The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-07-23

and may conclude TO locate in lola.
One of the rear wheels of the Penn
sylvania bus ran off near the Mo.
Pac. depot last Saturday and threw
the colored porter out of the window.
He lighted on his head and was not
hurt.
Miss Bertha Peck returned Monday
from an extended visit to relatives
in FIT. Scott. She was accompanied
by Mrs. J. J. Marshal and daughter
leila who will visit her father, Capt.
L. o. Peck, who resides west of the
river.
A jackass in the northeast part OF
town has been making himself con-
spicuous lately by braying long and
loud whenever the mood comes upon
him. Some of the neigh bOrs are kick
ing and there is considerable talk of
assassination.
c. V. Baker, of Cottage Grove, was
in town last Saturday for the first
time since last September. He could
hardly realize that lola is the same
town it was then, and enjoyed trip
through the smelter and to other
places of interests.
Last Friday was E. p. Minors
sixty-sixth birthday and forty OF his
sixty-six years have been spent in
Kansas. He tells some mighty inter-
estiEg stories of how he used to kill
deer and buffalo on the prairie where
the city of Lawrence is located.
Mrs. English, the sister of Fred
Horton, who recently arrived here
from New Mexico, left for her old
home in Pennsylvania to be at the
bedside of her father, who is not ex-
pected to live. Mr.. English and fam
lily will make lola their future home.
The editor of the REGISTER and
his family, including his father,
mother and sister, started Wednes-
day for Colorado where they will
remain until about September l.
They took along an oil cloth cover for
the table in case their cabin roof has
not been mended yet.
We read with interest every issue of
the lola REGISTER, but the gentleman
who has been looking over our ex-
change copy for the lola church
directory will have to write the pastor
there to ascertain his order of services.
Lone Elm Ledger.
No paper runs a church directory
except "to fill up" The REGISTER
hasn't had any trouble this year
about filling up. The merchants have
seen to that.
Rev. Frazier, who has preached so
acceptably at the Baptist church the
last two Sundays, left Monday for
MOrehead. Mrs. Frazier also went to
Yates Center Monday. We under
stand that Rev. Frazier in very much
liked and that he will probably re-
ceive a call from this church. He
will return and preach here next Sun
day when the decisive note will be
taken.
Last weeks Humboldt Union con-
tanned five columns of home advertise
ing, while the REGISTER had Is
not counting locals or legal
One of the reasons that
the trade of lola is reaching farther
and farther out into the country
every day, is because lola merchants
the value of advertising
in paper that goes into more than
half the families in the county.
Prosperity item about an old resi-
dent of Allen County from the Okla
hOma TinaeS-JournaE Monroe Neal
has finished threshing sixty acres of
his wheat, which yielded 1882 BUSH
bis, an average of $50 bushels per
acre. He is still threshing, and all
If his wheat is yielding equally we'll
Mr.. o. T. Watt threshed las acres
hat yielded over thirty bushels per
acre. The average yield in the Nine
Mile valley will exceed 80 bushels
per acre.
In a local notice last week the
REGISTER inadvertently spoke of the
primaries as occurring
next Saturday." which would be