The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-04-13
EXCHANGE LocA. NEWS.

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Hotel business improving.
-Renters are changing locations quite
lively.
The carpenters have q rush ofswork
at present.
|@fhat was an extra fine lot of hog,
fhhipped by Sims and McCarley last
Tuesday. They sent up two carloads,
just for fun. =
-Messrs. Cyrus Clothier and J. Fl.
Thompson, of Winnebago County, ILL.,,
have lately purchased land in this coun-
ty, Of Mr.. Bowlus.
Mr.. Miner has purchased the eighty
just east Of town, formerly owned BY J.
N. Perkins. II il . frst-class piece
Of land, and Miner will make it one
of the neatest and best farms in this
section in time.
IS. NJ. Taylor, of Bourbon County,
has given bond and entered into q con.
tract with the United States TO carry
the mail from Xenia via. Wil.onville,
Orel and Jamestown to lola and back,
for term of four years.
-Bowlus sold Mr.. Louis J. Ayres, of
Bradford county, Pa, fine tract of land
situated out near Mr.. Helms stock farm,
during the present week. Mr.. L. G.
Nichols, of Chemung Co., New York,
has also located near that farm.
1.-THE County Commissioners I've sup
'pose) are the gentlemen who deserve
credit for having those shade trees set
out around the court house. The wisest
and most benefcent idea that could be
conjured up BY anyone, and deserving
the highest praise. =
Mr.. Madden, from Missouri, is
building house in the northeast part
of Marmaton township. one mile south
of the Spring Valley school house, which
he proposes to occupy soon as family
grocery. It will be great convenience
to the inhabitants of Spring Valley, and
the neighborhood generally.
-Depositions were taken before G.
H. Requa, notary public Of Marmaton
on the Sd inst, to be used at
Independence. Kansas, in the case of J.
F. Rhosdes. contestant, vs.. Samuel Cul-
bertson. We understand that Mr.. r.
claims that he was prevented last fall
from making his application at indie
pendence, by force.
Marsh Hart owns . calf the mother
Of which came from . COW that never
had calf. Strange as it may seem, this
is actually true. Tho explanation il
simple to those who have read Shakes |
peare's Macbeth" and remember Mac
duf's answer to the boast of Macbeth,
that he was not to die by the hand of
'man from woman born"
.Our enterprising land agency, Mr. |
Geo. A. Bowlus, general manager, and
J. Il. Richards, Esq.. attorney, has Or
dered, and we now have nearly printed,
Two thousand four-page circulars setting
put the advantages Of this country to
those desiring to locate in the Garden
State. They are intended for free dis
tribution, and are only one of the many
used by these gentlemen |,
q further the Interested our county. 4
AT the annual meeting of the Allen
County Agricultural and Mechanical
heldrat the court house at
lola, Tuesday April 9Th, the following
named persons wers elected as directors
or the epSuing fear: 8. J. Stewart,
Cottage Grove township; J. R. Dunlap,
Deer Cfeek township; G. Hoyl, Elm
:ownship; " Spicer, Geneva town
hip: Fl. H. Hayward, Humboldt town
hip; w. G. Allison, lola township; s.
!. Gordon, Usage township; c. P. Ives,
Salem township; L. II. Gorrell, Marina
on township Notice was given by J.
4. Christy, to the stockholders. that at
he next annual meeting, he would offer
IN amendment to the charter of said
ociety changing the manner of selecting
directors also an amendment to the
changing the time for elect
ng directors and the number of same.
There being no further business the h
Meeting adjourned.