The Iola register., 1899-12-29

Gas City or to Hart's barn, lola. d&w.
Judge Stillwell has written to
Frank Travis, with proper condol
ences, concerning n clipping which |
the Judge found I'm the Kansas City |
Journal to the effect that "Annie |
Travis has begun divorce proceedings |
against her husband Frank Travis.n
j. M. williamson has bought the
material for a ten or twelve room |
residence on the site of ibis present
home at the corner of of Walnut and |
Brack kenrldge streets. He will move
his present house to the south one of
his three lots and build on the north
two.
Two fires within a week with an
aggregate loss of 500, 900 Is "a blow to
any small town, and the very slight
jar which this calamity has had on
the commercial interests Of this com
munity would seem to credit lola with
very firm and stable breed of pros
perity.
There is a girl in lola whose birth
day occurs on the Goth day of Febru-
ary, so she only has a birthday once
every four years. She Is SO honest,
however, that che admits being more
than eight, which is the age che
is really entitled to swear.
to. She will have another birthday
next year.
Mr.. Swkjwqpxzksky, or whatever
his name is, who collects old iron and
bones around here, today shipped out
a car which cont aimed fifteen tons, or
80, 600 pounds of scrap iron, for which
he paid thirty cents q hundred. He
will make a han dsome profit selling
1t to some foundry,
There W as double wedding at the
home of Mrs. Shea, on north State
street, Rev. Tudor uniting in mar
risRe f.. A. Laymon and Anna Shea,
and Henry G.. Shea and Nora Dillon.
All the young people are well known
and are popular. They have the
very best wishes of all their friends.
In sluggish liver, HERBINE, by
its beneficial action upon the hillary
tracts, renders the bile more fluid,
and brings the liver into q sound,
healthy condition, thereby banishing
the sense of dTOwsiness, lethargy,
and the general feeling Of apathy,
which arise from disorders of the
| liver. Price 80 cts. Evans Bros.
Joe Rosenburg is moving his dry
| goods stock to his new room at the
corner of Washington avenue and
| West street and will soon have the
store to do business He will make
| the store department, adding lire
of house furnishings to his dress goods
notions and dry goods departments
And his friends all hope he may get
rich at his new stand.
One thing that makes the roads and
streets go bad is that lola is doing the
business of town of 1000 people on
streets that belong to a ! 900 town
The ceaseless hauling of heavy loads,
which can no longer be delayed just
because rain has fallen, cuts the
streets all to pieces and the ruts have
no time to recover Never i'm the his
tory of lola were they so bad as they
are right now.
The Cement Company has decided
to finally abandon the well which it
sunk on the Francis farm near
Colony, having reached salt water
and the end of hope. Mr.. French
went to Carlyle this afternoon for the
purpose o locating another well. The
exact location is not yet decided up
on, but it will be near the village of
Carlyle. And 30 here's hoping again.
Topeka CapitaE "It will be rebuilt. >"
This line appeared i'm all the accounts
of the destruction Of the big smelter
At La Harpe. II IL line which shows
mp in nine of ten accounts of fires i'm
Kansas where anything of value is
consumed. 1t will be rebuilt The
phrase is significant of the push and
hustle which has maze the state
The true Kansan may be burnt ont,
drowned out, or knocked out i'm any
old way, but after he lights his frs
thought is to put up the old sign: at
will be rebuilt"
Here il the true inwardness of the
way Chanute beat lola recently at
checkers. The snap is thus given
away by the Erie Record "W. L..
Smith went to Chanute Tuesday
night to show Chanute how 10 put up
a good game of checkers with lola,
by telephone. Four games were
played, three being a draw and Cha
mute winning the other. lola won
three games out of four from Chanute
last week. Smith first turned down
Chanute's crack players after which
they turned him loose on the fifteen
champions at the lola end of the
wire, allowing him to play the games
alOue.n
The following from the Parsons
Eclipse reminds lola that the stringent
ordinance passed some time ago pro-
viding that the roads should pro.
tect lola crossings has not been com
piled with: "rhe Santa Fe Is introduc.
ing new method of protecting rail-
road crossing in small towns Large
gong bells are placed on posts on
either side of the track and are so ar
ranged that they begin to ring when
a train comes within 1000 feet Of the
crossing and continue to ring until it
passes that far on the other side. The
bells have been tested for some time