The Iola register., 1881-12-09
The climax and fern soaps are the
best and cheapest in town at
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The climax and fern soaps are tn(
best and cheapest in town at
]. .W.sKEsTEHSON'S.
Lamps from Is cents to $50 each
Best Flour 500 per sack; Good Broom
for 20 cents.-at CowAN's,
We are over-stocked In Overcoatl
and aEe giving bottom prices.
ANDERsoN 4 DECLUTE.
II. L. Henderson has erected q neal
galvanized wire fence in front Of his
property on south Washington avenue
The coming term Of Allen county
district court will be long one, many
important cases being on the docket
Married, by the Probate Judge, De
cember 9Th, 1881, T. J. Keath, Of Par.
sons, and Miss Lou Platner, OF Hum
boldt.
Remember that the ladies Of th<
Presbyterian Church will hold q festi-
val on Christmas eve, to which all an
invited.
Should the "whiskey cases" now
being talked of at Humboldt be tried
we can look for . big crowd in town
next week.
The Presbyterian Congregation will
hold their services in the Court House
again next Sabbath. Preaching at
1890 a. m, and Sunday School at
p. m.
II is possible that some of our young
people will not be 90 anxious to form
the acquaintance of commercial men
since the late unpleasant affair in
tOVn.
TWhile other improvements are be-
ing pushed, some man can make him.
self an enduring monument by work
ing up gravel road company to re
pair the river road west Of town.
Mr.. G. r. Ganatsey, who has been
quite sick with typhoid fever was sup
posed to be in dying condition Tues.
day, but at last reports was still bat
tling manfully against the grim de
str0yer.
Rev. J. P. Ash, the Baptist State
Sunday School Missionary, will con-
duet the Neosho Valley Sunday
School Institute at the Baptist Church
in lola, Dec. 21st and 22d. Look fol
the programme next week.
Mrs. C. NJ. Simpson received a gift
from her step-grand-mOther, Mrs
Phenus, of Emp0ria, this week which
will long he kept to remind her of the
donor. The quilt Is composed Of 6, ,4Ol
pieces and is the fourth one made dur.
ing the present year.
The house and contents belonging
to Travis Farmer, near ElizabethtOwn,
was burned last Sunday night while
he was away from home. No insur-
ance. and loss about $500. It supposed
to be the work of an incendiary who
first robbed the building.
lNThere is q cooperative cheese fac
toay at Americua, Lyon county, which
has recently declared neat dividends
Cheese making will pay as well in
Allen county as anywhere, and We
hope Mr.. Port will soon have his ar
rangements made to furnish good
cheese in this market. Capt. Stewart
of Cottage Grove, has followed the
business for years and has made il
pay
lIMr. w. NJ. Knapp, of Muncie, Ind.
has been in lola looking up location
for a carriage factory, and arrange
ments are now III progress to secure
his location at this place. a generous
support should be given those who
are working for such enterprises as
they are just what is needed to make
our boom a permanent one. There are
other facts connected herewith which
at present are not public property, but
enough is known to make certain Ol
his location should present arrange
ments be consumated.
The best theatrical entertainment
now travelling in Kansas is Mason s
Morgan's Company, producing "Uncle
TOMS Cabin" It was the only com
pany that have ever been compelled
| to refund money on account of not be-
ing able to accommodate the audience
At an unusually early hour the hall
was packed and standing room COM
manded a premium, The perform.
auce throughout was superb, every
part being ably sustained. The char.
acter of little "Eva," assumed by Ma.
bel NOyes, was undoubtedly the best
of all, and the child surprised and
delighted the audience by her mag
nificent acting and singing. Should
this combany be able to return agair
during this season or next, they
wOnld receive an audience that would
tax any hall TO accommodate. Tht
company is first-class in every respect
A few weeks since a number of the
friends of the prohibition law com
menced holding q series of temperance
meetings in Humboldt, and as q re
suit of these meeting committee wa.
appointed to confer with the temper
ance workers at lola, with view t.
forming q county organization, on the
plan of joint stock company, for th'
enforcement of the temperance law
and also for the purpose Of creating
public sentiment in favor of said law
To this end a meeting was arranged
for and held at the Methodist Ohurcf
in this city last Wednesday evening
which was addressed by L. w. KEEP
linger, of Humboldt, who made an
able argument in favor of the prohi
bition law and an earnest appeal to tn
people for its enforcement. The inten
ton of this movement, 80 far a. W
have been able to learn, is to form I
county organization or league, to con
sist of organizations in each township