The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

the difficulty Of anything like an eff
fective quarantine SO great, it would
be best to take no action in the mat.
ter AS there is only one family In
the county, so far as heard from, In
which the disease has appeared, and
that more than twenty miles away, IL
would seem that lola has no particular
cause for alarm as yet.
While the men of the town have
been spending the last three or four
weeks i'm talk Of organizing militia
company, young America, with its ac-
customed impetuosity has already or.
ganized a company and is getting down
to work. There are twenty-six mem
bers and the company is differed as
follows: Captain, Eugene Talcott, 1st
Lieutenant, Schuyler Brewster, I'd
Lieutenant, Chester Cowan. The
boys expect to get uniforms soon a nd
arm themselves with wooden guns.
Long live the lola Cadets!
The details of the Humboldt fire,
of which we gave meagre account
last week, will be found in the
letter from our correspondent. The
loss is severe one to the town
not less than to the individual
| losers, and is to be seriously de-
plored. We would especially extend
our fraternal coincidence 70 the hide
pendent Press. Friend smith has
said some pretty hard things of us oc-
casionally. but we never harbOred
malice enough on that score to wish
harm; and now that the harm has come
to him we are heartily sorry and hope
he may soon got on his feet again.
We understand that it will take the
board of insurance adjusters about
thirty days to complete their work.
The change i'm the time table of the
Wichita road which went into effect
last Monday, seems to be giving gen.
eral dissatisfaction. So far at least as
lola is concerned it seems to have been
arranged with special reference to our
Inconvenience. With three trains
each way every day, we cannot go 10
even the nearest town and return the
same day. And it is equally incon-
venient to parties living along the
line of the road wishing to go east
over the X. c. L. & S. X. r. r. They
cannot take train in either direction
that will bring them here in time to
make connection with north bound
trains on the latter road. 1t is proba-
bly, wise policy as far as the roads
are concerned for rival lines to arrange
time tables with special reference to
missing connections, for they always
do it. But In our humble judgment
the convenience of the people who
help build the road ought to be con-
suited to some extent.
A travelling correspondent of the
Alton, (Ill.) Telegraph has the follow
ing to say about our town:
lola is at the crossing of the Fort
Scott & Wichita r. R., has $500 in
habitants, tlree churches, good
schools, and first-class town in every
respect. 1t is busy place, with the
best country yet seen around the town.
Improved farms on the NeoshO bottom
can be bought sometimes for the inn
provements. From twenty to thirty
dollars per acre is about the way they
range but they are fine. A few miles
back from any of these towns, equally
as good lands may be bought for from
five to ten dollars per acre. At lola
one hay press puts up twenty tons of
hay daily; it is purchased at the press
for s. per ton, and when loaded in the
cars is worth 81.