The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

home of Mr.. j. l.. Coffey on North |
Washington avenue and Will move
here I'm the fall and open a small |
grocery store in the building adioin- |
ing which Mr.. COfey used for that
purpose.
City assessor II. Duncan has
started on his round of pleasure and
Is having good time watching peo-
pie who ordinarily are quite well sat
isfied with the way they have man
aged their business and the way they
have their homes adorned, belittle
and run down both.
There came very near being fight
in this Office Monday. A man wanted
to advertise for lost dog with a
brown spot at the root of his tail and
he and our advertising man fell out
as to which was the more elegant
"rooted to the spot" or "spotted at
root.n
Henry Decker returned to his battery
Sunday. He went from lola TO TT Leaven
worth and from there to Fort Riley, His
friends hope he will get his discharge soon
and return to Allen county to make his
home EtsmOre Enterprise.
lola people would be glad to have
the young man here.
John Tuggles began work Monday
morning behind Evsns' Bros. drug
counters. He has finished up his job
at Madison, Kans., and will not again
wander from his own gas-tire side.
His many friends will be very glad to
have him here.
The social at r.. Il. Stevenson'e last
night was quite "A success. A large
Grove of young prople we're present
and the evening flew by pleasantly
in social games. Light refreshments
encouraged the inner man to the same
condition of jollity that the outer man
was enjoying and everybody had a
good time.
Hutchinson Herald: Miss Francis
| Wilson, has been deputy county
treasurer, there, for nearly fourteen
years, and has served under four diff
ferent treasurers. She is figuring on
being candidate for the Republican
nomination for the office, this
year, and she ought to have it.
Miss Ida Johnson who has been
attending the lola High School was
compelled to give up her work and
return to her home i'm Colony Monday
to nurse case of grippe. Her
mother came down and took her
will hope for her early recovery and
return.
Mr.. f. BiXley, of Lyndon, Kans.,
the man who proposes starting Il
fruit jobbing house in lola, came
down Saturday and made final
arrangements for the lease of part of
the Arkansas grocery room. He left
Monday for Kansas City where he
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to have regular shipments made to
him.
Sam Brown is complaining of the
extremes of tempature to which his
job subjects him. His hair is sinRed
from the gas fire which he mixed up
with on Cottonwood street yesterday
and today he Is working in the snow.
He insists he did not have a close call
but that he could have stayed in the
hole thirty seconds longer and lived.
John Often put on "a new bakery
wagon last week which IL a
beauty. The sides Of the top repre-
sent pan of bread rising i'm spite of
a ball and chain which vainly at
tempt to hold it down, and "A balloon
made of loaf of bread which lightly
carries skyward man in para
chute.
II. A. Milne rugged up "A shoe win
dow at Northrups' Saturday that is a
winner. The window il full of fine
mems shoes, on each of which IL the
name of one of our Manila soldiers.
"Conield's Favorite, " Bert Mithells
| Long Suit,u doc Chastain's,u etc,
are among the attractive works and
they ought to 90 like hot cakes
Last evening at the pleasant home
of Harper Hartseil, ON North ~ n
few friends dropped in to spend the
evening with him. The evening was
| spent in games and social chat. Those
present were: Misses Sydna and Ollie
Weathermau, Jury McMurray. and
Messrs clyde Seitz, Frank SwongeT,
and Jim McMurray.
The ugly fog of last Friday chang
ed into beautiful snow during the
night and the wheat of Kansas i'm the
morning was nicely swaddled in
about an inch of soft warm snow. OF
course 1t was disagreeable for those
who had to be out and it will make
| the ROADS nasty again, but its good
/ for the wheat, and i'm this wheat bye
and bye, we will all forget the little
| trouble of the snow.
| LaHarpe News: A man by the name
of DOwner met with quite severe ac-
| cident mt the smelter Monday morn
| ing. He was wheeling wheelbar.
row OF ore aud as he went to dump it g,
| he wrenched him self so as to tear the
muscles from one of his shoulders. He
suffered IL good deal Of pain ut first,
and will be unable to do any work for
some time, but will not probably be
! permanently disabled.
The lola people who have zinc
land i'm Arkansas will bs Interested
| i'm learning that i'm addition to the
four railroad lines already surveyed
| into that country, company was
chartered i'm st. Louis the other day
with $1,000 600 capital ana will build
a sixty-fve mile line into Harrison,
around which so many hopes are
clustered.
! The seductive charm of lola gets its
work in on old and young, rich and