The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-03-11

election of Mckinley, will bring pros
perity to those who opposed as well
as to those who favored 1t.
Everybody says now that lola is
the most promising town in Kansas.
She is going to begin right now to
perform all those promises.
The officers of the lola High School
Alumn Assn are getting on their
thinking caps with view of the
annual banquet due ere long.
Ft. Scott Tribune: w. ID. Mitchell,
formerly superintendent of the street
car line, expects to move to lola where
he Is figuring on going into business.
Chas. Spencer scares everyone by
declaring that the tall chimney at the
smelter will have to be torn down,
because forsooth, it is getting so smut
ty.
Chanute Tribune: The lola Daily
REGISTER has been compelled TO en-
large to a six-page, slx-column paper
to accommodate its advertising
patrons.
Homer Fowler has bought couple
of lots in the northeast part of town,
but is uncertain just where they are
until the city surveyor sights few
corners.
The LanyOns are sinking a well on
the l.. ID. Weisner place one mile west
of LaHarpe, This one will furnish
fuel for the immense smelter going in
close by.
Mrs. G.. l.. Whitaker went to Kan
sas City today to look at laces and
ribbons and other feminine machinery
and to learn the latest styles in wear
ing them.
Bert Mitchell is jubilant because the
three fire losses carried by his COM
panies have already been settled and
the money paid to the losers, who are
also winners.
The Tuesday Club-which is so call
ed because 1t studiously avoids meet
ing on that day,-met at Mrs. Hor'
toms Monday and had the usual
hilarious time.
The Bank of Allen County and the
post.Office building have had their
fronts covered with paint and they
no longer make the Bartels corner
ashamed of its neighbors,
Everybody is rejoicing that the
brick addition to the Thomson house
has been built up as high as the stone
part. That corner is now the sky.
scraping achievement of lola.
The Topeka Capital gives nearly
three columns to a report of Fred
Funston's lecture of that place, prais
ing it highly. 1t also publishes al
excellent picture of Col. Fred.
Garnett Reporter: Sidney Smith o
lola was in the city Saturday AND
Sunday visiting his brother and
sisters before going to Oklahoms
where he has traded for a farm.
1t is pleasant to note the large mum
ber of shade trees which have already
been set out in the north part of town
There are hundreds OF them there anC
elsewhere,-a mighty tiue thing.
The sale of chewing tobacco has in
creased in lola during the recent con
test. Gastric juice and gas hav,
flowed together and a study of thei
relationship would be interesting,
One man expressed his convictions
on the bond question TO another al
follows: I'm going to vote for tn,
bonds If go to hell the next minute.
Such daring is worthy of bette
cause.
Ten ladies, being the exact mum be
in the class, have stopped the REG
IsTER man and informed him tina
they are taking lessons in china paint
ing not in water colors from Mis-
Chamberlain.
The burned corner looks like
boom town in some ways. A littl
cross of a sign board does not stat
the price of the lot, but directs in
qurers to the new location of thu
real estate Office.
X. c. STAR The Atchison Giobe
which has been suspected of havin,
match making tendencies, is tryin,
to marry Fred Funston to Miss Cis
neros. Don't the Lawrence girls ge
in on this at all?
Humboldt Herald II. w. story
who fell here recently during tn
sleety spell, while Santa Fe nigh
agent, has sufficiently recovered t.
go to work and is holding down tn
night job at lola.
Blue Mound Sun: o, II. Bruce anC
family have moved to farm nea