The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-15

session of the Legislature allowing
the city Of lola to vote bonds for the
purpose Of engaging in the gas bust
ness.
"Young Mrs. WinthrGpe,u a pOpu.
! lar society drama. will be given al
the Opera House next Thursday and
Friday. for the benefit of the COrnet
Band. Some Of our best known young
people are i'm the cast, and we hope
they will have crowded houses.
D. l.. Warner, and family. of Gene.
va, were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. G. Esse on Tuesday. The birthday
of Mr.. Warner and that of Mrs. Esse
happen to fall on the same,day, March
~, and it has long been pleasant
custom of the two families to unite in
the celebration.
Since our last report marriage
licences have been issued to Chas. y,
West and Dora Ayers. Humboldt
Chas. q. Lesion, Oklahoma, and Iona
NJ. Garrison, ElsmOre A be Bauer
and DOllie McGinnis, both of ElsmOre
Mr.. Bauer and Miss McGinnis were
married by the Probate Judge
The REGISTER neglected to note at
the proper time the arrival of Miss
Flora Kapp who came out from her
home in Pennsylvania TO spend the
summer with her sister, Mrs. +. :.
Slower. Miss Kapp has many warm
friends i'm lola, and her visits here
are always very welcome ones.
Oklahoma Journal: Prof UmhoItz
has received his subsoil pillow which
he will start on his farm this alter
noon. The Professor proposes storing
the rainfall for the use Of the growing
crop instead of allowing it to- run off
into the creeks His experiments
will be watched with interest.
There will be union service of the
various church congregations of the
city held in the Opera House on next
Sunday at 7:30 p. IN. Rev. w. NJ.
Wellman of Wichita, will preach aud
there will be good music furnished by
chorus choir. You will need to get
in early ifyOu expect to get seat.
The entertainment at the Opera
House Tuesday night given by the
ladies of the NJ. Z. church was sue
cessful both socially and financially.
The young ladies who took part in
the drill and the MilKMaid conven-
ton deserve much credit for the art
full manner in which they executed
their parts.
Two lola firms shipped 40 eases Of
eggs last week. Which means that
those two houses alone distributed
over $500 among Ghe people
who do their trading at lola for the
oiroIn ffnrrn Tho L hnf, Il,
a timid creature but she is worth four
thousand dogs to keep the wolf away
from the door.
The editor of the REGISTER and his
family returned last Friday from To-
peks. The weeks spent at the capital
were made very pleasant by the COR
dial hospitality of the Topeka people.
But we are all mighty glad to get
home again. The longer one lives in
lola the more it seems a waste of time
to stay anywhere else.
The Republicans of the Indiana leg
islature disgraced themselves and hu-
their party all over the Union
by resOTting to violence on the last
day the session to prevent the Gov
veto of a certain bill from be-
ing heard. 1t was a shameful exhibit
ton of small partizanship and will do
the party lot of damage.
Rev. Jas. Hunter will preach the
last sermon of this conference year at
the NJ. E. church next Sunday. His
ministry during the past year has
been successful and so acceptable 10
his congregation that it is their unan
fah rrnAnrafnnA that ha
should be returned. Conference meets
next Wednesday at Burlington,
The Guffey' & Galley well on the
Huffman place near Humboldt was
shot" last Monday, and we under
stand the results were quite encour-
aging. the oil being thrown to the top
IF the derrick. Unfortunately the
we'll bridged over soon after il was
shot, and will have to be drilled clear
again, but this will do no permanent
harm. We surely hope it will prove
% be gusher.
Miss Jennie Sherman, of Ottawa.
who has recently returned from five
years OF missionary service in India,
an hour. at the Presbyterian
church on Wednesday evening with
/ highly entertaining and instructive
ak about India and the work the
are doing there. In
Ipite of the storm, the ch urcb was
we'll filled and the only regret anyone
n attendance had was that every body !
n town could not have oeen there.
Johnny Richeson has read the new
aw and says he is going to quit fish
ng. All the same he says he has |
saved more fish than he has killed in /
he past five years. He is willing to |
wear that during that time he has |
,aught and killed five tons OF gars. |
md he is of the opinion that in five
years longer, if nobody catches any |
yars, they will be the only fish left in |
he river. Our own opinion is that /
he new law is unnecessarily severe. |
We voted against il.
Mrs Rachel Mckinney, aged s6 yesrs. and /
ne of the first settlers of Venango county. died |
{ her home in Salem. near this city on Friday /
light She was the widow of the late Samuel |
lcEinney. born in 1856 and who died in ISL
Ie was q noted patriot and participated in Per-
VS. victory on Lake Erie in the war of 1872 re-
sntry on City Pal Derrick
The aged lady above referred to
vas the grandmother of our towns
nan, J. NJ. Williamson, whom she
cared from infancy, his mother hav-
ng died when he was but three years
Id.
Every one who is cOuveI SAINT with
he circumstances will sincerely re-
ret the verdict in the circuit court /
It Fl. Scott which rendered Judgment /
against the town of Humboldt for /
bout $50, 900 of the old railroad bonds. |
The case will be appealed and there