resurrection Another said tell
Mr. White 81 would just like to have
him at close range and basket OF
stale eggs handy, | would show him
that my muscles haven't grown soft
from disuseT of the hoe and scythe. "
One said: "Just let him come around
here when pumpkins get ripe and we
will teach him few things" And
our opinion is that Mr. White would
have turned several shades whittier il
he had been present at that meeting
For the farmers have worked hard
both early and late TO help the corn
in this battle against the weeds, and
now to have our country papers say,
even through Mr. White that they
u shave nothing to do but sit on the
front porch" is putting it q little toe
strong for their patience, especially
when they have good reason to be-
lieve that Mr. White "never blistered
his hands on hoe handle, or scythC
sneed, and never wore dirty shirt
or patch except on the seat of his
pants"
An old gray headed farmer said tC
us recently that it kept him busy al
the time with mower, scythe, and hot
to keep the weeds down and then hi
could not do good job. There il
not farm hands in this neighborhooC
enough now to put up and thresh th'
flax. Every man you meet is hunting
men to help stack or thresh flax o.
work in the hay. If any of the REG
lister force is out of q job they cal
find one or half dozen by applying
TO the farmers around Diamond.