The Iola register., 1902-03-21
FROM OUR COUNTY PAPERS
Some of the News Items and New
IDEAS of the Allen County
Press.

served long enough TO be corrupted by
the city hall intrigue the town has de-
cided to retain the whole layout. Good
idea.
Elsmore Enterprise: eli, therel quit
your walking withmywifel" exclaimed
Banker Frank Goyotteto Il gentleman
coming up the street with his own bet
ter-half Tuesday afternoon. If an
occulist happens in town within the
next few days, you may know who sent
for him. Mrs. Coyote will not have
her husband claiming all the women in
town. Not much
Humboldt Herald: j. A. Hendrix
brought to,this Office Monday an al
falfa root that measured 394 inches in
length and had only part of the
root as it had been broken Off. There
is no telling how much he left in the
ground. 1t was growing straight
downward into the earth.
The News says that according to
Dunn's report, "A second big brick
plant is on the wing for that town.
Here's hoping that some day lola
will catch up with her ambitious
neighbors Gas City has one, and the
DaHarpe News says: ar. Peet's new
opera house is almost completed and
it is a fine one. 1t will he fitted with
stage. dressing room and some fine
scenery. The painter is at work on
the curtains and scenery this week
For ventilation, there will not be a
better ventilated opera house in the
county than.this one."
The Santa Fe has always stood
patron saint to Humboldt's brick plant.
The Herald says; ''The Humboldt
Brick company has received a large
order from the Santa Fe for brick to
be used in a platform at their depot at
their depot in Lexington Junction,
Missouri"
The Union says DR.. j. Flynn had u
serious attack last Sunday, a
hemorrhage of the stomach nearly
proving fatal. but he recovered. This
was the malady which carried of w.
H.. Andrews so suddenly.
Humboldt Union; This week farmers
were sowing oats, plowing for corn,
planting,potatoes, and some peoplewere
making garden. The bluegrass isgrow-
ing nicely, the weeds are peeping
through the dirt, aud the maple trees
are in bloom. Spring surely has
come.
Moran Herald Several car loads of
fence posts for the Fort Scott, sTola &
Western rally rhe n2rrived sunday and
as soon asJaucuses g u md staples ar
rye Be for the mass con on the renee
On opening the meetin, 'iue vi 'ie
Mcclure explained to those 49,
not know it from looking arounL nson
the meeting was "entirely non-partI-
san" 1t believed that politics should
not enter into city affairs. There were
probably sixty people present. just
about as many as the Fourth
Ward Republican caucus called out
by itself. A glance over the gentle
men present was an interesting com
mentary on the meaning of the word
"non-partisan." Mr.. Mcclure is a
Republican and he was about the only
one in sight. There may have been a
few more scattered about, but if there
were the writer did not see them. w.
j. II zig, who first took part in the
thi' ward Republican caucus drop
ped in late and seemed to be consult
ing with the third ward Citizens eau
Gus. He was probably just evening
up for d. II. Manley's mistaken effort
to nominate a Republican candidate
for school board in the Fourth ward
Republican caucus which convened
and held its sessions in the same room
with the Citizens convention, just
prior to the latter's session.
1t was to all intents and purposes,
with the few exceptions noted, fusion
convention, the purpose of which is to
beat the Republican ticket. 1t has
been tried before and never meant
anything else. Overtures will be made
to dissatisfied Republicans, promises
of share in the city offices given
and campaign waged against the
straight Republican ticket. If prece-
dent is to be counted, the city printing
will be let, in case of Citizen success,
to Populist weekly paper. This is
the final proof of non-partisanship
In the convention, taking LEADING
parts, were such well-known nom
partisans as Pratt Williamson, John
Goshorn, George Ferguson, Fred
Titus, A. L. Taylor, Jim Mann, c. c.
McCarty.
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