The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

wnkfSpy more or less ana uSeu tODdCct
Unfortunately for years and years. I
all seems to depend on the kind of ,
man he was to start ON.
The churches of the city will hole
union services each evening during
the week of prayer, as follows: Sun
day night, at Baptist church, con
Quoted by Rev. Shaley. Monday
night at Reformed church, conducted
by Rev. Moore. Tuesday night, al
Robinson. Wednesday night, Al
NJ. +. church. conducted by Rev
Hyatt. Thursday night, at Presby'
terrain church, conducted by Rev
Sumner. Friday night, at COlored
Baptist church, conducted by Revs
Moore, Hyatt and others.
Messrs. Pryor & Paullin are getting
ready to put in a receiving tank that
will add at Least 30 per cent to the
capacity of their gas wells. Their in
tention is to put in a small cOndensing
tank at each well, and then construed
a large central receiving tank wherein
the gas can be stored when not being
used. This receiving tank will be OF
the usual telescope pattern, circular
in form with diameter of about 2.
feet and a height of about "a feet
when filled to its limit. 1t will be OF
iron and will cost about $500. 1t can
easily be seen that with such an enor-
NOUS tank as this for reserve, the
pressure of the gas will be much more
uniform and trustworthy.
The young man who took the part OF
the Spy in the play last week is think
ing seriously of applying for u pension.
He can certainly make a strong show
ing of disabilities incurred i'm the line
of duty" He had to fall twice each
night, and in one of his falls he
wrenched his shoulder go that he
couldn't put on u coat without assis-
lance for two or three days, in another
he gave his wrist a twist that it took a
bottle of Wizard Oil to cure, while il
cost him half his salary to buy stick
ing plaster to take the place of the
cuticle abraded from various portions
of his person. 1t was a tough CAM
paign.
y daring, skillful and nearly sue
cessful attempt was made one night
last week to rob the post-Office. The
| burglars secured an entrance by fore
ing the back door open with a crow
bar. They then bored through the
massive front door of the safe and
broke the lock so that the door opened.
The thin steel door still remained and
they had drilled hole into the lock
of this, filled it with powder, and in
serted a fuse, when they were evil
IDENTIFY frightened and ran away, 1eav-
ing their Job unfinished. They were
probably scared by Marshal Harris
making his nightly round. 1t is the
marshal's custom, the last thing every
morning before he goes home, to walk
all through the business part OF town
to see that everything il ali right.
Passing through the alley back of the
post-Office on this morning he thought
the light i'm the stove was brighter
than it should he and went to the
window to see. Discovering nothing
wrong he went hone. The burglars
were probably in the office at the time
and doubtless suspected that he had
seen them and gone for help, 80 ske-
daddled without delay. The Govern
ment would not have lost much if the
Job had been finished as there was
only SD i'm cash and about 500 in
stamps in the safe. The heaviest loss
is the safe itself which il made worth
less for every purpose except as pro-
lection against fire. The cracksmen
were evidently old hands at the BUSH
ness as they left no possible clue by
which they might be detected.
Mr.. ID. w. Gibbs, who was here last
week as the guest Of A. G.. Scott, was
before going to Oklahoma, a distin-
guished architect of Toledo, Ohio. He
built the capitol of Wyoming, one of
the finest i'm the west, and numerous
other public buildings in the central
and western States. He is necessarily
therefore thoroughly posted i'm all the
varieties of material ever used i'm the
construction of fine buildings, and his
opinion may be taken as that of an
expert. 1t is very gratifying therefore
to be able to report that heApOke in
the highest terms of our lola marble.
He was surpl ised at its beauty and
texture, and declared that for tiling,
stairs, wainscoting, bases, closets and
other inside work it was superior to
any marble in the world. 1t ap-
prOaches more nearly to granite, he
says, i'm beauty, strength and polish,
than any other marble in the United
States, aud would certainly make a
market fer itself If it could once be
introduced. He looked forward to the
time, and not far distant, when lola
would be surrounded with quarries
and the town made wealthy by the
mining and sale of this rare stone.
progress" makes rather q startling
suggestion i'm the communication pub.
lished over that name elsewhere i'm
this paper. The proposition to change
the name of our town, blotting lola"
off the map and substituting another
name instead, will probably send
something Of shock through most of
us, much a. would a proposition to
change our own name or the name of
one of our friends. We think it hard
~ likely that even Progress" himself
is entirely serious i'm making the prop
Osition, for there are business reasons
against it that are practically insuper-
able. But there is no reason why we
should not adopt at least part of the
idea, and add the new name to the
old. Nearly every great city has a
And what Is the matter
with lola, the Marble City? Let us
pitch in and develop our quarries, adj
vertise our marble, talk about Ii 10
everybody we meet, associate the
idea of marble with the name of lola.
Let us do these things continually and
and it will not be long
until everybody will know what place