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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
The Ice Plant.

Three Kansas City boiler maker
are busy riveting the huge plates of
the tank which will be the central
part Of the new ice plant. The tank
will be about 30 feet wide, 80 long and
three high, and will contain the water
which is turned into ice. One car load
of pipe, tested to 800 pounds to the
square inch, is already here, together
with lot of galvanized iron pipe for
the water to run through from the
dIstiller to the cans. Another car
load OF pipe will be required for the
distiller, steam aud ammonia pipes.
The engine, a huge COrliss, with its
boiler, will make car load. The
Santa Fe has not yet put in its pro-
posed switch which would greatly
facilitate the placing of the machinery
as the switch will run right by the
building. When everything is in
running order, the machinery and
pipes will have To be tested which
viii take perhaps ten days. From
then on continuous stream of 300
pound cakes of pure ice will be taken
from the tanks at the rate of from 3 to
5 an hour. The ice plant will run day
aud night as great loss OF time and
labor results from shut down of any
considerable time.
The well having proved failure,
and the Santa Fe having declined to
furnish water from its tank, the water
supply problem l,rs been solved by IA
pumping plant neirg put in. A huge
basin capable Of npid'ug from $4,000
to 100 900 gallons ~ water will be dug
right north of the plant. A pump
will be placed in this and an attempt
made to pump water from the river
and in case this fails she pump will
be placed at the river.
Mr.. Riddle the resident manager is
very pleasant, courteous gentleman
and the lola Ice Plant ought to prove
bOnanZa to its owners and refresh
ing addition to lOla's enterprises.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Increased Brick Capacity.

The lola Brick Company is at last
doing what it has wanted to do for a
long tme-building brick dry
house. There are two frame dry
houses, but the drying process has
been greatly retarded during the wet
weather by the inability to exclude
outside dampness. a brIck house
can he made tight and the moisture
driven from the moist brick more rap
idly,
The present drying capacity of the
two houses is fifty cars each, or over
10000 brick, and the new house will
increase this to nearly 100000. 1t is
ut this very point in the process that
has been the chief cause of delay and
in Wow of the fact that the demand
for brick this summer is going to be
larger than ever 1t Is very wise
move on the part of the company.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
DIR. RUSSELL'S MEETING.
A New Fashioned Temperance Lecture
And New Plan of Temper
auce Work

The Baptist church ought to have
been crowded with men last evening.
1t was nearly filed with women and
children. The men were not there
for the reason probably that they are
tired of hearing old -fashioned temper
ance lectures. The women and child
rem were there out of u sense of duty.
But the men guessed wrong, and
the women and children were re-
warded for their fidelity.
1t was not an old fashioned temper.
ance lecture at all. 1t was simply a
vigorous, straightforward talk, by a
keen, hard headed, tender hearted
thoroughly practical man who has
been fighting the saloon for eleven
years and has learned how to do it,.
And he told the people of lola how,
and told 1t in such way as to inspire
those who heard him with the will to
make the fig bit and the courage to be
gin 1t. The work DR.. Russell is doing
is under the auspices of the State
Temperance Union, but the plan con-
templates local organization which
Is to do its work in business like
common sense way. There is not to
be any sensational crusade. or any
private detectives, or any hired attor-
neys, or any independent political
party. But there will be meetings to
knan mn mn bI L., oanfi,,,ant nj tha,a
will be publicity. Whenever and
wherever the law is violated the
facts will be made known. II an ex-
ecutive officer fails to execute the law
he will be asked to do it, If he fails,
he will be asked again. If he still
fails, he will be asked again. And
every time he is asked, the people
will hear of it. And every time he
fails, the people will hear of it, There
will be no political partisanship in
the movement. But there will be an
effort to create a sentiment that will
demand and secure the nomination of
good men by all parties.
That is brief outline of the plan
DIR. Russell is arguing to the people OF
Kansas withI rare tact, with great
earnestness and with persuasive clio.
quence And it is going to win. 1t
appealed so strongly to the people
at the church last evening that they
pledged $1,000 to the fund that will
be necessary to carry on the cam
paign. II is going to win.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
G. Is. Spencer Il Co.
Where Is Iola's Rock pile ?

