The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-09-08

5arsaparilla are glad to tell others
about 1t.
Justice Potter Wednesday united |
n marriage John l.. Waymire, of
Rese, Kansas, and Bessie Rodders,
Of Humboldt.
Several wells have failed around |
town the past week that never failed
before and some people think II is be.
cause the joints are closed.
Mr.. Nostrand, of Pleasant Valley
neighborhood, passed through lola
Tuesday on his way to Idaho and
Colorado to visit relatives.
Carl Williamson has his third
chalnless bicycle and Mr.. Terry is
driving rubber tired buggy Who
say lola isn's getting there!
Tue Allen county corn crop is hav-
ing marked effect on the number of
marriages IN the country. The past
two weeks have had an average of II
wedding day.
White Bros. of the Our Way res.
taurant, say that Tuesday was the
biggest day they have had since
opening up in lola. Which is pretty
good evidence to offer in the dull
season.
j. w. Baxley's team became fright.
ened al the Fair Grounds and broke
the wagon tongue and rendered sew
eral people speechless from fright.
No other damage was done.
Judge smith has Issued marriage
licenses to A. :. Burton and Pearl
Calvin, OF Chanute; Geo. Rausing and
Mary kinzie, of Hum bOldt: c. A.
Dean and Nj. +. Kennedy, of La
Harpe.
Ernest Jordon Is taking i'm the fair
and he constitutes an exhibit all by
himself, for he has numerous pictures
OF Manila and Spanish relics which
are exceedingly interesting when he
explains them.
Prof. Fesler has announced 10y cards
issued from the REGISTER office, the
opening OF the lola Business College
on Tuesday, Sept. Il. The REGISTER
IL glad to learn that the prospect is
good for a flattering attendance dur
ing the coming year.
Have you noticed that as soon a.
the Allen county public had seen
Tom Bowlus with his glad rags on
doing the best man act at a wedding
no wedding has been considered
success without him. In fact the girls
declare they will have no other.
The contract for the j ID. Mann
building was let yesterday to Wood
~ Fette:s, who have sub.let the con.
tract for the brick work to Biukford d
Edwards. This is one of the largest
contracts of the year and the firms
are to be congratulated on occurring it.
I. ;. Slower, in recent bit ofab.
stract work, ran across proof of pub
LEGATION dated in 1866, on which was "a
revenue stamp with the initials w.
I. M. on it. This means that in 1866
w. L. McElroy was publish hing the
Humboldt Union and paying war tax
Word comes from Topeka that the
contract has been made between Gov.
Stanley and the Santa Fe railroad for
the transportation of the Goth Kansas
regiment from San Francisco to To.
peka. The agreement Is along the
lines suggested by Cyrus Leland, the
railroad TO be paid from money ap.
proprialed by the next legislature for
the purpose.
Clif Scott and Ernest Jordan "fit
over" several battles of the late war
Saturday. Jordan came home
with the idea that he would like to
go to Cuba and Cliff has entertained
Tor some time the desire to 60 to Ma.
Mia. They talked each other out of
these ideas, Cliff giving his Rough
Rider experience and Jordan his 10Th
Kansas story.
So many new taxpayers are show
ing up that Treasurer Deck er has run
out of receipts, something that has
never happened before in the history
of the county. The fact that Just one
printing Office in the county-the
REGIsrER-is equipped for doing the
WORK, enables him To go ahead taking
in money without the long delay of
sending to some outside city for the
needed blanks.
Sunday the Atchisop team put the
shroud on our demoralized Lola
players to the tune ofl3 too. That
seemed about as bad as could be, but
lola people tried to console them
selves by thinking that it was the
tact that the day was sunday beat
our boys. Yesterday, Morday, wash
day, n day when every body should
work, ting score was II to l. lola got
the |. Isn't it awful?
1t is reported from lola that the Kansas
City Blues have offered to play the local
baseball team another game on the follow.
ing terms; The Blues to take all the gate
receipts and to pay the lola team s25 for
each run it succeeds in making,-R. c.
JOTHdI
No, begging your pardon, the re.
port doesn't come from lola, nor from
any other reliable source. The Blues
have never made such proposition
II they ever do it will be taken up so
quick 1t will make their head swim.
Neil Ashby, who exercised his in
FAINT legs on the streets OF lola, but
who has chosen to tramp the pave
ments OF Ft. Scott for the last ten
years or more, stopped over in lola
Saturday. He came in on the
z irlO( k Santa Re and went wat IN