The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-22

The Scottish American puOllSneu
at New York, a copy of which has
been handed us by Mr.. Milne, has n
page or more of letters from different
districts in Scotland, for all the world
like the country correspondence"
page of the weekly REGISTER. 1t
must give the paper mighty honey
flavor to those for whom it is made.
DR.. Boulson, who has been suffer
ing for several weeks from a severe
complaint of the bowels, left for Kan
sas City Tuesday He will go
to one of the hospitals and have an
operation performed as he declares ne
cannot stand the pain any longer.
His many friends here hope most
earnestly that the operation may
prove successful.
The REGISTER understood that
most of the Kansas boys had recover
ed from the adobe itch, but thu fol-
lowing which is going the rounds Of
the exchanges seems to contradict
the idea:
An exchange in speaking of the return
OF the Kansas regiment says The Kansas
boys are all itching TO get back home! II
| this is tue the girls at home are all ready
TO come up TO the scratch
Two sisters of charity from TT. Scott
spent Friday in lola collecting
subscriptions for the hospital and
orphan boys home at that place.
They were very much pleased with
their reception here and were very
grateful to Mrs f. A. Northrup, who
| loaned them her carriage Tor the day.
They were beautiful little women en-
II, a haantiful work
| w. w. Tobey has resigned his job
at the lola Ice Plant and assumed the
| roll OF maChinist at the smelters, hav-
| ing charge of the machinery at the
| three works. Mr.. Russell, OF Empor-
/ ia, is working i'm his place as engineer
| at the ice plant A change from the
arctic to the torrid IONS would not be
greater than the one Mr.. Tobey has
made.
The following strange story is q
fact. Monday young lady in lola
was reading aloud to two little tots
about five years old and she ran
across the word "coal scuttle." One
of the innocents inquired seriously
what a coal scuttle was. She was
born in lola and during her short life
the word had never before been heard
by her.
1t is being told that an exchange
recently printed an Item to the effect
that if certain resident, whose
name 1t did not mention, did not
quit kissing the hired girl he would
be found out. Twenty-Five married
men called on the editor the next day
and stopped the paper claiming tina
the editor was meddling with theil
domestic affairs.
A delegation of citizens from thu
southeast part of the county came Il
lola Saturday and hired a lawyer
to appeal their case from Superin
tendent Bilbe to the county commits
sioners. Billbe ruled that there wal
no present urgent need of new
school district and an appeal hai
been taken to the commissioners wht
meet in October.
Mr.. w. w. Mills, of Riley county
is visiting his sister, Mrs. M. w.
Fisher, and his cousin, Mr.. II. N
Funston. Mr.. Mills settled in Allen
county, south of Humboldt, In 1857
He left the country in 1864 and has
|
he was last in lola the town consisted
of post Office and one store. 1t il
needless to say that he has trouble to
find himself In the present city.
Miss Mabel Doran, who has beer
running newspaper known as thu
Cbieftain at Pawnee Rock for the pas
year, has decided that LaHarpe offerI
a better field tor the business and hal
moved her plant to that place where
she expects soon to begin the publica
ton OF the LaHarpe Argus. Th'
REGISTER acknowledges q pleasant
call from Mise DOran, and trusts tina
her new venture may prove success
Mr. and Mrs. George Lawyer lef
Tuesday for Seattle, Washing
ton, where they will visit relatives
They will also visit in San francisco
and Pasadena and expect to locate
in southern California and make theil
future home. MIR. Lawyer is build
ing a nice residence In lola and in