The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-10

Mr.. Otto Kreuger, who recently
purchased meat market and gro
Gerry stock at LaHarpe, has sold out
his grocery part of the business and
Will devote all his time TO the meat
department. The purchasers of the
grocery stock are reported to be Har-
nv Brown and A. NJ McCarty of lola
and Elmer McClain .will go out and
help invoice. Mr.. McCarty will take
charge of the store, his family remain
ing in lola.
The good condition which Allen
county has been in financially for the
past few years il shown by the fact
that it only required one half OF "A
double column of space in the REGIS
TER to advertise the list of judgments
/ upon which taxes had not been paid,
whereas in many other counties Of
the state it required whole page of
the Official paper. In Lyon county
the county attorney got nut an iujunc-
l
| ton toiiorbid the publication, which
/ would have cost the county 5000. A
| test case has also gone up F.um BOur-
| bon county.
Erie Record: Judge Stili veil at
/ tended the annual meeting Of the
! State Bar association At Topeka las'
week. The Judge wac chairman of
the judiciary committee whose report
was said to be the best and most com
plete Oao ever presented to the ~ .
socintiOn He was also hOnored by
hcing ELECTED delegate TO the Amer :
cin Bar Association. This was Il q
only visit Judge Stillwell has made
To Topeka in the past twelve years.
Few people stay a. home and attend
To their business 20 well.
At the annual meeting of the lola
Gas Company the report of the Secre-
tary was read and referred TO an
auditing committee and the following
elected directors for the ensuing year:
II. \. Ewing H. l.. Northrup, II *.
stevenson, w. :. Pryor, II. K. Clai-
horn, Chas. +. Scott and James lay
lor. After the adjournment of the
stock holders meeting the directors
held a short session aud elected the
! following officers: II. A. Ewing, presi'
dent, w. 5. Pryor, vice-president, l.,
l.. N0rthrup, treasurer.
Mr.. u. :. King. who repres ents the
| Pittsburg Foundry IL Machine Shops,
returned Co Pittsburg Monday. He has
just finished setting the machinery
Tor the Prime Western Spelter Co.,
and he Gays that everything works
beautifully at the plant, One of tho
experiments made was that of Il
natural instead of a forced draft in
| the furnaces. The other shelters all
| have "A fan and force air through long
pipes, but this factory merely has
such draft rs has stove. The result
Is very satisfactory, saves gas and
WORKS perfectly.
Chanute and several Other Kansas towns
are going crazy over the location of that
| insane asylum. lola REGISTER, We don't
know the condition Of other Kansas towns
but Chanute Is net near so crazy about los
ing the asylum as is lola over the prospects
Of losing her smelters, The chief use to
which we could put the asylum woud be
to accommodate some OF our newspaper
friends from neighboring towns Tribune
The only thing lola is anX,ons g r
10 that the time will hurry whtn
the new deal can be made public
rhe pleasant taste which our dear
neighbors are enjoying oWNr Iolas
prospective ruin viii be turned To one
that could stand solution of asafoet-
ida for a chaser with pleasure
The cold weather ia seriqusly in'er-
fering with the sinking Of the Cenut
Works gas well, operations having
been suspended until the warm air IL
turned on.