The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-27
Here's a Islander from the Topeka


town greets her boys OF the Twentieth is
an illustration OF how all local prejudice
will be cast aside in this State when the
boys are given their welcome home. lola
and Humboldt are always iawing.
r'he travel pay which Chastain and |
Hobart received on their return trip, |
subject which has eaused much dis
pute and conjecture among the talent
here at home consisted of n trip ticket
from Manila to San Francisco. good
for one year from date of issue, and
travel pay from Frisco to Ft. Scott,
where they enlisted.
After the REGISTER had gone to
press last week and the statement
had been printed that Earl Chast ain
and Horace Hobart had decided to
remain in the Philippines, word came
that they were in Kansas City, Mr..
II. Klaumann having breakfasted
with them. Thursday afternoon they
dropped into lola and were most
warmly welcomed by their families
and friends.
The lola soldiers we're In the field for
five months at one stretch and their
whiskers we're unattended TO during
that time. AS result they returned
to camp with motley growth of wild
every direction on their faces and
made them look like wild men. No
wonder the Filipinos had the night
mare at the mere thought Of these
boys.
The police Friday arrested a
woman named Anderson who has
been around town on the charge of
vagabondage and ordered her out of
town. She said that she came here
from Oklahoma to benefit her health.
She has been on the streets a great
deal and on several occasions has
slept In the grave yard. She was
ordered to take the 2:43 train for Ok
I lahoma.
Mrs. H. A. Thrasher and daughter,
Miss Sarah, arrived in lola Tuesday
noon from Lawrence and Will visit
friends and relatives here several
weeks before going to Philadelphia
where they expect to spend the
winter. Mr. Thrasber is still in the
internal revenue service but has been
transferred from the territory OF
which San francisco is headquarters
to Philadelphia. Their host of lola
friends are delighted to see them.
Union: A crew of Santa Fee men
were here this and last week making
M excavation for a culvert, about
two miles south of town. The
Southern Kansas division Of the
i santa Fe is being put in fine shape,
, and IL wouldn't be at all surprising If
| through passenger trains to OKLA.
| homa aud Texas were run over this
division ere long. 1t is about 1916
m'laa shorter route than by the way
Of Wicnita.
/ j. q Roberts, editor ofthe LaHarpe
News s being given a run for his
money IN the newspaper business.
the Argus has only been established
ia that fed two weeks. and now here
comes J. o. Smith, of Blue Mound
and announces that he will move his
plant there and start POpulist pa
per. The News, being the oldest
paper and having the cordial back
ing of the business men, will prob
ably survive the shock.
Ora Dunlap has sold his interest in
the livery business carried on under
the firm name of Price d Dunlap snd
will remove to his old home at Car
lyle. His father is leading member
of the Carlyle Gas Company which
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and Ora expects To take charge of it.
His successor is Matthew Mitchell
who moved to town some time ago
from south Of LsHarpe.
superintendent Billbe has spent
this week out in the east part of the
county trying, with the Bourbon
county superintendent, TO arrange the
joint district satisfactorily. The dis
trict is known as East Union on
Allen and Fairview i'm Bourbon
county, and the residents wanted a
change of boundaries. No change
Will he made at present.
A new real estate firm has opened
up i'm lola. The firm name is Rudrow
~ DeWateIs' and they have taken an
Office in the Evans building. Mr.,
Rudrow Is from Garden City and NJ T
DeWaters from Tennessee and they
expect to remain here for all time.
They are pleasant gentlemen. have
an abundance of capital and eXper-
fence to make their business a sue
cess and will undoubtedly soon take
front rank In local business circ les
ElsmOre Enterprise: The business
at the banks shows steady increase.
The deposits last night showed a
balance of ST., Gl0.07, not one cent OF
which is on time deposit. Many new
customers have been added this
month and the best farmers and stock
men of the township are among them.
The broom corn business has given
Cashier Braden plenty to do and the
farmers more than ever appreciate
the advantage of doing business in a
town with good bank.
Mrs. Downey, who had so much
trouble about her husband and chill
dren at LanyOnville, is again being
bothered. She came TO lola sometime
ago and started a restaurant which
she had to give up to go to Missouri
and attend her sick father. The old
gentleman died and she has returned
here to find that the man, SebastiOn,
to whom she sub.leased her restau-
rant building had been elected from
it and had moved her furniture Ia
his rooms over the east side billiard