The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-11-18

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rived to look after his business inter-
ests and to visit relatives.
The Chanute papers speak very
highly of the Crows aud report a
large attendance. at every perfor-
nance.
Mrs. Geo. f.. Nicholson and little
boy are at the Pennsylvania hotel
this week visiting Mr.. Nicholson, of
the smelter east of town.
III have good job,n writes Guy
Eckley from Wichita, ordering the
REGISTER to come to him there, land
the only regret Is that / cannot move
1t to lola"
The members OF the lola Fire De-
partment. have been invited to a
Thanksgiving ball to be given at
Chanute Thanksgiving evening by
the Chanute Department.
Garrett Republican PlamdeaIer: Mrs.
Frank Dickey, of lola, arrived Fri
day last, and is visiting friends in
this city and vicinity. They are well
pleased with their removal to lola.
r. f. Trueblood. NJ L. Hudson,
Tom Reid and John Dobbins, of Yates
Center, were here Wednesday to see If
they nan persuade Fred Horton to go
over and bore some gas wells for that
city.
The third harness theft lie that of
Mr.. Howland's, taken Tuesday
Cecil, Morgan, Rowland who'll the
next DR.. Morgan's barn was
broken into and heavy lock
wrenched off. How, when, assisted
by whom, is this to be stopped?
Some men digging a well few
miles west of FIT. Scott think they
struck a big vein of zinc, and Fort
Scott capitalists are falling over each
other to get leases on adjoining land.
A zinc miner was in this office not
long ago and declared his belief that
there was zinc under all the country
In the neigh borhood of Savon burg.
Wish the people down there would
make up a pot and hunt for it.
Judge Smith is quite naturally
spreading his fame abroad as tier
of untieable ties. Tuesday he
united in marriage Jas. McAferty
and Mertie Center, both of Chanute.
This Is not his first couple from that
place and he says a crowd of young
people frequently attend q wedding
and later on another pair comes
around and gets tied up. In spite OF
his popularity the price remains the
same to each and every conner.
Mr.. George Amos, one of the law
yers who has been chosen by the
Temperance League to help prosecute
the whiskey cases has declared him
self to the effect that the prosecutions
shall not be made farce but each
and every jointist shall plead guilty
to each and every count and pay the
penalty thereof or he will go on with
the dance to the prison end. And a
man don't have to be from Humboldt
to know that what Mr.. Amos says in
that tone of voice. he means.
Mrs. H. NJ. Miller says that as she
is chairman of the Relief committee
she felt in duty bound to visit Mr..
Lew Bartels who, as result of the
election, was a very sick man She
consoled him and told him that he
would not die. Mr.. Bsrtles said that
just voting for Miller would not have
caused such "A knock down to him,
but voting the whole Republican
ticket was little hard on his ner.
vous constitution and hence the "ses-
sickness" with which he was afflicted.
Garrett Journal Mr.. Shaffer, of
the lola farmers Friend, was in
town over Sunday, returning from
visit to Ottawa. He reports lola still
adding to her 5000 population, and
mentions weekly newspapers down
there having from 900 to 100 sub
scribers and says these are facts, not
fairy tales. .The daily and weekly
REGISTER employs II persons, all
told, and the four other weekly pa
pers of the town are prosperous. AL
so good job office doing good bust
ness. Mr.. Shaffer makes us wish we
had gas in in our town.
Henry Hockett and f. Chatterton,
of Deer Creek, were i'm town Wednes-
day and reported that the man who |
stole Mr.. Cecil's harness and lap robe
sold the harness to Thos. Kusen bury
and the robe to Ed. Weible. They
say that he is doubtless the man also |
who stole fine team of horses and a
buggy and harness from Jerry Bib
bins on Monday night. The con-
stable of the township arrested the
man once during the day on suspi-
zion, but let him loose because he