The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-19
the WEEKS NEWS.

w. =. Pryor Is building q large
barn on his lots in the west part o.
town.
Miss Maude Parmenter came down
from Ottawa Saturday and remained
over Sunday.
Miss Sarah Mcclure, of Geneva, ID
learning the photographers trade al
the lola Art Studio.
The ladies of the U. B. church will
serve dinner and supper at q. a. r.
hall on election day. -
w. H. Evans is back from Wash
ingtOn on his annual leave of absence
Everybody is glad to see him.
\ great deal of local and political
matter, and several correspondents
letters are unavoidably crowded out
of this issue.
Mrs. Nora Ellis, of Lawrence, who
has been visiting relatives and friends
in this city the past week, returned
home today.
Kansas City Tribune: Miss Allie
Scott of lola, Kas., who was visiting
Miss Margret Dinwiddie, her cousin,
returned home yesterday.
Mrs. Lola (Smeltzer) Scott came up
from oklahoma City Monday morn
ing to spend a week at home, to the
delight of her many friends.
Miss Nsttie Whitaker, of Colony,
who has been visiting relatives and
friends i'm lola for the past two weeks
returned to her home Saturday.
Capt. Slower and Maj. Foust attend
ed the Old Soldiers Reunion at Erie
last week and made speeches. They
report great crowd and fine time.
G. l.. Whitaker is laid up with a
kick administered by one of his colts
on Wednesday evening. The bruise
is severe and will keep him i'm the
house several days.
Both the east and west walls of
A. w. Beck's large business building
have proven defective, and will have
to be taken down and rebuilt. The
work was begun yesterday.
DIR. w. L. Linn, of Fit. Scott, was
shaking hands with his many friends
on our streets Tuesday. We hardly
knew the DIR. on account of his having
that long, beautiful beard cut Off
The work on the oil we'll on the
Northrup place is being rapidly
pushed; they have already gene down
five hundred feet and Wednesday
night a small flow of gas was struck.
Members of the choirs of all the
churches i'm the city, are requested to
meet at 7:30 p m next Saturday i'm the
Presbyterian church, i'm preparation
for the coming Sunday School conven
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jacoby came
down from LecOmpton yesterday
morning in answer to telegram an
nouncing the serious illness of his
mother, who, we are sorry to say, is
very low.
The marshal has given notice that
after tomorrow live stock shall not be
allowed to run at large within the city
limits. The congregation will rise
and join in singing the Long Metre
DoxOlOgy.
The editor is away from home three
or four days of each week Saving the
country" and trusts that the readers
of the REGISTER will overlook any
shortcomings in the paper until "the
cruel war is over"
Mrs. c. r. Wright, of Humboldt,
will preach at the Christian church
next Sunday at II a. m. and at Z p.
m. Morning subject, "Women with
the Gospel" evening subject "Women
without the Gospel"
The Junior Endeavor society OF the
church held a social i'm
the Guild Reading room last Saturday
afternoon. About 80 were present
and from the noise they made a most
delightful time must have been had.
r. H. Brown has returned home
where he went to settle up his fathers
estate. HE friends are glad to know
that he will receive considerable
as soon as division and sale |
can be made.
Stout Patterson has traded his |
north of the public square to
r. H. Bennett for the furniture in the |
Hotel and has taken
charge of the sa1 9. Mr.. Patterson |
will make a good landlord and the
wishes him success.
Wednesday evening A. o. Allen,
our enterprising Racket" man, got
on his horse to take ride. The horse
got scared and became unmanageablel
and threw Mr.. Allen of. breaking one
of his fingers and hurting him inter-
nally, from which he is suffering very |
much.
A year or two ago we loaned fell |
low some money to pay for his mar
rage license. We wondered why he
never paid us back, but we see now
that he has applied for divorce, and
that makes it all clear. He consid ers |
that we did him an injury rather than
a favor.
Oklahoma Times-JOurndt: Mr.. w.
A. Scott, brother of A. G. and w. w.
Scott, has been nominated by the Re-
publicans of Lincoln and POttawato-
mie counties for representative. The
is great compliment, as
Mr.. Scott has represented the district
once in the legislature.
We had a pleasant call yesterday
from J. \. Moore, of ClawsOn, o., who
has been here looking after property
interests. Mr.. Moore says that his
section of Ohio suffered much more
severe drouth this year than we did,
and that there is much more talk of
hard times there than here.
Luther Foust, wife and son, of Will
Ind, brother ofOscarFoust,
who have been visiting in this city the
past week or two, returned to Chicago
yesterday where they will visit few
days before going home. Mr.. FOust
is a train dispatcher on the Pennsyl-
vania Central railroad and is q very