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

The Ideal Steam Laundry owned
oy l.. w. Duncan on West street
which started up last summer but
ran only n few days, resumed
business Monday. This time no mis-
take has been made and the new
manager, Mr.. #. p. Rinner, who has
leased the plant, will run 1t up to the
limit. He Is Clinton, Mo, man of
thirteen years experience and has
With him u son who is also an expert
laundryman. Mr.. +. w. Amerman
will do the outside work and drive
the wagon and he expects to have IA
batch of clean clothes to deliver by
Friday of this week. The plant has
been thoroughly overhauled and UNI
der the now management will doubt
les gain and hold "A large and lucra-
tive business.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
A Chance For an Opera House

lola is getting big enough, popu-
lous enough, important enough and
rich enough to have laundering de-
sire to view the histrionic stars in a
more fitting setting than is afforded
by the present hall. A few years ago
that hall impressed toddling lola
deeply; but familiarity and maturity
of mind have long since removed
large patches of glamour from the
present play house. At the present
time there are two different men in
lola planning the erection of large
business houses and each of these men
has latent impulse to make the up
per part Of the building an opera
house. The Northrups are going to
build at the northwest corner OF the
square and the Robinson brothers are
going to build at the southeast corn
or OF the square. Either location
would be excellent. OF course there
would be no hesitation were there as
suIance that the venture would prove
Il paying investment. 1t ought to.
There are five thousand people IN lola
and those five thousand spend more
money than do seven or eight thous-
and In other towns, because money is
circulating freely here. Then there
are hundred men here every day
looking over lola with view to locat-
ing who would rejoice at the chance
of seeing a show. lola has always
had a hall, but never an opera house.
and such a place, managed rightly by
a man who would make an effort TO
get shows to come here, who would
advertise the shows that were coming
and who would insist that toba Geo
chewers swallow their saliva, that
drunk men go to sleep, that hoodlums
step outside. that ladies and gentle
men be not insulted either from the
stage or from the house, such a house
would prove an exceedingly attractive
resort and consequently profitable
Investment. There are better things
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
Coal Creek Bridge Contract Let.

The board of county commissioners
met Tuesday and let the contract fol
the construction of a bridge over Goa
Creek at the Greenfield crossing
south of Humboldt The specifica
tions call for steel span Of sixty
feet, and a main space of 11S feet
roadway to be fourteen feet In
the clear. There are two old abut.
ments standing and these are to be
repaired, enlarged and wings built
where necessary.
The bids for construction were di.
vided as follows: /, earth excava
tion. =, masonry. 3, extra work on
old abutments.
The bids were opened this after.
noon and were as follows on the
masonry:
Kemmerer, Humboldt. abutments,
S2.75 per cubic yard; wings, 81. so: eX-
cavation, $50.
w. ID, Rowley, lola, abut., 81 IS
wings, $500
Horace Wixon and Co., sbut., 50 80.
Fisher, Roehl ~ r. Jehl, abut., So %.
wings, S3. %; excavation, $40.
The bridge bills were found to be as
follows:
st Louis Bridge Co., 81 800.
Canton Bridge Co. (Omaha), Sl,975.
Canton Bridge Co. (Omaha) 81 ,s72.
Missouri Valley Bridge Co.
(Leavenworth), SI,724.
Kansas City Bridge CO., Sl.774.
Massion Bridge Company Mas
silon, o., 81 800.
n. NJ. stark (Des Moines, Ia.)
81 S25.
If the bids are all responsible, and
they were accompanied by certified
checks for several hundred dollars.
the work will be done by Mr. Kem-
merer, Of Humboldt, and the Missouri
Valley Co., of LeavenwOrth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

than theatre and there are worse,
10 change from the present alleged
theatre to well conducted, we'll reg
ulated theatre would be a moral step
forward. Should 1t be done, shows
which now give lola wide berth and
leave her at the mercy of all the snide
dirty, cheap John troupes on the road +,
would chase eachother here. All
those who are in favor of new opera
house i'm one ofthe two proposed build
ings should not fail to say so either to
Mr.. Northrup or Mr.. Robinson whom
ever and wherever met
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10