lola has a rock crusher and an
abundance of rock but it is only oc-
casionally, very occasionally, that II
load of crushed rock is dumped any
where on her streets. lola has
tramps frequently, very frequently;
as many as five and ten day and
they eat her food and go their way.
Here are two great forces going to
waste and since the crusher is SEEM
ingly forever relegated to the orna-
mental mission, why would it no be
good idea to introduce the tramps
to the rock pile?
This Is no new or original scheme.
Scarcely Il town of any size in Kan
sas is without such method of
utilizing the Weary Willies. A good
rock pile should be maintained at
some convenient point and every
tramp who is able to work VINO sets
his foot within the city limits should
5e arrested, ted and then put upon
1he rock pile and compelled TO do five
TO ten hours work. IL is good for tbs
tramp, teaching him things in the
Zine of industry of which he never
dreamed It removes that terrifying
horror of work which the unknown
always inspires. 1t takes away that
soul destroying habit OF always get
ting something for nothing. And
last hut not least it prOvi les mae
adam for he streets of the
city which is - much needed
&hing. As long as lola and Allen
county continue TO grow at their
present rate tramps will infest this
section Some of them are seeking
work, but the most OF them are mere
~ curious. Had every tramp who
has visited lola during the past six
months cracked up "a hushel of rock
every street in lola could have been
pavEi - at deep.
Th- ia, or Is not DESTROYS so much
of stnrling a crusade against the
tramp "a against the muddy streets
IftwO evils beset you and you car
make one cOunteract the other both
are turned to gOod-all to the
everlasting benefit Of civilization and
morality, set the tramp against
ahe mud.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Farms Wanted

Both large and small, also grass aud
pasture lands in Allen county or any
of the adjoining counties, for cash, if
prices are right. Have also several
good Iowa farms, stocks of mer-
chandise and live stock for land here.
Call and list your property if you
want to sell. A se farm loans at
lowest rates optional payments.
+. :. BENNETT,
Mo. Pac. immigration Agent, Rooms
! and two over New York store.
lola, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Just Like Finding Il.

The Palmer Oil and Gas Co. has
within the past month paid out to
land owners in A lien county over -,
800 on gas leases. The terms of the
leases msde by the company three or
four years ago required one of two
things of it, either to sink n well
within a given time, or pay rental
of 25 cents an acre annually us long
as the lease held. The time has now
come when the leased land is paying
and twenty-five cents an acre is being
received by the land owners. The
company's holding will aggregate
10000 acres and If it holds all this
there is something like $4,000 to pay.
Some OF the land has been proven
lacking in gas or oil aud it may he
let go, and the limit has not yet come
when some of the land will draw a
revenue from this source so long as
the company pays, its lease holds
good, aud because the lease is valua-
bile the company will hold onto 1T.
To be sure % cents an acre Is not
much, hut it means dress for the
beloved wife, medicine for the sick, n
dainty dish for the invalid. 1t is a
premium paid Allen county farmers
10y Providence for being honest, in
dustrious gentlemen, and everyone
reloices that they have received it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
common S hooI Examination.

a group Of youthful beaded forms
was assembled in the court room in
dustriously sucking lead pencils aud
telling what they knew about His
tory, Grammar, Arithmetic and Com
position. This completes the common
school examination, part of which
was taken the first Of the year
The young people We're: Rena
Woods, Nellie Woods, ED. Suther-
land and Fred Dunlap, of Carlyle;
Earl Arnold, Frank Anderson, Flos-
sic Virgins, Florence Virgins and
Carl Ball, of lola; Alice and Mary
Murphy, of Piqua; Maude and Mabel
Ne2ie, Chas. Longshore. Chas. Pow
ell, of Carlyle; Mary Robinson, of
Hum bOldt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Robbed the OraNe.

y startling incident, of which MIR.
John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the
subject, is narrated 10y him rs fol-
lows: II was ia IL most dreadful con-
dition. My skin was almost yellow,
eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain con-
tinually in back and sides, no appe-
tite-gradually growing weaker day
by day, Three physicians had given
me up. Fortunately, friend advis-
ed trying Electric Bitters'; and to
my great joy and surprise, the first
bottle made a decided improvement.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15

In the name of humanity the civilization
dangered American speak
in uba mus stop.
In these
authorize
final termination of hoiies between
establishment of stable
capable maintaining
of
and to aid in the lives the
recommend that the distribution
appropriation he made treasury supplement
have exhausted effort relieve
which =
Prepared
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Made a N of Him.

