The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-11-26

Pitts6Wrg Headlight: F. limerick
anu family, old citizens of FrOntenac,
have decided To move to lola, aud are
now arranging To move their house,
hold effects 10 the city of natural gas
They leave many friends in Freute-
nae
a letter was rec iveI by Mr.. Ed.
Anthony Monday containing draft
from the Modern WOOdman of Wau-
kegan. Ills, his old home. Mr..
Anthony was member of that lodge
aud they remembered him in his mis-
fortune. lie is such things as tn s
That prove that "all the worlds akin
Death by foot ball seems to strike
people who have never seen game
as the most awful of calamItieS. OF
cJur-e violent death is shocking, bt t
We venture the assertion that the sum
total of human life is elongated rather
than shortened IN the process. A
dysPeptic editor by careful digging
and computing learns of six deaths
in two seasons. On the other hand
there are an average of thirty young
men in thousand schools engaged
In the game. Six deaths out of 81, 900
Is not 80 dispIopOrtiODate. Further,
those young men submit to fOuI
months or more of severe physical
training. They diet, retire early,
battle regularly, give up smoking,
drinking and all kinds of dissi pati0ns
while in training or they are fired
from the team. To be sure it has
its evils. and they are published
broadcast, but we dislike to SEE a
sport condemned unheard. and the
people who condemn football most
mercilessiy are the people who are
least familiar with it.
Mr. Sleeper informs US that wht n
it comes To selling goods to poop e
twenty miles away" he has had
some experience. During the past
summer and fall he has frequently
sold and delivered wagon loads of
furniture to people living fully twen-
ty miles from lola. AL Ell county
farmers are not SD prosperous as they
have been, but take it me year with
another, their trade is factor sHffi-
cienL 10 cause q glow of content to
cluster around the heart of any mer
chant. In our judgment, lola never
drew trade from so wide territory
as she does now and, of course, the
reason is the knowledge of an i'm
proved market here.
Some three or four weeks ago Mr.. J.
l. Mather, a Florida business man
taking a trip through Kansas, stopped
off between trains to take a look at
lola, OF which lie had heard Sd much.
w. NJ. Knapp happened to meet him
and took him i'm charge, showing him
over the town and informing him
fully concerning its prospects and
resources. The result was that he
was so pleased with lola that he de-
termined to make it his permanent
tome. He accordingly rented the
west room in the Lanyon building
which is now being fitted up to re-
ceive stock of dry-gOOds which Mr..
Mathers expects to put in about De-
cemher In recent letter to Mr.
Knapp, Mr.. Mathers says: 81 am
glad to hear of the manufacturers
coming there. | will certainly do
what l can TO bring business to lola.
for am fully decided to make it my
home and to be one of you to help
build up the place. There is
warm welcome in lola for a man who
comes here in that spirit.
In response to the call in Saturdays
paper, small crowd gathered at the
court house Saturday night to organ
Ize campaign for the city ownership
of the gas plant. A bout twenty-five
or thirty were present, and they
elected Cy McCarty, chairman and
Chris Ritter secretary. Mr.. Ritter
moved that a committee be appointed
to prepare plan of organization and
the chair appointed Chris Ritter, Mr..
jennings and L. L. Anderson. The
latter declined to serve stating that in
his judgment the gas question should
not be injected into the city election,
but that petitions should be circulated
and a special election called. MIR.
Kingsley was appointed on the COM
mittee in his place. Mr.. Van Valken-
berg made a few remarks and moved
to meet again in two weeks. Mr.. f.
Hall made q motion to meet a week
from Monday night and Mr.. Van
Valkenberg seconded the motion. 1t
carried. DIR. Hendricks reached the
heart of the subject by asking if lit
was for the best financial interests of
the town." No one seemed prepared
to enlighten him and the meeting
adjourned.