The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-09
open communication with G. A. Fronk

open communication with G.. A. Fronk
at Humboldt. DIR. Choguill Of Hum
b,ldt will speak i'm favor OF equal suf-
ffage whether or not q negative speak
er appears. Will the teachers in the
districts adjoining Maple Grove kind
ly announce this meeting in their
schools. Alice K. Pearson, Chm,n.
FOR the first time under it's present
management, the REGISTER is oblig-
ed to announce that hereafter visitors
will not be admitted to the composing
room of this office except upon bust
ness. We appreciate the friendly
feeling which has made that room SO
popular as place of resort. But We
are forced to remind our friends that
the original purpose of the room was
to get work done, and not to furnish a
place for social entertainment. And
the young men who are employed
there are paid to set type and not to
visit with their friends. The young
men quite agree with "the old man.
In this proposition, and very much
pr efer that their work be not inter-
rupted. No printer can set type and
talk at the same time, and every word
that he is compelled to exchange dur
ing his working hours robs his elm.
pl oyer of whatever time is thus en-
gagged. The REGISTER office is prob
ably the busiest place in lola. The
duller times are the harder we all
have to work. We are compelled,
tn erefore, TO ask that visitors to this
office turn to the left hereafter, and
not to the right, and do their visiting
With the editor and not with the
printers. The editor is glad to see
his friends at all times. The printers
must ask theirs to call either before |
seven a. m. or after six p. m.
The Free Reading Room, in the
REGISTER building, spoken of last |
week, was formally opened last Mon
day night, when something over a
hundred men and women gathered as
the guests of the Young Mems Guild
and spent the evening in social enjoy
ment. The young men would have
been glad to have made the invitation
general, but their space was limite |
and so only those were invited who
had boys in their family or who might
be specially interested in the
work. Most of the evening was
spent informally, but after light re-
freshments had been served, Mr..
Adlai Ewing, the president of the
Guild, called for order and introduced |
Mr.. Squier who spoke pleasantly as
to the objects and purposes to which
the room was devoted. In brief, the
room will be a free public reading
room, which will be open every day
and evening, including Sunday after
n DON, and to which every body is in
vited. Books, magazines and the
latest newspapers will be always
accessible, and there will also be
and chess boards for those
who want to entertain themselves.
Mr.. Squier will make the room his
study and " i'll give it to his personal
oversight, but he wants it distinctly
un derstood that there will be no
there. He wants every
body whether he lives in lola or not,
to understand that this is q public
reading room and so feel perfectly
free to come there at any time. At
the conclusion Of Mr.. Squire's talk.
there were brief speeches by others
present after which the company dis
persed. The REGISTER regards the
opening of this reading room as the
proudest and best thing that has hap
pened to lola for many years and it
thinks that two much praise cannot
be given to Mr. Squire, who originat-
ed the idea, and who has established
it and will maintain it at his own per-
sonal expense. The only return he
asks from the public is that they look
upon it and use it as their own,-and
be surely cannot be disappointed in
the outcome.