The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-27
PROSPEROUS lola
Indicated BY the Amount Of
Building in Progress
$4,000 in ImprOv-
mentS.

When lola got her first smelter
few short months ago she awoke from
a sleep of ten years duration and be- |
gan to shake off the old fashioned |
ideas which we're in vogue at the |
time when she closed her eyes. The |
beginning was slow, but gained |
head way rapidly and soon got into
full swing. For year the growth |
and progress continued and a number
OF doubling Thomsses reiterated their
prediction that 1t could not last. At
that time the REGISTER. the Off
cial secretary of Prosperity's doibgs
in the city, gave resume of what
had been accomplished. The Robert
Lanyon's Sons Spelter works, the
w. d J. Lanyon's Spelter Works,
the lola Manufacturing Co.'S. Works,
the lola Creamery and the lola Brick
Plant were the chief actors in the
story at that time. The fact that
lola has 100,00O,000 cubic feet OF ma
tural gas on tap daily was also very
prominently mentioned. The little
country town had jumped from
population of 1900 to 200. Another
year has passed and it might be well
to mention the fact that lola is full
filling the prediction of the REGISTER
and is living up to the expectations
of her most ardent admirers.
During the year 1897 the population
of the city increased from POO to over
$500, a gain of nearly 1900. While no
new smelters have been added to the
city proper, the old ones have been
greatly increased both in output and
in the number of men employed and
a huge new one covering acres of
} lane and to employ 500 men lie being
erected few miles east of the city.
. Every factory in the city has pros
J pered and expanded. An ice plant
has been erected and will begin OPP
erations in few days with a daily
. output of twenty tons. Correspond
ence is being had with dozen cap
italists who are anxious to locate here
and establish large enterprises of
various kinds. So sure as the sun
rises, it will be this papers pleasant
! task to chronicle the location of some
of them when next it takes general
3 survey of the city. An electric line
and a system of water works are both
3 very probable possibilities of the near
future. Glass works, iron mills and
more smelters are moral certainties.
The railroads of lola have done more
business in the paet year than in any
two previous years. The receipts at
the post Office have increased more
than 80 per cent. The merchants
have prospered and the list of busi-
ness houses has been added to. The
laboriDg man has found no lack OF
employment and has enjoyed the
pleasure of building himself a home
where he can live cheaper and better
than in any other place. A hand
some new school house has been or.
dered and will be ready for the next
school year.
In short, while the big things have
! not come profusely for the past year
the town has grown up around those
which were already here and is about
ready to receive those which are OF
the eve of announcing their coming
The business part of town has beer
wonderfully improved. The Barteli
building, the Thomson House, the
Acers building, the Simpson build
ing, the Pennsylvania hotel addition
the Richards and DeClute buildings
. have taken the places of the little
frame buildings and changed the ir
regular blocks into solid brick ones
- And when it comes to residences
there has been no cessation of labol
q on new dwellings. The REGISTER
q will stake its reputation that $50,0
O will not pay for the new buildingl
O now being erected in lola. An idei
of what has been going on all yea
D may be best gained by figuring uI
what is now being done.
U The six new business houses IL
c various stages of completion hav,
U already been mentioned.
h. H. Lanyon is building a fine
U large residence in the Twiss addition
U north of town. This will be one o
U the handsomest residences in the city
U when finished.
U J. 5. McClain has two houses goinG
c up on South Buckeye.
y Rob't Hart has cottage on NORTH
c Washington.
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