The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-19

3 proud. Each member is q musician
of much more accomplishment than
the average Kansas bandman; polish
: ed and urbane in manners, painstak-
ing in trying to please, make this one
of the few crack bands of Southern
Kansas. The people of Yates Center
were well pleased with their music,
r and nope that again we may be faY.
: Ored with a visit from them.
Gus Krannich has returned from
the Strip where he has been for some
time looking after his business in
terests. He says that it began to
rain down there Sunday July and
, kept it up until Friday night, and
f that the crops all look fine. He also
says that he saw Hasler, the tailor
who left lola some time ago leaving a
great number of creditors, and that
he has been carrying on the same
kind of trade down there until re-
Gently when the people got-onto him.
Fred Wharton, the foreman of the
Beatty oil gang, came very near los
ing his life by asphyxiation last
/ Thursday. Mr.. Wharton and Mr..
Casey were in the gas house replac-
ing some pipes so that the gas could
be turned on the new lime kiln, and
did not notice that theIe was a large
quantity of gas escaping until Mr..
Wharton dropped over unconscious
and apparently lifeless. Casey car
ried him as far as the door and then
called for help which soon came and
they carried him out away from the
gas house. As soon as they got him
away from the gas house, out in the
open air he began to revive and in a
few minutes he was all right. 1t was
certainly very narrow escape.
w. :. Pryor came over from Fl.
Scott Wednesday and will remain
several days plumbing the depot,
which will be heated and lighted
| throughout with gas, and also putting
gas into a number of other houses
about town. He has not yet finished
/ the well he has been at work on over
at Scott. He says they found no gas
at all, and that the flint, which is not
struck here under 1900 feet was found
there at 800. The company is having
him go deeper than originally intend |
ed, but he thinks they will find
nothing except possibly sulphur
water. He SAYS that as soon as his !
contract there is completed he will |
bring his outfit back to lola and bore
another gas well on the lot just south /
of Judge Christy's, which he has |
bought for the purpose.
Judge Smith has a vigorous kick /
coming against somebody. The re- /
port has got out some way that he
furnishes the license and performs /
the ceremony both for $500. That is 4
not so. The regular fee for the license I
alone is = and if. he ties the knot also .
that is over and above extra OF /
course he does not pretend to say how |
much extra. He leaves that to the /
discretion of the bridegroom, the .
plaintiff in the case, as it were. If
the man thinks the job is worth only /
fifty cents. why that is his look out 4
aud all the revenge the Judge takes
is to add to the usual formula, "And |
may God have mercy on your sOull''
But TO do the job free, that is more
lhan the ordinary probate flesh and
blood can stand, and the Judge
wants it plainly understood that it
don't go.
In response to invitations, about
twenty-five ladies assembled at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. II.
Brown Wednesday afternoon to assist
Mrs. Brown in celebrating her 50th,
birthday The afternoon was pleas
antIy spent in social conversation the
chief topic being their girlhOod days.
Mrs Brown was presented with "a
fine plush rocking chair, very APP
propriate and most acceptable gift.
Refreshments were served at the
proper time and about six o'clock the
guests departed wishing their hostess
many more such birthdays. Among
those present were: Mesdames Miller,
Fryer, Young, Wood, Northrup,
Stevenson. Reed. kreuter, Styers,
Jennings, Henderson, SOfge, Funk
houser, Moore, Potter, Tozer, Will
Hanson, McClain, Shaffer, Robinson,
Monfort, McCloud.
\ piece of new furniture in the
court house is suck a rarity under
our economical Republican abminis-
tration that when a piece makes its
the office, in charge Is
deluged with questions about it.
The latest acquisition is big double
desk in the treasurer's office, and in
order to economic time the treasurer |
has a large card which he hands to !
every caller. upon which is written
the following information: 81. Yes sir,
this is a nice desk. >. Ira Patterson
made it. s. 1t cost $500. t. The
county paid for it. 5. We just got it
Saturday. 6. The paint is not dry or ,
we would be using it. Z. 1t will have
a new cover soon. s. The old desk
will be put back in the y. w. corner /
of the office. 8. The lower door on the ,
left will not open because it is stuck ,
on itself. 10. A. l.. Taylor furnished
the lumber. IL. The top is ash from
Tennessee. The two foregoing items {
are in Mr.. Taylor's handwriting and {
we shall charge them up to his adver- =
Using account at 10 cents line.) i.
No we do not use type writer"
People never get worked" so often
but that they are easy victims for
the next fakir. \ couple CT men !
were in town Tuesday selling soap.
They were very anxious to have the !
soap introduced. aud if the lady
would take dollar worth of it and
try it and recommend it to her
friends the company as a mark of
their appreciation would present her
with a set of fine china ware, not as a 8
bride or any thing of that sort, but
merely because they were convinced
that money thus spent brought bet {
ter returns than if put into news- {
paper advertising. The lady nearly I
always wanted the china, and 80 the
men did rushing business here until
Prof. Picken heard that they were :
using his name as reference when
he started the marshal after them, Z
and they left town hurriedly. The