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

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the state.
J. w. Everhart and daughter, Eta,
went to Humbo to visit with Chas
Hsuser few days,
Miss Mira Grisamore came down
from Colony Sunday to visit her sister
Miss Ida, few days.
Five high school students at Abb
lene ate frosted watermelon and four
are dead In consequence.
Ed. Cummings and Miss Shank
we're over from Bourbon county Sat
urdsy and sunday and took in the
show.
Mrs. Grafton, of Msnitou, Colo,
who has been visiting here, returned
from q visit with relatives at Carlyle
and Lone Elm Saturday. :
LaHsTpe News: John O'Meara re-
turned from q trip to Illinois last
week and brought his five motherless
children back with him.
Barney Sullivan left Monday
with drilling outfit and Will sink a
water hole on one of the Judge Knox
farms III Salem township.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Searles, Of
Lawrence, Kan nre visiting his Sic
ter, Mrs. Chollette, and brothers
Charles and LOTUS Searles.
Mrs. f. f.. Smith returned Saturday
from her visit back east. Before com
ing home che had pleasant visit
with relatives in Kentucky.
IL. Klaumann opened up box of
cheese Saturday and among sothefs
found a Swiss cheeze weighing l40
pounds. 1t is as large around as a
tub and the perfume contained with
i'm it's rind is capa BILE of covering seven
states with thick coat.
The slot machines, so common in
the cigar stores now, must go. The
District Court of Usage county has
held that t-withstauding every
person got his moneys worth, there
was an incentive that made il a game
of chance, aud every person using
such "A machine maintained u gamb-
ling device and was amenabls to the
law.
ChaBIte Tribune: All the women in
Chanute who do their own baking
had just put their bread and pies into
the oven 10 bake yesterday when the
"gas went out" The worst feature
OF this was that the Tribune got the
blame foT 1t all, as the paper stated
that the gas would he turned eff on
Thursday and here it was only We'd
nesday
The Committee of Fifteen, who
have at heart the desire to drive the
Illicit sale Of liquor from tas city,
have employed MIR. Travis Morse, of
lola and Mr.. George Amos, os Hum
boldt, to assist the county attorney
in prosecuting the cases which are
to be tried this term of couFt, MIR.
Amos once upon time "sot out" TO
close things up in Humboldt and he
did.
The teachers met at Prof. Hull's
guesses upon the first day's enroll
ment, made the week beforB school
! commenced were opened. Miss
Mitchell and Miss Adams each guess
ed S25. which was nine short of that
mum ber, S34 The others varied from
700 to 1000. Miss Esse, Miss Brown
and Mr.. Swonger made the widest
guesses, 1000, 00S and ZOO. and will
probably banquet the rest of the
teachers as result.
Hardly day passes that some one
of the Kansas City or Topeka papers
does not contain one or m ore illusions.
to lola based upon something that APP
psared In the columns of the REGIS
TER. All the material for the big
write-up of lola in Sundays WOFld
was obtained by the Worlds special
correspondent in the REGISTER Office
and much of the article is taken
bodily from articles that have appear
ed recently in the REGIsTER. A
large part also of the matter relative
to lola and to our gas field which has
formed part of the advertising cir
culsrs sent out by our real estate
firms has been used substantially as
it first appeared in the REGISTER.
All of which is mentioned here
merely as evidence that this paper
is considerable factor in spreading
abroad the fame of lola.
When Mr.. Bennett brought in the
copy for his advertising circulars he
thought 5000 would be all he would
want. When he saw the proof he
raised his order to 10000. And when
| he saw the finished work off the