BRYAN, & .Jan. 10, 1897.
Gentlemen; For years | had been
suffering from indigestion. Had a
poor appetite and could not eat any
thing containing grease and had con-
stantly worn out feeling. After us
ing three SOC bottles of DR.. CALDWELL g
syrup Pepsin | am now able to eat
anything my appetite Graves and can
say it has made new man of me.
ELI BROWN.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
A Bad Burn.

James story, a moulder at the lola
Manufacturing works, was severely
burned last Monday by the eX-
plosion of a mass of molten iron. The
explosion was caused by moisture
having gathered in the mould The
injury will not be permanent but it is
very painful and will keep Mr.. Story
away from the foundry for several
days.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
RHEUMATISM CURED IN A DAY.

"Mystic Care" for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in | to 3
days, Its action upon the system is
remarkable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits: 20 cents.
Sold by all druggists.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
nuoKLEN,s AKNInA SALNr

The best Salve in the word for cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction or money re-
funded. Price 25 cents per box For
sale by G. b, Spencer d Co
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
"a HowIlng Success. I"

Wherever properly introduced DR..
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsln, as a cure tor
constipation, has met with phenom-
email sale Many druggists cannot
say enough in praise of its merits, as
well as it's great popularity with the
people. In l0c trial size and also in
SOC and 81 90 sizes, of G. b. Spencer &
Co.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15

| continued their use for three weeks,
and am now IA well man. | know
they saved my life, and robbed the
grave OF another victim" No one
should fail to try them. Only so cts
pei bottle at Chas. b. Spencer Il Co.'S
Drug Store.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15

l have eggs for sale from Barred
Plymouth Rocks, with half brother 70
Spcer's "Gas King" at the head, and
also from White Plymouth Rock, from
premium stock. Price Sl00 for l3
eggs. delivered at lola. Mention this
paper. A. b. NULL, lola.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Council Meeting.

The council met Thursday night
and allowed bills for the preceding
month, aud Friday night can
vassed the election returns. The Off
cial count showed the same candi-
dates elected as previously stated in
the REGISTER with few slight
changes in maiorties, Messrs. Aus.
herman, Ewart and Munger, the
newly elected councilmen, were pres
ent and were sworn in.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Have You Had the Grip?

IL you have, you probably need a
reliable medicine like Foley's Honey
and Tar oheal your lungs and stop
the racking cough incidental to this
disease. Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Black Lmgshan.

have pure bred Black Langshans
only. viii sell egge that will hatch
Yard No. /, 81 per setting of 10 eggs
Yard No. 2, 81 per setting of 10 eggs,
"a per 100 eggs, So per 200 eggs.
1919 Mrs. 4, II. WHITLow,
Moran, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
II Was Embarrassing then, But it is
Funny Now.

lawr euce Gazette.
speaking of candidates who are
good takers, we recall the eloquence
of John Seaton few years ago, 1t
was on the occasion of the dedication
of the new physics building at the
University. SeatOn was chairman OF
the board of public works and it was
his duty to turn over the keys Of the
building To the board of regents.
There had been a number of excellent
addresses and it came SeatOn's turn,
He arose with the keys I'm his hands
and Charley Scott, who represented
the board of regents, stepped forward
and stood in a receptive attitude.
Seaton bowed and addressed the
chairman. Then his tongue Glove to
the roof of his mouth or got tangled
up somewhe 1t seemed minutes
to the audience before he uttered a
sound. His face clear back to the
crown of his bald head was as red as
a beet Finally he stammered out q
few words and showed the keys at
Scott and sat down. 1t was an en-
barrassing place for Scott, but he
never turned hair. He proceeded
with his speech, which was good
one, as If nothing had happened.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Iowa to Kansas.

