The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-13

lODE. ne Olu uepOb, Thlseu vi pies,
with a platform all around, looks a
whole lot better in its new role than
1t did as a passenger depot.
Jim Williams, the brick mason
who sold some cattle to Jim Wolfe
which he claimed to own but did not
own, pleaded guilty in district court
Friday to obtaining money un.
der false pretenses and was sentenced
to one year in the peDitentiary.
Miss Sadie Travis reports that the
family at Gas City who lost their all
by fire recently are now very well
supplied with the necessities Of life
and she asks the REGISTER, through
the columns of which she asked tor
help, to thank the generous givers.
lola is now conn ected with Garnett
and ottawa by telephone, the line
having been finished few days ago.
In fact we can "speak" nearly all the
Kansas now, to say nothing OF Kan
sas City. Lawrence, Topeka, Emporia
and other more distant suburbs.
Mr.. Jas. A. Davis, the Santa Fe in.
dustrial commissioner who is here for
short visit. Is on his way to the
southwest accompanied by his wife,
but he stopped over in lola to see that
the good things which he has helped
largely to secure for lola, are being
secured fast.
CapitaE Miss Fran ces Wilson, the
Republican nominee for treasurer of
Allen county, now has no opposition,
the young lady who was named by
the other side having withdrawn her
name from the ticket. Evidently the
candidate on the other side had
lively realization of what she was up
against.
Sundays X G. Journal contained
a roster Of the Twentieth Kansas and
the heart of lola sweled up and the
mouth of lola wanted to swear softly
when it was seen that four lola boys
were credited to Topeka and eighteen
to Fl. Scott, leaving ten out of the
thirty-two to lola.
The Santa Fe and the Lanyon Zinc
Co. both maintain pumping stations
and have pipe lines and tanks con
Meeting with the river. They have
arranged the lines so that one engine
can pump into both tanks and go i'm
case of an accident or need of repairs
one engine can be laid off without
shutting off the supply.
The board of county commissioners
drove out to the county poor farm
Thursday and made their regular in
spection. They had pleasant visit,
found everything in excellent coudi-
ton and accepted a new barn for their
trouble. The barn Is one recently
completed at the farm and was found
to be all right
The Southeastern Kansas Tele-
phone Company has connected the
local exchanges Of most of the towns
in this section. They recently put
out directory of all these towns aud
you can now tell the numbers of all
the people having telephones in
neighboring towns, and several OF
them were received in lola.
Mr.. Davies of Kansas City, who is
here visiting his son who works at
the Famous, has taken good look at
lola and-you can guess the rest
has about concluded to join hands
| anu Htlp push u eOOh lbN IL dlOIS
He is familiar with the furniture and
undertaking business and will go in
to that business If he decides to stay
here.
County Treasurer NJ. l.. Decker has
letter from his son Henry at Hon o
lulu and Henry thinks, as did thu
other Kansas boys, that he has reach
ed the suburbs of heaven. He say
that he is enjoying the trip ana tina
the accommodations are very superior
to the ones he experienced when go
ng to Cuba and Porto Rico.
The castings for which the McRae
DAILY smelter has been wait
ing so long arrived Tuesday and .
force of masOns were put to work Ia
one putting up another furnace. One
OF the best evidences that the shu
down OF a few blocks is merely TEN
porary is that all the smelters ar,
improving the recess to get ready 70
a bigger business than ever.
The Kansas delegation which wen
to San Francisco to meet the Goth oc
cupied the time of the journey max
ing sunflowers for the boys, even tn,
men sewing diligently. They tool
with them 100 chest protectors mad
by the women of FIT. Scott, to proven
the boys from catching cold upol
their return from tropical climate.
The probate judge had the extrem
pleasure Friday afternoon of is
suing a license to wed to Mr.. John i
Lockhart and his divorced wifi
Dora f.. LOckhart. They separated
about two years ago and were di
vorced about one year ago. Tn
clouds have all passed away now an,
Judge Smith feels as if he had don
the whole thing.
Captain Moss, of Mound City, wa
in town Monday looking for stole
team which he heard had bee
brought this way. The Capital
had son in the Twentieth Kansa
who was shot over the right eye, tn
ball passing along his head betwee
the two bones Of the skull and comm
out below his right ear. The boy wa
back on the firing line in just twenty