The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-22

thing in this line you can save money
by buying now as we bought these
before the price went up. Yours.
1t Schell d Baird.
The entertainment at the high
school building last night was we'll
attended in spite of the extreme cold
and the disagreeable condition of the
walks. Memb ers OF the school put on
Jerome X. Jerome's farce, "Suneet"
and made quite hit. The proceeds
will be applied to the piano debt.
The REGISTER would like to print
an item like this from the Yates
Center Advocate about lola:
" The radiators for the steam heating OF
the new court house will be all in this week
and the entire building will be ready for
use by the first of the year. Contractor
Brewster has done the county a fine place
of work
In sluggish liver, HERBINE, by
its beneficial action upon the hillary
tracts, renders the bile more fluid,
and brings the liver into q sound,
healthy condition, thereby banishing
the sense of drowsiness, lethargy,
and the general feeling of apathy,
which arise from disorders of the
liver. Price 90 cts. Evans Bros.
The following about spelter from
the Age Of Steel is of interest to q
spelter producing town:
There was stiiening up all around in
the spelter market during the week now
closing. The disposition to buy WAS more
evident on all sides. and the advance to
s4,65 in the quotations still further en-
phasized this tendency.
Monday while Probate Judge
Smith was out of the Office County
Superintendent Billbe issued u
marriage license to w. A. Sherman
of lola and Martha Moore ofLaHarpe.
When the Judge came back and
found what had been started he
bumped himself and before night had
tied the knot good and tight which
made them man and wife.
Theo strickland found couple of
stunted hollyhocks freezing to death
in the alley behind the north side
billiard hall and dug them up and
reset them in pots in the front win
dow where they are flourishing. He
informs interested suckers that tn ey
are "Porto Rican lilies brought to
him by dear soldier friend =" The
statement never fails to elicit admir-
ing "ahs."
The preliminary hearing of James
A lien charged with conducting a
gambling house on the north side OF
the square, came up last week
before Justice Potter, but Allen
waived his hearing and was bound
over to the district court In the sum
OF $500. rhe other man captured at
. ln la. ) 1.
Allen, pleaded guilty and was fined
SO.
Mr.. j. o. Rogers, of Toledo, o., IL
here visiting his father, Mr.. J. 5. Rog
ers, of the Lanyon Zinc Company and
enjoying u vacation from his work in
the Harvard Law School. Mr.. Roger
WAS captain of the Yale foot ball team
the year he graduated from that in
stitution, and holds high place in
eastern college circles,
The Humboldt postmaster recently
sent a lot of mail which had accumu-
lated in the Example copy" pile out
in the country by special carrier.
Many Of the packages were abbrevi-
ated to "Sam Copy" and one farmer
way-laid the carrier on his return
trip and, handing back one of the pa
peTs which had been left at his house
remsrked that nobody named Sam
Copy lived there and that he didn't
know of any family OF that name in
those parts.
The LanyOn Zinc Company has had
an expert machinist at work for some
time connecting up the machinery at
lyGt 4
works number | can now be operated
by any one of the three engines I'm the
main building, u line shaft having
been put up. The old traction engine
which stood in the east end of the
machine kiln room has been moved to
works number .. where it relieves the
one engine which has operated the
machine kilns there.
With the article in this issue NJ IS
Snow closes the first series of her
art Talks" Alter the holidays she
will resume with the Flemish School,
and continue until her subject is
brought down to date. Miss Snowss
articles have been read with the great
est interest by all the readers of this
paper who have ever given any
thought or study to the great and
beautiful subject of which she has
written, and those which are yet to
come will be awaited with eager an.
ticipation.
Chanute Sun: j. A. Davis industrial
commissioner for the Santa Fe, was
expected here from Chicago yesterday
to meet with the smelter committee
from Joplin, but he did not come.
I he smelter committee had informed
him that unless the Santa Fe would
guarantee to extend its road from
Pittsburg into the mining district
they would not visit Chanute. The
Santa Fe did not care to make its
plans in the matter known and there
the matter dropped.
Ft. Scott's contract with her electric
light plant has expired and the
cOupcilmen who demand economy
want to keep the city from renewing
the contract. There Is the other side
and one of the arguments that are
now being used is that ii the lights
are turned Off the joints will close.
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