The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-05-13

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anime the new spring styles at Ella E,
Cowan's Millinery Store.
Messrs. Apple and Parnham put up
one Of the finest monuments In the
lola cemetery for Mrs. Whitney, last
week.
Miss Mollie Templin and Miss Ella
Cowan are among those who have
been afflicted with the mumps this
week.
Sheriff Walters has made consider
able Improvement about the Jail,
adding materially to the looks Of that
place.
Hon. John Francis, State Treasurer,
came down to his old home last Fri
day and spent few days among his
friends.
Miss Kate Thrasher and Miss Jessie
Buchanan went up to PaOla last Mon
day to attend the Normal school at
that place.
Farmers who expect to exhibit fine
stock or agricultural products at the
district fair this fall should begin their
preparations now.
It getting dangerous to turn horses
out on the prairie. Quite number
have already been injured this spring
on barbed wire fences.
Our County Clerk has received the
Session Laws of 1881, and is delivering
them to those entitled to them and
taking their receipts therefor.
It would be well for our Board of
Health to make an examination of the
town and have it thoroughly cleaned
up before the hot weather sets in.
The X. c., L. & s. X. R. R. offer
$1,000 reward for the arrest and con-
viction of the parties who burglarized
their depot at lola Tuesday night.
Miss Mariah Sims, formerly resi-
dent of this place, but who has been
living in Illinois for several years past,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harmon
Scott.
Mr.. James Townsend, west of the
river, has four young horses missing
from his pasture since the first of the
week, which he thinks have been
stolen.
Died, at Colfax, Washington Terri
tory, on the Goth of March, 1881, of
Consumption, Mary J. Walden, eldest
daughter of &. M. and Caroline Brown,
of lola, Kansas.
Married, May 8, 1881, by Rev. Will
lam Hankins, at the NJ. E. church on
Deer Creek, Mr.. James A. Davis, of
Allen county, and Miss Sarah E. Safer,
of Anderson county.
The Kansas Farmer stray list for
the week ending April 9th, notes q
stray iron gray mare valued at $50,
taken up by Sam'l Barnes, Marmaton
township, this county.
Parties are at work on the franchises
and right of way for the St. Louis,
Ft.Scott & Wichita Railroad in the
west of Allen. It is intended
to push through to Wichita at an early
date.
Our lola merchants are carrying q
very large and superior line of goods
this season and good goods can be
purchased a fraction cheaper at lola
than any town in the Valley-''and
don't We forget it"
Some parties broke into the depot
last Tuesday night and took about $40
worth of property from sample
trunk of a travelling man, and few
new pennies from the money drawer
in the agents Office.
Died, at her residence in Usage town.
ship, Wednesday, May II, 1881, Mrs.
R. E. Bray, in the I'D year of her age.
The funeral services were held at the
church, in that township,
and were largely attended by the
many friends of the diseased.
The Kansas State Musical Jubilee
will be held at Bismarck Grove, Au-
gust IS, 10 and 20, under the direction
of Prof. Leslie, of Chicago. Agents
are now visiting towns throughout the
State, organizing musical conventions
preparatory to the grand jubilee.
The singers of lola should see that an
is formed here.
We would suggest the propriety of
all our business houses, except the
drug stores, trying the plan of closing
promptly at eight o'clock every even
ing except Saturday, and at nine
o'clock Saturday evening. In other
towns and cities in the State where the
plan has been tried, it gives good sat
isfaction.