The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-08

lola has cider factory that makes
over 100 barrels of cider day.
Over 100000 was expended in i'm
provements in lola the past year.
The county pays over $780, a year
for salaries of public school teachers.
The first permanent white settle
ments were made in Allen county in
1856.
IOla's natural gas is bound to make
it one of the best cities in Southeast
Kansas.
In 1865, ten years after the first set
Element, Allen county had a total
population of 2,737.
GrasshOppers destroyed the crops
in Allen comfy three different years.
1861, 1866 and 1874.
Over 200 farmers in Allen county
are out of debt and have made small
fortune out of their farms.
You can get all the natural gas you
need for fuel, delivered in your house,
for as cents per month for each stove.
There is practically no bonded
school debt in Allen county. The
total amounts to only $4,000.
Forty new houses have been built in
lola within the last six months and as
many more are under contract. II
Allen was at one time considered
the best county in Kansas for deer
hunting. The woods were full Ofdeer.
lola got it's first railroad, the L., l..
& G., in October, 1870. The town eel
ebrated the event with bonfires and
speeches.
The city of lola will be SO years old
in January. 1t was laid out by a
town company, of which DIR. J. w.
Scott was president.
The United States land office for
Southeast Kansas was established at
Humboldt in 1861. It was moved
there from Fort Scott.
In 1894 Allen county had 1896
horses, 17,O86 cattle aud 1915 hogs.
The total assessed value of live stock
in the county was S779 ,844.5O.
The United States district court was
in session in 1857 at town in Allen
County called COfachique. No such
town is now in existence.
Allen county sent as delegate to
help form the present constitution of
Kansas J. A. SignOr, resident of
Humboldt, and surveyor by occupa-
lion.
AS many as forty slaves were owned
by pro-slavery settlers in Allen
who came from Missouri in
he sos, but most of them were after
wards liberated.
The city of Humboldt was burnt by |
he Missouri guerilIas in October, 1861
he rebels claiming that it was in re-
for the burning of Osceola by
General Lane.
The total value of farm crops raised
n Allen county ia one year, as shown
,y the census of 1894, was 81 All, 317.79,
n SI10.5O for every man, woman and
.hild in the county.
Gas was first discovered at lola IN
81 by h. w. Acres d Co., while drill
ng a prospect hole for coal. Nothing
vas done, however, to develop the find
or fifteen years after that.
Hon. E. H. Funston, the only man
Alien county ever sent to Congress,
vas first elected to the legislature
rom Allen county in 1872. He was
lected speaker of the house in 1875.
The Mail and Bre' &c is in error in
is statement that Mr.. Funston is the
My man ever sent to congress from
Allen county. John K GOodin, since
deceased, was elected from this cOun-
Y as an independent on the reform
vave of 1874, aud served one term II
I'd. REGISTER.
The town company of lola was in-
by the bogus legislature of
S55. The same legislature incorpOr-
ted the town companies of Atchison,
'aOla. Fort Scott and Marysviile.
The first cabin on the town site of
ola was built by d. w. Payne. We
re not certain whether this was the
aptain Dave Payne, afterwards noted
, tfle great Oklahoma boomer, or nor.
The first county seat of Allen cOun-
: was Humboldt, which was organ
ed by colony of Germans in 1857.
he town of Geneva was established !,
ne same year. lola became the coun-
: seat in 1866 II
The present population of Allen
lunty is Il, 600: the number of acres {
taxable land. S2O.645, and p total
ssessed value of property in the c0uh- ,
2 s., 376, 160. The actual value o. ,
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