The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24

Guilty, HdNlHS OOuE III . liGtlO iol LII
near Mound City. The REGISTER
follows to wish him success in his
new home.
We neglected at the proper time to
report the return of Mr.. /. s. WEIGH,
who has got back from an extended
visit in Illinois. We are sorry to
learn that his health is no better, and
that he is thinking of moving his
family to Colorado.
H. A. Perkins was in our city day
or two the first of the week. He re-
turned from California recently and
has been attending to some business
matters at Olathe. He doesn't like
California and the chances are that
he will go into the newspaper bust
ness in Kansas again in a short time.
Vim Moore, formerly an lola boy,
but now living at Cofeyville, came up
last Thursday to attend the Leap
Year party and remained with friends
over Sunday. Vim has developed in
to fine big handsome man and is a
prosperous lawyer.
Garnett Journal: The lola REGIS
TER claims that Tom Rumley is
hunting location where he can have
natural gas to warm himself by. We
thought Tom would do something
desperate if they kept on cutting up
his bottom fields to make country
roads out of.
After two weeks of warm "muggy''
weather, the wind turned TO the north
Wednesday night and brought an
inch or so of snow and a touch OF
winter temperature. The change was
pleasant to most people, rather than
otherwise. Winter is good time for
winter weather.
The Palmer Oil Company has
bought majority of the interest held
by Geo. A. Bowlus & Co., in 5000
acres of leases Ofland lying southeast
of lola, and will develop it as rapidly
as possibly. Mr. Beatty is not very
sanguine about finding oil in this ter
ritory, but thinks it is all good for
gas.
Union: J. H. Giants has rented the
Nickle Plate hotel and will take pos
session the Goth of January. Mr.
Giants was former landlord at this
hotel, and the travelling public will
be glad to know that he will occupy
it again. His present location, the
Cottage hotel, is too small for his
trade.
The Manhattan Industrialist devoted some
space last week TO a write-up of lola, speaking
of the marble, gas and other natural resources OF
our Allen county neighbOr. 1t concludes by
saying that all those things with a noticeable
absence of billiard halls and similar places
make lola a unique Kansas town. That may
be true but the similar places are there just
the same which completely destroys the uni
queness' of lola in that line.-BrsRsoR Pilot.
Does the Pilot know that these
places are here, or is it simply judg'
ng lola by other towns?
w. l.. Bartels has a most curious
and interesting memento. 1t is five
cent piece of postage currency
which he received from the hand of q
Government paymaster at Little
Rock. Ark, when he was Soldier
ingr in 1864. He sent it home to his
wife and it has never been out of the
possession of the family. Is there
another soldier in Kansas that has
such keep sake ?
Commenting on the REGISTERS
note of last week about the man who
figured il out that this 2l-year-old boy
had cost him nearly $4,000, the Chan
ute World says:
That is the logical result of raising boy in
the new way In the good "old days when
boys were raised with hickory sprouts and bar.
rel slaves the cost was comparatively nothing
Joe Beatty was in from Usage Mon
day introducing himself to his old
friends who didn't know him with
his mOustache off. And the funny
part about it was that the longer you
look at him the less you knew
him. Among other news from his
section he reported that very success.
full religious meeting was being held
in the neighbOrhood by Rev. Howard
of Moran, number of conversions
having already resulted.
Miss Donics, the assistant in the
High School, received notice Wed.
nesday of her appointment to desir
able position in Government Indian
School in the State of Washington
and resigned her place here in order
to accept it. Fortunately her sister
who is a graduate ofthe State Normal
and an experienced teacher, was here
visiting her and she has been employ
ed by the Board to fill the vacancy
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