The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-03


Mrs n. Hankins, On their way home
from a Thanksgiving dinner with
relatives IN Fl Scott. They will visit
here several days.
Miss Ne lie ColbOrn's occupation at,
Campbell d Christians is one that
will appeal to the youthful feminine
heart. All she does is to sit aud
make dresses for dolls,-just the dear
est. sweetest little angels.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Funk hOuser
started thi morning TO drive TO Inde
pendeuce where they will visit rela-
tives for week or ten days. The
children are already there and will
return with their parents.
Ed. Wilson'S store at Kincaid was
burg iarized twice within a week re-
Gently and quite quantity of goods
taken Looks as 10 they might have
taken all hey wanted the first time,
or tried some one else the second time.
E f. Caldwell, of Lawrence, WAS in
lola Saturday looking. as be said, for
our boom He admitted when on the
ground that it was of almost too
colossal proportions to view at such
close quarters He saw it, however
j. H. Wilson is entertaining his
brother, Mr.. s. L. Wilson, of West
Virginia, who lie making his first
visit to to the West. The REGISTER
enjoyed pleasant call and should be-
much pleased to see Mr.. Wilson To-
cate here.
P. G. ESSEX, the leading Attorney
of Golden City, Mo-, writes: "Have
been troubled for years with Blind,
Itching and Bleeding Piles, and one
box of Beggs German Salve cured me
entirely. G. b. Spencer q Co., North
Side Square.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Creighton of
Canton, o., are visiting Mrs. Creigh-
toms father, Mr.. :. NJ. Jennings.
Mr.. Creighton is greatly pleased with
the country about lola and is think
ing strongly of buying farm and
locating here.
The dinner given by the Baptist
ladies Thanksgiving was q success,
gustatorily and financially, a good
dinner being served and $34 IS realiz
ed. There were so many baskets of
fragments that the ladies served sup
per Friday night.
Miss Tauntie Roll, daughter of
Mr.. J. w. Rail, of Carlyle, arrived in
lola Monday for a short visit with
Mrs. r. r. Claiborne. She spent her
childhood at the home near Carlyle
but how enjoys an excellent position
as typewriter in Chicago.
The county correspondents have a
good deal to say about the determine
ton and persistency displayed by
some of the farmers i'm blasting wells
That's nothing. We know of men
here in town who "blastn their wells
every time they think of them.
Some weeks ago Ord Christian
pushed the button in a penny-in the
slot machine and chunk of candy
fell therefrOm. Someone's penny had
| failed to work and Ord has resped the
| benefit. Since then no power can get
| him past a machine until he has tried
| it.
The water famine is almost as great
a drain on the country as a standing
army. The per centage of able bodied
men required to haul water is grow
ing daily and at the present rate one
half the population will soon be de-
tailed to quench the thirst of the 9TH
er half.
w. d. Jackson will sell at his farm,
three miles south and one mile east OF
La Hsrpe, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 1897,
some horses. mules, colts. two milk
cows, lot of farming implements and
| fifty shocks of corn. For terms and
particulars see bills from this office.
Ewart auctioneer.
D. F. Daniels, near Bayard, has had
stock well sunk on his place. At a
depth of ninety feet strong flow of
water was struck and considerable
gas-enough it is hoped to light and
heat his house. The water is strongly
impregnated with sulpher and con-
tains very little salt.
Mr.. DIED Kerr, of MarmatOn, came
in Monday to make his annual settle
ment with the REGISTER. He says
that Mr.. Paske's and MIR. KOhler's
deep wells are the salvation of his
neigh bOrhood as hundreds of head of
cattle are being watered from them
and scores of families supplied.
Mr.. Owensby, a travelling claim
agent for the Missouri Pacific, was in
lola yesterday getting the particulars
of the killing of Earl Williams, No
vember 10th. No suit for damages
has yet been filed so far as we can
learn, but the company has learned
by past experience to prepare in every
case.
Marriage licenses were issued as
follows: On Nov. %, to ThOs, NJ.
! StOvall and Gertie Sanders, both col
ored of lola; OH Nov. % to w. H.
Perryu, of Americas, Kas., and Eta
NJ. Carl, of Bronson. and w. K. Ay-
ling and S. Lois Rutledge, both of
| lola.
Homer p. Fowler, Register of Deeds
| elect was in lola last Saturday making
| the preliminary arrangements for TAX
! ing charge of his office. AS his boys are
large enough to run the farm, with
his occasional visitation and advise,
he will not bring his family to town
for at the least the fret year of his
| term.
The Olathe Mirror says the potato