A lady came into DIR Fulton's office
last Tuesday and had the doctor
extract thirty.two calibre bullet
from the ball Of her thumb. She said
that about n month ago she was sit
ting in her house in the north part
of town when someone passing fired
revolver aud the ball passed
through the door into her hand. The
lady did not give the Doctor her
name and did not explain why she
allowed the bullet to remain in her
hand for a month before seeking
medical aid. There may be better
story in this little incident than is
here told; but If there is it belongs
to the lady in the case and che IL
evidently satisfied to leave it where
10 is.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
A VISITORS VIEW.
Well Known Kansas Newspaper Man
Visits lola and tells the Register
What He Thinks of il.

Abe StefnbergeT, editor of the
Glrard World, was in lola on a little
business mission Saturday, and was
cornered by a REGISTER represents
tive. In reply to the inquiry "How
do you like us now ?" Mr.. Steinberger
said:
"You are all right, sure thing! 1t
seems to me that lola has doubled in
size since / visited it during the
Woodman's LOG Rolling last year.
1t has certainly more than doubled in
modern transformation, in city APP
pearance and general activity on the
part of the people. 1t is simply
wonderful, at time like this, to see
a town Of this size distancing all the
large cities in push, substantial
growth and national popularity. But
the cause is plain. All, everywhere,
now acknowledge that lola il the
jeweled Queen of all the Natural Gas
cities of the nation, and since scien-
tific examinations have demonstrated
that the supply here could not be
utilized to exhaustion by city cover
ing the entire surface OF the county
there is no precedent under which
an estimate of the future greatness Of
the city can be estimated have
lived in Kansas thirty years, have
personally observed the rise and ebb
of the tides that have come to all of
its best town, but among them all,
aye, even all OF them combined, could
not be compared, in my judgment, to
the upward growth lola is destined
to make, from this day henceforth."
"But our people are not trying to
boom the town"
81 understand" replied the Girard
gentlemen; "And therein they have
shown their wisdom The old
fashioned boom is thing of other
days, consigned to the same tomb
with Spanish power in the worlds
march. But you will soon be face to
face in lola with something greater
than any old boom. You will see
your city grow and expand despite
all conservative efforts to stay the
tide. 1t will simply plunge forward
as no city has ever moved in the west,
and it will not overshoot its ability
to sustain the growth made. The
present industries in your cities are
merely the scratching of hen on the
prairies of Kansas. Your future must
be the greatest of the great in the
west. and l, AS a Kauean, am proud
of you.
"The REGISTER is doing a great
work for the city, and incidentally for
the great Kansas in which it is 10.
Gated. The newspaper boys all over
the State are proud of its work, of its
capable publisher, who has shown his
ability to meet the unprecedented and
unexpected demands of his town.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
School Board Meets.

The Board of Education met i'm reg
ular session at the Office of the secre-
tary, Mr.. Nelson, Monday night
March 9, and transacted business OF
the utmost Importance to lola. Hav-
ing I'm mind the necessity for more
commodious quarters for the school
children and the advancement i'm the
higher education of Iola's young
people, the board unanimously adopt
ed the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Mayor of the
city of lola, Allen county, Kansas,
he, and is hereby requested to call a
special election for the purpose of
submitting IA proposition authorizing
the Board of Education OF school dis
trict number ten (l0) Allen county,
ksnsaa, to issue and sell bonds of
said district to the amount OF sixteen
thousand dollars (Sl6,0OO) with which
to build new school building for
said district rs provided in article
eleven lD chapter one hundred and
twenty-five (l22) of the laws of 1876,
state of Kaneas, ana section one hun
dred and sixty-eight 1Gs) chapter
sixty-three (G3) revised statutes Of
1897.
The mayor is required to issue
call at once after receiving the petit
ton, giving ten days notice of the
election in the official city paper,
which happens to be II weekly and
will not appear until the end of the
week. Provided there are no bitches
the election ought to be brought on
about the 22nd of March, hence the
necessity for an early registration.
In addition to the foregoing the
board allowed few bills and also
decided to have the dry closet system
now used in the north building put
in the south building during the sum
mer vacation.
And thus Is another step taken
toward Greater lola.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
MARCH AND THE LION.
Something Better Than the Old S,

