The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-22
resolution was made the Daughter of
the Post amid much enthusiasm.

Owing to the crowded condition OF
our columns the telephone ordinance
is not published this week. The
Company has accepted it, however,
and is going right along with the
work. The ordinance will be printed
in our next issue.
1. w. SimOns, of Centralia. who
lett lola when boy about twenty
years ago, was here last week to see
the old home again. He was so much
pleased with the Improvements that
had been made and with the pros
poets of the town that he will prob
ablp return here to live. His father
was @ w. Simmons. and was one of
the company that bored the Acers
well. He is still living and is in
| Tennessee.
The school board has adopted 1.-The
Natural Music Reader for use in the
city schools, and from this time on
music will be as much a part of the
regular course as reading or gram
mar. The books are published by
the American Book Company, and
one of the conditions of the adoption
is that Prof b. S. Hoagland is to
come here at the expense of that COM
pany and give instruction in music in
all the school rooms for two weeks.
He is expected to commence the work
next Monday. All of which is all
right.
We hope an epidemic of painting
will strike lola in the spring. Strang-
ers judge a town as much by the
looks of the houses as by anything
else. 1t would be mighty hard to
convince a visitor that a town is pro-
gressive and prosperous when he can
see for himself that nearly all the
houses haven't been painted for years.
Just apply the test yourself as you
walk around lola. Take notice of the
houses you pass and imagine how
much better they would look for a
fresh coat of paint. And aside from
the looks, the paint is a preventative.
as rybody knows, protecting the
house from the weather, and it adds
many time what it costs to the selling
value of house. Get ready to paint
in the spring.
Tho Andrews Opera Company was
here Wednesday night, according to
program, and gave the Pirates of
Penzance to a delighted and apprecia-
tive audience. The opera is not as
amusing as PinafOre or the Mikado,
and hasn't any catchy airs in it.
But it is funny enough and the music
is good enough to make two hours
seem very short, and those who did
not hear it missed a treat that is very
rare to lola. If the weather had been
pleasant the $3.50 guaranteed would
doubtless have been in the house; but
as it was the sum taken in was only
$1,000 and the guarantOrs had to put
up 81 So each in addition to paying
the regular price for their tickets.
But we haven't heard any of them
kicking about it.
1--WE have in mind" says the Bea-
trice, Neb.. Express. speaking of the
value of advertising, "a man who
some years ago started in business in
Kansas. He hadn't much money, he
laid in a stock with part of the sum
he had, and spent the rest in adver-
Using. There was but one newspaper
in the town, and he used a page of
that every week. To day that man
has three large stores in Kansas, two
in Nebraska and one in Missouri. He
advertises tremendously and all the
year round; hc owns every building
he occupies, and recently paid down
$50, 900 in cash for a stock of goods he
wanted. Advertising made that man.
People who fancy this fairy tale will
be cheerfully furnished with the name
and address of the gentleman who
has done so much with printers ink"