The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-08
Editor McElroy and DR.. Choguill
were up from Humboldt Tuesday.

Read the school notes bound in an
other column. They are interesting.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Remsberg visit
ed friends and relatives in Moline
} asst week. They returned Saturday.
Mrs. W. G. Allison and son and
Mrs. Sofge, attended the Richards
Parkinson wedding in TT. Scott We'd
nesday.
Miss Sadie Reimert went up to
Kansas City the first of the week and
purchased new furnishings for the
lola Art Studio.
They nave y. Friedman down at
LaCygne and the Journal says he is
on the sick list. That's enough to
make any man sick.
Kansas people who believe that
marriage is lottery" will have to
give up that belief now that the Cub
bison anti-lottery bill has become a
/ law.
Rev. d. NJ. Holtz, Of Moran. is as
sisting Rev. Hunter in series of
meetings at the NJ. f. church this
week. Much interest is beng mani
tested.
Presiding Elder Martin will preach
in the NJ. f. church Sunday evening
and will hold Quarterly Communion
Monday morning This is the last
quarterly meeting for this year.
fiat any time a subscriber fails to
get paper he subscribes for with US
after a reasonable length of time, he
should notify US at once and we will
see that the paper is forthcoming.
When we send several hundred sub
/ scriptions a year to var ious papers,
there is danger Ofmistakes ON our part
as well as on that of the publishers 70
whom the subscriptions are sent.
1t seems to US that we once heard
a wee voice say that advertising
doesn't pay. But there was a man
/ in our office who has been running a
/ big adj. that told US he had been 50
busy waiting on customers he had to
go without his dinner two days. He
said also that he had measured and
wrapped up so many goods that his
ar ms fairly ached. O, no, advertis-
ment doesn't pay, but just you put
something in a paper about somebody,
good or bad, and in two days the ell
/ tire community will know it. Adver-
tising does pay and our merchants
know it, too.
There is, perhaps, 10 other town
in this part of the State that would he
so helpless in case of fire as would
lola. We have been more fortunate
than some OF our sister cities, but we
can't always expect to escape. There
are only three public wells around the
square that can be depended upon in
an emergency, and these are none too
good. If a fire should start in any
building around the square nothing
but the destruction of the building
would save the whole block from
burning. Some day we may have
cause TO regret our carelessness.
George Inness. as postmaster. has posted no.
tees in the lobby az the Office that hereafter
gentlemen viii be requested not To smoke in the
. building while waiting for their sundays mail
Al from
tobacco. but when Il comes secondhand filter
/ ed through a badly deC0M posed set OF teeth,
and Favored with onions. krau; and llmburger
cheese IL : simply unbearable. q" ladies' re-
belleC and hence the OrCer-L1UrtHct HOTit.
That is good move and it is the re-
form that lola is sadly in need of.
Quite a number Of ladies 20 to the
post office here Sundays and we know
it must be very offensive to them to
be compelled to breath tobacco smoke
while waiting for their mail. Let the
gentlemen in the future on entering
the postoffice on Sunday remove their
cigars. Tobacco smoke is very often.
sive.
One of the gayest crowds that ever
went anywhere was the one that went
TO the home of Miss Blanche Richards
on Monday evening. The occasion
being a farewell party in honor of Mr..
John Parkinson. who left Wednesday
for St. Joe, No, where he will take up
the study Of law. The evening was
very pleasantly spent in various
games, cards and dancing. There
were about twenty in the crowd and
everyone was full OF fun and their on
ly object was TO get it out. Refresh
ments were served which were elegant
Among those present were: Misses
Mable Thomas, Clara Klaumann.
Katie Ausherman, Msude Esse. Clara
. and Maude Foust, Eurith Proctor,
} Minnie Speilman and Messrs John
} Parkinson, Lutte Slower, Elmer Me-
, Lain, James Campbell, Tom BOwlus
, Adlai Ewing, Fred Nelson, Billy Nc.
Clure, Bert MeNiel, Maynard Bush