That saying about the lion and the
lamb in March oftens proves false
but there Is another and better one
which Is literally true. When March
comes in and finds you taking Hood IS
Sarsaparilla to purify, enrich and
vitalize your blood, you may expect,
when it goes out, that it will leave
you free from that tired feeling and
and with none of the boils, pimples
and eruptions which manifest them
selves because of impure blood in the
spring. If you have not already be-
gun taking Hood's Sarsaparilla for
your spring medicine, we advise you
OF begin today. We assure it will
make you feel better all through the
coming season.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

on the ground of "desertion," and
married again. But she could not
forget that she was the cause of an
innocent mans doom. She could
only think of him as an exile, fleeing
from the habitations of man, shrink
ing from every noise, burdened with
a murderer's torment. Her heartless
deed would not leave her mind and
conscience. The other day she was
pronounced an incurable maniac.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
DRINK GRAlN-o

after you have concluded that you
ought not to drink coffee. 1t is not d
medicine but doctors order it, because
it is healthful, invigorating and ap.
petizing. 1t lis made from pure
grains and has that rich seal brown
color and tastes like the finest grades
of coffee and costs about / as much
Children like it and thrive on it be.
cause it is Il genuine food drink con
tanning nothing but nourishment
Ask your grocer for Grain-O, the
new food drink. 10 and 25c. |
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
SANTA Fe.

Reduced one way and round trip
rates to northwestern points March
7th to 2lst, 1899, to Portland and
all points on the Oregon Short Line
Ry. in Oregon, Idaho and Montana
also to all points in Wyoming, Utah
aud Colorado on the Union Pac. o. s.
l.. and main line of r.. G. d W., ID. q
X. g., and Colorado Midland between
Denver and Odgen, tickets sold at
one half rate plus one dollar.
II. A. EDGAR, AQt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
LEGISLATIVE MOVIES.
Topeka, March 3

topeka, MafCn ., 1871.
One of the best bills passed by this
Legislature Is Benefel's Anti.
Bucket shop bill. A bucket shop,
as everybody in fortunate town like
lola which was never cursed
by one may not know, is the
tail end Of board of trade
where men may gamble in margins,
buying wheat or corn or stocks that
they never expect to get and selling
wheat or corn or stocks that they do
not have. A bucket shop is the bane
OF every town in which it IL located,
and the enforcement of the new law
will be one of the greatest practical
reforms ever made in this State
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
A Kansas Story.

arkansas City Traveller Last week
began the last chapter of a Kansas
story that started in the summer OF
1872 or 1873. A tickle woman tired of
her husband and devised an ingen-
ious plan to get rid of him. She was
carrying on Irritation with another
man, and her husband threatened to
kill him. The faithless wife took a
suit of clothes of her lovers and put
them on dummy. She placed the
dummy by q clump of trees near the
house where the husband would see
1t when returning home that night
after business hours. The woman
was carressing the dummy when her
husband came up, and when he got
near enough she screamed and ran.
The husband shot the dummy and
fled the country, supposing himself
murderer. He was never heard of
afterwards. The wife got q divorce
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
Advertised Letter List

List of letters remaing in the Iol,
post Office, and unclaimed Tor the
week ending February 25th, 1899.
Adams Roy, Adams A.
Bartenhager IL. Broaders Christian
Cox Miss Cinda Corain Hozev
Dawson 7 l. Dade Francis
Daniels George Davis Ben
Dickson Samuel Eshelman w II.
Harvey Mrs Mitue Huffman Miss Ethel
Hurt II Moody Kimsosky Mary
Jones Miss RhOda Jones Hiram
Limbaugh Mrs Anna Mcfarland MrsJ
McCammon Miss Mary Miller Ed
Miller II Mitchell Miss Mania
Mitchell Miss Mable Cakes Mrs T..
Parsley Mrs Sadie Pullman Pink
Purcell J T. Richards Anna
Ross John Robinson Harye
Rowe Jno X. Runyon ] II.
Reynolds Oma Shafiis A c.
smith Mrs. Ella Sprague w w.
Stewart s. steinbach Chas F.
Walker Daniel Watson NJ.
Parties calling for these letters will
please say advertised, giving date
III. l.. HENDERSON, p. NJ
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

