The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-03


ideas and trimmings. She is ais
leader of low prices. Special sale to
day and tomorrow.
Jas. Hershberger has put hand
some dressing case in his barber shol
this week. 1t is built of white GAL
and is very fine piece of cabine
work. 1t is great addition to TIT
, already neat shop. Harris & Co
built the case.
Down at Cofeyville they have NJ
rock pile for tramps, but they believe
in the principle of it as they require
tramps who receive help from the
city to sweep streets and fix the side
walks During the past winter 43.
tramps were fed under this regulation
Some of the gardens about town
have peas up far enough to be Guilt
waited. And some of the small boys
and Prof. Picken have gone fishing.
And if water had not frozen in the
back kitchen Tuesday night one
might have been tempted to believe
that spring was here.
While saving down some trees last
Saturday, s. P. Ruble had the mis-
fortune to have tree fall on him in
such a manner as to crush him to the
earth, breaking one of the ribs on his
right side and badly bruising two or
three others. DR.. Chastain was sum-
moned and we are glad TO report the
sufferer much improved.
After copying in.full on its editorial
page what the REGISTER said about
what "dollar gas" meant in lola, the
Topeka Capital said:
The luxury of living in town that has so
many advantages that ii is tedious to enumer-
ating them, even to an editor whose chief Joy Is
enumerating the advantages of his State, is
about the future of lola 1t is destined to be
for all time to come one of the best towns in
Allen county, if not in all Kansas.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The measles were so bad at
LaHarpe that the school had to take
three weeks vacation,-so J. @.
Roberts, the teacher, has got chance
to circulate little in the interest of
his candidacy for the office of county
superintendent. He was in lola
Monday and seemed pleased with the
encouragement he had received,
John Kimmel, arrested some days
ago upon the charge of arson and
grand larceny, had his preliminary
examination before Justice Duncan
Tuesday and was bound over in the
sum of 5000 to appear for trial before
the District Court. He is charged
with setting fire to the barn of Mrs.
M. J. Kitzmiller, of MarmatOn, and
with stealing a horse from the same
barn.
Eureka Messenger: Mrs. Lillian
II. Picken, of lola, recently wrote q
poem for the New York Telegram on
the Cuban question that attracted
much friendly attention. Mr.. Albert
ID. Shaw, editor of the Review of Re-
views, wrote his congratulations to
Mrs. Picken and expressed the opin-
ion that she had the gift to write a
song that would be heard around the
world.
Independence, Kas., March &C.
l.. Bloom has returned from Bourbon
county, where he has sunk several
wells for the Standard Oil Company,
and will begin operations at once in
the field just south of this city, in
which the big Haag gusher was re-
Gently struck. Murphy we'll No. l
proved better than was at first ex-
pected, and four more wells are going
down within 1000 feet of it.
Lone Elm Ledger: The drilling for
oil and gas near Bayard, (the Ross
welD WAS continued until depth of
over 1900 feet was reached. The
well was plugged 500 feet below the
surface, the casing above that point
taken out, the machinery removed.
Beyond these facts little is known as
to whether the prospectors consider
the drilling success or failure. But
it seems that this is the way they
often do in the event of success as
we'll as failure.
We heard man say the other day
that he wished we had never discov-
cred natural gas here, then every body
would be in a good humor with every
body else and we would all be happy.
Suppose we try it awhile anyway.
1t would surely be a whole lot pleas
anter if everybody would say as many
good things about everybody else
during the next month, as he has
said bad things during the past
month. Suppose we try it awhile?
Suppose we all get in a good humor
once, just to see how it feels.