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


this week.
DR. Karl voegtle was up from Hum
bOldt yesterday.
Gee-Whiz! Wasn't vest erday':
cold wave a scorcherl
Don't worry about the late spring
1t means big fruit crop
There was a great crowd in town
Saturday and all our merchants had q
fine trade.
The sleet Sunday night made a
skating pond out of every sidewalk
Monday forenoon.
Mr.. NJ. H. Eddy. representing the
Witte Iron Works Co., of Kansas City
was in town yesterday.
The election ordinance, passed by
the council last night, is published in
this issue of the REGISTER.
Mr.. ID. Ewart, and his daughter,
Miss May, went to st. Louis Tuesday
to buy their spring stock of dry goods.
tTMr. Rice Adams, of Harrington,
Kans., once a resident of this county,
is visiting relatives and friends near
Carlyle.
Mr.. NJ. l.. Decker, of Elsmore, who
will be candidate for Treasurer next
summer, and a strong one, was in lola
| Wednesday.
Mr.. C.. G. Thomas, clever young
business man of Moran, was in town
Wednesday aud made the REGISTER
a pleasant call.
If there is anyone in this county
who knows how to catch or kill mOles
or gophers, he can get job by apply
ing at this office.
Mrs. John Everhart and daughter
Edna left this week for Eureka
Springs, Ark, in the hope of benefit
ting their health.
DR.. Earl Chastain, with his tall hat,
walked up town the other day with
Mr.. Bert Mitchell. That is the long
and the short of it.
Did any of our bicycle riders ever
notice how much easier it is to ride
up hill at night than it is in the day
time? Try it once and see.
Miss Minnie Brown went to Bsne-
dict last week where she is employed
by the State board of the Christian
church as singing evangelist.
j. H. Hamilton, of Cottage Grove,
was in town Tuesday setting posts
for the fence that he expects to build
around the Office of county treasurer.
J. y. Stephens expects t. start to-
day or tomorrow for Oklahoma. He
will travel by wagon and expects TO
take claim or lease some school land.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church are preparing an attractive
entertainment for the 5th Of April.
Farther announcement will be made
in due time.
lola is the only city of the third
class in Kansas that has a case of the
pink eye. Haven't we been telling
you that we were leading the process
sion this year?
The Union meeting of the Young
Peoples Societies will be held in the
Reformed church Sunday March II at
$50 D. M. Subject, winning 9th
ers" Acts s; 1888.
OssaCdtomie Graphic: The COM
mercial club of lola expects to induce
a glass fruit jar factory and a nut and
bolt foundry to establish plants in
their city this year.
There has been a whole lot of loose
talk in the papers and on the streets
about socialism. Go to the Opera
House tonis bit and hear the I'm biased,
scientific truth about it.
The district court convenss in regu-
lar term next Monday. The docket
is longer than usual, but the lawyers
say it is chiefly wind and is likely to
collapse in a very short time.
John Wise, of Deer Creek, is think
ing of becoming a candidate for county
treasurer And by the way, can any,
body remember when Deer Creek
township had a county officer?
The new law requiring the election
of city marshal, clerk and treasurer,
applies only to cities of the first class.
lola will elect the mayor. eouneilmen
and police judge as heretofore.
Mr.. Leander K. Richardson who has
been in the jewelry store with Mr.. G..
Golf all winter. lett the first of the
week for Muneie, Ind. to look after
some business interests. His wife
will follow soon.
Mr.. Beatty estimates that one
eighth of the product of his new gas
well would heat every house in lola.
If We could only induce about forty
factories to come here and use the
other seven-eighths!
Mrs. Del NOrthrup gave tea party
Yesterday afternoon in honor of Mrs.
L. s. Slower who is to go to Topeka
soon to join her husband. The Occa~
sion was a very delightful one to the
ladies present.
Mr.. Logan Lewis, of Denver, who
bought the Kruger farm on Rock
creek last fall, came on last week
with his family to take possession.
We are glad TO welcome them as resi-
dents of Allen county, and hope they
will find their new home a pleasant
one.
A normal drill for Sunday School
teachers and scholars will be held at
Allen Center school house tomorrow,
March Is, the sessions TO be at ,
o'clock and at 7:30 p. m. Rev. Squier
and Nessrs. Carr and Wellman will
be present and conduct the work. 1t
is hoped that the attendance will be
large.