Wheat per bushel, twenty-five to forty cents.
Oats per bushel, fifteen cents.
Corn per bushel. fifteen cents,
Castor beans per bushel, sixty cents.
Timothy seed per bushel, forty cents
Millet per Dushel, twenty-five cents
Kafir corn per hushel. fifteen cents
clover seed per bushel, two dollars.
Potatoes per bushel, twenty. FIVE cents
Bacon per pound six cents.
Household goods, five to eight hundred dollars
Merchants stock sixty per cent avefage amount
OF stock.
Money seventy-hve per cent.
Notes sixty per cent
Mortgages sixty per cent
Prairie hay loose per ton, one dollar and fifty
cents.
Prairie hay baled per ton, two dollars and fifty
cents.
Milet loose per ton, one dollar and fifty cents
Milet baled per ton, two dollars and fifty cents
Broom corn per ton, forty TO sixty dollars
Timothy hay baled per ton, three dollars.
Timothy hay loose per ton, two dollars.
Flax seed per bushel fifty cents
improvements upon real estate forty per cent Of
present value
Oil leases fifty to two hundred dollars per u sec
Two hundred bushels of grain allowed for feed.
The Board of County Commissioners RECON-
mended that the Trustees meetwith the Board Of
Equalization In June.
Those representing Usage, Marmaton, Elsmore,
Salem, Elm, and Deer Creek on the first day
Session June 3, 1899.
Those representing Geneva, Carlyle lola
Humboldt Cottage Grove and Logan, the second
day being Tuesday June 6, 1899,
Adjourned
GEo. RHoADs, c. r. STANLEY
Secretary, Chairman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

The following letter from the gov
ernor's private secretary is self ex-
planatory, and should remove any
odium that might exist i'm the minds
of the citizens of Kansas gasdom to-
ward the representatives i'm the legis-
lature, the senators or the governor.
The wrong impression given out in
regard to the measure is directly due
to the Kansas City papers which en-.
deavored to make it appear that the
passage of the bill meanJ gas for Kan
sas City:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
IUOAS COUNTY


FRANK j. CHENEY makes oatn
that he Ia the senior partner of the
firm of #. j. CHENEY d Co, doing
business in the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN
DRIED DOLLARS for each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day of jan
uary, A. E. 1886.
~ A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh cure is taken inter
nally and acts directly on the blood
and mucous sufaces of the system.
Send tor testimonials free.
f. j. CHENEY Il CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
I HALLS Family pills are the best.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
Santa Fe ROutp.

Hutchinson Kans., state Encamp-
ment &. A. r., Sons of Veterans,
Woman's relief corps, Ladies of the
q. A. II. and Ladies Aid Societies
One fare for the round trip. Tickets
Oh sale April "a to ~ inclusive.
DIV. II. NJ EDGAR. Agent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
The Old Smelter Turned Over.

IHc Olu Nlllellcf turned over.
Another step in the big smelter
deal was taken Wednesday when
Robert and William Lanyon turned
over the plant and Office of the Ro-
bert canyons Sons Spelter Works
to Ned V. Lanyon, who will manage
1t for the LanYon Zinc Company. The
LsHarPe works were transferred
some time ago but at lola there was a
quite pile of ore on hand and the
terms of sale allowed the old company
to run it out. The last one was
finished up Tuesday and Mr.. N ed
Lanyon made q manly effort to COM
pletely fill the generous breadth of
chair occupied by his predecessor,
Mr.. William Lanyon. The only other
works concerned In the deal is the
w. u j. Lanyon smelter but IL will
net be formally turned over until
next week as it has quite an amount
OF ore still on hand. The manage
ment of that plant will remain in the
same efficient hands as William and
Josiah Lanyon are retained as active
managers by the new company, to
operate all their works. lola will al
ways hold Robert Henry and VIII
liam Lsnyon in much the same es-
TEEN that iyoung person regards q
Godfather for they were sponsors at
the time when .littie lola stood for
baptism rs worthy to enter upon a
greater state.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
lola CASH GROCERY.
BASIS OF ASSESSMENT
ALLEN COUNTY 1900.
IoLA. KANSAS Mnrc