As stated a few days ago in the
REGISTER, Mr.. f. :. Bennett had IA
party of Iowa folks here looking over
the country. There were six in the
party and two of them are located and
third practically landed Mr..
savage. an attorney, will bring his
wife and children here, If he can per-
suade them to leave their old home.
MIR. Samuel Harris bought farm
near Colony. Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah
Miller are figuring on section and
half of land, but haven't yet got to-
gether with the owner az to price.
Mr. Wheatley returned home, but
Mr.. Bennett and Mr.. Ames are still
looking. The Iowa people who have
come here have proved very desirable
citizens aud it is therefore good news
that more Of them are located.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
April I, 1895.


Dear Sir:-I have yours OF the 9Th.
II had personal acquaintance with
you, | should conclude at once that
you were endeavoring to play joke
upon me in references TO the fish
matter. Excepting la the imagina.
ton of my friend Fred Nandegrift OF
the Kansas CiIy star, | am not a
colonel, EVEN in the Kentucky sense
of the word, nor have 1 any eX-
elusive right in any herd of catfish
non does my nameappear i'm the Kan.
sas Herd Book. Nandcgrilt used to
live i'm Western Kansas, | think
where ne edited "a country newspaper.
presume he at times went hshing
somewhere along the Republican
river, and as he failed t. catch any
thing, instead of attributing it to his
handsome face (Which by the way
would frighten any Intelligent catfish)
he no doubt laid the blame entirely
upon the tact that had AN obstruc-
ton called n dam across the Kaw
River at Lawrence, Kan, and al
though | had erected "A stairway lead
ing to the top of said dam ia order to
enable the catfish to reach Nande-
grifts neigh bOrhOOd, the fish OBJ
stnately refused to climb the stairs
and congTegated in shoals (Nande.
grit says herds below my dam.
seriously, | am now fishing for men
and not for catfish and II have any
such herd of fish ~ Naudegrift 30
frequently refers to, aud were | TO
give advice as tn how to own and con-
troll similar herd. 1t would he rs
follows: Accumulate n reserve fund of
81, 600 dollars or else he i'm such good
credit a. to be able to borrow tn q
same, find stream similar tn the
Kansas River and at n place where
the stream Is 600 feet in width, build
a dam % feet in width, 10 feet high
and 600 feet long, then, If your stream
IL in Kansas and really has water in
il connecting with the Missouri River,
then below the dam referred to The
catfish will cOngregate and will be
yours provided you catch them. The
catfish in the Kaw River here, Van
degrift says. are all branded with Il
capital "B" just back of the left ear.
As soon as | can catch some small
hoy who has been "puaching upon
my preserves" and is carrying away
string of catfish, If he Is a very
small hoy,-I propose to capture one
of the fish and send hv express. f.. o.
| d., 10 Nandegrift. YOU were really
in earnest i'm vOur letter. having heen
deceived by Nandegrift's etfnrt to he
funny, | will send you the fret mess
| can get under the above conditions,
| 10y express, paid.
You will infer from the above that
the only way to raise catfish, that
know anything about, is nv n hook
and line, or else by the vertical stair.
way hereinbefOre referred to.
Yours truly,
i ID ROWERSOCE
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
Kidney Diseases ,,s,.t the 81 most S;s

eases. Foley's Kidney Cure u guar
anteed remedy or money refunded.
Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
BOWERSOCK ON CATFISH.
The Distinguished and Successful Proprietor
OF the Kaw River Herd Of Cat Fish re-
plies to an Anxious Inquirer.

Hon. I'D. BOwersock, the million
aire Lawrence miller and owner of
the dam across the Kansas river,
also prominent candidate for Con-
gress, has been long pursued by Fred
Nandegrift, of the h. G. Star with
good natured jibes and jokes about
his catfish pond" One of these
jeering paragraphs, alluding to Mr.
Bowersock's "herd of cat fish," at.
tracted the attention of an enteypris.
ing lola youth. He didn't know
that the kansas Notes. man ever
joked, and he had always heard of
Bowersock as a shrewd business man,
and he didn't know why hard OF
catfish was not a good thing to have
and he thought the Neosho river was
as good breeding ground AS the
Kaw, and so he addressed letter
to Mr.. BOwersock inquiring as to his
methods in breeding and raising the
fish
Now Mr., Bowersock IL keen man,
and he has heard of the man who
aimed 80 as to Kill it it was deer
and miss II it was calf His task
was to answer that letter so as to not
be taken in if his correspondent were
joking, and to not lose vote if he
were in earnest. And the success
with which he accomplished the task
proves that instead OF running for
Congress Mr.. BOwersock ought to be
giving lessons to the statesmen of the
world on diplomacy. Here is the
letter:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-15
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets All
Druggists refund the money II II fails to Cure 25c
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-29

