The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-10

town, to trade for Allen county land.
Apply at this office for information.
Don't forget the Rebekah entertain
ment to be given the Oath and 18th of
this month. The program in the
evening will be rendered by little
children and will be very interesting.
One of the prettiest and sweetest
tone pianos we ever saw or heard is
the Clough & Warren piano lately
received at Mr.. Beck's ware room. 1t
is an instrument that any man might
be proud to own.
Have you a good picture of every
member of your family? If not can
you afford to put off getting one? The
lola Art Studio, in the Marble Block,
has all the latest methods and guar
antees satisfaction
Mrs. Madeline (ColbornJ McKissick
and Mrs. Jennie (Colborn) Moffit and
baby of Wallace, Idaho, arrived
Wednesday and will visit their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. COlborn.
They have scores of friends in lola
who are glad to see them.
Union: Mrs. William Cunningham
was down from lola Wednesday. We
understand that Mr.. Cunningham
has rented rooms over NJ. L. Randalls
drug store and that he and wife will
soon occupy them. We will be glad
10 welcome them back to Humboldt
again.
The little house occupied by Geo.
Washington, colored, in the north
part of town owned by DR.. Tozer was
destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
Every thing in the house was burned
except few bed clothes. The fire
was caused by the explosion of a
lamp.
Topeka Mail: Mrs. Lillian H.
Picken of lola, Kan, recently con-
tributed to the New York Telegram
poem ridiculing the recent exhibit
ton of political "Jingoism" srelative
to foreign affairs. Albert Shaw, editor
of the ReUie1O of Reviews, has written
her, warmly commencing the pro-
duction.
We neglected last week to call at
tention to the advertisement of Pat
terson & Thomas who appear for the
first time as dealers in lumber. The
long experience of both members of
the firm as contractors and builders
qualities them well for the lumber
trade, and they will no doubt. get
their share of the business.
independence, March 27.-Parties
from Havana are in town and report
the oil lately struck as flowing 75
barrels daily, and the Murphy well,
five miles northwest of this city is the
strongest flowing we'll and finest oil
in the State. Oil experts claim the
largest body lies south and west of
this city. Several eastern oil COM
panies have men in the field leasing
land.
"Pompey" Thompson climbed onto
Santa Fe freight train the other
day to ride up to the junction, and
was sitting on the roof of the ca bose
when one of the brakemen, with an
busive epithet, threatened to kick
him off. "POmp" got in his kick
first, landing on the brakey's jaw so
hard that he broke it and knocked
the man off the train. He was pick
ed up and taken to the hospital at
Ottawa" That is the story that is
going around town but the brakey
said yesterday it was all mistake.
There is a boy in this town that
you would do we'll to keep your eye
on. His name is Lawrence Wheeler.
He is only twelve years old but he
is the oldest or nearly the oldest of a
family of seven children and his par.
ents are poor. But that boy is q
rustler. I'VE got acquainted with him
nearly year ago when he began to
strike US for jobs. And ever since
then we have never seen him when
he wasn't busy, either doing some.
thing or hunting something to do
We never saw him sneaking around
a corner to smoke cigarette, and we
never saw him loafing or heard an
idle or insolent words from his lips
For long while he sold cobs around
town wherever he could find a custo.
mer, but here of late he has taken the
oil wagon and is going to see what
he can do with that. He has nc
horse ofhis own, but he told US in g
simple and unaffected way that ..sev.
eral men had offered to help him buy
one. OF course they have. Don't
you suppose that every man in town
who knows that boy is his friend
and wants to help him along? Hi:
family has lately moved into town
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