The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-13

The capital stock of the Kansas Gas
Company has been increased from
1926, 900 to $4,000
Mrs. A. w. Crawford, of Hum
boldt, has just completed new
house on North street.
Mr.. Hanson, of the lola Furniture
Company, has erected a handsome
sign in front of his place of business.
! Mrs. Bliss, mother of Yes Bliss,
who has been suffering with q severe
attact of pneumonia, is much inn
proved.
Prickly Ash Bitters cures the kid
neys, regulates the liver and purifies
the bowels A valuable system tonic
, Sold by Chas. b. Spencer d Co.
Chanute Tribune: VIM. Costing
, went up to lola today on business.
, Billy has been quite sick but he got
tired of loafling, went to work and
: got well.
Mr.. A. T.. Harmon will in the near
future start cigar factory in one of
} the rooms over the New York store,
} which will be run by Lee Taylor, the
, young soldier.
, In New York the thermometer was
I 80 degrees below zero yesterday
Kansas weather could hardly be
> called a snap. but it beats that kind
, of snap hands down.
? Born, at midnight, on Thursday
morning, Jan. ~, a handsome ten
! pound boy, to Mr.. aud Mrs. Eyler.
Mr.. Eyler is one of the new firm that
| bought VIM. Yeager out.
A colored debating society of Law
renee has decided that the moon is
? more useful than the sun because 1t
shines at night when it is needed,
while the sun shines in the day time
\ when 1t isn't really needed.
I Miss Cox and sister who have been
{ visiting relatives near Hays City,
Kans., for the past four months, have
returned home much benefited in
} health by their visit to the great
} prairie.
, 1t Is learned from the LaHarpe cor.
\ respondent that Otto Kruger, who
recently sold out his interest in the
= Champion meat market, has bought
{ out Tom Roberts, of LaHarpe, and
, will conduct a market at that place
, The Northrups have placed Jones
} addition on the market. II is tn,
y tract of land south of town, lying
west of Washington avenue anC
z east of the Parb inson place. The
4 prices of lots range from $50 to $3.50.
y Mr.. ). Hart, of Elm, was in lola Tues
, day fixing up the deeds to 80 acres o
, his land which he has sold to Mr.. q
w. Smith, of Kansas City. who vii
plat 1t as an addition to LaHarpe.
80 lies Just east of the Busley addition
r. The people who have failed to pay
* their taxes are being notified politely
% by mail of their negligence. Failur,
as to heed will be followed on January
Is, next Monday, by visit from tn,
.. sheriff, and every body knows that 1
= sheriff's visit is necessarily very rud,
i aud lacking in tact.
rs The distressing news came from
az Moran Tuesday that Jake Swishe
IA was sick with what the doctors fea
10 is pneumonia. Mrs. Swisher hat
40 just died of that disease and the i'll
r ness of her son prevented his attend
pa ing the funeral, at the same tim'
nj srouslng sad .forebodings among hi
friends.
n The Cherryvale Clarion is going t
g. get out special edition, telling how
ne superior" are the advantages of tina
IA town. The announcement WAS no
ar complete (no boom items are) withou
IN the following true statement: eth
IS, enterprise OF lola has made a city of
g. village In a marvelously short time.
of Dutch Miner, one of the lola boy
Id in the 10Th, has fallen into a sof
I'd place, thanks to his Apprenticeship
an at Otten's bakery. He is regimenta
bread inspector. When the Wagon
le COMES INTO camp, Duucn sUruls up
is grabs loaf at the corner of the wa
g. gon, breaks it open, smells it, repeat
I'd ing the inspection in various parts o
I'd the load, and then passes or reject
BE 1t. Then he sits down and rests un
q til the next morning when anothe
of wagon comes. And all the time hi
O. full pay goes on,
'n An exchange remarks that in SOM
u county in Kansas the remarkable lis
81 of fifty-six real estate transfers wer,
10 made during II certain month. Tn,
record books of Allen county show
m that i'm November last eighty-niu,
I'd transfers were made, during Decem
of Der ninety.six, and for the first nin'
al haua Of HVa ~,