Things rms Have Happened 10 . Small
Dog Living at Ramseyis. n. ,.
There Is q small dog named Gyp liv-
ing at Ramsey's. N. j., and belonging TO
Jacob Storms. that has had AZ one time
and another a lot OF lively experiences:
perhaps not as many a. some dogs. but
no doubt as many as dog In Ram
sey's.
Gyp's FIRST experience was with q
passing freight train. which threw him
for a considerable distance. He was
picked up for dead. but found to be
alive after all. No bones had been
broken. and. carefully treated. IL wasn't
very long before he was around again.
With another dog much bigger than
himself Gyp was playing one day In a
shop that took fire.. Not much dam
age was done by fire. but the shop was
filled for q time with suffocating
lying on a bench dead; Gyp. down on
the floor. OF in one corner by q knot
hole, with his nose to the opening. liv-
ing.
Later Gyp fell out of a second-story
window of a barn and sprained one OF
his hind legs. Lying in the o one
day, and Of about the same color as
the dust, he was run over by a team.
and one of his fore legs was broken. 1t
Wdc e dno ooht ~ III nm oa1 49,
due time II healed all right and Gyp
went about with sound legs again.
Gyms most recently lively experience
was with muskrats. He Is a great
ratter, and he has the pluck and grit OF
a bulldog. but the muskrats were Just
a little bit too much for him. They
bit him and tore him and scratched him
and used him up very badly, and poor
Gyp had to be carried home in a Wheel
barrow. 1t vas thought at first that
the right thing to do would be to
chloroform him to put him out OF his
misery, that he couldn't live; but when
il was considered what he q lived
through before IL was thought that he
might come out all right even from
this: and Gyp has justified this expecta-
tion. He il around to-day as lively as
ever. and as sound. barring his teeth
and his tail. He has lost nearly all his
teeth, and the few he has left are loose:
and for a tail he has but a stump or a
few inches. the rest was gone when ne
came to Ramsey's. IL Is believed that
Gyp lost his tail by some lively ex-
perience, and that he has had other
yicissitudes besides those here recorded;
but this is only an account of What has
happened to him since he has belonged
to his present owner.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-29
A Had Bargain.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Look at her." said Jabbs as he jump
ed from his bicycle at the corner where
half a dozen of his friends were watch
ing the procession of wheelmen. There's
a daisy for you. Regular beauty All
the latest improvements; no chain and
strong without being heavy. Nobody has
a better wheel and IL hts me just as
though IL was made to measurements"
Its a fine one" admitted one OF the
crowd. Must have set you back a good
deal for it,"
That's where you're OF. I'm too fly to
pay 500 for a riding machine. Hsin't she
a dandy? And just among ourselves, she
cost me exactly sl1.eo."
"Nor"
That's right. II there's a bargain ly-
ing round loose anywhere you can bet
III ind IL. Nice looking young fellow was
going through here on a tour He went
lame In one leg and staid at the hotel.
thinking hat he would come out all right
again. He didn't. became discouraged.
ran short on cash. and finally offered me
the wheel N I'd buy him a ticket home.
Jove, but she's a corker. You fellows bet
ter let me buy your wheel for you"
Just at this point two detectives came
along. One of them took a look at Jabbs
wheel. went by. made a band wagon
turn and returned. examined the wheel.
compared the number with one in his
notebook. called his companion and the
two led the daisy" on between them TO
the station house.
Jsbbs swore c~opiously and made a bold
start to get out a writ of replevin. but
he thought better of IL and IL now hunt
ing the fellow he made the deal with.