The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-16


most unexpected Repu blican majority.
Yates Center Advocate: Elder a j
Bell, of lola, went to Buffalo Monday
where he will hold a protracted meet
ing at the Christian church.
An lola man, G. E Durnberger, has
invented horseless carriage. We
suppose it will run with natural gas.
h. G. JOufnaE One A lien county
candidate makes affidavit that he
spent '15 cents for lunch for self f"
AS the law contemplates list of only
such unusual expenses rs are incident
to a campaign, the inference remains
that the man doesn't eat at any other
time.
Frank Gould came OF age the other
day and received $4,000, 900. lola
boys are thankful that they will not
be tempted as that unfortunate young
man will be,-but they are saying
very little about 1t.
For several days the young people
have been skating on the Neosho at
Humboldt, while at lola ten miles
north the ice only formed yesterday
and yet there are Humboldt people
yet living who claim that their town
is as warm as lola.
Mr.. l.. A. Nichols, who spent con-
siderable time here this summer as
representative of the LaSalle Zinc
Company, came in Friday. 1t would
seem that Mr.. Nichols has tlirted
with the tender hopes of fair lola so
long that it would be right and prop.
per for the parents tn step up and
ask him to declare his intentions.
A peculiar commercial battle exists
i'm an Iowa town between hardware
man and grocer. The grocer gives
away q stepladder with every can If
baking powder, while the hardware
man gives away can of baking pow
der with every stepladder. The re
suit of this is that both merchants
are getting lot of good advertising
Lost-Nov. 30th i'm the NJ. f, church
at Moran or between the church and
II. NJ. Cormicks: Ladies pocket book,
containing money and two notes, one
on Rebecca Jones, and the other on j.
II. Thompson d Mary f. Thompson.
| hereby warn all parties against re-
ceiviug the same. Reward given foI
same. Josie Nj. Jones.
Ed. McCool the gas expert" and
an expert masher, holds some gas
leases on Allen county land when
may be valuable and which he ought
to be willing to dispose of at reasona.
BILE figures. You see it's this way
Ed. has about made up his mind tn
make "a protracted visit to Leavon.
worth and they use coal altogether
there.
Stout Patterson finished the new
LaHarpe school house last Tuesday
and turned 1t over to the Board. 1t
is "a handsome two-story building aud
has four fine large rooms which Su
perintendent Billbe pronounce to he
among the best in the county. The
black boards are now being put in
and the building will soon be ready
for occupancy.
When McCool left lola he wore Off a
macintosh of Fred Horizons. Fred
has sent for it hut he says he feels
sneaking about it when McCool
has about paid the bill. When flee.
ing from FIT. Scott, he got Bronson
charge the bill by merely stating that
his name was Fred Horton, the lOla
gas driller,n Fred says there are pos
sibiities in the discovery of the po
tency of his name which he never had
the gall to suspect and which may bt
valuable in time of need.
DR.. Fulton was summoned to the
country near Carlyle Saturday to at
tend the rs year old son of Thomat
J bdii, WbO was luJuItu WHlle ehullb
last night. Young Ball was ON the
Ice on Deer Creek with crowd o
skaters and ran into pile of brush
which tripped him up and threw him
in such a way that one of his arms
was boken in the fall. He was taken
to the house and when the doctor ar
rived the arm was sci and his healthy
young blood will soon heal the wound
LaHarpe News: Wednesday morn,
ing at three O'Clock, Rev. Strsnshar
was awakened by the squalling of the
house cat, which had been forgotten
by the family on retiring, and had
hid upstairs. She came to the foot O
the stairway and Mr.. Stranahar
says he never heard cat squall a.
she did. He picked her up and start
ed out into the kitchen to put her out
when he discovered that the house
was on fire. 1t had caught from the
gas lamn