The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-28

dppllchtiOuss ne Is DlTlng every
Uody that comes and hopes to he
aUle TO secure all the men he needs
here. As there are practically no
idle men in town now, this report
from Mr. Cook simply means that
when the Cement plant starts there
will be decided shortage of labor
in other directions. And that short
age will have to be made good by
drawing from other places. In other
words the starting of work on the &c.
ment plant will make room for four
hundred men in lola. And these
four hundred men and their families
will nave to find some place to live.
WhicI brings US again to the point
which the REGISTER has already oc-
casionally mentioned, viz: namely:
to-wit: There must be lot of new
houses built in lola right away.
Our bows got beat at Atchison Sun.
day by score of 8 to /. OF course
they got beat. They can't play ball
m Sunday. They haven't been
raised up to it, and one man who saw
he game says that half of them went
into the game IN a sort of half. hearted
way, just like they didn't expect to
play. And then they were up all
night the night before going from
Emporia to Atchison and of course
we're in no condition to play. Free
land pitched the first six innings of
he game and "Kidn Harmon the
three last JamisOn got three three
base hits aud one of them brought i'm
the run which saved lola from shut
ont. Hoy caught for lola and did
some nice work. Only one man got
to second on him and that was In the
first inning. Dunn, the new second
haseman is a bali player from the
ground up. He Is n good batter. a
good runner and a splendid inflelder
lola Is going to carry off the cham
pionship Of the State this year.
The crops in the south part of the
county are suffering from the depreda.
tions of what, for want of better
name the farmers call the army
worm. They probably call 1t that
because 1t marches in ranks squad
rOus and right forms Of war; and
sweep clean the country over which
it passes. Mr.. Pearson says they
took seven or eight acres Of his young
kaflir corn, cutting it down and eat.
ing 1t all up, 80 that the field looked
az bare as the street. The older corn
they took only the leaves There
were ten million of them Mr.. Pear
son says, and after eating his field
they disappeared. He doesn't know
where they went. bnt hopes they died
OF cholera morbus. 1t is reported
that they have taken twenty. five
acres of MIR. Sickley's corn in Elm
township, and have done much dam.
age in Elsmore township. 1t really
seems some times that if it isn't one
thing it's another.
Mr.. +. G. Remsberg, clerk OF the
school board, has finished making
the enumeration OF the school chill
dren and Kindly gives the REGISTER
the following report. In the first
ward there are 1914 whites and Il
colored, total 3sl. In the second
ward there are $50 whites and II
cOlored, total 204. In the third ward
there are 2S5 whites aud 9S colored,
total 3l3. rhe fourth ward is the
smallest in the city having 262 whites
and only one colored making total
OF 263. This gives a grand total in
the city OF ll0l whites and GO colorsd,
making 1851 school children inside
the city lnsits. In the addition east
of the city there are lO7 whites, no
cO'Ored; north 50 whites, no colored
west and south So whites and 6 color
ed, making total Of psi TO be added
10 The above which makes the total
number 1905
The Bronson Record says concern
ing the fire there sunday morning:
The fire was the work of thieves who
wanted to cover mp their crime as all evi
deucc goes to show the building had been
robbed, Mr. Berry, who was the first one
TO come from the north. says the north door
was standing open The safe had been
blown open once before and a. that time
one hole had been drilled iu the safe and
another had been drilled about am eighth of
an inch deep. The hole that had been
commenced is now drilled through and a
smaller bit had been used, Three wreuches
aud d chiSei that had been stolen from the
reapers belonging 10 Goodlsuder Is Konants
were found on the ruins
lola girls all know what cruel
heart-break ing wretch Frank Travis
is so the following from the Chanute
Sun will not surprise them very
much:
There was a whist party Nil ed for last
night in honor of MI Frank Travis Of lola
butas the gentleman returned home ON the
evening freight II was called of
Considering the great number OF
children who have been sick it is
matter for sincere gratitude that
there have been so lew fatal cases.
Daring the last week probably not less
thal hundred children within the
city have been under the care of physi-
clans, humid weather seeming to be
very unfavorable for them.
DOES COFFEE AGREE WITH YOU 2
Ifnot, drink Grain-O-made from
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