The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-12

Mrs. George Hall, of Geneva town
ship, one of the most successful farm
ers in Allen county, left some money
in this Office Monday to keep the
old thing goiugn She has recently
sold her last years corn crop for Al
cents bushel.
Did you notice the large amount o.
old paper blowing around the street:
during the recent windy weather? Il
everyone would just take little pride
ia cleaning up once in a while. what
a beautiful town we would have In q
little while.
Miss Agnes Robinson has gone tC
IEmpOria to attend the State Normal
during the Spring term. Miss Rob-
inson is a graduate Of our own High
School, and her friends are glad that
she is to have an opportunity for yet
farther study.
]. c. Beatty, of Usage, was a pleas
ant caller at this Office last Friday.
Mr. Beatty shipped four carloads OF
cattle that he had fed during the VIM
ter last week, and struck a $50 mar
ket for them,-which helps him to
believe that it is not so bad a world
after all.
G.. s. Kinney, an attorney of Salt
Lake City, whose wife is one of the
heirs to the estate of the late Joseph
Bond, of Humboldt, has been in town
this week attending to matters con-
nected with the settlement of the es-
tate, all of which have been satisfac-
torily arranged.
il Two Of
| founding of the order of Odd Fellows
and the lola lodge will invite the
lodges of Humboldt, Neosho Falls.
Yates Center and Moran to unite with
them in celebrating the event. The
program will probably be a picnic
dinner down in the Park.
The member of an lola congregation who ex-
! cused himself for going to sleep. during the
preaching service on the ground that he need
ed sleep more than he did the sermon must not
have been resident of the town.-Chdnute
Times.
But he was though. There are so
many things going on in lola all the
time that a man has to watch his
chances to get any sleep at all.
Since our last report license to mar
~ has been granted to George H.
johnson and Ivy SOnger, of Allen
County, and to L. E. Oliver and Dora
Belle AtchisOn, both of Oklahoma
City. Miss AtchisOn formerly lived
in lola for a short time, and is a
granddaughter of j. f. Myler, by
whom the ceremony was performed
The Oklahoma papers speak in the
highest terms of Mr.. Oliver.
The act passed by the late Legisla-
ture changing the boundaries OF School
district 43 in Allen county and % in
NeoshO county, took effect last riday.
The change made consists in deIach-
ing the \. f. ! of section 8 and the n.
W. ! of section ., town q, range 20,
Neosho county from District % in
NeOshO, and adding the said territory
to District 43 in Allen county.
We neglected to note last week
the pleasant evening the Q. @. C.. club
spent with Mrs. w. s. Pieken. They
were delightfully."- entertained, and re-
freshed with an elegant lunch. The
young ladies are loud in their praises
of the royal treatment received at the
hands of their hostess and the even
ing will be long remembered as one
of the most delightful of the season.
XSheriff Ausherman with his usual
alertness has taken the precaution to
have the west wall of the jail strength
ened by lining it with boiler iron.
Heretofore that wall has been very
weak and the work of fifteen or twen-
ty minutes would have liberated those
held in custody. Fortunately the
prisoners never found this out but
now the wall will resist their every
effort.
You never go to a hotel for dinner
but you find some things on the bill
of fare you do not like. Do you there
fore refuse to eat dinner at all and
abuse the Landlord besides Ofcourse
not. You simply take what you like
treat a Newspaper that way? Suppose
you do find something in it once in
awhile that you do not like. Isn't
there enough that you do like to make
n pretty square meal?
The REGISTER is glad to publish
this week a letter from w. H. Nc.
Clure on the gas business. Mr.. Nc
Clure argues with his usual directness
and force for city ownership, and
makes out strong case. His letter
is along the line that we desire,-a
full and free discussion of the question
from all sides,-and we hope it will
be followed by others. The REGISTER
stands for lola first and last and all
the time, and there is always room in
these columns for the fullest discus
sion of anything that concerns her
interests.
The city of Eredonia has recently
granted a franchise to natural gas
company, and here are some of the
conditions:
The said Fredonia Gas Company sgrees to
furnish to the said city of Fredonia natural gas
for heating and lighting purposes for all city
offices free also natural gas free for four street
lamps. TO be placed and located by the city
Council of said city of Fredonia on the mains of
the said FIedonia Gas Company as hereafter
located, provided said city shall furnish and
pay for all the fixtures necessary to carry ont
the provisions of this section, and TO furnish
gas Tor all other street lights for said city and
light and heat for the inhabitants of said city,
for all purposes at the same rate charged IN
other cities in this vicinity where natural gas
is used. both tor heating and lighting purposes.
provided that for mills factories, waterworks
and man ufacturing institutions the rate shall
be special
Mr.. C.. I. Hammell, of Usage. came
IN to the county clerks office Monday
with his assessors book all completed,
being the first township trustee to fin
ish his work. His books show that
old Usage has gained nearly 200 in