The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-10

R. j. Rose, of FIT. Scott, Deputy
State Organizer for the WOOdmen. of
the Wsrld, is here this week look
ing after the interests of the
order and visiting his uncle, j. NJ.
Williamson. In company with IA
others MIR. Rose is planning a trip tn
Klondike next epring. The party is
having steamer built and will sail
from San Francisco early in the
spring, expecting to make the entire
trip by water.
Rev. Edith Booker, of Pitts
burg, Kansas, was appointed National
Evangelist by the w. Z. L. U. Con-
ference which recently held a session
at Toronto, Canada. There is salary
attached to the position besides the
honor conferred. Rev. Booker is now
holding q monster revival meeting at
Oklahoma City, Ok, and there is no
building in the city large enough to
hold the people who desire tn hear
her She was in lola last winter and
preached one of the finest sermons
ever heard here.
Late yesterday evening what prom
Used to be a serious accident was only
averted by something approaching a
miracle. The young son of Mr.. u.
Halves was returning to his home in
the southern part of town with loaf
OF Otten's bread, when he fell in an
unused well that had been carelessly
left open. Neighbors hearing cries
for help rushed TO the spot and after
some difficulty extricaIed the child
from his perilOus position. He would
undOub tedly have been drowned but
for the fact that he had loaf of
Otten's Cream Bread which was so
light, as il always is, that it served
to float him until help arrived.
We learned today of an attempt ed
burglary at Humboldt the other day.
a tramp, presumably drunk, tried to
enter one of the windows of DIR.
Flynn's house but the doctor heard
him and got up to investigate. He
got outside and charged the enemy in
the rear as he was half way through
the window. He grabbed the tramp
and held him although the burglar
threatened verbally to shoot him.
Doc ordered the fellow off the premis
es and turned him loose. The next
uC WODt tOMus lDo
tramp still there and had him arrest
ed and brought TO lola. Yesterday
be was taken to Humboldt and tried.
What might easily have been
disastrous fire was smOthered in the
cradle Sunday night. Mr.. Esse came
up town at 8 a. m. to start his baking
operations and as he passed the door
he noticed blaze in Ling's restaurant.
He looked closer and saw that the
floor was ablaze, so he burst the door
open and entered. A spittOon made
of tobacco caddy filled with saw
dust had caught fire from a cigar or
match and had burned through the
bottom and ignited the floor. A
bucket of water stopped proceedings
quickly. Ed. Ling who sleeps up
stairs feels quite joyous today for had
the fire been unnOticed he would
probably have had close call.
Burr COnley returned last Monday
from COffeyville where he has been
visiting his brother, Walter, the past
two weeks. This knocks the wind
out of the story that he had joined one
Of the show trOupes that went through
here several weeks ago. While gone
Burr visited Burlington, Cherryvale,
Parsons and COffeyville and he says
lola has got the bulge on all of them.
They are nearly all larger Towns, but
they do less business. And in regard
to gas, they have no gas comparative
ly. The COffeyville wells are wet
holes and they have to shut down the
brick plant once In while to let gas
enough accumulate TO burn kiln.
In fact Burr says he felt this morning
in lola, like somnambulist just
awakened.