The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12
CORRESPONDENTS.
From Register Reporters-what is Being
Done Throughout The County-Events
and Gossip of the Week.
Prairie Hall.

How pleasant it is after an absence of4 years.
to meet old friends, and 1t is indeed pleas
ant to find them doing well, both physi-
cally ana financially. so Ii was last week
when visited Savonburg and Elsmore. But
owing to the weather did not get TO visit many
of my friends, only DR.. Randell, whose family
doing very well financially. The first paper l
saw was the REGISTER which is read and ap-
preciated by all, and complimented on its item
columns SAYING, when you read it you know all
the county news. When the train whistled for
Elsmore l felt like Rip Van Wrinkle for how
vastly great had been the change, for when
last saw the little village of Elsmore there were
only two stores. Now the village has a number
of stores, with good walks over the principal
part of town and awnings in front of the stores;
and as nice lot of clerks as you can find any
where. We called on the Preacher and his wife
and found them at the parsonage. and we saw
from the way he handled rock he was not afraid
to use his muscle power as well as his mental.
We were the guest of Mrs. Sparks and must say
she has the incest boarding house we have seen
since we have been in Southern Kansas and
would advise those wanting board to patrOnize
her. DR. OFlyng and Butler are the leading
physicians and are manufacturing toilet cream
OFlyng also has some music of his own COM
position, which is very good Mr.. Decker x Co.
have as fine an assortment of goods in their store
as any store of its size this side of Chicago and
the prices are Just as low as some of our larger
towns; and as Charles Freeburg is a partner il
any one cannot talk United States, Charles will
SURF Help OuL. livery lONH snOulu ndNt
good school, and of course you cannot have
good school without good teachers; so ElsmOre
sure had the teachers. Miss Ida and Louie
DeHaven. We had the pleasure of attending
the closing exercises of the school and for
prompt responding. when called upon, we never
saw better school, and the exercises were
simply grand. The dialogues were all of good
character, andwere well rendered. The organ
list was Miss Peters, about years old, and we
must say she is musical prodigy, for she did
splendid. They had a drill march at the close,
which showed how well they had been drilled
The Ladies Aid Society had an ice cream sup
per and general good time was in order We
found our REGISTER the favorite paper there.
We met Mrs John Pine of PleasantOn, who was
visiting her parents. Miss Dosha Sparks has
good line of Millinery goods and is a dress max
er and cuts and fits by charts and is giving
good satisfaction. Mr.. Wood of Osborn's Lum-
Der Yard, is doing land Office business. He
made a flying trip to Kansas City, while was
there and lett Mr.. DeHaven in charge We met
our old friend Miss Mate WillOughby and Matte
Randolph Matte is teaching her first term of
school and is well liked Miss Ona Cox and
sister went to Moran, as Miss Ona is taking mu-
sic lessons of Miss McGlashen. W ID Cox has
an implement store and is doing well. Harry
Willoughby is running Tonsorial Parlor and
dispatches his work in quick order. We met I.
J. Strait from Abiline Kansas. de says Allen
county is as well off as any county in the state,
for out west there is lots of wheat that will be
plowed up and some are sowing oats in their
wheat for feed. MUGGINs.