The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-05
Wednesdays News.

moved from the east part of town TO
No. 223 South Walnut street.
Willis Henderson and Misses joan
ma Dudley and Ruth Ewing dorve to
Javonburg to attend the Y. y. =. G. f..
convention.
Smith Davis, of Bronson, was over
today circulating among friends here
and incidentally having an ambitious
tooth extracted.
Judge Ewing Of Chicago who has
been here visiting his brother, Capt
II. A. Ewing and family for some
time, left for home today by way OF
st. Louis.
Rev. Mark b. Taylor, of Brooklyn,
n. Y, came in today for visit with
his brother, A. l.. Taylor and family
Rev. Taylor Is past Chaplain in Chief
of the G. A. Il.
Rev. Leonard accompanied the
young people to Ssvonburg yester.
day to assist in the convention Of the
Young Peoples Society which is be.
ing held there yesterday and today.
Judge and Mrs. Stillwell came up
from Erie today and spent the after
noon with friends in town. They left
on the evening train for Washington,
d. c., where they will visit their son
who is volunteer in the 22nd Kan
IL, ~, N Mt rapnn lnar
Miss Rula Reimert returned last
night from st. Louis where she has
been taking a course in shorthand
and typewritiDg. She expects to ae-
sist her brother-in.lsw Judge Thomp-
son, in hib Office work. Her many
friends are delighted to see her back
again.
Herbert II. Goshorn, of this city,
enjoys the distinction of being the
youngest Master Mason in the county,
oeing 81 years, months and days
old, Tuesday night, when he wss
raised to this degree. His petition
tor the degrees was presented the
secretary Of lola Lodge No. IS, A. F.
d A. NJ, on the 10Th of April, the day
he was 81 years old.
Capt. Dewitt went out to LaHsrpe
the other day and after careful ex.
animation gave 1t as his opinion that
the gas well which supplies the city
is not on the Palmer company's land
after all. This, II 1t proves true, will
be very good news to a great many
people besides the canyons, for OF
course every body believed it was
ali accident tor which nobodywas res
ponsible If the well was drilled on the
wrong land.
For several days Mesdames Miller,
Whitaker and Hobart have been
talking of q trip to the Pacific coast
to see the boys before they sail for
heathendom. The party finally
dwindled down to one, however, and
Mrs. Hobart and her daughter,
Florence, started today noon for San
Francisco. They will visit Horace
and the other boys there for q short
time and then 60 to Portland, Ore,
where Mrs. Hobart has a sister. They
expect to be gone for about six week S
and their host of lola friends wish
them pleasant trip.
In letter to his father, Bret Clark
Of Co. A., 9TH Reg California volun-
teers, writes from Camp Merritt as
follows: "Our camp is very unsani.
tary and unhealthy. The sand lie
damp four inches below the surface
ana the fogs get full sweep at us.
Then there is no sewerage and all the
refuse of the camp 10 thrown out on
the sand to rot. And to cap it all, 1t
is an old Chinese cemetary. A bout
two weeks ago while some of the boys
were digging they unearthed three
Chinese skeletons only few feet be-
low the surface. Aud just a few days
ago while was sitting in my tent
and had my bayonet prodding ar
round In the sand to brighten l.,
struck something hard and digging
down just in idle curiosity found a
skeleton just about six inches below
the surface, right where have been
sleeping for two months. What do
YOU think Of that for he'd fellow?n