President William Howard Taft visits Iola. 1913 Monarch Cement Company goes into receivership. H.F. G. Wulf took over the reorganization and became President. 1914 Kiosk construction near southeast corner of courthouse square for display of weather data collected by U.S. Weather Bureau. Diphtheria epidemic in Gas.
City is quarantined.
Several children die. First concrete road in Kansas laid in Bassett. 1915 County has a Farm Bureau and a very active county agent. Some of the long closed zinc smelter resume temporary operations. Physicians and Surgeons Hospital opened at corner of Sycamore and East Streets in Iola.