The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-08


There IS a girl at Chanute named
Edith Shy, but If there is girl i'm
the Town who is shy in name only,
the lola boys have failed to discover
her.
Judge Smith Tuesday noon
united in marriage Sedley x. Youut,
of Chanute, ana Nellie j. Jewell, of
Humboldt. Both of them live in the
country between the two towns.
w. II. McEIroy, of mboldt, de-
clares that it was not pair of slip
pers which was voted him as the
homelest man in Humboldt years
ago, but dressing gown, and says
that he has IL yet.
The drill in the gas well being sunk
near the mound for the Busch d.
Wadsworth brick plant Is expected
to penetrate the gas sand at any
moment and good flow of gas is
certain to be found
Mr.. Terry, manager of the Chero-
kee Lanyon smelter at Gas City, says
they are operating one block of
furnaces for all 1t is worth and are
hurrying the construction of another.
1t will be ready to fire up the last of
this month or early in January.
Look for the come back when FIT
Scott reads these items from the
Garnett Eagle:
After spending a week in Fit. Scott, city
that let's fully twenty saloons run wide
open on payment OF monthly fines, we are
impressed more than ever with the idea
that the saloon business IN curse. Fort
Scott is commercially dead town. No
town can prosper on money obtained from
smelters extend all the way to the west
line of TT. Scott.
Moorehead SearchHght: lola has
"horse on her" for which Humboldt
is responsible and now Neodesha
claims to have got a second hand
sprinkler on her, and the Sun says:
"If 1t wasn't for Iols's vanity she
might grow up into good sized
town" Poor old lola, can't some
city furnish her a second hand water
works
Toronto is closing a deal with Fred Hor-
ton, Of lola, to drill two gas wells. They
pay him sl25 per foot and he furnishes
everything. Yates Center Nsws.
The average well is $50 feet deep.
so according to the above Horton will
get something like S2l2,5O0 for his
work. As matter OF fact he will
probably get nearer $l.25 foot or
s.. 900, which shows how important
certs n periods {, in mans lie
are.
Dr. p. Il. Waugh is enjoying visit
from his brother Edward, from the
northern part OF the State. Mr.
Waugh is a wealthy cattleman and
banker and lola would like to capti-
vate him, but he could only get away
by winning suit for breach of
promise brought by his present
neigh bors, and he thinks he will re-
main where he Is.
The tax question IL a very interest
ing thing, especially in the way 1t ef-
voted a column of space In a paper to
groan about the burden maliciously
brought upon the tax payers by the
prosecution of the liquor cases This
man pays no individual tax and only
half on an assessment of $3.50. His
cry arises from an increase of ten
cents, perhaps, in his burden.
A. b. Ferguson who was awarded a
cit in the county jail with the other
convicted men, but who pleaded sick
ness as an excuse both for missing
court and going to Jail, was re-
examined by a number of doctors and
they decided that If he would go
somewhere where he could be quiet
and not over work he would be all
right. So they took him to Jail and
he is much recovered.
Monday morning Mrs, William
al a of a OF ai Oh
quite severe injuries. She arose as IL
her custom early and started to light
lamp which stood near the head of
fell to the bottom. Her neck and
shoulders were severely bruised and
she has suffered considerably sir ce
Int has been able to get around the
house.
This weeks issue of the Harrison,
Ark, Republican brings the sad news
that the horel owned by the brother
of Judge Stillwell has burned to the
ground and is total loss. 1t was
worth $4,000 and there was no in
eurance. Nearly all the lola men
who have visited Arkansas have
stopped there and know the pro-
prietor and his hospitality and they
all express deep regret at the mis-.
fortune.
LATE Servey, who has been serving
an apprenticeship in the Gas City
lumber yard, Monday afterno on for
Bartelsville, one of the new towns in
Oklahoma, where he will take charge
OF the books Of the new lumber yard
recently opened by The Clark d Bates
Company. There are already several
lola people in that place who will
make it warm for him when they See
him. His friends are pleased at his
promotion.
The Lanyon Zinc Company has
bought another farm for the gas there
under. 1t Is the Clifford farm in Elm
township comprising 1877 &C es for
500 an acre, SIG, $50, neat little sum.
1t Is also understood that the 80 acres
known as the LATE McCarley farm, |
east of town, has been sold for Sl2, 900, |
or Sl50 an acre, but the purchasers |
names are withheld for the present, |
at their request Allen county farm |