The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-07-22
kLAUMANN, THE LEADER.

Twentieth Kansas regiment now at
San Francisco are engaged. This
rumnr will do to death all the enthu-
siasm of the younger members of the
Army Relief Society. They are will
ing to sit up nights making house
wives for the soldiers and incidentally
preparing themselves to become the
best of housewives, but there is a
chronic indisposition to making house
hold nicknacks for the use of some of
san Franciscos "bold, scheming,
pie-faced Misses" 1t was a very diff.
ferent kind of an engagement the
boys talked to their Kansas girls
about on the eve of departure and the
latter would like to see the boys live
up to the articles of war.
Two colored men from Humboldt
drove up sunday afternoon and tried
to set the town on fire by the friction
of their buggy wheels az they turned
! corners. Both of them were well
"organiZedn and the bay pacing mare
was making valiant and praise
worthy attempt to get out of range of
/ their breath. She was a gOer and
1 she made fast time around the square
several times. When Mann and
Lucock stopped proceedings. The
drivers declared 1t was impossible
to hold the beast and were finally
] oil 70 on thair
home. As matter of fact there are "a
great many horses around this burg
which have been taught to expect To
put in their best ticks iu town and a
few arrests would he desirable thing
for the drivers, beasts and pedes-
triaps.
At the conclusion of a private letter
to the editor of the REGISTER, MIR.
II. b. stevenson tells something Of
the pleasures of camping out at Elk
celsior Springs, Mo. ~ have written
under considerable difficulty, sitting
on the ground in the shade of the
prettiest spot on earth, guess. Our
family numbers fifteen and we are
only having one difficulty at this
time, viz. adjusting our estimates for
commissary to the requirements OF the
next meal. Appetites are unbounded
and fun for the youngsters is furious.
They see so much to do and are try
ing to do it all at once. The weather
Is delightful We are to have a
Chautauqua uext month with Ingalls,,
sam Small, ex-Gov. Peck, Gen. Cor
don and others on the program
Justice Wheaton and a jury spent
all day Monday trying suit
brought by |, w. Hull against :. e..
Pettigrew, for tearing down fence.
1t was a state case and was tried with
all the dignity and care which would
be given murder trial. The evidence
showed that the defendant while
hauling a load of oats, had to mire
down in slough where the bridge
had been removed, or drive through
Hulls farm, and to do this he took
was replaced and the defendant was
able to regain the road father on,
there being no fence at all. For this
suit was brought, both sides paid
nice attorneys fees and the county's
cost was over $40. The jury very
properly returned a verdict of "not
guilty"
Topeka Capitals The county COM
missioners of Allen county have
granted to the lola Rapid Transit COM
pany the use of the highways for the
purpose of constructing a street rail-
way line connecting the towns of lola
and LaHarpe, and the work will be
commenced in the near future. The
line will go through the smelter and
the factory district, and the REGISTER
says that within three years the fac.
tories will be so thickly placed that
only the best informed on the lola
Rapid Transit line will be able to tell
where the city of lola leaves Off and
the town of La Harpe begins" 1t has
not yet been decided what power will
be used, but it will probably be cleo
tricity, There is probably no town in
thestate of Kansas which has any
more natural advantages than the
town OF lola. Her people ought to
hunt up the man who is responsible
for the location Of the town, and if he
is still on earth do the right thing by