The Iola register., 1899-12-29

Here is an item for the police
Harry Bassett has gone to his work
at the county clerks Office two days
in succession without his umbrella.
such a thing has never happened be-
fore in all the time he has resided
here.
Chanute Sun: Mrs. Diameter, who
left the train Friday while enrout TO
the asylum, was found Sunday al
Lone Elm, Allen county, quite a dis
tance from Colony, and the authorities
here notified. sheriff Prange went
up there, only to find that she had
again escaped. Yesterday another
dispatch came stating that she was at
a place ten miles north of Lone Elm.
County Superintendent Billbe took
flock OF school marms from the
county to Topeka Tuesday to
the State teachers association. Miss
Thompson and Mrs Crook are there
already and today tho following went
up: Misses Mitchell, l[laumann,
Swlgart, Forster Irving, Chookley,
Campbell, of Humboldt, Nelson, of
Savonburg. Mrs. Millard, MI. Tired
way, and Prof. Cline and the Misses
Mccormack, of Moran. Allen county
is migh well represented.
There drifted into town Wednes-
day from La Harpe, where he had
spent the night in the depot, "A man
named Melanethy. He had travelled
from Kansas City to Nevada and was
disappointed in not finding the peo-
pie he was seeking he started penni-
less to Edmund, Okla, whittier they
had removed. He was born in Eng
land in 1909 and is 32nd degree
Mason. A mong the visitors at the
city hall where he applied for assist
ance was John Ireland, and a conver-
satiOn was struck up which revealed
that the two hailed from within
few miles of the same place in Eng.
land. The Masonic badge did the
rest and the old gentleman wilt travel
i'm comfort and ease to his destination.
1t makes very nice Christmas story.
The Sunday Joplin Herald has the
following to say about the Chanute
q aspirations: Last week the com
mercial club of Chanute, Kansas, sent
word to the smelter committee of the
Zinc Miners' association that they
would be glad TO entertain the com
mittee at an early date and show
them the advantages Chanute has to
offer for the location of a smelter.
The committee has wired back that
owing to the fact that Chanute IL not
on any line of railway directly con-
Meeting with the zinc producing dis
trict it has been thought advisable
to leave the town out of consideration
in the location of the proposed pro-
ducers' smeltTy, unless Chanute can
give positive assurance that either
one or both of her railroads, the
Santa Fe and M. X d r., will be
built into the mining district. The
committee therefore will not go to
Chanute, for the present, at least"
The REGISTER Bindery is now
working three people and is turning
out a lot OF first class work. 1t has
just turned out a 640- page, full leather
bound, flat opening record book for
the county that Mr.. Fowler says ia as
good book as ever came into his Of
flee 1t has also recently finished four
large special ruled blank books for
the ST. Paul Mining Company, and
has made two large hotel registers.
A II OF which Is mentioned merely to
call attention to the fact that there
is no occasion for anyone in lola to
send away from THE town for blank
books of any kind or for any ordinary
Kind of book binding. The REGISTER
Bindery is just receiving now a ship.
mem of three hundred volumes of
magazines and periodicals which it
has the contract to bind, having won
IL against the competition of the best
bindeTies in the State. lola people
ought not to send away from lola
work that other people send to lola.