lola, KANSAS, March 6, 1899.
The township Trustees of Allen County met
IN the Office Of the County Clerk ms provided by
law, aud organized by electing c. r. stanley
OF Usage, chairman, and Geo. Rhoads, Of
Salem secretary
The following was agreed upon asa
BASIS OF ASSESSMENT FOR 1899.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

Canned goods to further
orders.
Dried fruit to no end.
The only complete line of
pickles.
The biggest line of tea in
lola.
The best line of Bulk
coffee.
The only up-to-date, spot
cash Grocery house in Allen
county.
QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
Our MOttO---uzmE-
Sell Cheap, Sell a heap,
An keep the ball a-roIIing


10 lb9 SudludGu line pfanulated
sugar. .................... S1.00
ID lbs extra fine G sugar ........ 100
3 pkg lowering coffee ............ .25
3 pkg Javenese coffee ........ .25
! pkg Lion coffee. ......,........ 10
10 bars Ark soap ................ .25
10 bars Diamond G soap........ %
3 pkg Pearline washing powder. 10
% Oh good baking powder. ..... 10
IS Oh best baking soda ......... 20
cans best packed tomatoes. go. .25
; cans best packed corn ......... .25
! I'D pkg corn starch. ............ .05
IDS oyster crack ers........... .25
1 lbs good soda crackers. .25
gal best cider vinegar. ........ .15
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

A. $. Thompson, President Commercial

A. $. Thompson, President Commercial
Club, Cherryvale.
Dear Sir In reference to your protest Of
the 2nd inst against the approval OF House
bill No. 301, / am directed to say that you
appear to have n misunderstanding ofthe
scope Of this measure. Governor Stanley
has examined 1t very carefully, and finds
that 1t expressly provides that gas can not
be piped out of the State under this meas
ure. The bill seems to have originated for
the mere purpose Of enabling Fort Scott to
pipe gas from neighboring village to the
city of Fort Scott and the representatives
were very careful to have the provision in
serted that no gas should be piped from
any point in Kansas to any point outside
of the state. Yours respectfully.
II. j. ALLEN, Private Sec
-Cheuyudle Clarion
And as matter of fact while TT
scott is mighty hungry for Allen
county gas she can not touch enough
to asphyXiate gnat, for it is prac.
tically all controlled by the new
Lanyon Spelter Co., which proposes
to use it at lola. So, mo harm
DONE neighbor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10
For Sale Half Price.

For Sale Half Price.
Australion Pines, the only hardy
Pine in this climate.
20 varieties fine budded peach trees.
Yucca roots and plants and Ever
green trees.
w3t 3. M. IRWIN, Geneva, Kas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10


The Republican House will no
doubt be severely denounced for de.
eating the so-called prohibition bill,
that was before it this morning.
Nevertheless it did right. The inten-
ton of the bill was to do constitu-
tionally what the Murray law tried
to do in authorizing the county attor-
ney to examine witnesses i'm regard
to any violation of the liquor law.
But in doing this the bill contained
so many and such contradictory pro-
visions that II would without doubt
have been simply dead letter on the
statute books, even if it has not been
to the direct advantage OF the JOINT
keepers. As one speaker in the de.
bate said, he had been asked by some
temperance people to vote tor the
bill, and by other equally good tenn
perance people to vote against it,
Either by design or through ignor-
ance the bill was drawn so as to have
hindered rather than helped the en-
forcement of the law and it was there.
fore wisely defeated.
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one of the reasons the House does
not do better work and do it faster / g
because of the wretched acoustic
properties of the hall. Not more
than half dozen men on the floor
have voice enough to be heard by all
the members without the greatest
effort, and so a great deal OF time is
taken every day in repeating and ex-
planning things that have not been
understood because not perfectly
heard.
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QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.