The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-17

moran Hefafd: 4. Il. Augustine
went To- lola Tuesday morning where
he IL engaged to A. w. Beck as sales
man In the implement store. If there
il any one person who will GENE near
knowing every body in THO county 1t
IL Mr.. Augustine. MIR. Book IL iOrtu-
nate In securing his services.
WHEN the contract for Hhe location !
of the Cement Works had been duly |
signed the other day, M~. John u.
Holmes, the president of the company,
turned to Mr.. Beck and said, "Now
what are you going to charge us for "A
million brickY That is the kind of
questions the men who are coming to
lola now are asking.
The amount of money which comes
to A lien county from the first semi
annual apportionment of state school
money Is 50 342 90 OF this amount
lola gets S493.2l on a basis OF an en-
rollment of 1l2l pupils in June 1898.
The district receiving the least Is
Joint No. 81, which draws SIG.
Mrs. G. f. Wilbur, who recently
came here from Colorado, has opened
up millinery shop at the corner
west of the Odd Fellows hall. Mrs
Wilbur is an old friend of the Minors
and milliner of excellent taste and
the REGISTER predicts that she VIII
quickly win n large patronage and a
large number of friends.
Lusty old Boreas got his Shout
der under the west end of the
roof on the south end of the stone
part of the smelter Saturday lifted IL
of the walls and scattered 1t far and
wide over the freight cars. A section
about 60 feet long was thus torn away
and blown many yards. Fortunately
nobody was hurt.
Mr.. l.. A. Bricker, of Westphala,
has opened up clean, neat, fully
stock ed meat market on West street.
He threw open the doors Tuesday
Mr.. Bricker is butcher whose
apprenticeship ante.dated Weyler's.
He Is II Jolly German gentleman,
knows how to run u market aud he
makes mighty good wholesome pic
ture behind the counter.
Eismore Enterprise: Henry Decker
got his discharge from the regular
army last week, ana came home sun.
| day. He visited relatives here the
/ first of the week returning to lola
| Wednesday. Henry is thinking of
going to Porto Rico later in the spring,
believing that country offers except
ional opportunities to young men to
make their fortune.
Mrs. Lands who came here few
days ago from FIT. Smith, has decided
to open up a millinery store IN lola
and is now in Kansas City buying
her stock of goods. She has arranged
to occupy the front Of the Tudor Mer
camille Co.'S. store, Mrs Lands is d
charming woman and will no doubt
rapidly win friends aud customers.
\ santa Fe bridge gang is here anc
the new bridge will be put in at once
across Coon Creek. The handsome
solid abutments were finished some
time ago, and the steel girders fol
three tracks ale on the ground. a
third track, "A continuation of tn,
passing switch will be put in as fai
, north as the Missouri Pacific railroad
C0heyviHe Journal f.. q. Popkis
of the Missouri Pacific freight ofllcel
has been promoted to be agent at La
Harpe, the booming gas town in A lleI
County, and left to accept his position
Tuesday night. Mr.. Popkiss cam,
to Coffeyville in 1892 and has mad'
many friends here who wish him sue
cess IN his new WORK.
The REGISTER Is very sorry t.
learn that the fourteen year ole
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Franz
Christy died Thursday of pneumonia
at the family home two miles ives
, and u quarter north of lola. Tit
funeral was conducted from the hous,
Friday afternoon and the remains laiC
, to rest In lola cemetery.
Capt. Dewitt did some surveying
around town the other day anC
! among other things found that thu
! street south of town Is off and tina
the row of houses facing north he
tween Washington and Jefferson
avenues are out i'm the street. The
= original survey left u margin unused
: south of town and when the Jone
= addition was laid Off forty feet wa
! added. AS result there is 10 foo
street.
Victor Murdoch tells the following
good story at the expense OF prohibit
tion as it prohibits in Western Kan
s sas. "At Ellnwood last week boy
was passing saloon, and seeing
drunken man lying in front of 1t, n
opened the door and said: Mister
your signs fell down. The salool
! Keeper chased MIN nall around IN
: square. "-LaWrence Journal
! John Beal, a Cherryvale Joints
makes the following announcement II
the Cherryvale Clarion: 81 am
, candidate 70: Mayor of Cherryvale
subject to the will of the good peopl
, of the city. Should | be elected t
that honorable position, | pledge my
! self that not more than one join
, shall be allowed to run during m
administration, He doubtless refer
to his own.
A man named Bobbltt erected
+ tent on the lots between the chile fac
q tories and will launch restauran
! and chile soup and not tomato dis
+ pensary on the public. That's tn
a way things always bunch up in cities
one street being devoted to a certai
line of business. West Madison
4 ! "A ali NJ l,s